Global Value Chains and Production Networks: Case Studies of Siemens and Huawei presents theories and frameworks that facilitate the evolution of GPN studies, from macro perspectives based on territory and industry to the use of micro (firm-level) data. The book explores these theories and frameworks through detailed case studies of two major corporations, Siemens and Huawei. With the GPN/GVC structure of Chinese firms not well known outside China, despite the growing importance of Chinese firms in the global economy, this guide plays a pivotal role in facilitating the use of data that promise to unlock economic cooperation and value.

How Behavioral Economics Influences Management Decision-Making: A New Paradigm critically reexamines the management function in 21st century workplaces. The book seeks to examine and explain the real-world behaviors of employees and acknowledge the human nature that binds us all together and how to appeal to these characteristics in order to help organizations prosper. It explores well-observed but rarely understood features of employee cognition and irrationality, challenging the dominant discourse and offering an alternative to gain greater competitive advantage in today's complex markets. It also provides an effective new framework on the best ways to develop relevant management skills as they pertain to hiring, performance management, change management, employee engagement, and goal setting. As the knowledge economy continues to grow, the social bonds within companies will prove to be a key differentiation to deliver on the next big idea. Developing productive decisions with staff in the talent-driven global economy increasingly requires the development of "intrinsic" meaning in work, a human-centered work-place culture, and human-focused working practices. This book tackles these topics in comprehensive and efficient detail.

The role humans play in the field of information technology continues to hold relevance even with the industry's rapid growth. People contribute heavily to the physical, cognitive, and organizational domain of computing, yet there is a lack of exploration into this phenomenon. Humanoid aspects of technology require extensive research in order to avoid marginalization and insufficient data. The Handbook of Research on the Role of Human Factors in IT Project Management is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of the task of human characteristics in the design and development of new technology. While highlighting topics including digitalization, risk management, and task analysis, this book is ideally designed for IT professionals, managers, support executives, project managers, managing directors, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the dynamics of human influence in technological projects.

Gain insight into people-organisational relationships and interrelated influences on human behaviour Management and Organisational Behaviour, 13th edition, by Mullins and Rees, provides an in-depth study guide that helps you understand the relationship between people and professional organisations, shedding new light on the understanding, prediction, and control of human behaviour at work. This widely popular text examines the environments of the individual, the group, workplace, and organisational structure, explaining organisational behaviour by applying theoretical frameworks to practice and developing critical thinking. This new edition addresses recent contextual issues, such as the impact of Covid-19 on the workplace. It also offers greater international perspective on organisational behaviour, with the addition of several case studies from around the world and related video cases by expert speakers. Featuring conceptual mind maps of complex topics to aid your understanding and revision, its 'personal skills' and 'employability' sections help you develop your social and work-based skills in preparation for life beyond the classroom. This comprehensive textbook is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate study, as well as for professionals training for management roles.

The Handbook of Employee Engagement contains cutting edge contributions from a wide array of world-class scholars and consultants on state-of-the-art topics key to the science and the practice of employee engagement. The volume presents comprehensive and global perspectives to help researchers and practitioners identify, understand, evaluate and apply the key theories, models, measures and interventions associated with employee engagement. The Handbook provides many new insights, practical applications and areas for future research. It will serve as an important platform for ongoing research and practice on employee engagement. Combining an excellent balance of academic perspectives and practical applications this Handbook will prove to be invaluable for academic researchers in the field of organizational behaviour, organizational development and organizational psychology. In addition, human resource and organizational development practitioners and consultants should not be without this `state-of-the-art' and informative resource.

Because insights can be viewed as fragments of knowledge collected through experience and education, they are not easily communicated to organizational leaders. Successful organizational leaders make use of different strategies to effectively communicate insights at various levels and types of organizations, from both academic and perspectives. Synthesizing creative, critical, and existential insights across analytics, communication, and management provides an intersection to address a need for an edited collection of original research in this area. Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business is an essential reference book that provides relevant theoretical frameworks, critical and creative insights, and the latest empirical research findings in communication approaches within organizations. Covering topics that include knowledge transfer, data visualization, and decision making, the book seeks to inspire the understanding of effective strategies for improving organizational performance through improved utilization of insights in different types of work communities, environments, and contexts. The target audience of this book is composed of executives and managers, as well as professionals, academicians, students, and researchers working in the field of analytics, business, communication, and knowledge management across various disciplines, for example, decision science, organizational behavior, political science, communication sciences, administrative sciences, and management.

The Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation places humans, their acts, practices, processes and fantasies at the core of innovation. Bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers, academics and professionals, both established and emerging, this multidisciplinary book provides a comprehensive picture of the vibrant and engaging field of organizational and managerial innovation.The contributors present organizational and managerial innovation as a complex concept underpinned by varied ontological and epistemological traditions and disciplines. They reveal that it is something that exists and occurs at multiple levels of analysis, and from multiple zones of experience - the experience of managers, workers, psychologists, philosophers and economists. This innovative and engaging book will be an essential resource for researchers, practitioners and students alike with an interest in the role of innovation in organizations. Contributors include: R. Agarwal, J. Bessant, J. Birkinshaw, K. Bjorkeng, C. Boedker, A. Carlsen, H.H. Chiu, S. Clegg, M.P. e Cunha, F. Damanpour, E. Dehlin, R. Green, R. Hall, K. Hydle, E. Josserand, M. Kerrin, R. Lamming, C. Magelssen, M. Mol, R. Northcote, F. Patterson, N. Rapport, A. Rego, J.M. Runnalls, L. Sandelands, G.M.P. Swann, S. Teerikangas, P. Thomas, I.G. Vaccaro, L. Valikangas, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, F. Villeseche, H.W. Volberda, L. Zibarras

This book draws together William B. Gartner's key contributions to entrepreneurship research over the past 25 years. An original introduction by the author offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of his work as it pertains to the development of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field, and the articles demonstrate the many ways in which his research has explored entrepreneurship in relation to individuals, firms, environments, and processes.

This Handbook provides an overview of neuroscience-driven research methodologies and how those methodologies might be applied to theory-based research in the nascent field of neuroentrepreneurship. A key challenge of this field is that few neuroscientists are trained as entrepreneurship scholars and few entrepreneurship scholars are trained as neuroscientists, but this book skillfully bridges that gap. Expert contributors include concrete examples of new ways to conduct research in their contributions, which have the potential to shed light onto areas such as decision making and opportunity recognition and allow neuroentrepreneurs to ask different, perhaps better, questions than ever before. This Handbook also presents current thinking and examples of pioneering work, serves as a reference for those wishing to incorporate these methods into their own research, and provides several helpful discussions on the nature of answerable questions using neuroscience techniques. Neuroentrepreneurship is an important, emerging field for neuroscientists and entrepreneurship scholars alike. For the former audience, this book presents concrete research questions and entrepreneurship applications; for the latter, it serves as a primer and introduction to neuroscientific methods. Graduate students studying entrepreneurship, and practitioners who are keen to promote innovation and entrepreneurial skills in their leadership, will also find this Handbook to be of interest. Contributors include: W. Becker, C. Bellavitis, M.C. Boardman, M. Colosio, C. Couffe, M. Day, P.M. de Holan, A.A. Gorin, S. Guillory, N. Krueger, A. Passarelli, V. Perez-Centeno, C. Reeck, L. Schjoedt, K.G. Shaver, A. Sud, T. Treffers, M.K. Ward

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents--millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey.

The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!

With Sean Covey's added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.

They include:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

While crises do not occur frequently, their impact can be devastating as organizations are still vulnerable to man-made and natural crises. From terrorism, environmental, scientific, financial, political, pandemic to natural disasters, crises can occur at any moment, and if not managed efficiently and effectively can be disastrous. Thus, businesses can suffer not only loss of profit, but the ultimate demise of their business. It becomes increasingly difficult, at times, to prevent crises such as these. It then becomes difficult to develop practical means that can mitigate their undesirable effects once they occur. For instance, globally, businesses and industries of all sizes have experienced the effects of COVID-19, an external pandemic. The recovery process requires SMEs to rearrange and reestablish their missions, goals, and infrastructure of the business. This is an overwhelming challenge of recovering. Historically, academics and practitioners have developed various management methodologies and technologies to help business manager's deal with challenges in their environments, yet many businesses fail. Thus, these challenges need to be researched more closely in order to overcome business failure. Many of these challenges are external events in which firms need to adapt and react. Getting the right adaptation and reaction to these external events will depend on whether a firm continues with success or fails altogether. Companies may fail due to their inability to properly respond to a crisis, whether it be a business or organizational crisis. This book will identify strategies of SMEs that have recovered and how they recovered for preparation for future crises and other external impacts. It will showcase the resulting impact of external events such as environmental impact, like fires, or other impacts like the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses and educational entities. Specifically, it will discuss how SMEs or other businesses reacted through unexpected crisis. Therefore, the empirical contributions can be helpful for future entrepreneurs and current SMEs. The book will focus on external crisis including widespread environmental destruction, natural disasters, pandemic, sabotage by outsiders, and/or terrorism, and how firms can adapt and react.