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This Special Issue of Business Process Management Journal contains selected papers presented at the 7th Canadian Quality Congress that was held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The theme of the congress was: Managing Change through Quality Leadership. This volume has eight papers on a variety of interesting topics. The authors, in their efforts to understand the important role of process management in TQM are telling us what is happening now and what must happen in the future on the global stage. Beside the papers presented here, I would like to say that there were many excellent presentations on quality and innovations in healthcare industries. But, unfortunately those authors decided not to write their stories at this time for this special issue.

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The Davis Conference on Organizational Research, held for the last 15 years, is the world's leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies. Scholars receiving the “Best presentation awards” at the Davis Conference for the past 6 years have contributed chapters to this volume. These papers explore social relationships in organizations and work, and cover a diverse set of topics ranging from boundary spanning in collaboration and teamwork to embodied competence at work and beliefs about availability among professionals. Yet all the papers are similar in that they benefited from the community of over 150 scholars developed through the Davis Conference, and represent qualitative research at its very best.

The volume presents advances in materials research and technology in the area of terotechnology, i.e. the technology of installation, maintenance, replacement and removal of plant machinery and equipment, reliability analysis, technical diagnostics, tribology and technical safety. Keywords: Cavitation Erosion, Simulation of Particle Erosion, Mechanically-assisted Laser Forming, Laser Machining of Tool Steels, Titanium Carbonitride Coatings, Causes of Cracks in Thermit Welds, Diamond-Like Coatings on Titanium, Reinforcement of Concrete, Fatigue Strength of Construction Elements, Modeling of Mining Support Structures, Surface Treatments of Sintered Stainless Steel, Thermal Welding, Joints of Nickel-Based Superalloys, Robotic Laser Cleaning of Materials, Tribological Properties of Laser-processed ESD Coatings, Laser-modified WC-Cu Electro-Spark Coatings, anti-Graffiti Coating Systems. Keywords: Cavitation Erosion, Simulation of Particle Erosion, Mechanically-assisted Laser Forming, Laser Machining of Tool Steels, Titanium Carbonitride Coatings, Causes of Cracks in Thermit Welds, Diamond-Like Coatings on Titanium, Reinforcement of Concrete, Fatigue Strength of Construction Elements, Modeling of Mining Support Structures, Surface Treatments of Sintered Stainless Steel, Thermal Welding, Joints of Nickel-Based Superalloys, Robotic Laser Cleaning of Materials, Tribological Properties of Laser-processed ESD Coatings, Laser-modified WC-Cu Electro-Spark Coatings, anti-Graffiti Coating Systems.

Foundations in Accountancy (FIA) awards are entry-level, core-skill focused qualifications from ACCA. They provide flexible options for students and employers, and as an ACCA Approved Content Provider, BPP Learning Media's suite of study tools will provide you with all the accurate and up-to-date material you need for exam success.

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This book draws together William B. Gartner's key contributions to entrepreneurship research over the past 25 years. An original introduction by the author offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of his work as it pertains to the development of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field, and the articles demonstrate the many ways in which his research has explored entrepreneurship in relation to individuals, firms, environments, and processes.

In this volume, Dean Shepherd focuses on the varying topics of entrepreneurship unified through conjoint analysis. Although the topic of entrepreneurial decision making is broad, in doing so, he reveals the mechanisms that come into play during the entrepreneurial decision-making process.Scholars of entrepreneurship and organizational behavior will find this collection an essential resource for understanding how decision making is achieved in entrepreneurial settings.

Cyber risk has emerged as a key threat to financial stability, following recent attacks on financial institutions. This paper presents a novel documentation of cyber risk around the world for financial institutions by analyzing the different types of cyber incidents (data breaches, fraud and business disruption) and identifying patterns using a variety of datasets. The other novel contribution that is outlined is a quantitative framework to assess cyber risk for the financial sector. The framework draws on a standard VaR type framework used to assess various types of stability risk and can be easily applied at the individual country level. The framework is applied in this paper to the available cross-country data and yields illustrative aggregated losses for the financial sector in the sample across a variety of scenarios ranging from 10 to 30 percent of net income.

