This book challenges the traditional models of modern economy, business education and management, which are devoted to the concepts of scarcity, competition, growth and yield. It deconstructs the spiral of acceleration in which technological shifts concerning global markets and enterprises...

Jan Hauke Holste analyzes how a company can innovate and change its business model to the degree that it can climb up the value chain. His research synthesizes a combination of the global value chain and the business model literature to create a new framework of local firm upgrading. The...

1. Strategien im Sog des technologischen Wandels -- 2. Strategieentwicklung heute: Die Fiktion rationaler Unternehmensführung -- 3. Die ökonomische Logik der Strategieentwicklung: Ertrag -- 4. Die CSR-Logik der Strategieentwicklung: Verantwortung -- 5. Die Logik der Werte in sozialen Systemen:...

The book assists in bringing together the three stakeholders of an innovation – inventor, decision maker and organization. These stakeholders have conflicting requirements and the book offers advice on how and by what methods they can communicate and the information that is expected and...