This publication is in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and is the result of a combined research and review process carried out by the three Editors who belongs to the University of Ferrara, Italy, the University of Buckingham, UK and Swansea University, UK. The book deepens the...

A compact overview of the most relevant concepts and developments in International Management. The various strategy concepts of internationally active companies and their implementation in practice are the core of this book. The authors describe the particularities of international value chain...

This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies. More specifically, it examines the dynamics of employee engagement, aiming at organizational development through change. The book contemplates the...

This edited volume brings together academics from both innovation and marketing fields to explore the additional value for companies that can be generated with the innovations in marketing and the marketing of innovations. If ideas need to reach the marketplace, then marketing strategies,...

Dragan Djuri? looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein's later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with...

Effective management is crucial to the success of network organizations and can reduce the risk inherently associated with cooperative strategy. This contributed volume addresses the management of network organizations from both theoretical and practical perspectives, as well as an international...

Die Autoren präsentieren Management-Ansätze und die Geschäftsentwicklung von erfolgreichen globalen Medienunternehmen. Anhand ausgewählter Case-Studies traditioneller Medienunternehmen, Creative-Media-Unternehmen und Digital-Media-Unternehmen wird selektiv aus Unternehmenssicht ein Einblick...

Die Digitale Revolution führt zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft. Produktzyklen werden immer kürzer. Marktveränderungen vollziehen sich häufiger und schneller. Früher war dieses Phänomen auf Hightech-Sektoren beschränkt. Inzwischen sind fast alle Branchen davon betroffen....

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams’ markets and...

Vielfach werden netzwerkartige Organisationsstrukturen für große, international tätige Unternehmen als ideal betrachtet. Aufbauend auf einer Diskussion theoretischer und konzeptioneller Arbeiten zu Netzwerkorganisationen wird in der vorliegenden Untersuchung mit Hilfe der Netzwerkanalyse ein...