This paper presents the results of the second round of the Revenue Administration Fiscal Information Tool (RA-FIT) country survey in an aggregated manner for all respondents and by income group. Notwithstanding regional biases and some data quality issues with the sample, broad insights and trends are discernible from the data, and the results form part of an evolving series that will continue to develop and grow with the International Survey On Revenue Administration (ISORA), the successor survey to RA-FIT conducted by the IMF in collaboration with the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administration (IOTA), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This paper expands on a previous one, which covered the first round of RA-FIT (Lemgruber and others 2015),1 and aims to allow countries to access information about key measures in revenue administration. Unlike the first paper, this one does not cover issues specific to customs administration but focuses rather on tax administration data.

This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that pre-crisis leverage and short-term debt have had negative effects on the speed of the recovery, while asset tangibility has had positive effects. The negative effect of leverage is non-linear, being particularly strong in firms with high pre-crisis leverage. Furthermore, the effects are different for advanced and emerging market economies. The paper also shows that the macroeconomic framework critically matters for firm growth. In particular, in countries that have allowed the exchange rate to depreciate, firms have had a faster recovery in sectors highly dependent on trade.

This 26th volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations is a selection of papers from the 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics with the theme ‘Who's watching? Surveillance, big data and applied ethics in the digital age.'The papers in this volume critically engage with contemporary issues surrounding big data and surveillance, particularly in relation to large institutions, including corporations and government agencies. Special focus is put on the ethical issues concerning the collection and use of big data sets. Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Tax provisions favoring corporate debt over equity finance (“debt bias”) are widely recognized as a risk to financial stability. This paper explores whether and how thin-capitalization rules, which restrict interest deductibility beyond a certain amount, affect corporate debt ratios and mitigate financial stability risk. We find that rules targeted at related party borrowing (the majority of today's rules) have no significant impact on debt bias—which relates to third-party borrowing. Also, these rules have no effect on broader indicators of firm financial distress. Rules applying to all debt, in contrast, turn out to be effective: the presence of such a rule reduces the debt-asset ratio in an average company by 5 percentage points; and they reduce the probability for a firm to be in financial distress by 5 percent. Debt ratios are found to be more responsive to thin capitalization rules in industries characterized by a high share of tangible assets.

As more and more startup companies are founded every year worldwide, building up one's own business does not get easier. Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, future entrepreneurs are well advised to take a look at potential reasons for failure and success. Learning from others'mistakes and studying success stories can improve their own performance and help to avoid critical errors. The academic paper at hand will provide valuable insights for entrepreneurs. It not only states the most important terms concerning startups but also lists the most important factors for a startup company's success, according to literature review. Delineating both internal and external factors, this thesis not only delivers a synoptic view of potential challenges inside a startup as well as in its ecosystem, but also juxtaposes these influences in opposition. The second part of this paper analyzes a series of interviews with twelve startup founders from three different regions (the province of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany, Budapest in Hungary and the state of California in the US). Their views and experiences will be summarized and put into the context of their respective startup ecosystem.

This book is the second in a series of volumes focused on publishing the latest thinking and findings in the field of project management research. It focuses on people and places and their role in projects and project management, and draws from conference papers presented at the Australian Institute of Project Management national conferences held in Australia in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Contributors here consist of both academics and practitioners with authors representing the latest developments in Australia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The book brings together papers focused on the themes of project management offices; stakeholders; complexity; and risk management. It concludes with three case studies on the application of project management in specific contexts.

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This paper describes issues in Korea's corporate sector, the need for restructuring, and the authorities'initiatives and challenges. It then identifies lessons from other countries'experience and conducts an econometric analysis based on cross-country aggregate data, compared with previous studies which mostly use firm-level data. This analysis finds that restructuring episodes, while sometimes challenging in the short term, have typically been associated with more rapid economic growth afterward. Corporate restructuring could have a negative effect on the labor and the financial markets in the short term, but is associated with positive growth through increased investment and capital productivity in the medium term, outpacing the negative effects.

We present a special issue for The TQM Journal (volume 28, issue 5) with selected papers from the Eighth International Working Conference on “Total Quality Management – Advanced and Intelligent Approaches”, which took place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 1st to 5th June, 2015. This already traditional Conference was supported by the world's most relevant scientific and expert organizations for quality and engineering (CIRP, IFIP, IMEKO, IFAC, EOQ, EFQM, JUSE, AAQ, PAQ, etc.). The conference accepted 87 papers from 36 countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe. The Conference had 334 participants (along with ICQ), of whom 78 came from abroad, across five continents. We have selected eight of the best papers that were related to TQM approaches.

