Sustainable Construction -- Urban Construction and Land Use -- Housing Policy and Real Estate Market Development -- Project Management and Facility Management -- Safety, Risk and Value Management in Construction -- Construction Innovation and Knowledge Management -- Traffic Planning, Logistics...

Compiling the best practices of business excellence frameworks around the world, this new book addresses the need for innovative research on sustainable business performance. Using detailed empirical studies, the authors outline the motives and benefits of the implementation of such frameworks...

By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy and social change in a domestic,...

Dieses Buch beinhaltet einen grundlegend neuen Denkansatz zum Unternehmenswachstum. Es beschreibt Grundprinzipien, Strategien, Methoden und Instrumente zur qualitativen Weiterentwicklung von Unternehmen. Weit über den üblichen Rahmen klassischer Qualitätsmanagementsysteme hinaus wird ein...

Ökonomie und Natur haben mehr gemein, als man auf den ersten Blick vermuten möchte: In beiden Systemen spielen Prinzipien wie Wettbewerb, Organisation, Kooperation, Kundenansprache und Ressourcenmanagement gleichermaßen eine bedeutende Rolle. Die Beiträge in dem Buch zeigen in anschaulicher...

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...

Management Summary -- Warm-up: Der Kontext der Organisationen befindet sich im Wandel -- Schritt 1: Den Blick nach außen richten! -- Schritt 2: Hat das Auswirkungen auf mein Geschäft -- Schritt 3: Komplexitätskompass – das Problem bewerten! -- Schritt 4: VUKA-Audit – den Blick auf das...

This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success. It introduces sustainability and workplace spirituality as contemporary solutions to the challenging organizational environment. The first few chapters...

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.