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This book argues that a resilient region should act reactively and proactively in the face of shocks and disruptions and asserts that the institutionalization of regional cooperation may be the answer to development challenges in times of uncertainty and instability.It considers regional, transregional, and subregional cooperation initiatives for building regional resilience and critically examines a broad spectrum of issues, such as international security and trade, economic development, value chains in production, and social welfare. Adopting the concept of resilience allows for a holistic, dynamic, and systematic approach to the studies on the regional process of institutionalization, responsiveness, and adaptability to challenging circumstances. The economic and social indicators of the countries in the region are examined alongside an analysis of the regional institutional architecture.The reader is acquainted with the essence of resilience concerning each category of challenges and the mechanisms of its achievement and strengthening through regional integration. The interdisciplinary character of the book makes it suitable for usage not only by economists but also by lawyers. As such, the book will be helpful to scholars and students of international economics, international security, and policymakers.

The manufacturing industry is facing massive changes driven by digitalization and sustainability. It is being redefined to meet the UN SDGs with the creation of new materials, processes and machinery. The drive for digitalization in order to use resources more effectively and efficiently adds to the complexity of this twin transition. This book presents results from 8 years of research with 15 industry partners, following the transition towards a digitalized industry 4.0 manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing paradigm.The selected chapters demonstrate how globally competitive manufacturing in high-cost countries such as Norway is enabled by AI-supported intelligent and flexible automation and the use of digital twins, as well as human-centred manufacturing. This book describes the interactions in innovative and sustainable organizations and changes in materials, products and processes, digital twins and AI-supported automated manufacturing processes. Supported by case studies and reflections from the manufacturing industry, this book evaluates how the combination of digitalization and sustainability enables competitiveness. With a focus on multi-material products and processes, robust and flexible automation and innovative and sustainable organizations, it provides a multi-disciplinary insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by manufacturing industries over time.This book serves as an ideal reference for researchers, scholars and policymakers in manufacturing, production and operations, with a particular interest in technology and sustainability.

The manufacturing industry is facing massive changes driven by digitalization and sustainability. It is being redefined to meet the UN SDGs with the creation of new materials, processes and machinery. The drive for digitalization in order to use resources more effectively and efficiently adds to the complexity of this twin transition. This book presents results from 8 years of research with 15 industry partners, following the transition towards a digitalized industry 4.0 manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing paradigm.The selected chapters demonstrate how globally competitive manufacturing in high-cost countries such as Norway is enabled by AI-supported intelligent and flexible automation and the use of digital twins, as well as human-centred manufacturing. This book describes the interactions in innovative and sustainable organizations and changes in materials, products and processes, digital twins and AI-supported automated manufacturing processes. Supported by case studies and reflections from the manufacturing industry, this book evaluates how the combination of digitalization and sustainability enables competitiveness. With a focus on multi-material products and processes, robust and flexible automation and innovative and sustainable organizations, it provides a multi-disciplinary insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by manufacturing industries over time.This book serves as an ideal reference for researchers, scholars and policymakers in manufacturing, production and operations, with a particular interest in technology and sustainability.

The European Investment Bank is the world’s biggest multilateral investor. This report lays out the EU bank’s priorities and details its investments in the projects that support those policy goals. The European Investment Bank devotes more than half its financing to climate action and environmental sustainability. The Bank aims to support the transition to renewable energy sources such as geothermal, hydroelectric, and wind power. Despite challenging investment conditions in the European Union, the European Investment Bank supports firms in their transitions to a greener economy and in addressing climate change. The report provides a breakdown of the European Investment Bank’s finance contracts signed within the European Union and beyond it, as well as information on financing and borrowing activities.

As the largest and greenest multilateral lender in the world, the EIB helps economies flourish, creates jobs and promotes equality. Since 1958, the EIB has provided loans and expert advice for thousands of projects in over 160 countries.

The European economy is under pressure. Growth is slowing and competitive challenges are rising, all while EU firms navigate the demands of the green transition. Coordinated support from national governments and EU institutions proved critical after the COVID-19 pandemic, helping Europe to bolster its resilience to future shocks and spurring the investment needed to transform and modernise the economy. As a result, progress was made in digitalisation, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and reinforcing supply chains.The pace of change needs to accelerate, however, even as investment becomes harder to sustain. To remain competitive, the European Union and its members need to improve productivity, encourage innovation, address skill gaps, develop new technologies and supporting young, dynamic firms. The report, which is based on the EIB Group’s annual Investment Survey, provides insights on how EU firms are dealing with these pressures, and whether they are taking the necessary steps to transform their businesses.These key findings, provide a short accessible summary of the main report’s messages.

The European economy is under pressure. Growth is slowing and competitive challenges are rising, all while EU firms navigate the demands of the green transition. Coordinated support from national governments and EU institutions proved critical after the COVID-19 pandemic, helping Europe to bolster its resilience to future shocks and spurring the investment needed to transform and modernise the economy. As a result, progress was made in digitalisation, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and reinforcing supply chains.The pace of change needs to accelerate, however, even as investment becomes harder to sustain. To remain competitive, the European Union and its members need to improve productivity, encourage innovation, address skill gaps, develop new technologies and supporting young, dynamic firms. The report, which is based on the EIB Group’s annual Investment Survey, provides insights on how EU firms are dealing with these pressures, and whether they are taking the necessary steps to transform their businesses.The report’s Key Findings are available here.Contents Part I Sustaining investment in challenging times 1. The macroeconomic environment 2. Government investment 3. Corporate investment Part II Accelerating transformation for competitiveness 4. Innovation in the global context 5. Investing in green transformation Data annex Glossary of terms and acronyms

A blueprint presents drawings, dimensions and notes. This report draws vivid pictures of the beneficiaries of European Investment Bank projects in 2023. It includes data on the dimensions of our massive overall investment and the importance of our loans to each of our beneficiaries during the year. It notes the EU policies and expertise that lead us to make each of our investments.

