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Resilient Businesses For Sustainability - Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Supply Chain Management And Society, Part A

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 <p>The modern era is marked by intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, carrying long-term implications. In the face of this formidable predicament, organizations find themselves compelled to embrace new management practices suitable for this ever-changing landscape. As the focus shifts to resilience, organizational leaders strive to cultivate robust entities capable of bouncing back stronger, ensuring their prosperity in this challenging environment.<br>In<em> Resilient Businesses for Sustainability: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Supply Chain Management and Society, Part A</em>, a cross-section of global academics highlight the paths taken by various organizations to create resilient enterprises. This fascinating work explores how companies adapt, innovate, and integrate data into their processes while embracing transformative technologies in order to overcome challenges in different spheres of business. By conquering multifaceted obstacles across various domains of business, these organizations forge sustainable competitive advantages that propel growth and create market leadership.<br>With contributions from a diverse cross-section of scholars worldwide, this first volume provides invaluable insights into the strategies employed by organizations as they navigate the complexities of our time, including a focus on technology and AI. Offering a comprehensive examination of how resilience is harnessed to build businesses capable of withstanding adversity, this book serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and leaders seeking to thrive in the turbulent era we inhabit.</p>
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Resilient Businesses For Sustainability - Advances In Human Resource Management And Marketing, Part B

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 <p>The modern era is marked by intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, carrying long-term implications. In the face of this formidable predicament, organizations find themselves compelled to embrace new management practices suitable for this ever-changing landscape. As the focus shifts to resilience, organizational leaders strive to cultivate robust entities capable of bouncing back stronger, ensuring their prosperity in this challenging environment.</p><p>In <em>Resilient Businesses for Sustainability: Advances in Human Resource Management and Marketing, Part B</em>, a cross-section of global academics highlight the paths taken by various organizations to create resilient enterprises. This fascinating work explores how companies adapt, innovate, and integrate data into their processes while embracing transformative technologies in order to overcome challenges in different spheres of business. By conquering multifaceted obstacles across various domains of business, these organizations forge sustainable competitive advantages that propel growth and create market leadership.</p><p>With contributions from a diverse cross-section of scholars worldwide, this second volume provides invaluable insights into the role of Human Resource for sustainability and Marketing for building resilient businesses. Offering a comprehensive examination of how resilience is harnessed to build businesses capable of withstanding adversity, this book serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and leaders seeking to thrive in the turbulent era we inhabit.</p>
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Smart Industry - Better Management

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 <p>The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.</p><p>Smart industry requires better management. As industrial and production systems are future-proofed, becoming smart and interconnected through use of new manufacturing and product technologies, work is advancing on improving product needs, volume, timing, resource efficiency, and cost, optimally using supply chains.</p><p>Presenting innovative, evidence-based, and cutting-edge case studies, with new conceptualizations and viewpoints on management, <em>Smart Industry, Better Management</em> explores concepts in product systems, use of cyber physical systems, digitization, interconnectivity, and new manufacturing and product technologies.</p><p>Contributions to this volume highlight the high degree of flexibility in people management, production, including product needs, volume, timing, resource efficiency and cost in being able to finely adjust to customer needs and make full use of supply chains for value creation. <em>Smart Industry, Better Management</em> illustrates how industry can enabled by a more network-centric approach, making use of the value of information and the latest available proven manufacturing techniques.</p>
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Development Of International Entrepreneurship Based On Corporate Accounting And Reporting According To Ifrs - Part B

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 <p><em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B</em> offers a thorough exploration of applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in contemporary international entrepreneurship management, emphasizing practical issues.</p><p>Introducing an innovative perspective on international entrepreneurship management through IFRS-based corporate accounting and reporting, this volume features comprehensive analysis of developing countries'' experiences in mutual trade integration using IFRS, exemplified by the EAEU and BRICS bloc. <em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B</em> presents detailed discussions on digital modernization within IFRS, in turn examining industry-specific aspects of international entrepreneurship development and international trade cooperation experiences.</p><p>Targeting scholars interested in IFRS and international entrepreneurship, <em>Part B </em>provides insights into practical experiences with IFRS application in corporate accounting and reporting. It adds to ongoing discussions on international trade development through IFRS modernization and application.</p>
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Development Of International Entrepreneurship Based On Corporate Accounting And Reporting According To Ifrs - Part B

