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Environmental, Social, Governance and Digital Transformation in Organizations (Information Systems Engineering and Management #35)
By Alvaro Rocha, Maria Jose Sousa, Andreia de bem Machado, Andrea Brambilla, Antonio Pesqueira. 2025
This book investigates the dynamic interaction between environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs and digital transformation, addressing important themes such…
as corporate governance, ethical leadership, stakeholder engagement and sustainability in a digital age. Exploring a range of sectors, it examines the impact of AI on governance, child protection and smart cities, along with the integration of ESG strategies in healthcare, waste management and Industry 4.0. Through case studies and analysis, he highlights challenges such as technological stress, while offering insights into sustainable business ecosystems, strategic leadership and transparency. The 22-chapter book bridges the gap between academia and the sector, presenting innovative frameworks and practical solutions to promote resilient, ethical and sustainable digital transformation.
How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite?…
Safety Theater shows how our desire for perfection drives compliance clutter, inauthentic relationships with work-as-done, and new kinds of accidents. Written by the leading global voice on safety innovation today, Safety Theater takes us back to the Enlightenment and its aspiration toward a perfectible world through rationality and science, and explains how, by separating severity from injury rates two centuries later, we now hit our targets but miss the point. This hopeful, forward-looking book is the final volume in a three-part series on the effects of "neoliberalism," which promotes the role of the private sector in the economy.Showcasing a more caring kind of capitalism—where free markets are free in a frame; where horizontal coordination replaces hierarchical control; where shareholders are not the only stakeholders; and where value and prosperity are assessed in terms other than merely economic ones—the book platforms much of what is now known as "safety differently," and also allows us to think differently about our capacity to manage complexity (including its possible drift toward failure) and see our fellow human beings as resources for solutions, not as problems to control. Safety Theater introduces the socio-economic success and value system that distinguish Rhineland economies from Anglo ones. It explains how complexity can never be governed through hierarchy and compliance, but necessarily requires trust and horizontal coordination; offers a vision of humanity richer than Anglo-style capitalism can offer; and examines how Rhineland thinking values tripartite consultation (between workers, employers, and government) in ways that can help stem the worst effects of free market policymaking on the compliance clutter and drift into failure, as detailed in the previous two volumes in this trilogy.Sidney Dekker’s work—from his debut Field Guide to Understanding Human Error in 2001 to his recent Random Noise—always challenges readers to embrace more humane, empowering ways to think about work and its quality and safety. In Safety Theater, Dekker extends his reach once again, writing for all managers, board members, organization leaders, consultants, practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students, and investigators curious to understand the genuine nature of organizational and safety performance.
Postcolonial Aeromobilities: Branding, Cultural Governance, and Tourism Imageries
By Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, Bart Paul Vanspauwen. 2025
This edited collection explores how national airlines in postcolonial states operate at the complex intersection of corporate branding, cultural governance,…
tourism development, and national identity formation. It conceptualizes airplanes and airports as both tangible infrastructural spaces and symbolic domains that connect geographically distant regions while embodying aspirations of political sovereignty and cultural unity. Through diverse case studies spanning multiple continents, the book examines how commercial aviation's physical and cultural spaces either reinforce or challenge colonial histories and imperial legacies.The volume reveals how modern Western imperial narratives were shaped through specific cultural and social negotiations that played out in airline branding, route networks, service standards, and cultural policies. It analyzes how airlines serve as vehicles for projecting soft power and cultural diplomacy while mediating between local traditions and global modernity. Drawing on rich empirical examples from Angola, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Jamaica, Kenya, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States, this collection demonstrates how airlines employ sophisticated cultural management and corporate branding strategies to shape national and regional identities.By examining airlines as sites where business strategy, cultural policy, and identity politics intersect, this collection advances our understanding of how transportation infrastructure shapes social imaginaries and power relations in our increasingly connected yet culturally diverse world. The research has important implications for scholars of business history, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and transportation geography while offering practical insights for policymakers and airline industry leaders.