The book is primarily addressed to cultural managers, employees of cultural institutions, cultural animators, impresarios, and independent artists who independently disseminate their work, especially in the Polish-Czech cross-border market for cultural services. Potential audiences also include students, doctoral students, and academics working in the management of cultural institutions, cross-border cooperation, or international relations. The work may also be of use to city and regional leaders in the Polish-Czech borderland, for whom cooperation ‘across borders’ in the field of culture represents a potential opportunity for the development of the cultural offer, urban or regional infrastructure, and better promotion of the cross-border area.``Central European territories have been historically exposed to innumerable social, economic, political, and cultural influences. Moreover, these territories have been crisscrossed by dozens of national, administrative, and cultural boundaries. This book, which deals primarily with cultural aspects of the Polish-Czech borderland naturally, reflects these facts. Moreover, it investigates the cross-border market for cultural services that represents a modern but not adequately researched theme. There is no doubt about the theoretical and practical importance of this book, which will definitely attract many readers.''Professor Jan Sucháček -- Mendel University in Brno (The Czech Republic)``The book guides the reader through the interdisciplinarity and complexity of shaping long-term relationships of cultural operators with Polish and Czech recipients of the cultural offer in the Polish-Czech cross-border market. Understanding such relationships is critical for achieving great performance in the whole cross-border market of cultural services, and the book offers the readers well-structured and useful knowledge in this regard. This book is a must-read for all cultural managers and policymakers.''Professor Mateusz Lewandowski -- Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

This Cypriot EPPO/OLAF volume deals with the link between national law and EU law (EPPO and OLAF Regulations) and enables professionals from the justice sector to understand the national law in comparative perspective and to plan further investigations. It refers to fraud cases, the link between OLAF and AFCOS, and the activities of the new EPPO regional offices.The Cypriot Act for the Implementation of the EPPO and the rules for defence lawyers in EPPO cases involving tax, subsidy, and customs fraud are also discussed. Attorney Dr Marilena Katsogiannou's introductory chapter to the Compendium on Cyprus provides a thorough summary of both Union and Cypriot laws in relation to EU fraud offences. While this volume is written in English, its footnotes reproduce the original national legislation in the local language.

The authors of this monograph were driven to delve into the challenges facing cross-border cooperation amidst crises and disruptions spurred by the adverse impacts witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This included challenges to the implementation of cross-border projects, the activities of Euroregions, and the development of partnerships based on INTERREG programs, as well as other issues related to territorial cooperation.The confluence of the pandemic crisis and broader international geopolitical issues, such as illegal migration to the EU and geopolitical tensions like Russian aggression against Ukraine, underscores the imperative to explore new research avenues focused on bolstering the resilience of cross-border cooperation within the EU.With a focus on identifying key factors shaping the management of cross-border projects co-financed by INTERREG programs, as well as factors influencing partner cooperation, this study aims to fortify cross-border cooperation in the face of future crises and disruptions.The monograph offers valuable insights for institutions and organizations operating in border regions, catering specifically to theoreticians and practitioners engaged in cross-border cooperation. By distilling lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic period, it provides a roadmap for integrating resilience into future cross-border activities and endeavours.

Informing Possible Future Worlds is the Festschrift in honour of Ulrich Frank on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The Festschrift includes twenty-three essays written by friends, colleagues, and fellow researchers in recognition of Ulrich Frank’s contributions to Wirtschaftsinformatik research and the scientific community. Each essay is a personal and unique birthday present to Ulrich Frank written exclusively for the Festschrift. From original research contributions to more personal reflections, the essays cover a wide range of topics, themes, and fields.The Festschrift is edited by Stefan Strecker, FernUniversität in Hagen and Jürgen Jung, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.

Accountability, good government and public trust are intricately linked. Supreme Audit Institutions fulfil an exceptional role in the public domain, checking if governments spend their money properly. They are like 'watchdogs' for citizens and parliaments with the purpose of auditing public expenditure and examining the effectiveness of policies. They aim to strengthen the trustworthiness of government institutions, all the more so in fragile democracies. They do so, for instance, in striving to disclose cases of corruption, not just in the highest echelons of government, but also in everyday petty bribery. And they can be found counting houses, roads and water taps, to see if government's promises are being kept.On the occasion of the retirement of Saskia J. Stuiveling as the president of the Netherlands Court of Audit, eight (former) heads of audit institutions talk candidly about their work and innovations in the area of public auditing, about how the financial crisis affected their profession, about the advent of open data and about the need for new skills to audit the oil industry. Each of them - Faiza Kefi (Tunisia), Josef Moser (Austria), Terence Nombembe (South Africa), Heidi Mendoza (Philippines), Alar Karis (Estonia), David Walker (USA), John Muwanga (Uganda) and Abdulbasit Turki Saeed (Iraq) - has made a difference in his or her country, often under difficult, adverse and sometimes outright dangerous circumstances.

As part of an emerging literature on place branding, this book fills the important gap between practice-oriented literature—which lacks in-depth and critical analysis—and technical academic literature—which tends to miss down-to-earth practitioners' concerns and to overlook policy and political contexts. Providing frameworks and knowledge on how to practice place branding effectively, this book anchors place-branding practices in a solid analytical framework. It presents place-branding practices through the lenses of public sector marketing, strategic management, and governance processes and structures, as well as communication tools. Marketing a place is more than creating a logo and a motto; this book presents the key strategic aspects to be considered when promoting a place. Readers will gain knowledge about the most important features of place promotion: the development of brands and marketing campaigns in the public sector, the establishment of dedicated politico-administrative structures, and the increasing involvement of various stakeholders that play a central role as place promoters. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduate students across place branding, marketing and management, and urban studies, as well as public management, administration, and policy. The practical conclusions discussed in the book will also appeal to practitioners, business consultants, and people working in public administration and politics.

No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution.Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses.Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.

What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe.Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book investigates what happens when cultural policy gets changed and challenged by digital culture. Based on a thorough discussion of key concepts and analytical perspectives, this collection also offers a unique multi-disciplinary contribution that shows how digital cultural policy is hyperconvergent. These policies contain established ideas of cultural policy – such as democratization, welfare, access, and national, protectionist ideas – brought together within a digital framework, while also adding new cultural policy tools and instruments, such as digital standards, international regulations, directives, etc. The book shows how digital cultural policies are works in progress, struggling to align their aspirations with their effectiveness.Overall, this book provides a valuable tool for understanding the current policy framework of digital culture. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students in cultural and creative industries but also to creative professionals and policy makers.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This unique insight into the corporate investment in the European Union examines companies' finance needs and the constraints they face. The 2023 edition also provides insight into the pressing issues facing firms, such as climate change, high energy costs and the green transition. The survey, which has been administered since 2016, covers about 13 000 firms across the European Union, including a small sample of US firms.

