"Green Ventures: Uniting Sustainability, Finance, and Entrepreneurship" serves as a comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs seeking to build financially sustainable businesses while addressing climate action. This book is an essential resource for entrepreneurs and finance professionals looking to drive meaningful change through sustainable practices. Readers will gain insights into identifying and developing sustainable business opportunities that tackle environmental and social challenges while directly contributing to SDG 13. The book highlights innovative business models such as the circular economy and shared value creation, showcasing how these approaches not only drive climate action but also unlock new growth potential.

The two-volume contributed work provides a comprehensive exploration of how organizations can navigate the intricate landscape of knowledge management and innovation by making people the focal point of their strategies. By examining strategies that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and creativity, enabling bottom-up innovation, creating human-centric workplaces, and tapping into the full potential of human capital, this collection of research aims to equip organizations with the knowledge and insights necessary to empower their workforce and thrive in the ever-evolving business world.

This first volume focuses on human-centric workspaces and bottom-up innovation strategies. It includes studies on diversity and inclusion, virtual and hybrid workspaces, green innovation and the role of the individual. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of organisation, knowledge management and innovation.

Chapters argue that grand challenges can only be solved through methodological pluralism. Presenting diverse insights into the impacts of grand challenges in European, South American, South and East Asian contexts, contributors advocate for research that considers complex practical realities and worldviews. The book embraces the implementation of new strategies over established ones, providing successful real-world examples such as combining machine learning with system dynamics modeling and using information from stakeholders over existing psychometric scales. This book empowers researchers to adopt a more idealistic approach and embrace methodological variety, with a view to solve the most pressing issues of our time.

Methodology to Address Grand Challenges is highly relevant to researchers, scholars, and students of business, management, heath, transport and sustainability. With its practical reflections on how to confront grand challenges, it is also an essential read for practitioners and policymakers.

This book helps you assess your current level of personality maturity and further develop it. This, in turn, will also support you in leading and guiding others. From the understanding of lifelong personality development, numerous opportunities for growth arise at different stages of maturity throughout life. The book demonstrates that while not everything is developable at every moment, something can always be developed at any given time.

Using an easily understandable model, you will learn which stages of maturity humans can reach and what personal developments are possible over the course of a lifetime.

In doing so, the usual horizontal evaluation methods-focusing on competencies, attitudes, motives, and emotions-are complemented by a vertical, new, and exciting perspective. You will receive development tips for different stages and areas of growth. The authors present positive development possibilities across almost all fields, thereby encouraging a paradigm shift in how personality is viewed.

Target Audience
Leaders who view their personality as their most valuable tool for success will greatly enjoy this book. It is also ideal for HR professionals, coaches, and all consultants who wish to expand their expertise in personal development for their advisory work.

In this insightful book, the authors argue that the contemporary world cannot be fully understood without understanding how meta-organizations function. They explain why meta-organizations are established, what they do and how they achieve their societal impact. Chapters describe and analyse meta-organizations in various social sectors and with various levels of outreach, from the G20 and Mercosur to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, regional collectives of music festivals and women's cause associations.

This book is a valuable resource for scholars and students researching management, organization studies, sociology, political science and international relations. It will greatly benefit practitioners in organizational management and public policy, as well as journalists and social action groups interested in how the contemporary world is organized and governed.

This book captures the research and best practices of organizational responsibility towards employment generation and well-being issues, as well as ways to explore sustainable and responsible business solutions to address the current uncertain times. It offers a balanced blend of theory and documentation of real-life cases on these topics, with a shared vision of a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. The insights offered in its chapters showcase the refinement, redevelopment, and reassessment of corporate strategies and public policy to incorporate sustainability, ESG, and SDG principles alongside business agendas. The book is valuable for implementing sustainable and ethical governance among policymakers, who can use the knowledge to create future compliance and non-compliance mechanisms for businesses. It also discusses emerging areas of green innovation and technology adoption, which can be utilized by policymakers, businesses, and academia alike to drive future green innovation strategies and ventures.

The book offers sector-specific insights, including agriculture, banking, renewable energy, etc., that can be used to create targeted initiatives to address specific challenges. The chapters broadly cover three categories of research. Category 1-BANI Times and the Need for Compassion and Care (BANI being brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible); Category 2-Businesses: Frameworks, Cases, and Models; and Category 3-Communities: Frameworks, Cases, and Models. The book serves as a guide for fostering a culture of sustainability, highlighting its multi-layered and colossal role in the development agenda and overall ethical decision-making.

Organizations have a pressing need for sustainable industrialization that minimizes waste, reduces environmental impacts, and promotes resource efficiency, all while embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technological advancements.