The Best Selling Coach: Business Development for Business Coaches, Consultants and Advisors
By Nick Davies, Rebecca Bonnington. 2025
Written by a sister and brother team with 35 years of combined experience, this book demystifies business development and offers…
a simple and highly effective method of selling for business coaches and consultants.Selling professional services, particularly for new or aspiring consultants, can seem daunting and distasteful. This book shows that it doesn’t need to be this way and, using a four-stage process, shows coaches how to first build their confidence and go on to locate, connect and meet desirable clients, virtually or in person. This book guides readers through asking for the sale and keeping control of the business relationship as it develops. Complete with email and letter templates and LinkedIn strategies, many chapters also link to an online course which gives access to downloadable materials such as professionally designed PDFs suitable for workshops, presentations and coaching sessions.Current, new and aspiring business coaches, as well as postgraduate coaching students, will welcome this guide to solving the top issues most people face in this sector: finding new clients, building your client base and winning work.
Finding Your Creative DNA
By Arpan Yagnik, Linda Conway Correll George. 2025
This book enables readers to discover their inner creative DNA, by providing a strong dose of the four elements of…
the Creative Matrix–Interrogation, Information, Interpretation, and Inspiration. Creative Aerobics (CA) generates a personal ideation system that produces creativity on demand (COD) and that arrives at multiple solutions in less than an hour in a relaxing and enjoyable way.The strength of the volume lies in its ability to move readers past the conventional and time-consuming 20th-century ideation. It helps develop an individual, personal approach to their creative DNA by introducing increasingly complex word exercises that strengthen left-brain problem-solving and increase right-brain discoveries. It teaches, encourages, and integrates all aspects of CA to develop the mental muscle that fuels readers’ paths to creative accomplishment. By taking CA step by step, readers develop a comfort level, knowing they will always be able to come up with ideas.This book will be useful to students, young professionals, and senior leaders looking for the inside track to their creativity. It will also be an invaluable daily practice and interesting read for all students taking general education courses, especially those opting for integrative learning courses which are becoming more prevalent across universities worldwide.
Potenziale künstlicher Intelligenz im Unternehmenskontext: Analyse der Anwendung in ausgewählten Branchen (essentials)
By Felix Dühr, Michael Broens, Mirko Bendig. 2025
In der künstlichen Intelligenz (kurz KI) konnten in den vergangenen Jahren weitreichende Fortschritte erzielt werden. Durch die Untersuchung von Unternehmen…
in unterschiedlichen Branchen werden Muster und typische Anwendungsweisen von KI identifiziert, wodurch die Ableitung von sowohl branchenspezifischen als auch allgemeinen, branchenübergreifenden Ansätzen bzw. Handlungsempfehlungen möglich wird.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an junge Erwachsene und Berufseinsteiger, die Orientierung suchen, an ihrem Selbstbewusstsein zweifeln oder sich von der…
Geschwindigkeit des Lebens überfordert fühlen. Es zeigt, wie Sie Selbstvertrauen systematisch aufbauen und dadurch ein zeitbewusstes Leben führen können – ohne darauf zu warten, dass ein Schicksalsschlag oder eine Krise Sie dazu zwingt. Selbstbewusstsein ist die Grundlage für selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen und die Fähigkeit, mit Stress und der Schnelllebigkeit der modernen Arbeitswelt umzugehen. Dieses Buch beleuchtet, warum Zeit unsere wertvollste Ressource ist und wie wir lernen können, Herausforderungen des Alltags besser zu meistern. Es gibt praktische Einblicke in Themen wie Resilienz und den Umgang mit Zukunftsängsten. Die zentrale Botschaft verdeutlicht: Selbstbewusstsein ist die Basis unserer persönlichen Produktivität und lässt sich steigern! Mit persönlichen Geschichten und wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen inspiriert dieses Buch zu einem Leben, in dem Sie nicht nur Zeit managen, sondern bewusst gestalten. Denn: Es lässt sich leichter leben, wenn Sie zeitbewusst leben. Starten Sie jetzt Ihre Reise zu einem zeitbewussten Leben!