Denne utgivelsen er den andre i en serie bøker fra Institutt for ledelse og organisasjon ved Høyskolen Kristiania. HR i møte med det nye arbeidslivet bygger videre på boken Ledelse av mennesker i det nye arbeidslivet (2020). Boken tar gjennom 12 kapitler for seg HR- og ledelsesrelaterte temaer knyttet til blant annet global usikkerhet, uforutsigbare endringer, kriseledelse, prediktive analyser og scenariotenkning, utvikling av ledere og ledelsespraksis, helsefremmende selvledelse, lederrekruttering, nye tilknytningsformer i arbeidslivet, leders juridiske handlingsrom i konflikt, demografisk utvikling og mangfold i arbeidslivet, og utvikling av pårørenderollen.Kapitlene tar utgangspunkt i perspektiver om det nye arbeidslivet. Forfatterne diskuterer hvordan endringer i og rundt virksomhetene fordrer utvikling av forståelsen av hvordan organisasjoner og mennesker påvirkes, behovet for ny HR-praksis og hvordan ledere skal utøve sin rolle. Boken bygger på sentrale dimensjoner ved HR og ledelse som forskningsfelt:God ledelse og et godt arbeidsliv i Norge utvikles best gjennom forståelse for norsk kontekst.God HR- og ledelsespraksis baseres på solid innsikt i hvordan organisasjonens behov for utvikling av ressurser og kapabiliteter påvirkes av endringer knyttet til indre faktorer og endringer i omgivelsene.Et godt arbeidsliv utvikles ved å ha et bevisst forhold til hvordan globale faktorer og utviklingstrekk er endringsdrivere som påvirker organisasjoner, arbeidsoppgaver, mennesker og ledere.Bokens 17 forfattere er en samling fremtidsorienterte norske forskere og fagpersoner innenfor sine fagfelt. Kapitlene i boken utforsker temaer, problemstillinger og begreper med ambisjon om å bidra til ny innsikt i forsknings- og praksisfeltet i norsk kontekst. Forfatterne bidrar til forskningsbasert kunnskapsutvikling i det nye arbeidslivet gjennom teoretiske, konseptuelle og empiriske studier. Boken retter seg derfor både mot forskere og studenter, og mot HR-spesialister og ledere med interesse for HR, organisasjon og ledelse som fag.HR i møte med det nye arbeidslivet er redigert av Andreas N. Thon (førstelektor i ledelse, organisasjon og HR ved Høyskolen Kristiania), Laura E. M. Traavik (førsteamanuensis i organisasjon og ledelse ved Høyskolen Kristiania) og Kjetil A. Vedøy (høyskolelektor ved Institutt for ledelse og organisasjon, Høyskolen Kristiania).

The supply chain plays a critical role in any sector as it's the core link between the organisation and the supply of resources. It impacts the profitability and reaches of services to consumers. It calls for actions to improve the supply chain by improving the performance and dependence of the supply through the adoption of technology; big data analytics. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's private healthcare can benefit from adopting the technology. The study sought to critically explore previous literature on Big Data Analytics, Supply chain management, and the private healthcare sector and develop recommendations for the KSA case study. The literature review analyzed the available data on SCM, big data analytics, and the private healthcare sector. The behaviours and policies that are needed for the proper adoption of technology were identified and showed the gaps that the technology can solve the adoption of technology issue. Th findings of the study found that some of the factors affecting the adoption of BDA include a shortage of professionals qualified to operate big data analytics in the supply chain, lack of transparency and accountability contributing to environmental barriers and legal constraints, resulting in delays in receiving approvals and permits from laws and regulatory agencies. The opportunities posed include demand forecasting, safety, quality assurance improvement, and indoor monitoring of the process. The results show that utilisation of BDA in KSA private healthcare has more excellent opportunities than challenges. Implementing BDA technology in the supply chain can revolutionise the sector and create room for significant developments. The recommendations include developing primary research by interacting with the managers and experts in the field to find out the current challenges in implementation, analysing the return on investment of focusing on big data analytics, and the duration it will take to make all the changes come to be. KSA's private healthcare supply chain has a more significant opportunity in the supply chain and can benefit from the government's Vision 2030 push toward digitalisation.

" The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected workers may need to re-train to adapt to changing tasks or new jobs. At the same time, it is unclear whether or not advanced digital technologies encourage firms to invest in workforce re-training. Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, this paper shows that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee, after adopting advanced digital technologies. It estimates, with a control function approach, firm-level production functions augmented with two factors: training per employee and digital technology use. We show that these are in fact substitutes in production, implying that an increase in the former negatively affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing advanced digital technologies reduces employers’ investment in training per employee. These findings point to challenges in realising high levels of firm-sponsored training for employees in increasingly digital economies. "

Disruptive Technologien, globale Krisen und hochkomplexe Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft stellen nationale wie supranationale Regulierungsinstanzen vor wachsende Herausforderungen. Insbesondere im Kontext der COVID-19-Pandemie ist daher die Frage nach der Rolle theorie- und evidenzbasierter Grundlagen politischer und unternehmerischer Entscheidungen verstärkt in den Mittelpunkt der Diskussion gerückt. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickeln die Beiträger des vorliegenden Tagungsbandes innovative Regulierungsansätze, die theorie- und evidenzbasiert eine effiziente und zugleich ethisch-wertorientierte Verwirklichung von Regulierungszielen ermöglichen. Behandelt werden fünf Themenblöcke: Gesundheitspolitik, Steuerpolitik, Kartellrecht, Wirtschaftsrecht und Unternehmensrechnung. Auf der Grundlage der Perspektiven aus Rechtswissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Psychologie und Philosophie werden effektive Strategien für eine theorie- und evidenzbasierte Regulierung in den vorgestellten Bereichen entwickelt.