Creating Intelligent Teams is a different way to initiate, manage and lead effective and positive change in teams and organisations. For any organisation looking to nurture and develop talent from amongst its own employees, the book offers an accessible, yet highly informative, information resource on: • how to recognise the influences on, and dynamics of, individuals and teams • how to enhance team performance • how effective leaders can boost productivity and build intelligent teams • how to access and release the potential in teams • how to navigate change successfully • how to lead diversity and create culturally intelligent teams. The target audience Creating Intelligent Teams is aimed at executives, consultants, HR and Organisational Development (OD) specialists, professional coaches and mentors – at all levels of experience, training and background – who are responsible for implementing the strategies relating to leadership, team-building, talent development, management and retention. Creating Intelligent Teams has considerable appeal both for professionals in business and management and those in the fields of consultancy and coaching. To build a world-class team you need more than handpicked individuals with high emotional intelligence – you need a team with a high RSI. On our journey to success, our team benefitted substantially from integrating the Intelligent Team approach. ─Rudolf Pienaar, Divisional Director, Growthpoint Management Services (Pty) Ltd Relationship Systems Intelligence enables the team to quickly reach the core of the matter. It starts processes that enable the team members to have constructive collaborations and interactions with concrete and tangible results. The approach shows that everyone is part of the solution, which creates commitment to and ownership of the processes and the results. This practical book shows you how to build an intelligent team. ─ Christina Hummert, Country Manager: Volkswagen Financial Services, Sweden Anne Rød is an international management consultant and executive team coach, who develops and delivers team development and leadership programmes for global organisations. She has published numerous books and white papers on organisational and strategic communication. Marita Fridjhon is a coach and speaker in great demand at ICF, ODN, leadership and human potential summits and conferences, and author of white papers about Relationship Systems Intelligence. She is the co-author of the ICF-accredited coach training programme Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching, and CEO and Co-founder of CRR Global, Inc.

As researchers well used to production frontiers of best practice, we were curious about extending the frontiers beyond current best practice and how this could be done. The papers in this ebook all focus on systems and processes to achieve this or how to measure it. The organisations covered range from public sector organisations such as education and health to private for-profits such as banks. We also wanted to explore whether authors could communicate their ideas and findings in a paper of much shorter length than the standard journal article.

The 21st International EurOMA (EurOMA 2014) Conference was hosted by Università degli Studi di Palermo. The conference theme was Operations Management in an Innovation Economy. According to innovation economists what primarily drives economic growth in today's knowledge-based economy is not capital accumulation but innovative capacity spurred by appropriable knowledge and technological externalities. Economics growth in innovation economics is the end-product of knowledge, R&D expenditures, licenses, technological spillovers and externalities between collaborative firms, i.e. supply chains and networks of innovation. When firms do not explicitly acknowledge and manage their operations as a concurrent activity to the management of innovation, they often encounter problems late in product development, or with manufacturing launch, logistical support, quality control, and production costs. As such, innovation process and operations management should be coordinated, rather than being viewed as separate sets of decisions and activities. We received 592 abstracts and used a doubled-blind review process, involving 127 members of the Scientific Committee, to review 586 abstracts (6 abstracts were desk rejected) and provide feedback to the authors. Of these, 513 were accepted and 73 rejected. The accepted abstracts resulted in 405 full papers in the Scientific Programme. With 3 papers subsequently withdrawn, there were 402 paper presentations in prospect. The most recurrent OM themes were: Sustainability in Operations and Logistics (42 papers); Supply Chain Management (35 papers); Innovation, Product and Service Development (32 papers); Managing Inter-firm Relationships in Supply Chains (30 papers); Healthcare OM (21 papers); Lean and Agile Operations (21 papers).

