Is there any Use in Changing? -- The Traditional View on Organizations -- A New Paradigm -- Under the "Hood" of the "Organization -- Enterprise Engineering in Practice -- The Scope of Enterprise Engineering -- A Number of Cases -- Enterprise Engineering in Respect of Other Themes.

Vorwort -- Einleitung -- Unterwegs zum kompetenten Unternehmen -- Unterwegs zur pädagogischen Professionalität -- Selbstkompetenz: Grundlage einer pädagogisch-professionellen Performance -- Die Lernerorientierung betrieblichen Lernens -- Die Stärkung der kollegiale Selbstverantwortung: Die...

Information technology and firm performance: An integrative model of the role of complementarities -- Enhancing the performance effects of information technology through de/centralization: The role of corporate exploration and exploitation -- Hybrid strategy and firm performance: The moderating...

Climate change and its implications for consumers and policymakers, have been discussed extensively. Adrian Renner provides a unique perspective on how stockholders react if companies move towards a carbon-conscious future. A multi-country event study approach was used to analyze stock market...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature review and theoretical propositions -- Chapter 3. Methods -- Chapter 4. Empirical results -- Chapter. 5 Discussion of the results -- Chapter 6. Conclusions and Implications.

Introduction to Business Excellence -- Organizations Achieve Excellence Through Quality Awards -- Legacy of Excellence: The Case of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- Excellence in Action -- Understanding Sustainable Organizational Results -- Self-assessments: Conducting an Excellence Maturity...

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the global challenges and competition. The book...

This handbook is based on the premise that there can be no organizational transformation without personal transformation. Anything else is just moving the chairs around on the deck of the Titanic, and we see that all too often in organizations today. Einstein said that we cannot solve problems...

This book shares key insights into system performance and management analytics, demonstrating how the field of analytics is currently changing and how it is used to monitor companies’ efforts to drive performance. Managing business performance facilitates the effective accomplishment of...