Die Aktiengesellschaft soll private Ersparnisse in dauerhaft gebundenes, unternehmerisches Anlagekapital transformieren. Zugleich erlaubt die Börsennotierung eine beliebig kurzfristige Anlage in unternehmenstragende Gesellschaften. Vor diesem Hintergrund bestehen in Rechtswissenschaft, Ökonomie und Politik seit langem große Sorgen, dass die moderne kapitalmarktorientierte Aktiengesellschaft unter ein schädliches Diktat kurzfristiger Einflüsse gerät. Eckart Bueren leuchtet diese wechselhafte Kontroverse um kurzfristige Orientierung und damit um den Schutz der Funktionsfähigkeit der Aktiengesellschaft erstmals gesamthaft rechts- und ideengeschichtlich, rechtsvergleichend und rechtsökonomisch aus. Er erzählt damit die Rezeptionsgeschichte eines international wirkmächtigen Regelungstopos im Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht. Welche Entwicklung hat er durchlaufen, für welche Rechtsfragen, Regelungsanliegen und Interessen wurde er zu verschiedenen Zeiten dienstbar gemacht und wie bedeutsam ist er heute? Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Förderpreis der Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland ausgezeichnet.

"Despite the efforts of policy makers to tackle recessions as they happen, there is ample evidence that major economic downturns produce lasting negative effects on real GDP, pointing to the existence of “economic scarring”. This paper takes a fresh look at economic scarring in 26 OECD countries, including 14 EU member states, since 1970 and examines the role played by fiscal policy in limiting these impacts. It finds that higher current expenditure does not mitigate the lasting impact of major economic downturns on real GDP. By contrast, more government investment could help to do so, but this is generally less favoured as a policy response. As a result, scarring effects are significant, confronting governments with higher debt levels, which in turn weigh on the room for manoeuvre in subsequent downturns. In sum, fiscal policy makers face two difficulties in the event of a major economic downturn: adopting the right type of fiscal expansion, and finding the right time to pivot from short-term stabilisation to fiscal consolidation, while protecting investment."

"Financial integration, broadly defined as the intensity of cross-border linkages between financial markets, has the potential to channel capital to where it is most productive, bringing many benefits. However, some financial integration is cyclical, increasing economic upswings and declining during down-turns. Of more long-term benefit is financial integration driven by structural factors such as the reductions in exchange rate risk and the increased regulatory or supervisory convergence associated with the establishment of a currency union, such as Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. This paper presents a new indicator of de facto financial integration in the European Union. Analysing this indicator alongside different financial and macroeconomic variables makes it possible to separate the impact of cyclical boom-bust shocks from the influence structural factors. It shows that increasing structural financial integration tends to improve risk absorption and reduce income disparities among European countries. However, it also suggests that most of the movements in the indicator reflect business cycle dynamics, rather than structural integration. These results highlight the need to develop further policies to foster structural financial integration in the EU."

Past research suggests that economic crisis lead to a reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive firms, with many firms taking action to boost their own productivity. This paper uses data from the EIB Investment Survey and the ORBIS database to analyse how the COVID-19 crisis affected the level of employment and digitalisation efforts of European firms. Moreover, it examines how these changes relate to the pre-crisis performance of firms, in terms of productivity, digitalisation and growth. It finds that firms were less likely to reduce their number of employees, both in the short and in the long term, if they exhibited higher productivity or higher growth, or were in highly digitalised sectors. It also finds that firms were more likely to increase their use of digital technologies during the crisis if they were already relatively advanced users of digital technologies.

Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book addresses the fascinating relationship of these two contemporary topics and explores the role of digital transformation in promoting public innovation. This edited collection includes examples of innovations that emerge suddenly, practices for processing innovations, and the requirements for transformation from innovation to the "new normal". Acknowledging that public innovation refers to the development and realization of new and creative ideas that challenge conventional wisdom and disrupt the established practices within a specific context, expert contributions from international scholars explore and illustrate the various activities that are happening in the world of multiple digitalization opportunities. The content covers public administration, technical and business management, human, social, and future sciences, paying attention to the interaction between public and private sectors to utilize digitalization in order to facilitate public innovation. This timely book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of technology and innovation management, as well as knowledge management, public service management and administration.

Consumers are an important source of innovation. They primarily innovate out of non-monetary motivations, such as use interest, learning and social rewards. Nonetheless, increasing numbers of such consumer and user innovators recently began diffusing their creations on online marketplaces, where they price and commercialize them. This empirical work reveals that, compared to firms, consumers’ different motivations to innovate affect their pricing decisions systematically in terms of cost, customer quality and competition considerations. Furthermore, it shows that customers’ price evaluations differ consistently when a product is marketed as created by consumers. Two empirical, sequential mixed methods studies were conducted for testing a series of hypotheses derived from fusing pricing research with consumer and user innovation theory. The empirical work was executed in the field of indie video games. Its core quantitative analyses were carried out with data scraped from the Steam computer game marketplace. Interviews and experiments with commercializing consumer innovators and their customers scaffold the findings from the market data analyses. The generated knowledge helps (a) consumer and user innovators to shape and validate their marketing strategies, (b) business administrators to respond to an influx of consumer innovators as competitors, and (c) economists in understanding the market impacts of commercial consumer innovation diffusion.

Die Bedrohungen durch die Klimakrise werden im Kulturbereich intensiv diskutiert und zwingen zum Handeln. Denn auch Kulturmacher*innen müssen Verantwortung für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft übernehmen und ihre Produktionsweisen dahingehend umstellen. Doch wie kann die damit verbundene Transformation gelingen und welche kulturpolitischen Weichenstellungen sind notwendig? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen versammelt das Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2021/2022 bekannte Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft, Kulturpolitik, Kulturverwaltung und Kulturpraxis, die den Kulturwandel zur Nachhaltigkeit systematisch erfassen und Handlungsoptionen für die Zukunft aufzeigen.