This eBook “Changing Dynamics in Business Marketing” for the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing was prompted by the Academy of Marketing B2B SIG Colloquium at the University of Bournemouth. It includes a Guest Editorial which looks at the contributions from three practitioner commentary articles, four research papers and a book review. All the manuscripts presented in this issue include discussions of the impact of changes created in the marketing environment, such as from the last economic crisis and advances in IT, communication technologies and social media networks. There are insights into how B2B firms, CEOs and CMOs must reconsider their practices in interacting with other businesses, customers and employees to be more vigilant and competitive in their strategies. There are different definitions and perceptions of what the business model concept is and how it is applied, so this eBook starts with a commentary paper to identify those which seem most appropriate in exploring the relationship between business models and their resources, value chains, architecture, organisation and processes supported with a case study explanation from the international logistics industry. The second commentary paper addresses the indecision of B2B Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) in using social media, resulting in their not being ready to meet the challenges the new media poses. The third commentary paper shows how a short-term view of capital investment affects marketing expenditure, often manifested some considerable time after goods have “left the factory”. The four research papers investigate a range of topics from: (a) implications of the use of Mobile Social Media (MSM) on interaction, exchange of information and creation of user-generated content in the B2B firms in the context of the UK advertising and marketing sector; (b) business adoption of Internet banking, in particular, in Tunisia, to highlight the relevance of integrating e-trust dimensions to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and for Internet banking adoption by businesses; (c) nature of the inter-personal relationship existing between the account managers of UK insurance brokers and their business customers and where mismatches in their perceptions of ‘relationship closeness'results in role strain for such managers and conflicts; and (d) where a theoretical framework from the business literature can be developed to further a practical examination of an umbrella brand in the hotel sector in Germany and when behavioural characteristics play a significant role in explaining overall alliance success in matters of costs and services. The Book Review of Dr Sharad Sharin's textbook on business marketing is substantially based on Indian firms, but with contexts from both Western and Indian business cultures. Written at a time when the global economy was still feeling the effects of upheavals from a world-wide recession, the book illustrates the principles of how good business practices using marketing could work. With many case study examples, it makes a strong contribution to books on business marketing. The collection of material in this eBook shows that the dynamism of the business marketing environment can be felt all too keenly and that there are implications for the B2B practices of firms when faced with the need to change to address new developments or challenges in their business environments. The contributions by authors in this issue are found in their discussions, insights and analyses with recommendations. With grateful thanks to all the contributors; to Professor Sharad Sarin for sending his book to be evaluated in the Book Review; to Professor Wesley Johnston (JBIM Editor); and to the Emerald team, particularly, Diane Richardson and Adrian Paylor for the publication of this special eBook.

Marketing has historically received a cool reception in Australia. In a small market with limited competition, there had initially been little need to invest in marketing. Moreover, marketing's salesmanship practices sat uneasily with Australian cultural mores. Marketing's early struggle for recognition in Australia is reflected in the relative paucity of scholarly work on the history of Australian marketing industries and practice. This special edition seeks to address this gap. The papers are loosely divided into three sections: product, place, and promotion. Under product and branding, contributors cover Vegemite's entry into the US market over the 1960s-80s, Bushells'marketing strategies in the 1980s, and the ‘It's Time'political campaigns of the 1970s and 1990s. Contributions on place explore the David Jones department store in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and K mart and Target in the 1960s and 1970s. The final section on promotion includes studies of the Women's Budget Bureau over the 1900s-1930s, a comparison of J. Walter Thompson and McCann Erickson's respective entries into the Australian advertising market in the 1930s and 1960s, and personal reflection on the experiences of studying the relationship between Australian and American advertising industries from United States. In addition to addressing a gap in marketing historiography, these papers also reveal the active connections between the national and the global and illustrate the degree to which marketing ideas and practices respond to and are informed by national and international forces.

Partial least squares (PLS) path modeling is a multivariate statistical technique that is frequently used in various disciplines of business research, such as information systems, international business, marketing, operations management, organizational behavior, or strategic management. After lively discussions about whether and, if so, how PLS needs to emancipate from covariance-based SEM and to progress, several substantial changes in the understanding of PLS took place over the last two years, accompanied by new developments. In the light of the changes, the 2nd International Symposium on Partial Least Squares Path Modeling – The Conference for PLS Users took place in June 2015 in Seville, Spain. More than 100 participants exchanged ideas about the new developments around PLS path modeling. The authors of the best conference papers were invited to submit their papers to one of three special issues: The first aims at prediction-oriented modeling in business research by means of PLS path modeling and is published in the Journal of Business Research. The second focuses on European management research using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and is published in the European Management Journal. This third special issue, which is published in Industrial Management & Data Systems and combines tutorials about specific extensions of PLS with scientific applications. This special issue has two parts. The first part focuses on guidelines and tutorials on PLS path modeling and contains five papers. The second part contains applications of PLS path modeling which illustrate how PLS path modeling can help generate new insights in industrial management, information systems, and technology management.