Covering theoretical and practical dimensions, the book addresses issues that industries encounter when AI is being implemented within their assembly lines from ethical considerations to labor transformation struggles as well as technical limitations and challenges related with data management. The chapters discuss ideas related to automation, predictive maintenance and reducing wastage; and how we can overcome the issues of these through solutions. Topics range from the intersection of AGI with sustainable innovation and how to engineer smart production systems, to a shift towards regenerative design principles.

The main theme of the book is to narrow down this gap between such advanced technologies and real-time applications based on Circular Economy. The publication comes at an important time when there is a pressing global imperative to reduce environmental impact without compromising on economic competitiveness.

The research presented here is relevant for industry professionals, policymakers, and academic researchers, as it explains the perspectives on the convergence of AGI and circular manufacturing, providing readers with the tools they need to drive forward Industry 5.0 innovations and lead the shift toward a more sustainable future.

This book offers a new account of free will and a new solution to the free-will problem. The problem is this: We are morally responsible agents, and free will is required for responsibility; and yet free will seems impossible. Determinism is too restrictive, while indeterminism too permissive. This book's solution is Agent & Reaction Control (ARC). ARC says that our freedom derives just from our acts themselves, without any considerations for alternate sequences or counterfactuals. Specifically, we are free because, if and only if, we can intentionally perform the kinds of actions which reflect our good or bad will and to which a suitably placed observer reacts with resentment, gratitude, anger, love, and/or another of the reactive attitudes. After showing that ARC is satisfied under a salient determinism as well as under a salient indeterminism, this book discusses ARC's implications for desert and action-theoretic work in neuroscience.

In short: just as music's quality comes from the music itself rather than what it would or could have been, this book argues that our freedom to act comes from our acts rather than what we would or could have done.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices across developed and emerging markets, highlighting how corporations integrate sustainability and ethical governance into business strategy. It explores the evolution of ESG principles, the frameworks that guide disclosure and accountability, and the contrasting realities between mature and developing economies. Through seven well-structured chapters, the book reviews global ESG performance trends, compares regulatory environments, and analyses best corporate practices that drive long-term value creation. It features mini-case studies on top ESG performers such as Novartis, HSBC, Tata Power, and Yili Group, offering insights into cross-sector integration of sustainability in healthcare, finance, energy, and agri-food industries. The discussion also exposes greenwashing incidents and their implications for trust and transparency. Designed for students, researchers, and industry practitioners, this book is an essential reference on corporate sustainability, responsible investment, green finance, and the future of ESG-driven business.

This book is a timely and valuable guide for innovators, designers, managers, and students who want to boost their design thinking projects through leveraging artificial intelligence capabilities. It offers over 40 traditional design thinking tools enhanced with AI. Each AID tool is ready for use, with specific step by step instructions that require little previous AI knowledge. So, if you would like to use AI to create a "Critical Items Diagram," deploy "Explorative AI-to-AI Interviews," build a "Customer Journey Map," engage in "Rapid Prototyping," or "Create a Pitch," there is a tool to support your project!

The book highlights how AI can support and enhance each phase of the design thinking process - prepare & train, emphasize & define, ideate & select, prototype & test, and implement & learn. In addition to the AID tools, the authors provide specific guidance on how to build your own AI Agents for design thinking projects and overviews of over 100 unique AI programs used in this book. Importantly, the authors offer specific means and examples of how AI programs can elevate the success of the design thinking process, offering a solution to the challenge of producing creative outcomes that are also "faster, better and cheaper."

Created through a collaboration of design and business scholars with members of the Design AI lab, this book blends rich knowledge and practical insight on use of AI for innovation. Packed with real-world use cases, examples, and practical tools, it serves as a valuable resource for both educational and professional settings.

Praise for Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence

"We live in a world where technology is not just a tool, but a partner. In a new era of AI, the conversation is shifting from whether machines can be creative to what happens when we collaborate with them. It's a fundamental change in how we innovate and solve problems, moving beyond the "man vs. machine" debate and into a powerful new synergy. In this groundbreaking guide, authors Graff and his team demonstrate that AI doesn't diminish human ingenuity; it augments it. Drawing on real-world experiments, they reveal how the future of creative work lies in a dynamic dialogue between human intuition and computational power. This book is a manifesto for the next great leap in innovation - a practical framework for unlocking human-AI collaboration and building a future where imagination and computation work hand-in-hand."

