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Handbook of sustainability in management education : in search of a multidisciplinary, innovative and integrated approach
Arevalo, Jorge A. (contributor);  … - 2017
Contents: introduction -- Part I: Theorizing the field of sustainability in management education (SiME) development in practice -- 1. Business cases for sustainability-integrated management education / Melissa Edwards, Suzanne Benn, and Mark Starik -- 2. Reforming the delinquent organization:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419934
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Creating ecological value : an evolutionary approach to business strategies and the natural environment
Boons, Frank - 2009
Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with the natural environment. This book explores this variety and...
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Strategic challenges for the base of the pyramid
Vermeulen, Patrick A. M. - 2014
'What I like most about Strategic Challenges for the Base of the Pyramid is the authors' clear understanding of what we have already learned about the BoP domain and their subsequent focus on creating new knowledge. The chapters in this book provide important insights into several important...
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Employees and entrepreneurship : co-ordination and spontaneity in non-hierarchical business organizations
Pongracic, Ivan - 2009
Over the last few decades, there has been a great deal of management literature recommending the removal of firms' hierarchies and the empowerment of employees. Ivan Pongracic, Jr. examines these themes through the lense of the economic theory of the firm. Balancing the tendency for management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851116
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The entrepreneur as business leader : cognitive leadership in the firm
Scheer, Silke - 2009
' coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and organizational psychology, this book sheds new light on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851713
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A research agenda for workplace innovation : the challenge of disruptive transitions
Oeij, Peter R. A. (ed.); Dhondt, Steven (ed.);  … - 2023
"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This cutting-edge Research Agenda takes a hard look at...
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Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture : the interaction between technology, progress and economic growth
Brown, Terrence E. (contributor); Ulijn, J. M. (contributor) - 2004
1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth …? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region …. Culture's role in entrepreneurship : self-employment out of dissatisfaction -- 9. Towards cooperation between European start …
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Social evolution, economic development and culture : what it means to take Japan seriously
Dore, Ronald Philip - 2001
Social evolution, economic development and culture brings together Ronald Dore's key writings for the first time … interlinking themes--technology-driven social evolution, late development, culture and polemics. These are highly topical in the …pt. 1. Technology-driven social evolution -- pt. 2. And late development -- pt. 3. But culture does matter, too -- pt …
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Culture and the labour market
Austen, Siobhan - 2003
Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on …1. Introduction -- 2. Culture and the labour market -- 3. Approaches to the analysis of cultural effects in the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851317
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Handbook of creative cities
Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor);  … - 2011
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...
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