The role of a leader is to be the conductor of an ensemble, an individual who sees the larger picture and puts the pieces of the puzzle together to obtain that picture. The positive leader finds the hidden talents of those they employ and provide the best footing for those talents to prosper and add to the overall value of the product being produced. When it comes to a negative or toxic leader, keeping employees engaged and in their roles long enough to achieve a final product becomes much of an effort and expense. In this dissertation, toxic leadership refers to a leader who displays traits such as abusive supervision, authoritarian leadership, narcissism, unpredictability, and self-promotion. This type of leader is associated with creating a hostile work environment that leads to employee dissatisfaction, disengagement, demotivation, and ultimately the intent to leave their role. This quantitative cross-sectional non-experimental study explored the relationship between the five toxic leadership traits, employee turnover intentions, and whether that relationship is affected by different cultural typologies. This study garnered a total of 613 survey respondents who were at least 18 years of age and in their role for more than one year. The study findings show a significant relationship between all five toxic leadership traits with turnover intention and that the relationship is so significant that it negates any influence by the cultural typologies on employees’ turnover intentions. The study results are of interest to human resource managers, organizational managers, and future leaders when developing training, policies, and recruiting leaders and managers.

In recent years, scholars have recognized the importance of innovation for corporate performance as well as business performance. Innovation is increasingly popular and expected in modern day outsourcing relationships. In this review, this emerging phenomenon of innovation will be examined in the context of business process outsourcing (BPO). The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors of evolution of innovation in BPO sector. This study was driven by the lack of studies on the source of innovation in BPO sectors despite the importance of innovation as one of the primary sources of competitive advantage. Furthermore, as BPO organizations are serving various business processes, it could be expected that each organization could pursue and emphasize different aspects of innovation comparing to others. Therefore, the pursuit in exploring the source and factors in making innovation evolves in an outsourcing organization becomes the priority in this research. A survey questionnaire was sent, and data was gathered from 70 employees in Accenture, a BPO organization in Malaysia. Several findings were found through data analysis using SPSS tool. First, there is a significant number of respondents agree that scope of innovation and client’s expectation contributes to the evolution of innovation. The second finding indicated that there is a stronger correlation between the evolution of innovation with client’s expectation than for scope of innovation.

Este libro reúne diferentes hallazgos, perspectivas y efectos ante un fenómeno que, más de un año después, todavía representa un reto científico, médico y social para todos. Igualmente, esta obra representa el objetivo de la Red Investigadores de Economía: aunar esfuerzos para encontrar respuestas y para fortalecer la investigación en el país, aumentar la difusión de trabajos de calidad y propiciar el encuentro entre académicos, universidades y el Banco de la República. Las investigaciones expuestas en este libro pasaron por un proceso de selección por parte del comité científico, asegurando que hubiese una pluralidad de miradas y de instituciones educativas, además del Banco, donde se relacionaran los efectos de la pandemia y la actividad económica en el país, las consecuencias sociales y regionales. El texto está dividido en cuatro partes. En la primera se hace un análisis macroeconómico de los efectos de la pandemia; para ello se examinan los efectos de la emergencia sanitaria a nivel nacional y regional mediante modelos macroeconómicos que permiten obtener respuestas ante preguntas muy relevantes. La segunda sección trata sobre el impacto en el mercado laboral, el efecto del Covid19 en la distribución del ingreso y el efecto de corto plazo en el mercado urbano. La tercera parte aborda los efectos de la pandemia en los agentes económicos y en otros mercados. Ello incluye la exposición del empleo al Covid19, la vulnerabilidad económica de los hogares en el país y su respuesta en el consumo, patrones de actividad laboral y salud mental, efectos en la educación, inseguridad alimentaria de la población migrante, entre otros. Por último, el cuarto segmento hace un énfasis especial en los efectos diferenciales entre las regiones del país y la heterogeneidad de dicho impacto; para ello se analizan temas de informalidad, vulnerabilidad, fuerza de trabajo disponible, entre otros, en distintas regiones del país.

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"... the practice of barefoot economics requires more than simply the lived experience of poverty-related phenomena. In contrast to the prevailing positivist paradigm within the scientific discipline of economics that tends to cultivate particular ways of economic thinking by taking their linguistic presuppositions for granted, barefoot economics involves challenging one's own horizon of possibility for economic thought by putting commonly accepted academic jargon in abeyance.''

Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence. The contributors to this book explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from different disciplinary and national perspectives. Four different analytical views on the role of power and economics are taken: first, the role of economic expert discourses as power devices for the formation of influential expertise; second, the logics and modalities of governmentality that produce power/knowledge apparatuses between science and society; third, economists as involved in networks between academia, politics and the media; and forth, economics considered as a social field, including questions of legitimacy and unequal relations between economists based on the detention of various capitals. The volume includes case studies on a variety of national configurations of economics, such as the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico and Brazil, as well as international spaces and organisations such as the IMF. This book provides innovative research perspectives for students and scholars of heterodox economics, cultural political economy, sociology of professions, network studies, and the social studies of power, discourse and knowledge.

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic Model at a crossroads? Historically, consensus, continuity, social cohesion, and broad social trust have been hailed as key components for the success and for the self-images of Sweden and Finland. In the contemporary, however, political debates in both countries are increasingly focused on risks, threats, and worry. Social disintegration, political polarization, geopolitical anxieties, and threat of terrorism are often dominant themes. This book focuses on what appears to be a paradox: countries with low income differences, high faith in social institutions, and relatively high cultural homogeneity becoming fixated on the fear of polarization, disintegration, and diminished social trust. Unpacking the presentist discourse of "worry" and a sense of interregnum at the face of geopolitical tensions, digitalization, and globalization, as well as challenges to democracy, the chapters take steps back in time and explore the current conjecture through the eyes of historians and social scientists, addressing key aspects of and challenges to both the contemporary and future Nordic Model. In addition, the functioning and efficacy of the participatory democracy and current protocols of decision-making are debated. This work is essential reading for students and scholars of the welfare state, social reforms, and populism, as well as Nordic and Scandinavian studies.

In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level.Social Enterprise in Western Europe –the third volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide – will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.