There is a lacuna of research in management and leadership which critiques gendered media representations and the impact on gendering processes of managers and leaders. This Special Issue of Gender in Management: An International Journal comprises an inaugural collection of papers through which we get to'see'women managers through a media gaze and to learn from research into popular culture through gendered analysis of television, autobiographies and media press. We are delighted to include research papers which convey how gendered media influences, and is influenced by, women's political, public and organizational leadership and how media construct gendered (mis)representations of women leaders and managers.

Theoretically, the research on CSR in South Asia is largely influenced by the insights produced by various frameworks of political economy, institutional, and cultural theories (in particular critical management). The geographical focus of the research largely is on India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The articles in this e-book represent three different country contexts, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and India. This e-book will not revolutionize our view on CSR in South Asia as a region but we believe that the articles, each in their own way, contribute to our ongoing discussions of CSR in this region, particularly the countries (Afghanistan, Bhutan, and India) that are addressed in the included articles. In particular, the papers on Afghanistan and Bhutan extend the geographical focus of the research as well as highlight the role of religion, institutions, state, and MNCs in shaping CSR agenda. The paper on India offers a lens to observe the intersection between CSR and Corporate Social Entrepreneurship and in this sense it identifies a new trend that may transform the role of business organizations in India.

The logistics function has always been central to retail firms'performance because it co-ordinates the product and information flows from suppliers and manufacturers to retailers and, finally, to consumers (Bourlakis, 1998). However, over the few years we have witnessed a major transformation in retail logistics, driven by changes in demand and stimulated by technologies such as e-commerce, mobile commerce, tracking and tracing, and data analytics. These changes have led to the development of multi-channel and omni-channel offerings (Rao et al., 2009), which are altering business models and forcing retailers and manufacturers to rethink the way they reach customers. Similarly, we have seen the rise of ethical customers who are putting pressure on retailers to improve their environmental and social credentials (Mena, et al. 2011; Spence and Bourlakis, 2009). Managing these challenges requires significant investments in warehousing, distribution and retail infrastructure. The development of fulfillment centers, dark stores, home delivery networks, new transport technologies and customer collection points are all responses to these changes. These developments are also creating new challenges such as the dramatic increase in customer returns and the associated cost and availability implications (Ettouzani, et al. 2012). The logistics and SCM research community has been active in helping retailer organizations understand these changes in the marketplace and their implications for retail logistics theory and practice. However, the dynamic nature of the phenomenon means that it is necessary to continuously investigate new developments and understand their impact on retail logistics. To this end, over the last two years, IJPDLM has published a number of papers that address various retailing issues. Topics include demand management in the grocery industry (Alftan et al., 2015), retail out-of-stocks (Ehrenthal et al., 2014), on shelf availability (Moussaoui et al., 2016), the use of data aggregation to mask the bullwhip effect (Jin et al., 2015), reverse logistics (Hazen et al., 2014; Morgan, Richey and Autry, 2016) and sustainability in e-commerce (Mangiaracina et al., 2015). This Special Issue further addresses the growing opportunities for research in the field of retail logistics. Twenty seven papers were received for this Special Issue and seven have been selected for publication based on the rigor of the research methods and the relevance and value of the findings for both academic and practitioner communities. The chosen papers cover a wide range of subjects including omni-channel logistics, product returns, e-tailing, inventory management, and the management of ‘unsaleable'products. These papers incorporate various research methodologies using empirical data to produce insightful findings in relation to challenges and opportunities in contemporary retail logistics

