Technology and innovation are often linked with better ways of doing business, societal improvement and economic growth; the region of Latin America has historically imported its business paradigms from other countries, but now is forging its own path.

Technology and Innovation in Latin America gathers scholars from all over Latin America to present their research exploring the dual aspects of technology and innovation and their interrelatedness. On the technology side, chapters delve deep into the debate on R&D, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Corporate Venturing and Digital Entrepreneurship; Intrapreneurship strategy and processes and more. Technology and Innovation in Latin America offers deep learning about key questions: What are the empirical and theoretical opportunities that emerge in innovation based on territorial capital? How does the context influence the development of innovation policies? How have the dynamics of financing and involvement of financial institutions impacted the support of innovation?

Readers will benefit from this being the wide-angle exploration of the region with its varying economies from emerging to transitional, highlighting the role that this unique region can play on the world stage.

The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Financial Technology (Fintech) has ushered in a new era of innovation in the finance ecosystem, particularly within the context of the digital gig economy. This emerging trend has created a unique set of challenges and opportunities, which AI and Fintech are poised to address. This book explores how the convergence of these cutting-edge technologies is reshaping the financial landscape, especially related to the way people work and earn in the gig economy, and examines the rise of the digital gig economy and its impact on the traditional workforce.

Synergy of AI and Fintech in the Digital Gig Economy presents the key advancements in AI and Fintech, how they are disrupting traditional financial systems, and how AI-powered tools and platforms are streamlining financial processes, enhancing decision-making, and providing personalized services to individuals and businesses. The book explores how the synergy of AI and Fintech is advancing financial inclusion and looks at how these technologies are providing previously underserved populations with access to financial services and empowering them to participate in the global economy. Highlights include how AI and Fintech are revolutionizing risk assessment and management in the financial sector and discuss the use of advanced algorithms to detect fraud, assess creditworthiness, and mitigate financial risk more effectively. The book also addresses the regulatory challenges and ethical considerations arising from the integration of AI and Fintech and discusses the need for responsible AI and data privacy to ensure sustainable development. Insights, case studies, and practical examples provided in the book show how AI and Fintech are driving transformative changes and represent an area of significant interest and importance in the realm of finance and technology.

Written for students, scholars, lecturers, researchers, scientists, experts, specialists, and engineers, this book represents an area of significant interest and importance in the realm of finance and technology. Real-world examples and contributions from industry experts give readers a comprehensive understanding of this hot trending topic.

Modern finance science is profoundly broken and damaging, morally and culturally. It has no choice but to change its theory and pedagogy - but the question is how and in what ways? We urgently need to see the world from a very different, kinder, gentler and more caring paradigm. In truth, the planet is bio-diverse, and so is society, with a huge tapestry of faiths, customs, beliefs and practices in finance. A holistic approach is urgently needed. This book builds a new un-anthropocentric moral and sustainable finance from the ground up, helping students, professionals and scientists to reconstruct the knowledge and connect it to indigenous beliefs and timeless wisdom. An interdisciplinary, nontechnical approach is adopted. Respect for all living beings, the protection of forests, soil and soul, and the importance of trust, culture and relationships are critical to building harmonious communities. Examples and techniques to re-engineer finance science are offered throughout the book.

As climate change is affecting economies and markets globally, environmental sustainability is becoming more crucial. Sustainability emphasizes the equality of future generations and is typically seen to have three components: an environmental, an economic, and a social component. Because attaining environmental sustainability also involves risks that might influence corporate operations and prospects in a strongly competitive market, thriving markets and environmental deterioration cannot coexist.

Business practices are being drastically altered and improved using AI and machine learning (ML), a branch of AI that enables autonomous machines. Big data can assist AI to automatically learn and acquire knowledge to assist managers in achieving their practical and technical objectives. AI brings new methods for conducting business, finding new chances in the global market, and executing work.

Using AI to Develop Sustainability Strategies for a Changing Global Economy focuses on novel ideas and research for providing a broader outlook on sustainability in business. The book

• Focuses on how to reduce environmentally destructive investment patterns and activities.
• Discusses sustainable recovery policies using AI to build back better.
• Presents how businesses of the future operate, augmenting industry resources with the alliance between AI and sustainable business outcomes.

