Management for Professionals

This book examines practically useful management and people skills, and looks at competencies from the micro, meso, and macro- lens. At the micro- level, the book examines a range of competencies needed for managing oneself and others in a project …

This book presents a rich selection of 36 real-world cases on how organizations in China explore the new growth pattern, business model innovation, and digital transformation in digital era. The topic of cases varies from digital marketing and …

This book provides professionals and academics with a holistic and practical approach to virtual and innovative quality management (QM) throughout the business value chain. It describes how to manage the value change from the supply side combining …

The book complements the current body of knowledge in business-to-business marketing with the experience of many professionals ranging from marketers to top management of a leading automotive semiconductor supplier worldwide. It presents unique …

The rise of China poses a significant challenge to the existing, Western-dominated world economic order. The effectiveness of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is contingent on a smooth transition of the world’s economic …

This book comprehensively assesses the growing importance of project data for project scheduling, risk analysis and control. It discusses the relevance of project data for both researchers and professionals, and illustrates why the collection …

This book aims to provide the industrial upgrading and business scenario improved and boosted by 5G, as well as to forecast the typical industry application with a 6G vision. At the beginning of the book, it builds an overview of how 5G stimulates …

This book takes a practice approach to studying platform business models. Drawing from the growing academic literature as well as the practice world, this book intends to provide a framework for analysing platform business firms. Leveraging on the …

This book continues from author’s first SMA publication in 2018 (also by Springer) and discusses the new roles of SMA in the new network economy. Emerging digital technologies have revolutionized the business world with groundbreaking rules and …

This book is a holistic impact study, replete with real-world examples, of digital transformation enhancing businesses and influencing managers' thinking. It links economic value with digital disruptions, arguing that these disruptions deliver …

This book examines users’ digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective. Digital content is everywhere—from search results on search engines to posts on social media. Incentivizing users to contribute abundant …

This book explores how cultural and social influences affect consumer decision making with a focus on uncertainty avoidance, rituals, and external threats. Indeed, uncertainty avoidance can exert significant influence on consumer behavior. For …

Recent developments in the taxation of international enterprises are driven by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative and have contributed to increase attention …

There are moments in leadership when opportunities open up: Opportunities for better teamwork, opportunities for orientation, for professional conversations, and for personal development and reflection. This book describes over 60 such …

This book offers a practical guide for successful international trade operations. Written for MBA students and professionals, it provides tools and best practices for managing and operating complex international trade transactions. Readers learn …

Discover a transformative book that equips aspiring 'researcher entrepreneurs' with invaluable strategies to avoid common start-up mistakes. Unveiling a fresh perspective, it emphasizes that technological researchers already possess critical …

Changes in the environment such as trends, drivers, and influencing factors affect entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in several ways. The changes of the environmental factors in several dimensions such as political, economic, socio-cultural …

This book aims to build a framework for understanding how to achieve new business growth through digital intelligence. It reveals the driving force and commercial logic behind the technology upgrade and transformation for enterprises, analyzes how …

This book introduces a different approach to thinking about and engaging with strategy in the practice field. The insight-driven, first principles-based approach to strategising and strategic problem-solving developed in this book provides a …

This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan. It identifies a need for a stronger and more global management structure for MC/MF …