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This book has been written to provide the reader with research insights into understanding Sustainability, which is seen as a crucial issue for our time and for the future. It brings together the views, conceptual analyses, case studies and practical recommendations of professors, doctors and doctoral candidates from the Business Science Institute Executive DBA programme. The authors invite us to contextualize Sustainability, whilst taking a critical and constructive perspective on this wideranging topic. The book is divided into four parts. Part one introduces the key concepts of Sustainability. Part two looks at Sustainability in different sectors of activity. Part three looks at Sustainab...
To meet the challenge of closing the gap between academic research and industry practice, we need a step change in how the business school and the business scholar engages with business. This book presents best practice in the methods of broadening successful academic–business engagement on a major scale. It presents concrete recommendations for setting programmes, creating incentives and structuring recruitment that will transform effective academic–business engagement. Most universities claim to have significant links with industry and the professions, but, in reality, only a limited number of business scholars are engaged with industry. A focus on ‘impact’ presents an additional p...
Analyzes key critical HR variables and defines previously undiscovered issues in the HR field.
This book examines the progress made in e-enabling the HR function and the relationship with outsourcing. The editors will review and analyse recent developments in the application of outsourcing and ICT to the HR function and its overall contribution to organizational aims. This text aims to fill the gap in current literature, by providing accessible guidance on how to tackle the e-enablement of the function and on the factors associated with successful outsourcing. There is no single text that adequately deals with this increasingly important problem and which has been recognised by the CIPD as a key area of research for their forward programme. The contributors all have leading-edge knowledge and practical experience and aim to provide practical guidance for organizations and HR professionals.
"This book provides a framework for conceptual, theoretical, and applied research in regards to the relationship between technology and humans"--Provided by publisher.
"This book presents a comprehensive collection of the most current research on various aspects, roles, and functions of digital enterprises"--Provided by publisher.
Examines trust in a third dimension. Considers how building trust is different for managers developing "virtual" relationships. Examines the way remote workers are managed; electronic commerce is used to sell products and services to unseen consumers; and how IT is relied on to interface with organizations, virtual or otherwise.
The result of half a century of research and experimentation in economics and management, this Treatise is intended for management practitioners. Socio-economic management (SEAM) makes the demands of humanism in professional life and sustainable economic prosperity compatible. It is illustrated with numerous cases from 2,150 companies and organizations from a wide variety of sectors and presents observed and measured results. Most of these chapters are written jointly by managers or executives of companies and organizations, and scholars or consultants involved in the pilot actions. This book is the work of 193 authors, from 16 countries and 4 continents, practitioners or academics in manage...
"This book covers a wide range of topics involved in the outsourcing of information technology through state-of-the-art collaborations of international field experts"--Provided by publisher.