This study aims to evaluate the practice of selling and financing real-estate projects before completion in Saudi Arabia during the period 2009-2019. The practice is called off-plan sales or financing, which is first regulated by resolution no. 73 of 2009, modified in 2012 resolution no. 47 and last resolution passed on 2016 resolution no. 536. The policy restricted and governed off-plan practice in the country and created new licensing requirements for off-plan development activities. The market implication with the implementation of the policy is the focus of the study. The policy regulated new requirements and stakeholders to implement the policy. The mechanism that Saudi Arabia has applied had progressed in the study period with several implications of the market performance. The role of public policy evolution is to understand the implication of the policy in the market. Saudi Arabia, with low ownership rates, thrives on increasing the affordability of real-estate. Off-plan, as a strategic solution for housing in Saudi Arabia, was used by regulators to promote off-plan activities by bridging the voids in the supply and demand, also enhance off-plan policy practice in the country. Managed by an off-plan policy committee named “Wafi” program in the Ministry of Housing, a set of requirements and development procedures were passed by the committee, which had its implication on the market and real-estate development practice in Saudi Arabia. The research was conducted using a descriptive methodology and a survey. Qualitative research was conducted using close-ended survey questions. Twelve participants were selected with four different groups of off-plan policy users. The first group of 8 buyers, 3 developers, 2 bankers and 2 regulators were recruited. The buyers were selected on different project statuses. The other groups were selected with experience with the off-plan policy covering the first period of the policy implementation and the last period of the policy implementation. The hypothesis was developed to evaluate four aspects regarding the policy, which are economic perspective, buyer perspective, development perspective, and market perspective. The questionnaire was developed to answer the research question of evaluating the implication of off-plan policy in Saudi Arabia between 2009 and 2019. The findings show that respondents believe that off-plan financing confirms the first hypothesis H1 off-plan Stimulating entrepreneurial market dynamics. The results show that Off-plan policy contributed in increasing investment in the market by local and foreign investors, which encouraged banks and developers to utilize Off-plan policy financing. The second hypothesis is confirmed by the H2 Off-plan policy alleviate development risk for developers. The finding shows an agreement on the role of the off-plan policy to govern the development practice in the country. Result show participants agree on the role of the policy helping developers complete on time and access to fund. On the third hypothesis H3 buyers’ rights were protected by the off-plan policy finding confirm the hypothesis. The participants view confirm the role of policy protecting buyers right, project specification and help buyers chose trusted developers. On the last hypothesis H4 Off-plan policy application reduced property price finding shows confirmation of participants view on the role of policy reducing property price. The result shows participants agreement on the role of the policy to increase affordability and reduce property price. The results confirm the literature on the role of public policy in the market. It is also an area of research that is not researched in academia widely. The literature confirms the importance of the results regarding the implication of the policy in the market. The literature also explains the results background on the policy implications in Saudi Arabia during the period 2009-2019. This study is the first focused research on off-plan policy in Saudi Arabia. With fewer attempts on off-plan policy from a legal perspective. The study answers the implication of off-plan policy on several dimensions related to the professional practice of off-plan property development in Saudi Arabia. The finding answers viewpoint of off-plan users, which policymakers can use to evaluate the policy implication and used as a reference for off-plan practice across the globe.

Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant factor, amorality and non-spirituality) and explains why this approach to teaching business is erroneous and leads to wrong and harmful practices in many organisations. In a very personal and engaging style, the author presents a "map of motivations", based on a humanistic approach to management. This includes the latest findings of Abraham H. Maslow supported by sound philosophical reflections and modern research. He also presents specific ways of putting the framework into practice, sharing stories from students and professionals of how this framework has helped them better understand their own motivations and look at their daily work in a much more meaningful way. The book is highly relevant to students and researchers in humanistic management, people management, organisational behaviour, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability. In short, this text will be truly inspiring to anyone who wants to reflect on motivations in organisations and how to achieve a better work-life balance.

Responsible Innovation encourages innovators to work together with stakeholders during the research and innovation process, to better align the outcomes of innovation with the values, needs and expectations of society. Assessing the benefits and costs of Responsible Innovation is crucial for furthering the responsible conduct of science, technology and innovation. However, there is until now only limited academic work on Responsible Innovation assessment. This book fills this lacuna. Assessment of Responsible Innovation: Methods and Practices presents tools for measuring, monitoring, and reporting upon the Responsible Innovation process and the social, environmental, scientific, and economic impacts of innovations. These tools help innovators to mitigate risk and to strengthen their strategic planning. This book aligns assessment tools and practices with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The prospects as well as the limitations of various Responsible Innovation assessment approaches and tools are discussed, as well as their applicability in various industry contexts. The book brings together leading scholars in the field to present the most comprehensive review of Responsible Innovation tools. It articulates the importance of assessment and value creation, the different metrics and monitoring systems that can be deployed and the reporting mechanisms, including the importance of effective communication.

Der Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse eines transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Oldenburg, die in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen sowie in Reflexionen aus Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung diskutiert werden. Im Projekt ""Zukunftsdiskurse: Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften zwischen Gesellschaft, Ökonomie und Bildung"" haben Vertreter:innen verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen sowie Vertreter:innen aus Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung zentrale Fragen für die Etablierung und Stabilisierung einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsordnung diskutiert. Der Sammelband präsentiert das hieraus entstandene Zukunftsmodell für eine nachhaltige Wirtschaftsordnung und beschreibt die zentralen Akteure mit ihren Aufgaben sowie Wechselbeziehungen. In den Beiträgen wird das Modell aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive und aus Sicht von Praktiker:innen reflektiert. Die Beiträge liefern Impulse für die weitere Auseinandersetzung mit dem Topos nachhaltige Transformation für die Wissenschaft. Akteure aus Politik und Wirtschaft finden Anregungen und Fundierungen für Entscheidungen auf kommunaler, nationaler und internationaler Ebene.