Presenting novel ideas for creating robust sustainability strategies, the book explores answers to the moral and ethical questions about using AI in decision-making, cyber-security, and resource management. With insight into developing efficient mechanisms to facilitate a circular economy, the book provides solutions that link the needs of the present generation without disadvantaging coming generations.

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' future sustainability. With the future of Hawai'i's precious water resources at a critical stage, this book is a groundbreaking exploration of water in Hawai?i that bridges ancestral place-based knowledge with present challenges faced by community members, cultural activists, academics, scientists, and policymakers alike. In Waiwai: Water and the Future of Hawai'i, Kamanamaikalani Beamer brings together experts from diverse fields to tackle complex issues in water management. Indigenous scholars recount how ancestral abundance revolved around the movement and health of water and articulate how these guiding principles transitioned to exploitation by plantation industrialists after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Legal scholars unpack the web of regulations governing water rights; scientists assess the damage already done to aquifers and ecosystems and suggest ways to improve them. The book also investigates environmental responsibility in the case of the fuel leak from the US Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, giving county officials and community advocates a chance to uplift the concerns of those most impacted by the devastating tragedy.

While providing readers with critical knowledge of the current status of water, the book's ultimate goal is to catalyze action. Chapter contributors aim to answer the central question: "What do people need to know about the future of water in Hawai?i, and what can they do to enable a better future?" The result is a bold vision for how everyone can work together for the long-term health of these islands we call home. Both accessible and critical, Waiwai sounds an alarm about the precarious state of water in Hawai?i. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration that illuminates past mistakes, makes clear present challenges, and equips readers with the knowledge and tools to come together and chart a way forward. With this book as a guide, community members, academics, scientists, policymakers, and aspiring visionaries are invited to redirect the course of water management toward sustainability, ensuring a legacy of abundance for future generations.

A powerful new approach to leadership tailor-made for the 21st century

In Coaching Power, a team of veteran executive coaches delivers a singularly insightful and original way of looking at leadership: as a form of coaching. The authors explain this new way of leading others and offer readers a set of tools, frameworks, and mindsets to take with them in their professions.

You'll discover how to succeed in a world that's evolving faster than ever, and how to navigate a workplace that can include as many as five unique generations, each of which demand a different style of leadership.

Coaching Power shows you:

• The fundamentals of coaching, including listening, questioning, and intuition
• How to create and enhance high performance teams, and how to have courageous conversations
• When it's time to bring in an external coach and what to look for to ensure the right fit

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Coaching Power is also a can't-miss resource for entrepreneurs and founders seeking a powerful new way to lead others through challenging circumstances.

Learn how to transform your business through process orchestration

Process orchestration became pivotal to building a foundation for business agility, speed, and innovation. A process that is orchestrated end-to-end can integrate existing systems, human work, and the latest technologies like AI. It is the basis to understand how your business operates, how to improve processes, and how to innovate your business model. But how to adopt process orchestration successfully on an enterprise level?

Enterprise Process Orchestration equips you with hands-on guidance on how to successfully deploy process orchestration in your organization - from anchoring the vision in company strategy, over the selection of the right use cases, technologies, and people, through the completion of the first project, to a truly transformed enterprise that is ready for a digital future.

Inside the book:

• Understand the transformative potential of process orchestration and create a compelling vision for your enterprise
• Explore how to establish the right team structure and enable your employees for your initiative
• Identify the right technology, define a business and enterprise architecture, and provide a process orchestration platform to accelerate time to value
• Best practices on implementing use cases and solution architecture
• How to measure and monitor the value you're achieving with your use cases

Perfect for IT and business leaders, business and enterprise architects, CoE leaders, business analysts as well as everyone who is aspiring to change their organization through broadscale automation and process orchestration

Transition from a specialist into a generalist to meet the demands of the new world of business

It is a game-changing book for our era of specialization! - Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

The Generalist Advantage is a useful framework for firms in transition, preparing themselves for a high-tech future. - Yuri Bender, Financial Times

The Generalist Advantage: Proven Framework to Explore the Potential of 4 Types of Generalists at Work delivers a compelling argument as to why generalists-those with diverse skill sets and broad industry exposure-hold a unique advantage in shaping the future of work. This book provides actionable insights for those who are still going down the path of the specialist, in this age of AI.

