This book presents topical research in the study of business and management techniques from across the globe. Topics discussed include data mining and business decision-making; third age entrepreneurship and successful ageing; decision usefulness of insurance accounting according to IASB exposure draft insurance contracts; globalisation of financial reporting standards; professional responsibility in a pluralist society; the role of business intelligence in decision-making and behavioural accounting.

Volume 17 first aims to analyse the three most significant dimensions of the current technological development of the economy and society: analytics, intelligence, and ethics. Next, this collection introduces the concept of digital disruption, and puts forward the application of new technologies as a valuable asset in the current business landscape. The authors go on to demonstrate that consumer electronic contracts are better protected than in-person contracts, as the European legislation has created certain mechanisms in order to promote electronic contracting, among which are: the duties of information, the right of withdrawal and online arbitration. One study identifies useful information through data mining in an effort to better understand consumer claims about products and services, mainly complaints about the companies that are evaluated. The penultimate chapter discusses in-memory business intelligence, as well as the modeling of business analysis questions. Lastly, the dynamic processes of the foreign equity price and the foreign exchange rate are depicted by identifying a Markov-modulated multi-currency market model capturing both individual jumps and systematic cojumps.

The opening chapter of Advances in Business and Management. Volume 16 studies the determinants of the unemployment duration for university graduates in Spain. The results of these studies showed that the duration of unemployment was significantly associated with the graduate's age, participation in internship programs, field of study, type of university, and gender. Next, the authors utilize the empirically validated assumptions of two contemporary theories on team motivation (social identity theory and the theory on joint production motivation) to provide an organizational behaviour perspective to the jettisoning of Japanese management philosophy. This compilation also analyzes the political struggle that took place during 1994-1995 in Israel's Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) under the leadership of Haim Ramon that eventually caused goal transformation within the union. The study in the following chapter aims to identify the impact of social media on the people of Bangladesh as consumers. The authors go on to focus on recent changes in business communication in the past two decades from a sociolinguistics point of view. Later, it is proposed that given the exponential increase of internet users, it is important to study how enterprises have been working and innovating their online communication tools, as well understand how they can improve the communication through these online channel, in order to cover increasing competition in the different business areas. Additionally, this collection demonstrates that there are significant differences in manners of communication that appear to be a very important factor in making some organizations more successful than others. The concluding chapter suggests a combination of a single cost-plus transfer price and the pragmatic process of negotiation assuming non-linear net average revenue curves.

Advances in Business and Management. Volume 15 begins by presenting a paper examining the depth and range of psychological stressors and strains that entrepreneurs encounter in their new ventures, aiming to further clarify the confusion and inconsistencies of being self-employed. The following study was conducted in order to analyze the impacts of IT on e-business adoption and to understand the effects of quality IT strategies in e-business performance. Focusing on Chinese users through an online survey, the measurement instrument of this research model was developed from various studies. The authors go on to discuss brand management and the way in which it attempts to tap into collective meanings, associating life-world categories of thought and emotion. A seduction takes place whereby a captured emotional involvement with advertisements confuses the imaginary with perception and circumvents rational thought prior to purchaseall likely to evolve in directions anticipated by the market specialists. One paper shows that the manner an organisation approaches strategic planning is significant. A case study rooted in stewardship, service and divine endowments develops theoretical findings drawing from biblical strategy and blends these with contemporary strategic human resource management. Social impact assessment (SIA) has become a recent concept of interest within the business and public domains, soliciting further study by academics. SIA is an interdisciplinary social science that incorporates various fields and is regarded as a technique for predicting social impacts as part of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) or as a stand-alone process. This book contributes to the knowledge base of SIA and its relationship with b-corporations and integrated reporting, providing insights between these two fields of research. The penultimate current chapter embraces a topic which is still underdeveloped in the literature: how corporate social responsibility may or may not influence brand equity. Therefore, the authors conducted a literature review to analyse past studies on this topic, focusing on four major aspects. Today every customer is digital customer, and every enterprise is digital enterprise. It is proposed that the significantly changing business environment requires enterprises to rapidly change their structures, processes and systems in order to save their customers and to remain competitive and compliant to the requirements of the modern digital economy.

