This book delves into the origins, developments, and applications of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and reporting frameworks, offering a comprehensive exploration of the transformative role of ESG in shaping the future of corporate and financial decision-making. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how ESG strategy influences investment decisions, business strategy, and customer relationships in today's dynamic economic landscape. The book combines theory and...

Digital transformation, AI and the use of human-like machines are among the most important social and economic developments of our time. In addition to applications and concepts of digitalization and artificial intelligence, this book describes how companies can implement strategies to successfully transform a company into a digital champion. In addition, numerous practical examples in the areas of supply chain management, production, sustainability and education are presented.

In today's dynamic and fast-changing world, traditional leadership models are reaching their limits. New Leadership introduces a forward-thinking, human-centered approach to managing organizations — one that empowers individuals, fosters collaboration, and builds cultures rooted in trust, purpose, and adaptability.Rather than relying on rigid hierarchies and top-down control, New Leadership promotes flat structures and lean processes. Employees are encouraged to work independently ...

The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments. Major corporations seek the expertise of specialized consultants to develop and implement tailored ESG framework for their businesses.This book offers a guide to ESG and its practical applications. Beyond introducing the structured procedures of the most common ESG approaches, it delves into the co...

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 center toward the Asia-Pacific Region. For Western investors, the vast market opportunities can be tempting. However, the lack of experience and knowledge of international management in China – a country with radically different business rules and cult...

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to Japanese concepts of lean management throughout the business value chain. It explains principles like Kaizen, Kata or Keiretsu in a pragmatic and logical way with many industry examples and case studies. The authors describe comprehensively how lean management enables companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term, sustainable competitive advantage. Moreover, the book shows how lean management...

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks and presents a new framework model for sustainable optimization of risk management. This framework includes supportive tools for risk mapping and strategic decision-making. Managers can apply tailored versions of this framework for the management process of their respective sector.The authors provide case studies in industries such as automotive, aviation, airport, and healthcare.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its practical applications. In addition to the structured procedure with definitions and CSR approaches, functions within the value chain are described in comprehensive manner with reference to business practice. Business trends in special sectors such as innovation management and hospitality management are also covered. Numerous practical examples and country-specific recommendations for decisions in ...

Use this book to improve your negotiation strategiesIf you want to position yourself advantageously in your company in the long term, you have to master negotiation strategies. Gain a decisive advantage over your business partners and learn everything about successful negotiation with this book. The authors provide a valuable overview of concrete negotiation situations in industry and business and show ways to achieve successful negotiation breakthroughs. Their book systematically ...

AI Unleashed examines the ways in which AI technology and other cutting-edge digital innovations are rapidly reshaping and transforming industries across the globe, and how businesses navigating this digital revolution are increasingly recognising the potential of AI to drive growth, enhance efficiency, and secure a long-term sustainable competitive advantage. The book dives into a range of pioneering AI applications, such as automated decision-making (ADM), virtual factories, large langua...

This book describes how international negotiations can be conducted in a structured, professional and effective manner. It also offers recommendations based on examples of successful negotiations from both economically leading countries such as the USA, China and Japan, as well as smaller countries such as the Netherlands, Israel and Morocco. Providing practically relevant experiences from middle and top management positions in different business sectors, the contributors focus on all elem...

While many business schools are teaching Global Operations Strategy with self-made teaching materials, there are no such textbooks. Combining practical approaches with detailed theoretical underpinnings, this book provides theories, tools, frameworks, and techniques for global operations strategy, and brings real world perspectives to students and managers. Each chapter includes definition of key terms, introduction of fundamental theories, several short case examples, one long new case to...