The desire to be seen as a Very Important Person (VIP) is one of the driving factors behind humankind's professional, societal, and spiritual aspirations. In Being a True VIP, management scholar and author Eric H. Kessler illustrates the nature of importance and how it relates to our success as...

Die strategische Aufgabe der Beschaffung besteht nicht nur darin, Geschäftsbeziehungen zu Lieferanten effektiv und effizient zu gestalten, sondern auch darin, alternative Lieferanten zu finden. Felix Hansen untersucht, wie beschaffende Unternehmen bessere Anbieteralternativen entdecken und...

Die Belastung an vielen Arbeitsplätzen hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten von einer überwiegend körperlichen Anstrengung hin zu einer kognitiven Belastung entwickelt. Dies führt u. a. auch zu einer zunehmenden psychischen Belastung von Arbeitnehmern. André Scholz verbindet in seiner...

Entrepreneurial alertness plays an important role in the processes of opportunity exploration and exploitation. A central thesis of this dissertation is that opportunity creation requires a certain transformation of an individual entrepreneur's mental schema. A four-dimension structure of the...

Technologietransferprozesse zur Integration externer Technologien sind von hoher Bedeutung für die Innovationskraft von Unternehmen und Wirtschaftsregionen. Sie verlangen eine zielführende Gestaltung, um Wissen und Technologien wirksam übertragen zu können. Stefanie Lohmann betrachtet die...

Part I: Engaged Leadership Development at the Personal Level -- Ch 1 Awakened Leadership -- Ch 2 Self-Leadership -- Ch 3 The Ego-Soul Dynamics of Leadership Development -- Ch 4 Visionary Leadership in a Team-Oriented Setting -- Ch 5 Holistic Leadersehip -- Ch 6 Prosocial Leadership, Religious...

1. Introduction: Make Sense of Innovation -- 2. Build a Shared Strategic Vision of Innovation -- 3. Manage Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- 4. Identify Attractive Innovation Opportunities -- 5. Develop a Balanced Portfolio of Business Models -- 6. Nimble Execution: Fail Fast and Win Big -- 7....

Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance investigates the relationship between HRM, innovation and performance. Taking a multi-level perspective the book reflects critically on contentious themes such as high performance work systems, organizational design options, cross-boundary...

Analysing the trends that are emerging in sport enterprises such as advancements in technology and social media, the authors of this illuminating book tackle the issue of how to create new opportunities in such a changing industry. Providing valuable reading for sports business scholars, this...

This Handbook provides authoritative up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work, and offers a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them. Far from being a new arrival on the scene, the context of work...