The Psychology of Consumer and Social Influence stands out from other books on the topic of “influence”. Most books on influence or persuasion select authors to focus on subsets of theoretical issues within a fairly narrow research focus. In this book, you will find a set of consumer and social researchers - some among the best in the country who address topics within their areas of expertise. The papers presented here should have a unique appeal because of the diverse range of issues that are examined. The papers are broadly connected within the consumer and social influence domain, but vary considerably in the theoretical matters the chapters address: empirical studies on how indirect social influence can affect different styles of thinking that result in counterintuitive outcomes; new insights into the issue of self-control as a limited resource and how it affects susceptibility to persuasion and compliance; the different types of appeals most effective in facilitating abstinence from unhealthy habits; how the effectiveness of a company's public response to brand failures is contingent on different factors involved in such failures; the persuasiveness of different forms of online versus offline consumer influence strategies; an expanded theoretical approach to social responsiveness integrated into an emerging area of theoretical physics: socio-physical modeling; and finally a controversial chapter that defines, tests and validates a scale that measures a commonly used descriptive vulgarity (negative influence) and then demonstrates its utility in predicting interpersonal and social problems. The empirical and conceptual chapters compiled in this book should be of interest to researchers working in the areas of consumer or social influence looking for new theoretical insights and ideas to investigate, as well as for those seeking stimulating questions or results for classroom learning and discussion. This book provides both.

This book is the first in a series of volumes focused on publishing the latest thinking and findings from project management research. It concentrates on the Asia-Pacific perspective, and draws from conference papers presented at the International Project Management Association (IPMA) World Congress held in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011, as well as the Australian Institute of Project Management national conference held in Melbourne, Australia, in 2012.Contributors to this book consist of both academics and practitioners, and represent the latest developments in Australia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.The essays brought together here focus on the themes of project management maturity; governance; programme and portfolio management, and methods, tools and techniques. The book concludes with two papers that explore the future implications for the project management profession.

Alternative types of ownership and participatory managerial practices have recently been intensively debated. The Great Recession has revived interest in cooperative and labor-managed organizations. In addition, employee participation in decision-making and financial performance has consistently attracted attention during the last 20 years. The articles in this Volume contribute to both of these topics. The first set of articles studies the relationship among business cycles, alternative forms of ownership, and employee voice. These papers take various theoretical and empirical approaches and investigate many industries and countries. They show how the economic downturn is leading to increased incidence of employee ownership but also undermining employee voice by increasing the incidence of atypical employment. The second set of papers looks inside firms. The topics include the relationship between ownership and innovation and how financial participation and group incentives affect employee attitudes and work effort. The contributions in this volume provide stimulating research in the broad area of participatory and labor-managed organizations.

Volume 26 of Advances in International Marketing is devoted to a set of papers that attempt to develop new knowledge or refine the existing knowledge to account for the emerging international marketing issues in a fast changing world. These include topics such as dynamic capabilities of international marketers, entrepreneurial orientation, rise of emerging markets MNCs, cultural and institutional distances, organizational learning and knowledge transfer in MNCs, and international marketing strategies in fast changing environments. Collectively, the papers in Volume 26 shed significant light on many emerging issues and form a solid foundation for future research.

The proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information Management and Management Engineering (IMME 2014), held in Singapore. IMME 2014 was one of the most comprehensive conferences focused on the various aspects of advances in Information Management and Management Engineering. It provided a chance for academic and industry professionals to present their papers discussing recent progress in this fast-moving area. Bringing together the work of researchers and practitioners, the papers contained in these proceedings share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Information Management and Management Engineering. Topics covered include: Information Systems; Intelligent Systems; Manufacturing Systems; Information Management; E-Business and E-Commerce; Information Processing and Engineering; Systems Modelling and Simulation; Production Planning and Control; Management Engineering; Global Manufacturing and Management; Healthcare Systems and Management; Project Management; Quality Control and Management; Safety, Security and Risk Management; Service Innovation and Management; Supply Chain Management; Technology and Knowledge Management; Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis; Engineering Education and Training; Reliability and Maintenance Engineering; Decision Analysis and Methods; Human Factors; Operations Research.

'The latest volume in the Advances in International Marketing series is a fresh addition to the international marketing literature, expanding the current knowledge in several significant ways. Divided in to two sections, the first part of Vol. 25 addresses important issues concerning entrepreneurship in the international market. Pulling together papers authored by well-known scholars they look at issues such as born-global firms'evolution, market orientation, alliance capabilities, customer orientation, and performance in the global market. Collectively, these papers shed significant new light on the role of entrepreneurship in born-global firms and exporting firms. The second part of Entrepreneurship in International Marketing brings together a collection of papers dealing with contemporary international marketing issues, including the conceptual domain of international marketing, global brands and luxury brands in emerging markets, international retail supply chains, and exit behaviour of FDI firms.'