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 <p><em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B</em> offers a thorough exploration of applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in contemporary international entrepreneurship management, emphasizing practical issues.</p><p>Introducing an innovative perspective on international entrepreneurship management through IFRS-based corporate accounting and reporting, this volume features comprehensive analysis of developing countries'' experiences in mutual trade integration using IFRS, exemplified by the EAEU and BRICS bloc. <em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B</em> presents detailed discussions on digital modernization within IFRS, in turn examining industry-specific aspects of international entrepreneurship development and international trade cooperation experiences.</p><p>Targeting scholars interested in IFRS and international entrepreneurship, <em>Part B </em>provides insights into practical experiences with IFRS application in corporate accounting and reporting. It adds to ongoing discussions on international trade development through IFRS modernization and application.</p>
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Development Of International Entrepreneurship Based On Corporate Accounting And Reporting According To Ifrs - Part A

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 <p><em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part A</em> delves into the role of corporate accounting and reporting under IFRS in advancing international business management, proposing recommendations to bolster this role in fostering cross-border trade in today''s era of adaptable global partnerships.</p><p>The volume first establishes the theoretical framework for IFRS, and then explores its managerial implications in international business. The central argument posits IFRS as pivotal for entrepreneurial strategic management, particularly in light of globalization''s organizational shifts and the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital economy.</p><p>Aimed at scholars of IFRS development and application, <em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part A</em> offers advanced theoretical and methodological insights for tailoring IFRS to evolving needs in global trade partnerships, alongside guidance for effectively integrating IFRS into the management practices of international enterprises.</p>
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Development Of International Entrepreneurship Based On Corporate Accounting And Reporting According To Ifrs - Part A

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 <p><em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part A</em> delves into the role of corporate accounting and reporting under IFRS in advancing international business management, proposing recommendations to bolster this role in fostering cross-border trade in today''s era of adaptable global partnerships.</p><p>The volume first establishes the theoretical framework for IFRS, and then explores its managerial implications in international business. The central argument posits IFRS as pivotal for entrepreneurial strategic management, particularly in light of globalization''s organizational shifts and the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital economy.</p><p>Aimed at scholars of IFRS development and application, <em>Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part A</em> offers advanced theoretical and methodological insights for tailoring IFRS to evolving needs in global trade partnerships, alongside guidance for effectively integrating IFRS into the management practices of international enterprises.</p>
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Smart Cities For Sustainability - Approaches And Solutions

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 <p>The application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future will be equipped with communication infrastructures to improve the comfort of all citizens, while respecting the environment, and supporting good governance. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will play a key role, making it possible to better manage infrastructure and transport.</p><p>Contributors from around the world here present modern insights for use by decision-makers to solve real-world challenges. The authors shed light on forthcoming developments and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes. <em>Smart Cities for Sustainability: Approaches and Solutions</em> provides a modern insight for researchers, students, professionals, and decision-makers on the application of digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals.</p>
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Smart Cities For Sustainability - Approaches And Solutions

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 <p>The application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future will be equipped with communication infrastructures to improve the comfort of all citizens, while respecting the environment, and supporting good governance. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will play a key role, making it possible to better manage infrastructure and transport.</p><p>Contributors from around the world here present modern insights for use by decision-makers to solve real-world challenges. The authors shed light on forthcoming developments and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes. <em>Smart Cities for Sustainability: Approaches and Solutions</em> provides a modern insight for researchers, students, professionals, and decision-makers on the application of digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals.</p>
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Technology, Management And Business - Evolving Perspectives

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 <p><em>Advanced Series in Management: Volume 31</em> offers cutting-edge research from an international range of academics, who engage with the potential opportunities and challenges of digitization in the workplace.</p><p>Contributors introduce fresh evidence and innovative ideas on the changing work environment to help business leaders shift to the digital mind-set. The book will throw light on what manufacturers, retailers, marketer brands, and consumers can do to secure value; digitally transform and/or innovate themselves in terms of design, production, and distribution as they move towards "next normal" business practices.</p><p><em>Technology, Management and Business: Evolving Perspectives</em> provides researchers, academicians, policymakers and professionals working in manufacturing, retail and consumer markets with a platform to uncover their experiences as they meet these challenges in various verticals of industry around the world.</p>
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Sustainable Management In Covid-19 Times

