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This two-volume edited work explores how businesses shape, and are
shaped by, sustainability forces and phenomena. Major global
developments are inexorably being led by a sustainability agenda,
which, in itself constitutes an integral part of business
evolution. And as context shapes content, shifts in society have
gradually given rise to new regulations, new types of markets,
environmental-excellence criteria for businesses, new economic
standards, and a wide range of green technologies. Reflecting the
purpose of the series, both volumes offer a cross-section of
multi-disciplinary perspectives within business studies. Volume 1
focuses on strategic and managerial approaches to sustainability in
business, including accounts on the historic origins of
sustainability and its contemporary corporate sustainable models.
Volume 2 explores, more contextually, how business and social
sustainability constitute indivisible and inextricable components
of the same nexus. Taken together, they offer an original
perspective on how businesses can help achieve the SDG goals and
targets.
Digital transformation involves the union of technological change
and innovative technologies and is about constant innovation,
evolution and acceleration. While it is true that technology is an
enabler of digital transformation, transformation often involves
people, process, and technology. This collected volume addresses
organizational challenges and pitfalls experienced during the
implementation of, and experimentation with, digital
transformation. The collection reveals examples, experiences, and
best practices in the business sector where the grounds of digital
transformation were set. The contributors provide taxonomies as
well as historical points of digital transformation in the business
sector, along with their impact on selected corporate entities, as
well as including cases and best practices from industry leaders.
The interrelation among people, technology needs, and
organizational structures are the major themes of this edited book.
It will be of great value to students and scholars of digital
business, innovation, strategic management and sustainability.
This book examines businesses under crisis conditions through a
composition of contextual accounts. The Editors argue that crises
are transformative, evolutionary and even revolutionary in the
development of organizations, industries and markets. Moreover,
crises reform the context in which organizations operate, including
customers and their behaviour. As such, they need to be viewed as
conduits to change, accelerators of evolution and catalysts of
innovation in organizations. Emphasising the importance of
'context' and its complexities, the book argues that for crisis, as
a concept and notion, context is crucial to any understanding of
the meaning that should or could be attached to it. Drawing on
different types of changes and crises that substantially affect
business, including economic, technological, political, and
environmental, chapters Bringing together scientific research and
case studies on contextual transformations, the book provides a
balanced selection of works across business disciplines, including
management, strategy, marketing and finance as well as geographic
regions, market types and industries. The book examines the context
of crises, its indicators and triggers, and encompasses topics such
as Artificial Intelligence, e-mobility, changes in consumption
patterns, militancy and the impact of pandemics.
From recurring episodes of great depression, oil crises, political
crises, wars, debt crises, to the ongoing climate change, there is
a constant pressure on businesses to cope with critical events.
However, throughout history, crises have been pivotal in advancing
businesses and societies. This contributed volume approaches crisis
not simply as a source of problems, but also as a set of choices.
It seeks to explore critical events as possible opportunities for
sustainability, through process improvement, creativity, innovation
and entrepreneurship. Chapters reveal that times of crisis provide
opportunities for new start-ups, creativity, resilience,
organisational change, and revitalisation. This book also
emphasises the importance of sustainability, driven either by the
market or as a response to critical events. Within the wider
attempt to explore avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Sustainability at times of crisis, the book is loosely organised in
three thematic sections: organisational responses to crisis;
digitisation, and how technology facilitates or hinders
sustainability under conditions of crisis; and SMEs, Family Firms
(FF), Entrepreneurship, which explores how critical events offer
opportunities for innovation.
This two-volume edited collection explores the impact of technology
on business advancement. Technology is a multifaceted and
multidimensional phenomenon, carrying opportunities and risks.
Business advancement therefore, can no longer be considered without
technological mediation. While Volume I offers insights into
technological improvements in the field of global marketing, Volume
II focuses on the implications of changing technology on work and
employment. It covers topics such as the role of technology in
change management, digital transformation, and the impact of AI on
employment. Taken together, the books move forward the study of
organizations and technology and are ideal resources for business
students and researchers.
This two-volume edited collection explores the impact of technology
on business advancement. Technology is a multifaceted and
multidimensional phenomenon, carrying opportunities and risks.
Business advancement therefore, can no longer be considered without
technological mediation. Volume I offers insights into
technological improvements in the field of global marketing.
Covering topics such as mobile banking, social media and
neuromarketing tools, the book examines how technology diffusion
drives, negates and facilitates change in marketing processes.