Some of the topics explored in this book include:

• The learning loop, covering lifelong learning as a generalist, building your personal learning ecosystem, and embracing failure as a path to growth
• The leadership spectrum, covering diverse leadership styles in the age of AI, the generalist leader's toolkit, and the importance of flexibility and adaptability
• Future ready skills for the generalist leader, covering creative problem solving, complex decision making and multidisciplinary learning

The Generalist Advantage: Proven Framework to Explore the Potential of 4 Types of Generalists at Work is a timely, essential read for all business leaders, executives, and middle managers seeking to adopt a superior approach to the way they do business and help lead their organizations through a tumultuous transformative period.

Soomro makes the timely and valuable case that specialization in academia and business has gone too far. - Martin Reeves, Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute

Dr. Mansoor delivers a masterful guide and offers a powerful framework for embracing versatility in the AI era. - Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, NYT bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There

I cherish this book because it puts words on the life I have lived. Mansoor validates why it is important to be a generalist. - Professor Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan

Your guide to becoming a worthy leader, based on true stories from a fulfilling military career

From the high seas to high commands in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, Sea Dog: A Seafaring Captain's Lessons in Leadership tells the tale of Charles L. Stuppard and his journey from growing up surrounded by poverty and violence to becoming a Navy Captain in charge of the US Navy's most technologically sophisticated warship. In this book, Stuppard details exactly how he managed to not only become a great leader, but one who acts with character, empathy, and honor, not because of inherent advantages in his life, but rather through learning and applying hard lessons at every point in his fulfilling career.

Drawing on captivating stories from intense special training and beyond, this book covers key leadership concepts such as:

• Learning to focus on the right things so that the rest of your team will follow your lead
• Defining your success as a leader by what people say about you after you leave your organization
• Using your power to encourage empathy and generosity in yourself and others

Captivating, inspiring, and practical, Sea Dog: A Seafaring Captain's Lessons in Leadership is an essential read for aspiring and current leaders across organizations and industries who seek to lead with confidence, charisma, and compassion.

Master the skills to be recognized as a leader in any professional setting

In The Highflier Handbook, renowned executive coach and advisor, Allen N. Weiner, guides readers through the essential qualities and behaviors that distinguish outstanding performers in the workplace. The book addresses the common challenge of being overlooked for leadership roles despite competence and hard work. Through practical advice and insights drawn from nearly 50 years of experience and interviews with CEOs, Weiner provides a roadmap for professionals to enhance their communication, behavior, and overall presence to be seen as potential leaders.

The author offers invaluable strategies for standing out in crowded professional environments. You'll learn how to project composure, competence, and charisma, communicate effectively, and exhibit the non-verbal cues that signal leadership potential. The book is structured around interviews with top executives, providing real-world examples of how successful leaders behave and communicate. Each chapter covers a specific trait or skill essential for leadership, from maintaining composure under pressure to demonstrating strategic thinking and providing impactful feedback.

Inside the book:

• Learn key behaviors and communication techniques that signal leadership potential
• Discover practical tips from interviews with CEOs and industry leaders
• Understand the importance of non-verbal cues in conveying confidence and competence
• Gain insights into how to provide and receive feedback most effectively

The Highflier Handbook is an essential resource for professionals at all stages of their careers who aspire to leadership roles. Whether you're a new employee aiming to make a strong impression, a mid-level manager looking to advance, or an executive seeking to refine your leadership skills, this book provides the tools and insights needed to be recognized as a highflyer.

Mindfulness has gained significant traction within the business community worldwide. Mindful Marketing and Strategic Management focuses on current advancements in the realm of mindfulness and its application for both effective marketing and strategic management practices. It presents readers with techniques to adopt mindfulness as a major driver for long-term success

This edited book includes various strategies for marketers and practitioners to engage customers in a thoughtful and meaningful way. Businesses that use a mindful approach may develop true relationships with their target audience, encourage positive consumer behaviour and loyalty, and have a beneficial social effect through their products or services.

The book is a great resource for management and practitioners as it provides practical tools and approaches for incorporating mindfulness into effective strategic management practices, such as leadership and workplace culture, which is vital for organisational success and employee wellbeing. The book provides suggestions on how to incorporate mindfulness into strategic planning, decision-making processes, and team cooperation. By using a mindful approach, practitioners may improve their efficacy, inventiveness, and overall performance, eventually contributing to long-term corporate success.