Based on the industrial revolution model, the informational and service age’s main challenge, also falsely named the digital revolution, is to generate economic and social value and reinvent business models. Unfortunately, Solow’s paradox is still valid despite the work of Brynjolfsson, who has tried to prove the contrary generating a kind of Halo effect among the research community. The purpose of this integrative literature review was to understand better the arguments put forward and conceptualize the real stakes of this new revolution, which impacts almost every organization. The reasons why Solow’s paradox is still valid could be found among three primary syndromes: technology fantasy, IT engineering approaches instead of IS engineering, and a lack of executive governance, fueled by a poor understanding and mastering of the critical building blocks of this new Age. On one side, they are the raw material: data-information-knowledge, and on the other side, the tool and its usage. Therefore, clarifying the concepts of IT, digital, and information systems is vital. Compared to traditional IT budgets, assessing digital and IS budgets gives a brand-new perspective and provides three main levers to optimize and reinvent current organizations: information technologies, data, and new digital concepts. Based on different cases, we describe how to design the optimized digital company by distinguishing the machine (“M”) on the “producer side” from the “consumer side” with its different types of usage: Machine to Machine (“M2M”), Human to Machine (“H2M”) and Human to Human (“H2H”). The results are presented in both the form of conceptual reasoning and with practical exploratory cases and models. Finally, we introduced the theory of nanoeconomics, which, together with mesoeconomics fostered by GAFAM, could well marginalize traditional macro and microeconomics.

Wie kann das Verhältnis zwischen Familie und gemeinsamen Unternehmen langfristig konstruktiv gestaltet werden, sodass die Überlebensfähigkeit des Familienunternehmens über Generationen verbessert und damit der langfristige Fortbestand des Unternehmens gesichert ist? Mit einer Familienverfassung wird der Unternehmerfamilie ein Instrument an die Hand gegeben, das hilft, destruktive Konflikte zu vermeiden oder beherrschbar zu machen. Es herrscht überwiegend Einigkeit darüber, dass dieses Regelsystem keinen rechtsverbindlichen Charakter haben soll, sondern vielmehr als moralisch verbindlich gelten soll. Umso mehr stellen sich jedoch Unternehmerfamilien die Frage, von welchen Determinanten es abhängt, ob die in einer Familienverfassung festgelegten Spielregeln auch von allen Familienmitgliedern befolgt werden. Hier setzt Marco Henry V. Neumueller mit seiner Arbeit an. How can the relationship between a family and family businesses be designed in a long-lasting and effective manner, so that the survivability can be improved over generations and the long-term continuation of the company can be assured? A family constitution offers the business family an instrument both to prevent and master destructive family conflicts. It is widely accepted that that this regulation system need not have an official character but should be rather morally binding. However, entrepreneurial families question which factors guarantee that the rules, determined in a family constitution, are followed by all family members. This issue will be analysed in Marco Henry V. Neumueller’s work.

In current highly competitive business environment, having well performing and inspired employees are the main success factor for any organization. In realizing that, in one hand researchers argue well-designed reward strategy plays the major role through enhancing the performance of employees. In the other hand, other scholars claim that rewards have nothing to do with employees’ performance. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of reward management system on employee performance in the case of IE Network Solution PLC. in Addis Ababa. This study was conducted through a mixed research approach with in both a descriptive and explanatory research design. A total of 80 self administered questionnaires were distributed to the all staff members of the company. 77 questionnaires were returned which gave response rate 96.25%. It was valid to run the data analysis. Therefore the descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analysis were computed through SPSS version 23. The correlation analysis result shows that promotion and employee recognition positively and moderately associated with performance of employees. However work condition salary have a positive but weak relation with employee performance. The multiple regression analysis revealed promotion (β=0.313), employee recognition (β=0.319), work condition (β=0.256), and salary (β=0.189) has a significant effect on employee performance. However benefit packages have no significant effect on performance of employees. Additionally the regression analysis shows, (𝑅 2 = 0.579, p

Wie funktionieren Kooperationen in einem per se interdisziplinären Umfeld mit verschiedenen Herangehens- und Arbeitsweisen, Fragestellungen, Erwartungen und Zielvorgaben und welche Erfahrungen wurden damit im jeweiligen Projekt gesammelt? Der erste Band des Netzwerks für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Citizen Science fragt nach der praktischen Ausgestaltung kooperativer Forschungsprozesse im Zusammenspiel von Geisteswissenschaft, Digital Humanities, Informatik und weiteren Akteuren. Ausgehend von einer konkreten Projekt- und/oder institutionellen Perspektive richtet sich der Blick auf den Aspekt der Kooperation als inhaltliche, organisatorische und forschungspraktische Klammer der beteiligten Wissenschaftskulturen. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf den Erfolgsfaktoren für eine Projektarbeit, in der es gelingt, sich auf die unterschiedlichen (fach-)spezifischen und methodischen Ansätze, Arbeits- und Denkweisen des Kooperationspartners einzulassen und in andere Sichtweisen auf das gleiche Projekt einzudenken. How do co-operations function in a per se interdisciplinary environment with different methods, approaches, questions, expectations and goals? What kind of experiences have been made in the respective projects? The first volume of the network for Digital Sciences and Citizen Science focuses on the practical design of co-operative research processes in connection with Human Sciences, Digital Humanities, Information Technology and other research fields. On the basis of an existing project and / or institutional perspective it concentrates on the aspect of co-operations as topical, organisational and research-practical frame of the parties involved. The volume also focuses on the success factors of a project, in which it is possible to adapt to various specific and methodical approaches of cooperation partners and to understand different perspectives within one project.