AI-Enabled Threat Intelligence and Cyber Risk Assessment
By Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, Edlira Martiri, Fisnik Dalipi. 2024
AI-Enabled Threat Intelligence and Cyber Risk Assessment delves into the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing cybersecurity, offering…
a comprehensive exploration of current trends, challenges, and future possibilities in mitigating cyber risks. This book brings together cutting-edge research and practical insights from an international team of experts to examine how AI technologies are reshaping threat intelligence, safeguarding data, and driving digital transformation across industries. The book covers a broad spectrum of topics, including AI-driven fraud prevention in digital marketing, strategies for building customer trust through data privacy, and the role of AI in enhancing educational and healthcare cybersecurity systems. Through in-depth analyses and case studies, this book highlights the barriers to AI adoption, the legal and ethical considerations, and the development of resilient cybersecurity frameworks.Special emphasis is given to regional insights, such as the digital transformation of Kazakh businesses and the integration of AI in diverse global contexts, offering valuable lessons for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. From safeguarding patient data in healthcare to addressing automated threats in digital marketing, this book provides actionable strategies and emerging perspectives on the evolving landscape of AI in risk management. Designed for academics, professionals, and students, AI-Enabled Threat Intelligence and Cyber Risk Assessment serves as an essential resource for understanding the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and risk assessment. With contributions from leading researchers across various disciplines, this book underscores the critical role of AI in building resilient, ethical, and innovative solutions to today’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges.
The definitive guide for athletes to understand and earn from name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights The first comprehensive guide…
designed to help college, high school, and youth athletes navigate the name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights they've gained since 2021, The Athlete's NIL Playbook walks readers through NIL rules, opportunities, and red flags, showing them how to build a personal brand, find deals, reach out to companies, and negotiate terms. Along with real-life examples, exercises, and pitch templates, this book includes case studies from college and high school athletes who have successfully navigated this burgeoning market: the Cavinder Twins, Olivia Dunne, Travis Hunter, Chase Griffin, Emily Cole, and many more. Written by Kristi Dosh, a seasoned sports business reporter and founder of a nationally-recognized news platform covering the business of college sports, this book covers aspects of NIL including: The types of opportunities available (social media marketing, lessons, camps/clinics, merchandise, personal appearances, and more) Whether you need an agent or not, and how to find the right one if you do Working with third parties like collectives and marketplaces and protecting/registering your own intellectual property A true playbook for leveraging and capitalizing on NIL monetization opportunities, The Athlete's NIL Playbook is an essential read for athletes and parents seeking to ensure athletic success is matched with lucrative financial and career opportunities that can go far beyond graduation.
Bookkeeping For Dummies
By Lita Epstein. 2025
Concise, easy-to-understand information on every aspect of bookkeeping Bookkeeping For Dummies is a clear guide to tracking transactions, figuring out…
balance sheets, keeping ledgers or journals, creating financial statements, and operating accounts for businesses. This necessary resource offers relevant, up-to-date tax information and small business laws, so you'll have everything you need to conquer small business bookkeeping tasks. Looking for the latest on QuickBooks Online software, government reporting requirements, and keeping your data secure on the cloud? This new edition has you covered. Make sure your financial records and plans are accurate and complete—without taking too much time away from your business. Understand all components of a financial cycle Track business transactions and prepare financial reports correctly Save time and money by simplifying tax preparation Keep your data secure with QuickBooks Online and other cloud-based tools Bookkeeping For Dummies is the perfect crash course for small business owners or employees who are tasked with bookkeeping duties.
The Emotional Intelligence Advantage: Mastering Change and Difficult Conversations
By Amy Jacobson. 2025
Proven strategies for navigating hard conversations, building team resilience and managing business transformation In The Emotional Intelligence Advantage, leading expert…
Amy Jacobson shares a framework for resolving challenges in the workplace. How do you tackle tough conversations? How does your team react when a key process or system changes? And how can you overcome doubt and indecision to create a culture of alignment and trust? When it comes to modern leadership, you need to be aware of more than just the bottom line. You also need to apply emotional intelligence in how you manage people, processes and change. In this book, you'll discover a clear five-step process for empathetic, productive communication. Through real-world case studies, proven tools and actionable strategies, The Emotional Intelligence Advantage demonstrates how you can address conflict and facilitate change seamlessly. Embrace workplace challenges and focus on what you can control. Process emotions and effectively shift from defensiveness to solutions. Recognise your impact on others and build team resilience and emotional alignment. Ask the right questions to unify stakeholders and achieve shared goals. Apply strategies that drive progress, spark organisational transformation and deliver lasting results. A workplace thrives when people thrive. With this step-by-step framework for fostering emotional intelligence, you'll discover how to create a high-performing environment where each person feels safe and engaged. The Emotional Intelligence Advantage is a practical handbook for embedding emotional intelligence into your workplace effectively.