Dependency and Structure Modelling (DSM) techniques support the management of complexity by focusing attention on the elements of a complex system and how they are related to each other. The DSM perspective can assist in understanding, designing and optimising complex systems – including products, processes and organisations.This volume comprises peer-reviewed papers representing state-of-the-art in DSM research and applications. The papers were presented at the 17th International DSM Conference held in November 2015 in 2015 in Fort Worth (Texas, USA).

Dependency and Structure Modelling (DSM) techniques support the management of complexity by focusing attention on the elements of a complex system and how they are related to each other. The DSM perspective can assist in understanding, designing and optimising complex systems – including products, processes and organisations.This volume comprises peer-reviewed papers representing state-of-the-art in DSM research and applications. The papers were presented at the 15th International DSM Conference held in July 2014 in Paris, France.

All business organizations strive for increasing their growth by seizing new opportunities, reducing enterprise costs, attracting new customers and retaining old customers. In doing so, business intelligence and analytics allow business organizations to make better plans, informed decisions, and monitor their progress towards planned goals and objectives. The more disruptive power of IT technologies comes synergistically. Individual IT technologies do not work in isolation. Business intelligence systems are built on other digital technologies, such as mobile and collaborative technologies, cloud computing, virtualization, and enterprise resource planning and enterprise information systems. This volume presents sixteen of the most insightful research papers amongst the various contributions accepted for presentations at the International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST 2013) and the International Conference on Software Engineering and New Technologies (ICSENT'12), held in Tangier, Morocco, and Hammamet, Tunisia respectively. These papers truly represent what today's CIOs see as the top-priority disruptive IT technologies that will help business organizations seize digital opportunities to increase their growth and reduce operating costs.

This book is a collection of the best seventeen papers from the first Management Theory Conference held at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, California, on September 27 and 28, 2013. The authors of these papers are some of the best management researchers in the world, including: Anette Mikes, Robert S. Kaplan, and Amy C. Edmondson (Harvard Business School); Sarah Harvey (University College London); Randall S. Peterson (London Business School); Jack A. Goncalo and Verena Krause (Cornell University); Karen A. Jehn (University of Melbourne); Yally Avrahampour (London School of Economics and Political Science); Tammy L. Madsen (Santa Clara University); and Sim B. Sitkin (Duke University).All of the papers in this book present the latest theoretical developments that were discussed at the first Management Theory Conference. The purpose of the conference was to help address the shortage of new management and organization theories. The mission of the conference was to facilitate, recognize, and reward the creation of new theories that advance our understanding of management and organizations. The conference was held to motivate management researchers to create new theories and to provide researchers with a supportive forum where those new theories could be presented, discussed, and published.Chapter Seventeen is the winner of the Wiley Outstanding New Management Theory Award. Authors Chris P. Long, Sim B. Sitkin, and Laura B. Cardinal present a theory to explain the drivers of managerial efforts to promote trust, fairness, and control. They theorize how superior-subordinate conflicts stimulate managers'concerns about managerial legitimacy and subordinate dependability in performing tasks, and hypothesize how managers attempt to address these concerns using trustworthiness-promotion, fairness-promotion, and control activities.This book also contains written summaries of the two keynote addresses that were given at the conference by Roy Suddaby (editor of Academy of Management Review) and Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford University), which comprise Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen. Professors Suddaby and Pfeffer present a fascinating debate of the future and new directions of management and organization theories.

This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 32 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains seven papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field. The subject matter in this volume covers myriad areas: compensation, performance evaluation, reputation, employee furloughs, and research methodology. This collection of papers represents excellent scholarship and illustrates the truly interdisciplinary character of the field.

This series publishes original monograph length conceptual papers, written by exceptional scholars, designed to promote theory and research on cutting edge substantive and methodological issues in the field of human resources management. Volume 33 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains six papers on salient issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing in the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of this field. The subject matter in this volume covers myriad areas: employee maintenance, the resignation process, ethics in human resources management, diversity climate, occupational safety, and organizational justice. These papers, written by some of the finest scholars in the field, represent seminal scholarly advances and illustrate the interdisciplinary character of human resources management.