Chapter One categorises contemporary work motivation philosophies into three wide-ranging classifications, with the goal to concisely present grey areas that research yet to examine. Chapter Two provides readers with a thorough overview of recent literature concerning sleep health and workplace efficiency. Chapter Three seeks to answer the question, What are the factors that determine the ability of the informal sector to endure large scale crises? In Chapter Four, Diego Matricano recommends a method of open innovation while outlining the main facets of inbound and outbound knowledge flows. Simo Salminen provides a Finnish perspective on occupational injuries, risk factors, risk groups, and consequences in Chapter Five. Following this, Luis Alfonso Dau proposes a research program directed at comprehending the influence of ethnic and political arrangements on MNE growth and activity in the BRICS countries in Chapter Six. Lastly, Chapter Seven explores the challenges encountered in rural areas of Lithuania and presents social entrepreneurship as an opportunity to develop the country.

Using a classification of production related organizations, Chapter One proposes a historical sketch of the growing popularity of project management (PM) within businesses and accounts for this popularity by characterizing PM as a distinct set of elements among components making up a firm. Chapter Two examines the possible two-way link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and earnings management (EM) corporate strategies, and whether there are any corporate governance differences at the international level in this respect. Chapter Three analyzes design management (DM), design concepts and design thinking (DT) for promoting socially responsible solutions. The chapter provides a deeper understanding of DT, ascertains its meaning and characteristics, determines gaps among different DM approaches, design concepts and DT in the context of social responsibility and reveals why and how DT helps us to deal with complex problems regarding social responsibility. Chapter Four focuses on how businesses can improve health and working conditions for their employees. Using results from a 2016 NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey of 1601 workers nationwide in the U.S., the chapter represents one of the broadest examinations of how workers see health in their workplace experiences. Chapter Five examines the challenges and opportunities in public-private partnerships (PPP) for housing the low-income urban residents in Nigeria. The chapter relies on a systematic review of research literature and empirical data derived from oral interviews with 27 experts in nine PPP housing projects in Nigeria to achieve its goal. Chapter six deals with an analysis of standards for usury thresholds in Italy. The authors work consists of a close examination on Italian Legislative Decree 70/11 that has modified the aforementioned standards. Chapter Seven discusses the influence of the accounting value of conservatism, proposed by Gray (1988) as part of the cultural relevance theory. The possession of derivative financial instruments (DFI) was used as proxy to define it. This chapter concludes the book by assessing the existence of the explanatory variables of this accounting value, such as regional groups, firm level controls and qualitative characteristics.

In this book, Chapter One shows the new challenges for managers in relation to the management of operations permeate aspects of development and/or aggregation of services, stronger link with market strategies, flexible and cost competitive systems, intensive information technology and automation. In Chapter Two, the authors show the methodological process to the identification and the verification of the critical success factors of the TCUs survey variables by means of statistical analysis. Chapter Three argues that against the background of hyper-complexity the usefulness of all mainstream approaches of change management has to be scrutinized. Chapter Four is focused on a theoretical framework motivated by the influence of TMT composition on strategic change and firm performance. Chapter Five examines the importance and the implementation of critical success factors (CSFs) of quality management systems (QMSs). Chapter Six presents the concepts of critical success factors of projects and their applications in various sectors.

The authors of this book examine the latest research in business and management, including a comprehensive study on the hotel and tourism management industry; the perception of public managers regarding the implementation of codes of ethics; an analysis of the characteristics of the Multilateral Trading Facilities between 2008 and 2014; the audit market and auditor choice of Chinese listed firms between 2007 and 2012; a debate on the effectiveness of Family-Friendly Practices and Policies (FFPP) based on literature and research performed in Portugal; an analysis of humanistic management; an investigation of the dynamic economic impacts of global value chains (GVCs) participation in Asian developing economies; the effects of personal values on ethical judgements of auditors in relation to auditor-client conflict scenarios; and real-life examples of how corporate managers manage human resources (HR) to make it a truly evidence-based human resource management (EBHRM).

This book presents research in the field of business and management from around the world. This book examines e-commerce and its impact on expectations of customer service and quality control. it also explores the strategic advantage of employee training in marketing organisations; wealth management, building value through investing, and contingency plans after the global recession; health as a predictor of registered nurse retirement preparation; human resources management and mergers and acquisitions; private saving for retirement; an investigation of multichannel shopping behavior; and self-determined relationship marketing.

This book presents topical research in the study of business and management techniques from across the globe. Topics discussed include new business models for the tooling industry; improving innovation in low-tech manufacturing based small firms; small business social responsibility; total factor productivity change of the Thailand banking sector during the post-Asian financial crisis; Exchange Traded Funds and regulatory and market forces in controlling bank risk-taking.