Purpose - There is plenty of existing literature on strategic performance measurement and management (SPMM). However, most of them concentrate on the private sector. This thesis trilogy explores the subject primarily from the rarely tackled lens of the public sector, and especially in fragile periphery countries. The first paper assesses conceptualisation and application of SPMM in the ‘New Public Management’ (NPM) context through pursuing four SPMM dimensions. The second paper explores strategic alignment as a sine qua non for successful SPMM systems as contained in gluts of literature by critically assessing architecture and institutionalisation of SPMM in the public sector of a fragile periphery country from NPM perspective. The third and final instalment further investigates application and evolution of SPMM practices in public entities (PEs) in a resource constricted, fragile and disruptive external environment. Design/Methodology/Approach – This thesis mixes two protocols for field research and also adopts a systemic literature review. The first paper is based on a systematic literature review protocol while the second and third papers utilised a comprehensive web-based survey to obtain and analyse quantitative and qualitative data from 21 public entities. This was complemented by a one-day post-survey workshop in which survey participants discussed the preliminary results and unanimously validated the research results. Findings – The first paper revealed that SPMM experienced phased parallel evolution starting with private sector around 3rd century, then the public sector around 1900 and finally third sector around 1960s. SPMM convergence in the three sectors then occurred around 1990s with implementation of contemporary multi-dimensional systems based on “adoption and adaptation” to the various sectoral, organisational and country nuances and in response to supervening environmental and contextual trends. The second paper established the existence of a strong SPMM architecture and concluded that public sectors have strong fundamentals for institutionalisation of SPMM systems. However, overall, the systems fall short of realising levels required for the classic high performance organisation due to some key attributes which have potential for improvement. The third paper further confirmed that public sector SPMM practices followed literature recommendations and are fairly aligned to international best practice. The study country’s fragile status, notwithstanding, implies that public service executives must review their SPMM systems more regularly and rigorously compared to their counterparts in “normal” countries to cope with both global external discontinuities and country-specific challenges of operating in a country facing severe developmental challenges due to unembellished socio-political turmoil and economic instability considered the most catastrophic economic collapse for any country outside a war zone in global history. Research Limitations – The study was confined to one jurisdiction (country) which, based on traditional criticisms of case study strategy, may constrain generalisation of results on SPMM practices in fragile periphery countries. Some dimensions such as culture and other behavioral aspects are not considered and may impact the SPMM and strategic objectives of the public sector and this could have hindered some anticipated study outcomes. Practical Implications – SPMM is a highly practitioner dependent field and this research attempts to provide a fair balance in bridging the gap between public sector SPMM theory and practice. Despite the country’s fragility, the study revealed that the public sector can use its current strong progress as a spring-board to the next level on the SPMM journey to build robust, more effective and adaptive systems once the country’s challenges are addressed. Originality/value – The first paper is, perhaps, one of the most comprehensive and unique papers covering progression of SPMM from the pre-industrial age through the modern digital age. The second and third papers constitute arguably the first and largest study on public sector SPMM practices in fragile periphery countries, if not the entire sub-Saharan Africa region, which adds to scant literature and advances the theory on public sector SPMM. Paper type(s) – Paper I is a theoretical paper and Paper II and III are empirical studies

Why is there a need to ‘innovate healthcare’? The basic reason stems from the sheer scale of the challenges now facing healthcare provision in the UK and across many other countries. The aim of this book is to interrogate past and current attempts to innovate in this arena and to draw-out the key lessons. Innovating Healthcare: The Role of Political, Managerial and Clinical Leadership presents the latest state of knowledge based on original data from a series of NIHR-funded research projects set in the context of a review of extensive secondary research. The book draws upon first-person verbatim accounts of change attempts made by doctors and other clinicians as well as upon research findings about the roles played by policy-makers and managers. The analysis draws upon theory and practice in leadership, innovation and institution-building. The mutually-reinforcing contributions of political, managerial and clinical leadership are at the core of the investigative narrative.This book will be of interest to students and researchers, clinicians and managers in the health and care sectors as well as policy-makers. While the focus in on healthcare, the book has wider relevance for students of management, leadership, innovation and organizational studies.

With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from *made in China* to *created in China*. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and *soft power*, creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena: boredom, shanzhai, and digitisation. How does creativity help mitigate boredom? Does boredom incubate creativity? How do shanzhai practices and the omnipresence of fake goods challenge notions of the original and the authentic? Which spaces for expressions and contestations has China’s fast-developing digital world of Weixin, Taobao, Youku, and Internet Plus Policy opened up? Are new technologies serving old interests? Essays, dialogues, audio-visual documents, and field notes, from thinkers, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, examine what is going on in China now, ultimately to tease out its implication to our understanding of *creativity*.

Richtig planen für den digitalen Markt - so einfach kann es seinDie Bedeutung digitaler Plattformen nimmt in allen Bereichen der Wirtschaft rapide zu. Nur wer es schafft, dazu passende Geschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln, wird aus dieser digitalen Transformation eine Erfolgsgeschichte machen können. Diese Herausforderung betrifft sowohl Start-ups als auch etablierte Unternehmen, insbesondere den Mittelstand.Klassische Ansätze der Geschäftsmodellentwicklung stoßen hierbei jedoch an ihre Grenzen. Deshalb wurden aus der Praxis heraus neue Tools und Methoden entwickelt und in diesem Toolbook gesammelt.Erstmalig stellen alle Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler ihre Tools und Methoden anwendungsbezogen vor. Somit werden ein schneller Einstieg und die individuelle Anwendung der aktuellen Ansätze zur Geschäftsmodellentwicklung von digitalen Plattformen ermöglicht.

"Steep socioeconomic hierarchy in post-industrial Western society threatens public health because of the physiological consequences of material and psychosocial insecurities and deprivations. Following on from their previous books, the authors continue their exploration of the geography of early mortality from age-related chronic conditions, of risk behaviors and their health outcomes, and of infant and child mortality, all due to rigid hierarchy. They divide the 50 states into those that gave their electoral college votes to Trump and those that gave theirs to Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and compare the two sets for socioeconomic and public health profiles. They deliberately apply only simple standard statistical methods in the public health analyses: t-test, Mann-Whitney test, bivariate regression, and backward stepwise multivariate regression. The book assumes familiarity with basic statistics. The authors argue that the unequal power relations that result in eroding public health in the nation and, in particular, in the Trump-voting states, largely cascade from the collapse of American industry, and they analyze the Cold War roots of that collapse. In two largely independent chapters on economics, they explore both the suppression of countervailing forces, such as organized labor, and the diversion of technical resources to the military as essential foundations to the population-level suffering that expressed itself in the 2016 presidential election. This interdisciplinary book has several primary audiences: creators of public policies, such as legislators and governmental staff, public health professionals and social epidemiologists, economists, labor union professionals, civil rights advocates, political scientists, historians, and students of these disciplines from public health through the social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license."

The growth of world trade has been stagnant in recent times; trade liberalisation now has been challenged. The recent rise of anti-globalisation calls for a better integration in East Asia. How should East Asia manage its openness? This book provides profound analyses on rules of origins, non-tariff measures, restrictiveness in services and investment. It gives insight into how East Asian countries should shape its trade, investment and industrial policies. This book helps to answer what kind of a better integration it should be, and how East Asia can realise it.