Volume II, on the other hand, focuses on the implications of
changing technology on work and employment. Taken together, the
books move forward the study of organizations and technology and
are ideal resources for students and researchers.
Crises present significant challenges for organizations. But, while
critical events are inevitable, not every business is sufficiently
equipped for when things don't go according to plan. This book
focuses on business under crisis conditions, along with
organizational responses and adaptation. Adaptation can be seen as
a learning process. It encompasses meaningful ways that help
companies sustain their viability over the long term. Companies
that respond quickly, often achieve more than just surviving. Some
organizations will learn from a crisis, develop reactive
resilience, and emerge stronger from the period of turbulence. They
will be able to explore possibilities and create new patterns of
relationships. Bringing together descriptive and prescriptive
research studies, chapters explore adaptation in different sectors,
including public health, tourism, garment, Information Technology,
high-tech companies, global trade networks, hospitality, security
and the social sector. Ultimately, the book covers wide range of
topics, linking strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership to
reciprocal organizational adaptations that help us delineate
crisis, as well as its interconnections in differing settings.
This book examines businesses under crisis conditions through a
composition of contextual accounts. The Editors argue that crises
are transformative, evolutionary and even revolutionary in the
development of organizations, industries and markets. Moreover,
crises reform the context in which organizations operate, including
customers and their behaviour. As such, they need to be viewed as
conduits to change, accelerators of evolution and catalysts of
innovation in organizations. Emphasising the importance of
'context' and its complexities, the book argues that for crisis, as
a concept and notion, context is crucial to any understanding of
the meaning that should or could be attached to it. Drawing on
different types of changes and crises that substantially affect
business, including economic, technological, political, and
environmental, chapters Bringing together scientific research and
case studies on contextual transformations, the book provides a
balanced selection of works across business disciplines, including
management, strategy, marketing and finance as well as geographic
regions, market types and industries. The book examines the context
of crises, its indicators and triggers, and encompasses topics such
as Artificial Intelligence, e-mobility, changes in consumption
patterns, militancy and the impact of pandemics.
From recurring episodes of great depression, oil crises, political
crises, wars, debt crises, to the ongoing climate change, there is
a constant pressure on businesses to cope with critical events.
However, throughout history, crises have been pivotal in advancing
businesses and societies. This contributed volume approaches crisis
not simply as a source of problems, but also as a set of choices.
It seeks to explore critical events as possible opportunities for
sustainability, through process improvement, creativity, innovation
and entrepreneurship. Chapters reveal that times of crisis provide
opportunities for new start-ups, creativity, resilience,
organisational change, and revitalisation. This book also
emphasises the importance of sustainability, driven either by the
market or as a response to critical events. Within the wider
attempt to explore avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Sustainability at times of crisis, the book is loosely organised in
three thematic sections: organisational responses to crisis;
digitisation, and how technology facilitates or hinders
sustainability under conditions of crisis; and SMEs, Family Firms
(FF), Entrepreneurship, which explores how critical events offer
opportunities for innovation.
Crises present significant challenges for organizations. But, while
critical events are inevitable, not every business is sufficiently
equipped for when things don't go according to plan. This book
focuses on business under crisis conditions, along with
organizational responses and adaptation. Adaptation can be seen as
a learning process. It encompasses meaningful ways that help
companies sustain their viability over the long term. Companies
that respond quickly, often achieve more than just surviving. Some
organizations will learn from a crisis, develop reactive
resilience, and emerge stronger from the period of turbulence. They
will be able to explore possibilities and create new patterns of
relationships. Bringing together descriptive and prescriptive
research studies, chapters explore adaptation in different sectors,
including public health, tourism, garment, Information Technology,
high-tech companies, global trade networks, hospitality, security
and the social sector. Ultimately, the book covers wide range of
topics, linking strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership to
reciprocal organizational adaptations that help us delineate
crisis, as well as its interconnections in differing settings.
This book examines the nature of retail financial transaction
infrastructures. Contributions assume a long-term outlook in their
exploration of the key financial processes and systems that support
a global transition to a cashless economy. The volume offers both
modern and historic accounts that demonstrate the constantly
changing role of payment instruments. It brings together different
theoretical approaches to the study, re-examining and forecasting
changes in retail payment systems. Chapters explore a global
transition to a cashless society and contemplate future
alternatives to cash, cheques and plastic, featuring the
perspectives of academics from different disciplines in
conversation and industry participants from six continents. Readers
are invited to discover the innovation in payment systems and how
it co-evolves with changes in society and organisations through
personal, corporate and governmental processes.
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