This accessible field guide covers practical steps and contributes to behavioral theory by reporting intricate details on the strategies implemented by business-to-business firms within an inter-firm context. The coverage is deep, broad, and unique - the authors of the 14 papers all adopt the understanding that researchers need direct viewing -'eyes-on-the-context'- that goes beyond the use of paper-and-pencil 5-pont and 7-point survey items to achieve accurate descriptions of how decisions are made and progress achieved. Following the customary introductory chapter, the titles of the 13 remaining chapters promise the reader new insights and tools to apply when studying B2B contexts. This new volume in the Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing series is a must for B2B scholars and executives.

This second edition of the Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship, edited by François Thérin, evidences a burgeoning field of research, and a growing cohort of international researchers working in this field who have produced works for this volume. The papers cover a variety of topics that intersect the realm of technovation with other fields of enquiry, such as economic development, sustainability, venture capital, new venture incubation, and academic entrepreneurship. This Handbook represents a convenient place to find and read this broad array of recent papers in this field.'- Evan J. Douglas, Griffith Business School, Australia'In this Handbook, François Thérin assembles a group of researchers with diverse perspectives to enrich our understanding of the nature, antecedents and consequences of techno-entrepreneurship. The Handbook is comprehensive in its scope, deep in its analyses, informative and interesting to read. It opens many avenues for research while communicating well with managers and policy makers.'- Shaker A. Zahra, University of Minnesota, USTechno-entrepreneurship is broadly defined as the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities of both existing and nascent companies operating in technology-intensive environments. This second edition examines the latest trends in techno-entrepreneurship. Comprising entirely new contributions by international experts, this edition covers among others:- Family business- Green and sustainable techno-entrepreneurship- Effectuation- Techno-intrapreneurship- Academic entrepreneurship-Frugal innovationWith chapters focusing on China, India, Southeast Asia and South America, the Handbook explores views on the new hot spots in techno-entrepreneurship development.Providing a comprehensive, highly accessible and innovative first insight into the developing sphere of techno-entrepreneurship, this international study will be essential reading for postgraduate students, academics and researchers with an interest in management and entrepreneurship. Managerial and entrepreneurial professionals in high-tech industries will also find much to interest them within this Handbook.Contributors include: R. Abdullah, P.M. Banerjee, B. Bhardwaj, V. Blok, J. Borchardt, A. Brem, W. Carter, G. Criaco, C. Dessì, C. Fitzgerald, M. Floris, Z. Fuquan, M. Hoppe, J. Houterman, D.A. Isabelle, D. Jolly, T. Kollmann, K.-H. Lai, M. Ledwith, A. Leirner, L. Manral, T. Minola, L.M. Nor, O. Omta, R. O Shea, H. Othman, J. Pellikka, M.Saeed Siddiq, M.S. Salimath, A.Sanna, C. Serarols-Tarres, J. Woolley, A.Yash Bhatiya, M. Yusof, N. Zakaria

Relationships of individual and groups among three-plus firms represent the cornerstone concept in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. The three-plus firms include manufacturer-supplier to manufacturer-customer to distributor-customer, and facilitators (e.g., transportation and management consulting firms). The common thread of the five papers in this volume is that making sense and achieving deep knowledge of three-plus B2B relationships are necessary antecedents for achieving high operating effectiveness, high (on-time) efficiency, and sustaining profits for each firm in these relationships. As the titles of the five papers imply, reading the volume provides deep insights into the specifics of how high performing three-plus B2B relationships influences these three major objectives of the firm: National Cultures? Impacts on Western Industrial Buyer-Seller Relational Process Models; Developing Guanxi Relations; Industrial Buyer-Seller Relations in a Chinese Context; Adaptation in Business Contexts; Working Triadic Relationships; How Do Managers See It? Capturing Practitioner Theories via Network Pictures.

Dependency and Structure Modelling (DSM) techniques support the management of complexity by focusing attention on the elements of a complex system and how they are related to each other. The DSM perspective can assist in understanding, designing and optimising complex systems – including products, processes and organisations.This volume comprises peer-reviewed papers representing state-of-the-art in DSM research and applications. The papers were presented at the 15th International DSM Conference held in August 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

This paper describes the current state of workplace wellness programs in the United States, including typical program components; assesses current uptake among U.S. employers; reviews the evidence for program impact; and evaluates the current use and the impact of incentives to promote employee engagement.