- Anna Phan, UX Lead, Monetization, Google

"Most people think of design as a way to make things look better. This book asks a deeper question: what happens when design itself starts to think? In Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence, Graff and his team show how AI doesn't replace creativity-it reorganizes it. Their experiments with students, businesses, and algorithms reveal something quietly revolutionary: the future of innovation isn't man or machine, but the conversation between them. It's a manual for the next creative leap - when intuition meets computation, and imagination learns to collaborate."

- Ling Fan, Founder, Tezign & Atypica.AI

"Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence explores how designers and AI systems can work together to enhance creativity and problem-solving. Graff, Clark, Li, and Xia examine the intersection of emerging AI tools and established design methods, emphasizing practical workflows and human-centered judgment. The authors offer a pragmatic playbook of workflows, prompts, and use-cases that explore how teams can ideate faster, prototype smarter, and make decisions with greater insight."

- Prateek Kukreja, Head of Product and Design, Workhelix

"Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence bridges the essential gap between human creativity and machine intelligence. This timely and practical book offers a structured roadmap for design scholars and practitioners to meaningfully integrate AI into the design process, fostering more collaborative and connected innovation."

- Sheng-Hung Lee, Assistant Professor of Urban Technology, University of Michigan; Founder, d-mix Lab

"This comprehensive, thoughtful book masterfully lays out the foundations of Design Thinking and the immense potential of integrating AI to accelerate and improve any design process. Packed with practical, 'how-to' examples, the authors demonstrate how to seamlessly weave AI into your existing workflow, equipping you with powerful new tools and techniques for every step of the design process. Most importantly, the book proves how AI can augment-not replace-human innovation and creativity, providing the knowledge to effectively upskill talented designers. By putting design and human creativity firmly at its core, this is a foundational, essential resource for anyone looking to enhance their creative edge in the age of AI."

- John O'Hara, Design and Technology Leader

"Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence is an essential guide for navigating the future of innovation. This book provides a relevant framework for professionals and students to deploy effective human-AI collaborations to solve complex problems and drive meaningful innovation."

- Prof. Yongqi LOU, Honorary Doctor, Royal College of Art, President, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Chaired Professor, Tongji University

"This book arrives at a critical moment for leaders navigating the intersection of AI and human creativity. True AI transformation in enterprises is not merely a technology challenge-it's a human capital challenge. Success depends on how effectively organizations can reimagine workflows, empower teams, and reskill their workforce to collaborate with intelligent systems. By linking design thinking with AI, this book offers a practical roadmap for making that collaboration real. It's an essential guide for executives, innovators, and educators who believe the future of enterprise innovation lies in an AI + human workforce."

- Ranjan Dutta, Founder & Managing Partner, ThothProAI, Advisor on AI Transformation, Human Capital, and Workf

This book explores the role of inclusive entrepreneurship in promoting social equality, wealth creation, and development in underrepresented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, youth, immigrants, and people with disabilities. In today's world, these groups face systemic barriers to starting businesses or accessing entrepreneurial opportunities. This book explores the ways in which these barriers are addressed globally with targeted initiatives, policies, and support mechanisms, drawing from case studies from various regions. It argues that entrepreneurship should be inclusive and tailored to the specific needs of these groups, highlighting how it can drive economic empowerment and social mobility and breaks down barriers such as limited access to financial resources and support systems. The book also addresses the role of digital tools and innovations in overcoming these obstacles.

Offing both theoretical frameworks and practical solutions, this book is suitable for researchers, scholars, academics, professionals and policymakers in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, and development economics.

The two-volume contributed work provides a comprehensive exploration of how organizations can navigate the intricate landscape of knowledge management and innovation by making people the focal point of their strategies. By examining strategies that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and creativity, enabling bottom-up innovation, creating human-centric workplaces, and tapping into the full potential of human capital, this collection of research aims to equip organizations with the knowledge and insights necessary to empower their workforce and thrive in the ever-evolving business world.

This second volume focuses on creativity in the workplace and the features present in creative organisations, including systemic thinking and easy access to information. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of organisation, knowledge management and innovation.

This book consolidates cutting-edge research on consulting into a single volume, with a particular emphasis on the digital transformation of the consulting industry. It aims to make the state of the art in this field more accessible, foster better business practices, and inspire further research. The book illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the consulting industry by increasing pressure while also fostering acceptance of digital consulting formats. It explores the opportunities and conditions that digital technologies create for extending, innovating, and differentiating consulting services. These include web-based consulting platforms, AI-driven applications, blockchain-based reputation systems, smart services, and client self-service solutions. In addition, it examines frameworks for assessing the virtualization potential of consulting processes and demonstrates how hybrid solutions can combine traditional and digital consulting models.
The book introduces practical artifacts and methods that help consultants critically reflect on their approaches. It also serves as a valuable resource for students in management, consulting, and IT-related programs who are considering a career in consulting or seeking to become informed consulting clients.

