An overview of family business. Profiles, definitions and the main challenges of the business life-cycle -- Professionalization and managerialization in family firms: A still open issue -- The survival of family businesses: The challenge of succession -- The growth of family businesses: the path...

Wirtschaft und Klöster -- Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit -- Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen -- Arbeitsethos im Kloster -- Corporate Governance und Führung -- Verantwortung aus klösterlicher Sicht -- Entwicklung von Ordensgemeinschaften

This book introduces readers to the main types of corporate sustainability practices. The first section examines both the ratings provided by international agencies and the various ESG (Environmental, Social and Government) indexes existing at 2021. In turn, the second part empirically...

Chapter 1: Images of Reality: Metaphors, Archetypes, Symbols, And Cultures -- Chapter 2: Images in Existing Family Business Theories: Metaphors and Root Metaphors -- Chapter 3: Family Metaphors in Business -- Chapter 4: Visualizing Sustainability: The Visible and The Invisible -- Chapter 5: When...

Some Challenges Encountered in Value Creation and Capture -- Part I Preparation -- Introduction to Systems Research and Systemic Reasoning -- Evolution of a Market of Free Competition: A Symbolic Approach -- Axiomatization of the Resource View: The Firm and Markets -- Evolution of Resources: An...

Dominik Kemsa develops a comprehensive framework to objectively assess a firm’s position with respect to Marketing Excellence (MEXC). Drawing on resource-based theory MEXC is conceptualized as a holistic framework of capabilities, which can be the source of sustained competitive advantage and...

This book addresses the challenges of organizing modern-day institutions, focusing on the management of intangible organizational resources of libraries through both library science and management theory. Highlighting new information requirements, knowledge transfer technologies and changing...

Michael Wustmans liefert anhand von vier Fallstudien praktische Einblicke in die Umsetzung und Weiterentwicklung der Patent Intelligence von technologieorientierten Unternehmen, denen unterschiedliche Mittel für die Erschließung von Wissen aus Patentdaten zur Verfügung stehen. Durch die...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the Strategy and Change Interface Successfully -- Section 1: The Strategy Process -- Chapter 2: Introduction: The Strategy Process -- Chapter 3: A social context view of strategic cognition: Strategists are highly emotional and interactive Homo sapiens! --...