This volume—which is a collection of published articles by the “Stra.Tech.Man Lab” research team—focuses on and examines the dynamics of local systems as the principal contributors to overall socioeconomic development. Our goal is to clarify that local development is a phenomenon that...

This article aims to highlight the different facets of the relative socio-economic underdevelopment of the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. It explores initially regional analysis data, leading to the conclusion that the region does indeed face comparative weaknesses as it exhibits...

The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of primary and secondary Greek school principals, regarding the management of their school units at the beginning of the school year 2020-2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative study of 57 principals was undertaken, in order to...

This chapter aims to conceptualize the general framework of policies to support entrepreneurship and competitiveness by indicating a move from a dispersive comprehension of competitiveness towards an integrated micro-meso-macro perspective, by taking as a case study the European South. First, it...

Human resource management and continuing training are prerequisites for business innovation, especially when the fourth industrial revolution causes the rapid emergence of knowledge-intensive professions and the constraint of older ones. This article examines how human resources, in-business...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be structurally transforming the global economy. This article explores how these recent changes impact the different types of organizations and the ways these may adapt in this repositioned context. First, we present the central dimensions of the...

The current pandemic crisis of COVID-19 seems to be transforming the global socio-economic system in all dimensions and multiple directions. In this article, we argue that COVID-19 constitutes a “crisis in crisis” because it occurred at a time of an unfolding global transition. After a brief...

The recent transformation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis drives the world economy to an accelerated mutation. This chapter focuses on how the current developments affect the various socioeconomic organizations and systems and how they can adapt to this new emerging reality. To this end,...