This first volume explores the foundational principles and emerging opportunities in entrepreneurial education within a global and digital context. It brings together leading scholars to examine the philosophical, psychological, and pedagogical underpinnings of entrepreneurship education, as well as its role in structural change and societal development. The chapters address key themes such as innovation, globalization, public policy, and inclusive education, offering both theoretical insights and practical implications. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the volume highlights the transformative potential of entrepreneurial pedagogy in shaping future-ready learners and institutions. It is an essential resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers seeking to understand and advance entrepreneurship education in a rapidly evolving world.

This Open Access book shows how individuals and organizations can turn constraints into strengths and achieve meaningful results. Based on over two decades of research and fieldwork in Japan and Vietnam-covering topics like disability entrepreneurship, student ventures, community rebuilding, and everyday problem-solving-the book presents a micro-level framework connecting cognition, emotion, and action in adversity. It explains how resource "non-recognition" and hidden mismatches can be addressed through steps of appraisal and recombination, enabling people to generate value, resilience, and well-being without waiting for perfect conditions. By combining theory with narrative case studies, the book merges insights from resource-based views with positive psychology to demonstrate how happiness and performance can grow together. Written in an accessible style for general readers while maintaining scholarly rigor, it offers practitioners, students, and researchers practical tools: recognizing hidden resources, avoiding non-resource traps, designing roles and tasks, and fostering positive feedback loops of affect and efficacy. The result is a clear, evidence-based guide to living and working meaningfully within real-world constraints-beneficial for entrepreneurs, managers, educators, and anyone aiming for sustainable progress in resource-limited settings.

This book offers a rigorous and compassionate account of how people act under constraint. It isolates the appraisal-resources-emotions mechanism with rare clarity and shows, through well-chosen cases across settings, how modest shifts in framing can unlock consequential action. The result is a thoughtful, field-ready book that will serve researchers, educators, and policy makers who care about enabling enterprise where resources are tight and hopes are fragile.

Leo-Paul Dana, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Dalhousie University, Canada

In an era of digital transformation, remote work, and mounting psychological strain, this book redefines how we understand work, identity, and organizational purpose. It frames the modern workplace as a dynamic psychological ecosystem where autonomy, ethical engagement, and well-being are essential for sustainable success. Drawing on autonomous psychology, psychological marketing, and contemplative practices, the book presents a transdisciplinary framework for aligning individual employee development with corporate goals.

International contributors examine topics including internal marketing, talent management, cross-cultural burnout, environmental psychology, and spiritual marketing. Case studies from organizations such as Google, Lululemon, and Headspace demonstrate how mindfulness, workplace design, and self-directed development can transform employee experience and organizational performance.

Combining research and practical application, this volume offers actionable insights for scholars and professionals in business, psychology, human resource management, and organizational studies. It also provides leaders and managers the tools to design workplaces that promote well-being and collective success amid digital change and ethical complexity.

This book examines a critical yet under-theorized area of contemporary business: the intersection of corporate social media and artificial intelligence (AI). It constructs a dual-framework-internal affairs and external affairs-that reframes corporate social media not merely as a communication tool, but as a strategic engine for organizational intelligence, coordination, and competitive positioning.

Part 1 provides an introduction to the concept of AI-empowered corporate social media. Part 2 addresses the external affairs of corporate social media, including its role in shaping customer relationships, marketing narratives, and public trust. Part 3 turns inward, exploring how enterprise social media platforms are reshaping organizational knowledge flows, performance feedback, and collaboration.

Through compelling historical analogies-from John Snow's epidemiological breakthroughs to Toyota's recall crisis-this book illustrates the dangers of drawing premature conclusions from spurious patterns. This critique is both timely and essential, especially as business leaders increasingly rely on opaque machine-learning systems for decision-making.

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of socioemotional well-being in contemporary organizations, addressing its conceptual foundations, practical implications, and strategic relevance. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory and the Job Demands-Resources model, the book situates well-being as both a multidimensional construct and an organizational capability essential for sustainable performance.

Structured in five thematic parts, the chapters explore systemic determinants, cultural and normative drivers, career development, leadership challenges, and the dual impact of technological transformation and ESG imperatives. Contributions combine theoretical reflection with empirical research, case studies, and systematic reviews, providing insights into hybrid work environments, sustainable HRM, occupational stress, inclusivity, and digital well-being.

By integrating perspectives from management, economics, and human resource studies, the book demonstrates how socioemotional well-being intersects with organizational culture, leadership, and strategic priorities. It emphasizes that fostering psychological safety, autonomy, competence, and relatedness is not a peripheral concern but a systemic challenge requiring alignment with organizational values and governance.