Postmodern Management Theory (Routledge Revivals)
By Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich. 1997
First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás…
and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity?Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s.For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices.Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.
This book addresses one of the most important legal instruments that can help combat climate change, namely Power Purchase Agreements.…
As decarbonisation is essential for the global transition to electricity, these contracts are a direct legal link that can be formed between the power producer and the power buyer. This type of contract plays an important role in stimulating the creation and development of more renewable energy projects, such as wind, solar or hydro, by providing secure and long-term revenues for producers, while customers benefit from long-term price predictability. The implementation and development of the signing of these contracts are evaluated in this research, with taking into consideration both the economic, legal and social impacts, as well as the effects on the environment. The analysis addresses the risks to which the parties are subject once these contracts are signed, the key factors that influence the development of these contractual relationships, with consideration of concrete cases where PPA market is a developed one, as well as examining these contracts with other legal financial instruments that have the same purpose and aim, namely Contracts for Difference.
Led to Follow: Leadership Lessons from an Improbable Pastor and a Reluctant CEO
By J. Howard Olds, Cal Turner JR.. 2008
With an open, honest, and conversational style, a minister who also manages and a manager who also ministers share insights…
they've gained through failures, successes, and struggles in their personal and professional journeys. From crises in the family business to existential struggles in the face of recurring cancer, what they show us is this: the heart and soul of leadership is found in following: following your call, following others' input, following your failures, following change, and even following the unknown. If you seek wisdom for your journey, if you seek a life of deep dedication and fulfillment, this book is for you.
Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work
By Max Papadantonakis. 2025
The idea that the tech industry is a secure field with jobs and opportunities for growth is a myth. There…
is widespread precarity among software developers, who experience uncertainty, anxiety, and imposter syndrome as technological advancements threaten job security. Max Papadantonakis investigates this phenomenon in his revealing study, Canaries in the Code Mine. He indicates that precarity is not just about the risk of losing one’s job; it is about living in a career where basic needs and rights are not guaranteed. Interviewing 120 software developers from leading tech firms, Papadantonakis shows how temporary contracts, project cancellations, and company downsizing undermine the security of even highly skilled professionals. He also highlights the systemic inequalities that shape the tech industry, showing how age, race, and gender often dictate the opportunities and responsibilities software developers have—or are denied. Canaries in the Code Mine highlights a disturbing reality of privilege and vulnerability within the tech industry. Papadantonakis engages in a critical discourse on the evolving nature of work in the digital era, emphasizing the need to shape an equitable future in the rapidly evolving landscape.
