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This comprehensive textbook gives an insight into all relevant aspects of business administration, as they are all subject to fundamental changes due to the transformation to a more sustainable economy. It starts with the background on sustainability and the scientific classification of sustainable business administration. Next, it sheds light on the boundary conditions regarding environmental economics and social responsibility. The next section deals with management functions, from strategy and international management to change management, legal implications and HR management. The last part focuses on value creation. Here, the authors shed light on the influence of sustainability in all areas of the corporate value chain, from procurement on to production and ending with marketing and sales. Also addressed are expert functions such as environmental management or sustainable product design, which are essential in driving sustainable innovation in a dynamically changing environment.
Scholars agree that change has become a staple in organizational life and will likely remain as such beyond the 21st century. As the rate of change continues to accelerate, organizations must strive to develop and implement new initiatives in order to obtain significant benefits to organizational survival, economic viability, and human satisfaction. Organizational Change Management Strategies in Modern Business covers the most important elements of change management as well as the difficulties and challenges that organizations have faced when implementing change. In sampling different disciplines relevant to topics such as resistance to change, mergers and acquisitions management, leadership, the role of human resource strategies, and culture, this reference work is a useful resource for academics, professionals, managers, administrators, and others interested in organizational change.
Collaborative working has been increasingly viewed as a good practice for organizations to achieve efficiency. Organizations that work well in collaboration may have access to new sources of funding, deliver new, improved, and more integrated services, make savings on shared costs, and exchange knowledge, information and expertise. Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks and Knowledge Resources showcases cutting-edge research on the intersections of Semantic Web, collaborative work, and social media research, exploring how the resources of so-called social networking applications, which bring people together to interact and encourage sharing of personal inform...
This book shows how the principles of Lean Management can be applied to project management and how some typical problems of project management can be solved by this. The author first provides a theoretical description of what project management is about and explains its tasks and methods as well as its limitations. He also describes how the Lean idea came about and derives five principles from it that can also be applied to project management. Along these principles, the author then elaborates typical current challenges of project management and shows how these challenges can be tackled through Lean Project Management. In doing so, he does not stop at the level of principles, but describes s...
Der vorliegende Band präsentiert Beiträge zu den Themen Strategisches Management, Hochschulmarketing, Qualitätsmanagement, Personalmanagement und Instrumente des Hochschulmanagements.
Die Anforderungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung stellen unsere Welt vor große Aufgaben, und die traditionelle Betriebswirtschaftslehre vor neue Herausforderungen. Oftmals werden nur Teilaspekte nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens beleuchtet, dieses Buch stellt hingegen einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz einer nachhaltigen Betriebswirtschaftslehre vor – das Nürtinger Modell. Im Kontext planetarer Grenzenund großer gesellschaftlicher Probleme in globalen Lieferketten muss unternehmerische Wertschöpfung neu gedacht werden, kommt neue Verantwortung mit neuen Aufgaben auf das Management zu. Unweigerlich müssen alle Unternehmensfunktionen Nachhaltigkeit in den Kern ihres Handels aufnehmen. Wie das möglich ist, zeigt dieses Buch in aller Ausführlichkeit, von der Strategie bis hin zu allen primären und sekundären Wertschöpfungsaktivitäten von Unternehmen. Somit wird den Leser:innen ein ganzheitliches Verständnis einer neuen, nachhaltigen Betriebswirtschaft vermittelt. Das Buch richtet sich neben Studierenden der BWL an alle, die sich mit nachhaltiger Betriebswirtschaft grundlegend auseinandersetzen möchten.
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