Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Survey design and summary statistics -- Chapter 3. Innovation output -- Chapter 4. R&D organizational structure -- Chapter 5. Staged R&D project management -- Chapter 6. Incentive schemes -- Chapter 7. Risk preference, time preference, and corporate culture...

1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction -- Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values -- 2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches -- 3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for...

Einleitung – Der Weg zur Programmable Economy -- APIs – ein erster Überblick -- APIs als digitale Produkte -- APIs in Unternehmen -- Anwendungsszenarien von APIs -- Von der API Economy zur Programmable Economy -- Case Studies -- Top- Down: API Change Management -- Bottom-Up: How to start --...

This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications of this method are given...

Part 1: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Human Resources Management -- A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Employee Ecological Behavior 0f Academics in Higher Education -- Leadership in Various Project Management Methodologies -- Part 2: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management -- Impact...

Jeder redet heutzutage von Digitalisierung. Und dass Unternehmen unter Digitalisierungsdruck stehen, ist ein geflügeltes Wort. Aber was heißt das konkret? Welche Aufgaben stellen sich Führungskräften und welche Lösungsansätze gibt es dafür? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, klärt das Buch...

Matrixorganisation – Definition und Historie -- Grundlagen der Matrixorganisation -- Design der Matrixorganisation -- Rollen in der Matrixorganisation: Das Rollenkonzept -- Zusammenarbeit – gemeinsame Verpflichtung -- Führung als System und Haltung in einer Matrixorganisation -- Kultur und...

Part 1: Managing Self -- Chapter 1: What do the five pillars of meaning mean to you? -- Chapter 2: How do you rate on your “energy barometer”? -- Chapter 3: Are you creating “eureka moments”?.-Chapter 4: Is revenge a dish best not served at all? -- Chapter 5: How to cultivate patience in...