This book is a collection of key principles that should be used to "deliver" difficult and unrealistic projects. These principles…
are independent of the chosen project management methodology - they remain complementary to them and help to successfully complete even those projects that seem unrealistic: in terms of time, scope, finances and other aspects. These holistic rules cover broad aspects from management, negotiation, psychology and business. It&’s full of real life examples of various international projects which were both successful or failed. The book shows that beyond certifications, methodologies, and manuals, project management professionals need to learn how to face crisis situations, changing scopes and toxic work environments and then successfully deliver a project. What You Will Learn Holistic view on project lifecycle from sales to delivery What is really important for customers in IT projects Key aspects of proactive attitudes needed for successful project delivery Who This Book is For Project Managers, Team Leaders, Unit Managers, IT managers, IT directors, CIOs
Time Series Econometrics (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
By Klaus Neusser. 2025
This text presents modern developments in time series analysis and focuses on their application to economic problems. The book first…
introduces the fundamental concept of a stationary time series and its relation to the basic properties of covariance funtions, investigating the structure and estimation of autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) models and their relations to the covariance structure. The book then moves on to non-stationary time series, highlighting its consequences for modeling and forecasting as well as regressions models and presenting standard statistical tests. Next, the text discusses volatility models and their applications in the analysis of financial market data, focusing on generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) models. The second part of the text is devoted to multivariate processes, such as vector autoregressive (VAR) models and structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models, which have become the main tools in empirical macroeconomics. The text concludes with a discussion of co-integrated models and the Kalman Filter, which is being used with increasing frequency. The exposition finally connects to recent developments in the field. Mathematically rigorous, yet application-oriented, this self-contained text will help students develop a deeper understanding of theory and better command of the models that are vital to the field. Assuming a basic knowledge of statistics and/or econometrics, this text is best suited for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
The Economics of SME Finance (Advances in Japanese Business and Economics #36)
By Iichiro Uesugi. 2025
This book uses multiple data sources to comprehensively examine issues related to small and medium enterprise (SME) finance in Japan.…
The first feature of the book is that it empirically examines issues that are important not only for Japan but also for other countries. These issues include zombie firms, the expansion of the bank lending market across regions, the role of loan guarantees during economic crises, competition between state-owned banks and private financial institutions, and the impact of bank mergers. The second feature of the book is that it presents and makes available to researchers statistical data on SME finance that were previously unavailable due to a lack of accurate and detailed data sources. The book shows, for the first time in Japan, the extent of concentration at the prefecture level in both loan and deposit markets over a 15-year period. It also shows for the first time not only in Japan but also in other countries an indicator of the flow of funds between regions via loans and deposits, providing new insights into the role of regional fund allocation. These findings will be of interest not only to researchers interested in Japan, but also to those in both developed and emerging economies interested in the evolution of SME finance.
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States (Early American Studies)
By Michelle Craig McDonald. 2025
Illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic worldCoffee is among the…
most common goods traded and consumed worldwide, and so omnipresent its popularity is often taken for granted. But even everyday habits have a history. When and why coffee become part of North American daily life is at the center of Coffee Nation. Using a wide range of archival, quantitative, and material evidence, Michelle Craig McDonald follows coffee from the slavery-based plantations of the Caribbean and South America, through the balance sheets of Atlantic world merchants, into the coffeehouses, stores, and homes of colonial North Americans, and ultimately to the growing import/export businesses of the early nineteenth-century United States that rebranded this exotic good as an American staple. The result is a sweeping history that explores how coffee shaped the lives of enslaved laborers and farmers, merchants and retailers, consumers and advertisers.Coffee Nation also challenges traditional interpretations of the American Revolution, as coffee’s spectacular profitability in US markets and popularity on the new nation’s tables by the mid-nineteenth century was the antithesis of independence. From its beginnings as a colonial commodity in the early eighteenth century, coffee’s popularity soared to become a leading global economy by the 1830s. The United States dominated this growth, by importing ever-increasing amounts of the commodity for drinkers at home and developing a lucrative re-export trade to buyers overseas. But while income generated from coffee sales made up an expanding portion of US trade revenue, the market always depended on reliable access to a commodity that the nation could not grow for itself. By any measure, the coffee industry was a financial success story, but one that runs counter to the dominant narrative of national autonomy. Distribution, not production, lay at the heart of North America’s coffee business, and its profitability and expansion relied on securing and maintaining ties first with the Caribbean and then Latin America.
Imogen Blicker analysiert in diesem Buch die Schlüsselfaktoren, die die Kundenbindung bei gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungen (GKV) beeinflussen. Vor dem Hintergrund eines…
zunehmend wettbewerbsintensiven und digitalisierten Gesundheitsmarktes untersucht sie, welche psychologischen, sozialen und situativen Einflussgrößen für Versicherte wirklich entscheidend sind. Auf Basis einer umfassenden Literaturrecherche und qualitativer Experteninterviews entwickelt die Autorin ein praxisorientiertes Kundenbindungsmodell, das speziell auf die Besonderheiten gesetzlicher Krankenkassen zugeschnitten ist. Die Arbeit bietet nicht nur wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, sondern auch konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für ein zukunftsfähiges Kundenmanagement – ein Muss für Entscheider*innen im Gesundheitswesen, Marketingverantwortliche und Berater*innen der Versicherungsbranche.