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 <p>COVID-19 has demanded management innovations across all sectors. As urban systems are made more sustainable, and our focus shifts towards the Circular Economy, this timely book sheds new light on emerging issues.</p><p>Contributions to this volume highlight developments in: smart cities and urban innovation and resilience; building and re-building cross-culturally sustainable tourism and recreation; new international business models in a digitally transforming world; how digital tools are being used to promote STEM education in the ‘new normal’ post-2020 world; food insecurity and energy policy in Latin America; the role of leadership in teleworking and job satisfaction in the Asia-Pacific region; economic and socio-cultural impacts of recreational activities affected by COVID-19; entrepreneurship in COVID-19 times; and the integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in higher education institutions.</p><p>Presenting new, innovative conceptualizations and viewpoints on management, <em>Sustainable Management in COVID-19 Times</em> explores a range of concepts that give insights into our post-pandemic world.</p>
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Management And Information Technology In The Digital Era - Challenges And Perspectives

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 <p>Management of information technology will continue to be an essential endeavour for organisations as we experience the accelerating advancement of digital technology. Managers will need to understand how technology is changing their business operations and the emergence of digital consumers who demand more innovative, technologically driven experiences. This 29th volume in the <em>Advanced Series in Management</em> is built to provide theoretical insight for managers and researchers to co-create their technology values and better understand its prospects and challenges.</p><p><em>Management and Information Technology in the Digital Era: Challenges and Perspectives</em> explores the management and practical implications of digital information management across a broad range of technologies, sectors, and countries. Chapters from a spectrum of international authors provide a significant contribution to the growing body of work on information technology, artificial intelligence, and technology management, reflecting the diversity of current research and delving into the varying perspectives of management and information technology in the digital era. Significantly recognised are the growing prospects of Artificial intelligence and how it is revolutionising different sectors, further presenting critical challenges for managers on how to harness the prospects of this technology for their business prospects.</p>
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Management And Information Technology In The Digital Era - Challenges And Perspectives

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 <p>Management of information technology will continue to be an essential endeavour for organisations as we experience the accelerating advancement of digital technology. Managers will need to understand how technology is changing their business operations and the emergence of digital consumers who demand more innovative, technologically driven experiences. This 29th volume in the <em>Advanced Series in Management</em> is built to provide theoretical insight for managers and researchers to co-create their technology values and better understand its prospects and challenges.</p><p><em>Management and Information Technology in the Digital Era: Challenges and Perspectives</em> explores the management and practical implications of digital information management across a broad range of technologies, sectors, and countries. Chapters from a spectrum of international authors provide a significant contribution to the growing body of work on information technology, artificial intelligence, and technology management, reflecting the diversity of current research and delving into the varying perspectives of management and information technology in the digital era. Significantly recognised are the growing prospects of Artificial intelligence and how it is revolutionising different sectors, further presenting critical challenges for managers on how to harness the prospects of this technology for their business prospects.</p>
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Agri-Food 4.0 - Innovations, Challenges And Strategies

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 <p>The Agri-Food industry currently faces a range of challenges, from food safety and security, demand, and supply gaps to the maintenance of product quality and issues in product traceability. Smart digital technologies have opened a complete paradigm shift, providing solutions to these challenges, and helping move towards safe, resilient, responsive, and eventually profit-driven supply chains.</p><p>The use of these digital technologies by Agri-Food supply chains can bring significant changes in food supply chain management by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, and reducing scalability issues. <em>Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies</em> addresses new research on digital technologies in the industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts.</p><p><em>Agri-Food 4.0</em> explores the challenges and complexities in implementing such technologies, helping policymakers in the agri-food sector with impact assessment and digital transformation towards creating a sustainable industry.</p>
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Indigenous African Enterprise - The Igbo Traditional Business School (I-Tbs)