This book presents topical research in the study of business and management techniques from across the globe. Topics discussed include a study of alternative energy sources and their impact on sustaining economic growth; terrorism insurance and international business; compulsory licensing of patents; technology internationalization; marketing mix strategies on impulse purchases; behavioral accounting; multinational corporations and the quest for legitimacy; heterogenous competition in a differentiated duopoly; and, the Parameterized Expectations Algorithm (PEA) business model design and implementation.

Management in all business areas and organisational activities are the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organising, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organisation or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. This volume gathers important research from around the globe in this dynamic field of study including Enterprise Risk Management implementation in Malaysia; Supply Chain Management in the automotive industry; the use of the fuzzy approach in project management; entrepreneurial activity and the economic crisis; and, job satisfaction factors of government workers.

This edited volume includes eight chapters describing recent advances in business and management studies. Chapter One studies how marketing actions can help reduce and prevent food waste in developed countries. Chapter Two examines whether advertising behaves differently over alternative phases of the business cycle. Chapter Three analyzes new crowdfunding systems that are emerging in large Chinese technology companies such as Tencent and WeChat. Chapter Four looks at the influence of a graduate program on students' decision whether to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. Chapter Five introduces the Economic Value Added model to allow for a cost-benefit analysis of people investments. Chapter Six explores how altruism positively impacts a firm's performance by strengthening organizational resilience. Chapter Seven discusses how advertisers are adapting a strategy of communicating shared values, such as support for underprivileged groups, to build relationships with socially conscious customers. Finally, Chapter Eight investigates the quantitative importance of the presence of shocks to the depreciation rate of capital for the magnitude of cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria.

The authors of this book examine the latest research in business and management. Chapter One demonstrates how Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) interacts with the social constructs and dynamics of Virtual Communities (VCs). Chapter Two examines the moderating role of individual consumer culture on the relationship between web design, visual appearance, social networking services, consumer behaviour, privacy, security, emotions, interpersonal trust (iTrust), cognitive and affect-based trust concerning online purchasing intentions. Chapter Three uses results from a 2015 National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey of 8038 US adults nationwide and in seven selected states to illuminate the self-reported experiences of health care consumers. Chapter Four discusses implications for tracking the behavioural health workforce in rural communities. Chapter Five presents a case for integrating social marketing practices and business principles into dissemination projects. Chapter Six identifies the extent to which non-manufacturing overhead costs are included in product costs used in decision making; the influences on their inclusion or exclusion; and the methods used to include them. Chapter Seven describes market culture and places of marketing in Senegal. Chapter Eight discusses the marketing mix of agri-food products tailored to the African context and offers guidance to industrial companies, retailers as well as local small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The authors of this book examine the latest research in business and management, including the challenges, strategies and impact of implementing an Automated Fare Collection (AFC) system for electronic ticketing in bus transit in emerging markets; territorial competitiveness and social responsibility; the existing relationship between the emotional aspect and decision-making processes; a theoretical application of experiential marketing on festival tourism; an analysis of brand emotion and product design ; the literature on Enneagramme as a potential tool for enhancing occupational health and safety; the use of swarm intelligence in the field of information technology; and computing export-import quantities and prices of agricultural commodities for selecting the ports of a country using a transportation model.

This book presents research in the field of business and management from around the world. This book provides a meta-theoretical framework for understanding the nature of organisational wisdom based on learning traditions. The authors of this book also draw some guidelines that can be useful in approaching the concept of the business model in a well-structured way, providing an in-depth investigation of the various research streams and perspectives. Other chapters review the contemporary corporate governance framework in Chinese listed firms after the substantial financial reform in 2005; statistical tools developed to measure latent traits widely used in education and psychology, called Item Response Theory; the concept of brand promise and what it means to the consumer stakeholder; tourism consumption patterns in terms of economic development; and deterministic and stochastic business cycle models that incorporate consumption in specific ways.

This book presents topical research in the study of business and management techniques from across the globe. Topics discussed include new business models for the tooling industry; improving innovation in low-tech manufacturing based small firms; small business social responsibility; total factor productivity change of the Thailand banking sector during the post-Asian financial crisis; Exchange Traded Funds and regulatory and market forces in controlling bank risk-taking.

This book gathers topical research in the study of business and management techniques from across the globe. Some topics presented include transaction management as a practical tool for the organisation of production; permanence or stability in the theory and practice of ethical business; and, business ethics pedagogy and corporate social responsibility in business management.