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This book explores the link between environmental knowledge management and the sustainability challenges being faced by organisations, individuals and society. Comprising both theoretical and empirical chapters, the volume describes how knowledge management and organisational learning can help achieve a sustainable tourism sector. Environmental knowledge has become one of the most important resources for organisations in the current competitive environment. Organisations need to turn their knowledge into agile structures to respond to the challenges resulting from current and future environmental challenges, and from increased competitiveness and social changes. It is therefore important for...
This book is a collection of selected high-quality research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Evidence-Based Management (ICEBM) 2023, held at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, during February 24–25, 2023. It has 76 chapters written by various scholars focusing on evidence-based management practices in different functional areas of management with the application of theory and empirical techniques. This book will be helpful to practitioners, academics, scholars, and policymakers.
Aufgrund der politischen Umwälzungen der letzten zwanzig Jahren in der Region Mittlerer Osten und Nordafrika (MENA) gewann die deutsch-arabische Hochschulzusammenarbeit eine strategische Bedeutung für die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik. Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) unterstützte zwischen 2005 und 2020 den Aufbau von zehn kooperativen Studienprogrammen mit Partneruniversitäten in Ägypten, Jordanien und dem Libanon. Diese Programme hatten das Ziel, einen entwicklungspolitischen Impact in Bereichen wie nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, integriertes Wassermanagement, Förderung erneuerbarer Energien sowie wirtschaftlicher und politischer Transition zu erzielen. Bisher fehlen the...
This volume shows that in today’s globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and regions. Drawing on the expertise of an international contributor team, it covers topics such as clusters and small and medium-sized enterprise competitiveness, innovation and science parks, clusters and multinationals, and information and communication technology clusters. It reveals great diversity in terms of the origin of clusters, the organizational relationships at play, and the characteristics of the firms involved. Taking lessons from a rich variety of literature and empirical cases, the book provides valuable insights for regional development and industrial policy. Economic Clusters and Globalization will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in economic geography, regional studies, entrepreneurship and international business.
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the era, A. Katie Harris uses the case of St. John of Matha’s stolen remains to explore the roles played by saints’ relics, the anxieties invested in them, their cultural meanings, and the changing modes of thought with which early modern Catholics...
Las contribuciones que forman los capítulos de este libro presentan en común que son temas relacionados con los nuevos retos de las empresas y la forma de dar respuesta a los mismos, y plantean todas ellas importantes motivos de reflexión sobre cómo potenciar el mundo de la empresa con un mensaje común: la sociedad del futuro, que está madurando en la actualidad, necesitará empresas y organizaciones que asuman los riesgos y se transformen para dar respuesta a las necesidades de la sociedad del conocimiento.