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Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries..

Green Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe aims to explore the crucial role of green innovation in guiding organizations towards sustainable development amidst contemporary environmental challenges.

This book provides professionals and academics with a holistic and practical approach to virtual and innovative quality management (QM) throughout the business value chain. It describes how to manage the value change from the supply side combining all functions of the value chain and contains best practices in performance, particularly in the production, trading, service, and information industries. It explores such topics as integrated management systems (IMS), extended reality, artificial intelligence, and environmental social governance (ESG). Industry examples and case studies are used to reveal the diversity of opportunities for QM methodologies and principles. This book is an ideal guide for professionals and practitioners who wish to incorporate QM concepts to achieve a competitive advantage across all business functions.

This book offers models, ideas and processes for personal transformation, educational transformation and organizational transformation in times of global crises. We live in a time of Metacrisis, an era in which several major crises occur at the same time. Times like these historically have offered opportunities for breakthrough and transformation. Our old leadership and educational models no longer work in this unpredictable and complex environment. What does work in times of turmoil is the ability to envision and enact new models, new systems and new forms of leadership. The contributions in this book provide leaders and change agents with a broad perspective on how transformation can take place across different domains as well as practical steps that can be implemented in various situations. It offers examples from different cultures, regions, and religions to help leaders quickly adapt and embrace whatever challenges that emerge. Taken together, the enclosed chapters provide a roadmap for a more positive future for all.

This ground-breaking will show you that intuition is a practical, learnable, and immediately applicable skill that will accelerate your career.

The quality of your workforce is the key to business success. By cutting out the algorithms and mathematical complexities, Russell Klosk walks business leaders through the project they will have to marshal if they want to bring their company to the forefront of the future.

In today's globalized world, the challenges facing economics, management, and governance are more complex than ever before. Traditional approaches struggle to address issues such as climate change, economic inequality, and geopolitical tensions, leaving gaps in delivery and outcomes. The solution lies in harnessing the power of innovation and diplomacy to navigate these intricate challenges. Innovative and Diplomatic Methodologies in Economics, Management, and Government serves as a guide for academic scholars seeking to navigate the complexities of modern global challenges. Through a diverse array of perspectives and insights, it illuminates the synergies between diplomacy, innovation, economics, management, and government. By bridging theory and practice, the book offers actionable solutions and real-world case studies that empower scholars to adopt a more integrated and forward-thinking approach.

The Ark of Shared Value is a fundamental guide for those involved in designing and implementing sustainable business projects. The Ark is a one-page tool that is easy to use and presents the key elements of sustainable projects.

The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we need is a more flexible, creative approach - one that empowers people to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawoo applies the mind of a design expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy. Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for engagement and success that applies to everything from small enterprises, to large multinationals.

Leadership literature is dominated by Western paradigms, but what about the lessons of leadership from a cross-cultural perspective? In this highly readable volume, Sy Islam and Gordon B. Schmidt utilise examples from Avatar: The Last Airbender to bring this unique lens of perspective to a range of leadership behaviour themes.

Business Strategies and Ethical Challenges in the Digital Ecosystem acts as a forum for examining current and future trends related to management and technological adoption, from digital business strategy and industry 5.0, changing consumer behaviour and sustainability to marketing, ethics, data security, and much more.

Explores the role of leadership post-COVID-19, discussing interdisciplinary perspectives of leadership in different times, fields and countries. Studies leadership in multiple disciplines using case studies from different sectors. Discusses leadership and VUCA outcomes, digital technology and leadership, etc.

Details ways to optimize various industrial systems and processes using evolutionary methodologies. Covers, statistical, multi-criteria decision-making, and evolutionary strategies for single- and multi-objective optimization with relevant theoretical details presenting a variety of advanced manufacturing processes.

This edited book demonstrates how globally competitive manufacturing in high-cost countries such as Norway is enabled by AI-supported intelligent and flexible automation and use of digital twins, as well as human centred manufacturing, and evaluates how the combination of digitalization and sustainability enables competitiveness.

Drawing on a range of global case studies, Market Distortions in Privatisation Processes illustrates the ways in which market distortions damaged the ability of privatisation processes to yield concrete benefits to consumers.

This book calls for a holistic approach to the bioeconomy to achieve its potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits. Essential reading for students and scholars of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability, innovation, and regional development.

China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains presents a critical reflection on blockchain technologies in the context of their adoption in China and the world that China is engaged in and shaping.

This book discusses the impact social media has on work using four conceptual themes: Adoption, shaping and staging of social media in organisations; digitised regimes of power, control and surveillance; evolving identity, employee voice and dramaturgical performance online, and employee forms of resistance.

This book presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.