Socioemotional Well-Being Management in the Workplace will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking evidence-based approaches to well-being management. It offers conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, and practical guidance for creating workplaces that support resilience, engagement, and human flourishing in an era of technological disruption and sustainability demands.

Negotiations are rarely purely factual discussions - they involve psychology, strategy, and tactics. Those who react unprepared quickly lose influence. This practical guide shows you how to stay in control under pressure, actively steer the process, and act with confidence in critical moments. Through realistic case studies, you will learn what truly matters - from making strong demands to de-escalating tense situations. To negotiate successfully, you need more than arguments: you need a clear structure and the right approach. Discover proven strategies to break through deadlocks, manage escalations, and confidently handle uncertainty, tactical maneuvers, and complex dynamics. An indispensable resource for anyone conducting negotiations under pressure - whether in the boardroom, operational teams, digital environments, or crisis management. This handbook provides the essential tools.

Key Features:

• Global overviews and key examples of jurisdiction-specific legal requirements
• Guidance on governance and accountability mechanisms
• Roadmap on how to identify, prioritize, and address risks and compliance obligations
• Checklists with new requirements in AI-specific laws and regulations, including the Colorado AI Act and EU AI Act, as well as existing laws, including data protection, privacy, publicity, copyrights, trade secrets, and tort laws

This timely Field Guide will benefit legal practitioners, compliance officers, programmers, data scientists, and other professionals who must address AI and related legal compliance issues.

Die vorliegende Festschrift wuerdigt das Lebenswerk von Guido Foerster in seiner ganzen Breite. Die versammelten Beitraege der 45 Autoren spiegeln die Themenvielfalt und die fachliche Tiefe wider, die sein berufliches Wirken auszeichnen.

Besonders hervorzuheben ist die Expertise von Guido Foerster im Bereich der Unternehmensbesteuerung, insbesondere in der Behandlung von Umstrukturierungsvorgaengen.

Diese Festschrift ist dem Vorsitzenden Richter am Bundesfinanzhof Peter Brandis gewidmet, der ueber die Richterschaft weit hinausgehendes hoechstes Ansehen geniesst.

Mit Erreichen der Altersgrenze scheidet er aus dem Richterdienst aus. Dies ist Anlass, ihn und sein Wirken durch eine Festschrift zu wuerdigen. Die Vielfalt der Beitraege entspricht dem breiten Betaetigungsfeld des Geehrten und findet sich in diesem Werk unter den Abschnitten der Abgabenordnung und des Verwaltungsverfahrens, der Finanzgerichtsordnung und des Gerichtsprozesses, des Ertragsteuerrechts, des Umsatzsteuerrechts, des Internationalen Steuerrechts und des Unionsrechts. Die sorgfaeltig verfassten Aufsaetze behandeln aktuelle Themen, die sowohl von praktischer als auch von wissenschaftlicher Relevanz sind. Sie bewegen sich an der Schnittstelle von Praxis und Wissenschaft und damit dort, wo auch die Arbeiten von Peter Brandis zu verorten sind. Rechtswissenschaft kann ohne Praxisbezug ebensowenig sein, wie umgekehrt die Praxis ohne wissenschaftlichen Bezug orientierungslos waere.

The financial landscape is undergoing a profound transformation driven by advancements in sustainability, digital finance, and artificial intelligence. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the integration of ESG principles, blockchain-based financial instruments, algorithmic trading, and AI-driven investment strategies.

Through a blend of theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence, the book examines the evolving dynamics of financial markets, offering insights into risk management, market resilience, and corporate finance innovations. Contributions from leading scholars and industry professionals ensure both academic rigor and real-world applicability.

An essential resource for academics, policymakers, and finance professionals, this book sheds light on the future trajectory of global finance. By bridging technology and sustainability, it contributes to the ongoing discourse on adapting financial systems to emerging challenges and opportunities.

Contributions are provided by leaders in the field, including those with expertise in indigenous and decolonial scholarship. Entries address contemporary global issues, including climate change, migration, women's reproductive rights, and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. The Encyclopedia also highlights emerging challenges and opportunities related to social work research, education, professional development, practice and theory.

This Encyclopedia is an essential reference for scholars, students and educators in social work. It is also highly relevant for policymakers and practitioners interested in applying social work principles to address a range of sociopolitical and environmental problems.

Key Features:

• Examines social work practice with diverse populations
• Addresses contemporary issues of human rights and social justice
• Sheds light on key dimensions of social work practice, education, professional development, research and theory