Die westliche Vorstellung von Management ist in eine Sackgasse geraten. Manager tun sich immer schwerer damit, globale Zusammenhänge wirklich zu erfassen. Unter unvermeidlicher Unsicherheit entscheiden sie oft eindimensional – und bleiben trotz immenser Anstrengungen wirkungslos. Werner...

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may...

This book explores national and transnational companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in times and settings in which they are confronted with economic and social challenges and analyzes these situations, ranging from the financial crisis to fourth generation sustainability....

Befindet sich ein Automobilzulieferer in einer akuten Krise, stehen den Herstellern drei grundlegende Handlungsstrategien zur Verfügung: Support, Sale und Shift. Alexander Jaroschinsky untersucht, welche Bedeutung die Hersteller und sonstigen Stakeholder im Krisenprozess eines Zulieferers...

Das Praxishandbuch führt systematisch durch Theorie und Praxis der Unternehmenssanierung in Betriebswirtschaft und Recht. Die außergerichtliche Sanierung und das Insolvenzverfahren, sowie sozialwissenschaftliche Aspekte des Changemanagements und der Führung werden berücksichtigt. Ihre...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadership, project management, change...

This book contributes to the discussion on wisdom in management, leadership and strategy by developing a unique theoretical approach. Integrating rational-analytical, intuitive and philosophical dimensions of wise decision-making, it advocates a broadly Platonic-Socratic view on wisdom. Applying...

This timely book explores crises as an inevitable part of modern society, which causes ramifications not only for organisations, but also for a diverse range of stakeholders. Addressing the need for organisations to be guided by a stakeholder-oriented approach throughout all phases of the crisis...

The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also...

Sebastian Frericks examines, based on a qualitative content analysis, the factors that lead large German listed companies to downfall. He finds factors and motives uncared for as well as new interrelations between variables that can be used to develop a future-looking risk sensitivity based on a...