Management of Specific Areas

Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year (International Books category) 2022Every year, companies spend billions of dollars in board time and ...

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2024), held in Delft, the Netherlands...

This book provides an interdisciplinary critical perspective regarding risk, uncertainty and governance challenges of cryptocurrencies. It consider...

This book aims to present a picture of one of the worlds leading credit rating agencies. Credited as being the first credit rating agency, Moodys s...

This book provides empirical insights into the relationship between capital and equity-ownership structure of Indian manufacturing companies and th...

Whole-Life Value-Based Decision-Making in Asset Management is a comprehensive guide to improving the effectiveness of infrastructure asset manageme...

For a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess...

It has been long understood that value creation by corporate strategists is determined by their ability to effectively deploy resources across mult...

The papers in volume 6 of Research in Competence-Based Management identify, elaborate theoretically, and investigate empirically a number of new ki...

Disasters experienced by the hospitality industry have steadily increased over the past few decades, and the industry has emerged as one of the mos...

For a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess...

This book discusses the issue of limited stakeholder recognition and protection of stakeholder interests within the Anglo-Saxon corporate governanc...

This book delves deeply into the research progress on three-way risk decision for risk management under complex social environment. From the new pe...

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, logical, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike some more theory-heavy texts, this boo...

This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests create...

In today's global market, supply chain management has become more critical than ever. This book delves into the strategic, operational, and technol...

This book deals with an often-neglected feature of location problems, namely uncertainty, by combining two related fields: location theory and opti...

This textbook introduces readers to the principles of business process and supply chain simulation modeling using the AnyLogic multimethod simulati...

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, logical, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike some more theory-heavy texts, this boo...

Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and une...

The relationships between investors, directors and companies have never been so vital, or so confusing. Gone are the days when being a non-executiv...

Given the significant changes in the banking environment and the resultant pressures on banks to change their systems and procedures, this book is ...

Much has been said and written about the 'financial tsunami' and subsequent economic dislocation that occurred in the opening decade of the 21st Ce...

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Com...

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key ...

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2023), held in Delft, the Netherland...

IT governance seems to be one of the best strategies to optimize IT assets in an economic context dominated by information, innovation, and the rac...

Transforming Governance: New Values, New Systems in the New Business Environment, edited by Maria Aluchna and Güler Aras addresses the current sta...

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a countrys economic organization and its corporate governance system. Mo...

Chinese state banks, which were considered technically insolvent in the 1990s, are at present among the largest and most important banks in the wor...

The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its f...

The need for assurance is never more acute than in times of turbulence and uncertainty. The events following the financial market crisis demonstrat...

Why do some corporate superstars collapse dramatically, while others survive and prosper over many decades? Is the fall primarily caused by technic...

Progressive Commercialization of Airline Governance Culture analyzes the transition of the airline sector from the not-for-profit nation-bound publ...

Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity attracting media coverage and stimulatin...

Today's leader needs to be equipped with the tools and skills to find an effective way to collaborate with others. Global organizations today are h...

Even though the fractal approach to sustainability and organizational change management is not new, no authors so far seem to have truly attempted ...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

In Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations the author Linne Marie Lauesen explores how businesses that have succeeded in conducting sustaina...

Change is a crucial and inescapable process for many organisations. It remains a constant challenge for managers and many change management initiat...

Workplace diversity has become increasingly relevant to academics and practitioners alike. Often, this issue is tackled merely from a business-orie...

Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enter...

Although an integral part of the corporate world, the development and execution of a successful Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) program ...

Strategy Journeys starts from the premise that strategic planning suffers from a bad press: it can be seen as complex, technical, remote from the d...

This title was first published in 2000: The first book which brings together and interprets both the theoretical concepts associated with the study...

Drawing back on the ever-evolving stakeholder management theory, this book responds to calls for more empirical research into the managerial sense ...

This book explores nonprofit organizations (NPOs) from an operations and supply chain management (OM/SCM) perspective. Traditionally, OM/SCM resear...