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 This volume of <i>Advanced Series in Management</i> traces the origins, development, and key themes of the business practices of Nigeria’s south-eastern Igbos including apprenticeships, entrepreneurial clusters, sales practices, conflict management, talent recruitment, indigenous financial practices, locally-generated venture capital, family businesses, and succession planning. <div><br></div><div>The Igbo Traditional Business School (I-TBS) is not a conventional academic institution as it operates outside the classroom. Though without a library, or even an address, its tradition of lifelong entrepreneurial learning is an important area to explore. At a time when there is increased interest in Africa-centric business models, it is valuable to consider sustainable business prototypes built on established cultural practices, norms, and values. </div><div><br></div><div>Academics will find the examination of innovative I-TBS business practices, a valuable contribution to sustainable development discourse in Africa and frontier markets. Practitioners and policymakers will gain insights into the unique practices of an indigenous entrepreneurship system in an African context, with implications for socioeconomic advancements. </div>
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Integration Of Migrants Into The Labour Market In Europe - National, Organizational And Individual Perspectives

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 This volume of <i>Advanced Series in Management</i> offers cutting-edge research into international migration in Europe.<div><br><div>Living and working in a host country is challenging both for the host country (for its institutions, organizations and local people) as well as for the incoming migrants. Therefore, integration activities are essential for easing the transition. The purpose of this book is to examine various practices of integrating migrants in European countries from national, organizational and individual perspectives.</div><div><br></div><div>This publication will be valuable to researchers in the field, as well as for entrepreneurs, international corporations employing from abroad, trainers preparing employees to work in multicultural teams, as well as for investors who plan to expand their business into foreign markets.</div></div>
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Sustainable Hospitality Management - Designing Meaningful Encounters With Talent And Technology

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 <i>Sustainable Hospitality Management: Designing Meaningful Encounters with Talent and Technology</i> will generate international debate in the research and practice of hospitality management. It considers how the sector can and should innovate to respond to challenges such as talent scarcity, the growing ecological footprint, and technological developments.<div><br><div>Volume 24 of <i>Advanced Series in Management</i> explores topics at the very heart of hospitality, by looking at meaningful encounters: positive, welcoming, genuinely service-oriented interactions between humans, and the role of technology in creating or improving these encounters.</div><div><br><div>Human talent is essential to excellent service delivery and guest experience provision. It is also essential in the design and monitoring of technology-enabled guest or customer experience. Technology may be the service facilitator or it may be an experience enhancer. In today’s globalizing platform economy, hospitality services are established most dominantly via technology-enabled platforms or networks. At the human interaction level, technology can deliver, support or intensify the hospitality experience.</div><div> </div><div>This volume is essential for researchers and students interested in the hospitality sector and the role of technology in creating a sustainable hospitality sector.</div></div></div>
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Hrm 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations

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 This volume of <i>Advanced Series in Management</i> offers cutting-edge research from Human Resource Management professionals and academics, which engages with the potential opportunities and challenges of digitization in the workplace. <div><br></div><div>Contributors introduce fresh evidence and innovative ideas on the changing work environment, to help business leaders'' shift to the digital mind-set. The book suggests new ways of managing, organizing, and leading a positive social change towards a human-centered organization. For example, a collaboration between HRM and IT, adoption of design thinking, using integrated analytics, and developing new competences. </div><div><br></div><div>The book explores this new world for HRM, developing critical insights about three main issues: <ul><li>HRM''s new role in the 4.0 era</li><li>New job and organization design for the smart economy</li><li>New HRM tools and practices for digital organizations. </li></ul></div><div><i>HRM 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations</i> provides both researchers and professionals working in Human Resources Management, Organization Design and Organizational Behaviour with practical guidelines to turn the challenging scenario of Industry 4.0 into a successful transformation for the HRM domain.</div>
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Hrm 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations

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 This volume of <i>Advanced Series in Management</i> offers cutting-edge research from Human Resource Management professionals and academics, which engages with the potential opportunities and challenges of digitization in the workplace. <div><br></div><div>Contributors introduce fresh evidence and innovative ideas on the changing work environment, to help business leaders'' shift to the digital mind-set. The book suggests new ways of managing, organizing, and leading a positive social change towards a human-centered organization. For example, a collaboration between HRM and IT, adoption of design thinking, using integrated analytics, and developing new competences. </div><div><br></div><div>The book explores this new world for HRM, developing critical insights about three main issues: <ul><li>HRM''s new role in the 4.0 era</li><li>New job and organization design for the smart economy</li><li>New HRM tools and practices for digital organizations. </li></ul></div><div><i>HRM 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations</i> provides both researchers and professionals working in Human Resources Management, Organization Design and Organizational Behaviour with practical guidelines to turn the challenging scenario of Industry 4.0 into a successful transformation for the HRM domain.</div>
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Diversity Within Diversity Management - Types Of Diversity In Organizations

