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Sustainable Business : Managing the Challenges of the 21st Century
This open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth. It provides basic terminology and concepts on sustainable business and offers insights into a new management paradigm that integrates social and environmental dimensions into business models, strategie…
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- 978-3-031-25397-3
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- XVIII, 142
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 650 FIS s
Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms : Theory, Definitions, and Measurement
This open access book goes into the details of the characteristics of scale-ups, touching upon various theoretical perspectives (stages of growth models, the role of intangible capital, the tradeoffs between fixed costs and marginal costs) relating to firm growth, to provide a clear definition of this emerging concept. Given the disproportionately large economic contribution of a small number o…
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- 978-981-97-1379-0
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- XI, 61
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 334 COA s
Managing the Transition to a Circular Economy : Action Plans in the Tourism S…
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the current status of the circular economy in the tourism sector. This book is presented from the perspective of researchers, policymakers, and industry. Specially aimed at companies in the tourism sector, the book offers valuable information in the field of circular economy, promoting the design/redesign of processes and products.…
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- 978-3-031-49689-9
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- XVIII, 121
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 338 MAN
The Socially Responsible Organization : Lessons from COVID
This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Framework to issues such as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulation of tech companies, and infrastructure. Dr. Mitroff lists the major ar…
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- 978-3-030-99808-0
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- XI, 51
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 658 MIT s
The Art of Sustainable Performance : A Model for Recruiting, Selection, and P…
This open access book revisits common notions on how to select and recruit the right employees. It reveals that the secret of successful individuals and teams lies in a combination of talent and four important performance indicators, offering an innovative approach that companies can fruitfully adopt. Bas Kodden has studied key performance indicators among over 1,100 executives, senior staf…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-46463-9
- Collation
- XXI, 120
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 658 KOD a
Healthcare and Disease Burden in Africa : The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors…
This open access book evaluates African healthcare systems from multiple perspectives. By examining empirical data from various African countries, it analyzes the effects of socioeconomic factors such as urbanization, population growth, and education on various health indicators, including the situation of health professionals, patients's decision making, health resource distribution, mortality…
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- 978-3-031-19719-2
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- VIII, 136
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 362 NIO h
A Macroeconometric Model for Saudi Arabia : A Case Study on the World’s Lar…
This Open Access Brief presents the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM). KGEMM is a policy analysis tool for examining the impacts of domestic policy measures and global economic and energy shocks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The model has eight blocks (real sector, fiscal, monetary, external sector, price, labor and wages, energy, population, and age cohorts) that interact …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-12275-0
- Collation
- XI, 169
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics
- Call Number
- 332 HAS m
Quantitative Models in Life Science Business : From Value Creation to Busines…
This open access book explores the field of life science business from a multidisciplinary perspective. Applying statistical, mathematical, game-theoretic, and data science tools to pharmaceutical and biotechnology business endeavors, the book describes value creation, value maintenance, and value realization in the life sciences as a sequence of processes using the quantitative language of app…
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- 978-3-031-11814-2
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- IX, 127
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 362 QUA
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or exploitive) of innovation, using a unique survey of firms in Japan. While there is wide agreement that innovation is a key determinant for growth of firms, there are few stud…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-9797-5
- Collation
- IX, 99
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics
- Call Number
- 650 HAN r
Local Tax Benefits at a Distance : Japan's Hometown Tax Donation Payment
This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising tool used by municipalities. It also sheds light on the influences that reciprocal gifts provided by each municipality to donors have on local economies by reviewing empirical works and surveys targ…
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- 978-981-16-5138-0
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- XV, 100
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 650 HOD l
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