This new volume explores the multifaceted landscape of knowledge management, with a particular emphasis on its application in higher education. The book offers diverse perspectives, strategies, and tools to enable global institutions to succeed and remain competitive in today's disruptive business environment. Recognizing higher education as a conduit for global knowledge acquisition, propagation, and continuous learning, the book discusses the interplay between technologies, techniques, and people, the strategic value of knowledge, the role of reward systems, and the significance of tacit knowledge, presenting diverse global perspectives and showcasing strategies that foster better knowledge retention, aiming to elevate the standards of higher education.

In the contemporary landscape of Industry 5.0, where the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human capabilities defines a paradigm shift in digital transformation, the pivotal role of mentorship has become paramount. Recognized globally as a highly effective learning and development process, mentoring is indispensable across various industries and sectors. While traditional mentorship models like senior-junior partnerships have had their time, the rapid evolution of the digital era is giving rise to new mentoring practices, particularly in Industry 5.0.

In Digital Mentorship, authors embark on a comprehensive exploration of digital mentoring within the landscape of Industry 5.0, elucidating the crucial interplay between human mentoring and AI in the digital age. Covering a spectrum of topics, this study begins with an overview of Industry 5.0 and the significance of mentoring in contemporary contexts. It navigates through the distinctions between traditional, online, and AI-powered mentoring, dissecting communication tools and technologies transformative impact on mentoring quality. The subsequent chapters delve into emotional competencies, leadership styles, recent trends, cross-cultural mentoring complexities, policy implications, multilevel impacts, ethical considerations, program evaluations, and speculative future scenarios. Drawing from diverse literature, this work serves as a compass, guiding readers through the multifaceted dimensions of digital mentoring in Industry 5.0, ultimately paving the way for nuanced discussions on the future of mentoring amidst the burgeoning influence of emerging technologies like AI.

Whether seeking to enhance mentoring programs, understand the impact of emerging technologies, or address ethical considerations, readers will find invaluable perspectives and practical insights to inform their research, policy-making, and professional endeavours in an increasingly digital world.

Arts and cultural institutions are a unique organizational context. Managing creative people within that context requires considerations that are not standard in traditional human resource practice. This book is designed to provide arts and cultural administrators with an overview of the most pressing elements of human resource management for arts and cultural institutions.

Written by an arts management professor with an equity-focused human resources consulting firm, this book provides readers with knowledge they can immediately use to solve human resource management issues they will encounter.

Infused with practical considerations and real-world examples that are grounded in human resources and industrial psychology research, Human Resources in the Arts will benefit arts management students and practitioners alike.

The employment landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by technological innovations, shifting employer practices, and new government policies that redefine where and how work is performed. However, these transformations have not been universally beneficial. Future research is required to explore the potential disproportionate impact they might have on marginalized populations already excluded from the labor market.

People with disabilities are one group who continue to have a low employment rate in the United States (U.S). They are also more likely than those without disabilities to work part-time or in precarious jobs with less job security, lower pay and benefits, and minimal worker protections. This volume of Research in Social Science and Disability brings together leading research that examines how systemic policies and practices, pandemic-driven transformations, and strategies for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continue to shape the employment landscape for workers with disabilities.

Disability and the Future of Work explores changing workplace dynamics and proposes strategies for fostering an inclusive and equitable future of work for people with disabilities.

Neoliberalism and the fourth industrial revolution are argued to be the dominant forces transforming work and employment relations in contemporary times. Using the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by techno-neoliberalism.

Examining how employers seek to produce employees as enterprising and technological subjects, how employees become or fail to become enterprising IT subjects and how unionized IT employees seek to contest neoliberalism through citizen-worker rights discourse, the author provides a compelling analysis of the governance and contestations of employee subjectivities. Situated in the extant debates on power, resistance and employment relations this book provides a unique account of theorizing and analyzing employees' lived experiences of neoliberalism in the Global South. Using the analytics of governmentality and intersectionality framework and studying data generated through documents, videos, and semi-structured interviews, Banday employs a post-structuralist lens to investigate how employment relations are problematized and the consequences on the employees' lives and resistance in contemporary workplaces.

With implications beyond India and the IT sector as neoliberalism and fourth industrial revolution discourses become mainstream forces governing workers, workplaces as well as policymaking, this is important reading for researchers interested in the sociology of work and organizational and management scholarship in relation to the globalized technological neoliberal capitalism.