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 Managing diversity plays a crucial part in enabling every member of the workforce to perform up to their full potential. Managers demand satisfactory performance from every member of their workforce and expect the best of their employees. But often, diversity and its management are not viewed as clear contributors to the organization’s performance and bottom-line. Managing and leveraging diversity are set aside from the rest of the organization and hence, they are often undervalued amid all the other barriers that companies face. <div><br></div><div>Whilst there is no single tried-and-tested "solution" to diversity and no easy way to manage implementation barriers, this edited collection of case studies from around the globe provides new insights for practitioners, managers, students and researchers. The book seeks to shed light on existing practices disseminating the value of diversity, whilst opening the road toward a wider perspective on its definitions. The contributors provide critical reflections of the current discourse on different types of diversity in heterogenous organizations around the world.</div>
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Diversity Within Diversity Management - Types Of Diversity In Organizations

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 Managing diversity plays a crucial part in enabling every member of the workforce to perform up to their full potential. Managers demand satisfactory performance from every member of their workforce and expect the best of their employees. But often, diversity and its management are not viewed as clear contributors to the organization’s performance and bottom-line. Managing and leveraging diversity are set aside from the rest of the organization and hence, they are often undervalued amid all the other barriers that companies face. <div><br></div><div>Whilst there is no single tried-and-tested "solution" to diversity and no easy way to manage implementation barriers, this edited collection of case studies from around the globe provides new insights for practitioners, managers, students and researchers. The book seeks to shed light on existing practices disseminating the value of diversity, whilst opening the road toward a wider perspective on its definitions. The contributors provide critical reflections of the current discourse on different types of diversity in heterogenous organizations around the world.</div>
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Diversity Within Diversity Management - Country-Based Perspectives

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 Nowadays, managing and promoting diversity is of paramount importance to the future of sustainability and the political and business agenda. Despite a tremendous growth in diversity management scholarship in recent years, a strong tendency has emerged whereby existing theories focus on a single level of analysis, using a limited range of mostly Western research settings, and on a narrow range of diversity types. Diversity research has insofar focused on prioritizing visible forms of diversity, such as gender or disability, with less emphasis placed on diversity in culture and values internationally.This edited book provides new practical and strategic insights for practitioners, managers, students and policy makers; it delves into the strategic nature of policy intervention with thought-provoking contributions written by experts from around the world. Contributors aim to provide critical reflection of current debate areas on workplace equality and diversity in under-researched countries to inform and support evidence-based decision making for a wide variety of academic and practice-oriented stakeholders.
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Diversity Within Diversity Management - Country-Based Perspectives

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 Nowadays, managing and promoting diversity is of paramount importance to the future of sustainability and the political and business agenda. Despite a tremendous growth in diversity management scholarship in recent years, a strong tendency has emerged whereby existing theories focus on a single level of analysis, using a limited range of mostly Western research settings, and on a narrow range of diversity types. Diversity research has insofar focused on prioritizing visible forms of diversity, such as gender or disability, with less emphasis placed on diversity in culture and values internationally.This edited book provides new practical and strategic insights for practitioners, managers, students and policy makers; it delves into the strategic nature of policy intervention with thought-provoking contributions written by experts from around the world. Contributors aim to provide critical reflection of current debate areas on workplace equality and diversity in under-researched countries to inform and support evidence-based decision making for a wide variety of academic and practice-oriented stakeholders.
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Indigenous Management Practices In Africa - A Guide For Educators And Practitioners

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 <i>Indigenous ManagementPractices in Africa: A Guide for Educators and Practitioners </i>is a timely response to the recent callfor management philosophies and theories that reflect the peculiarities of theAfrican continent. Western management models in Africa may not have yielded theresults required to trigger economic growth and development, yet Africa is fastbecoming the investment destination of firms operating outside the continent.</p><p>This book unravels the indigenous management practices that shapethe way that organisations operate in Africa. It also addresses the differencesbetween indigenous African and western management practices, at the same time considering the implications for African business management. Insights from the book offera framework for developing African management curricula for business schools,both within and outside the continent. Practitioners aiming to expand theiroperations on the continent may also find valuable insights in this book - onesthat may support and develop future management decisions.</p>
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