This book equips you with essential knowledge to strategically adopt and leverage today's machine learning-based AI systems. Drawing on several years of research with globally leading corporations, it provides an innovative guide to developing your own AI business strategy. It is packed with diverse strategy examples and hands-on worksheets to help you turn newly gained insights into immediate, practical action.

Despite technological and methodological advancements, strategy execution failure remains alarmingly common. Most projects fail outright or face significant challenges - a statistic that has remained consistent for more than two decades. While 80% of business leaders believe their companies excel at crafting strategy, only 44% believe their organizations can achieve their strategic goals. Nine out of ten leaders admit their execution failures have resulted in missed market opportunities. These initiatives that fell short of expectations and ROI have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars.

Organizations continue this cycle of failure by repeatedly investing in new methodologies, third-party software, systems integrators, or "silver bullet" technologies, expecting different results. This suggests a fundamental abdication of ownership and responsibility for effective strategy execution. Too many organizations fall into the trap of blind loyalty to specific methodologies, sometimes abandoning proven practices and even strategic planning itself. While various methodologies offer valuable elements, leadership must maintain intellectual oversight rather than delegating accountability to third parties with limited stake in long-term success.

End-to-End Strategy Execution: From Inception Through Solution Deployment presents a framework for change to break this cycle of failure. This framework is effective because it is methodology agnostic but not methodology illiterate. The approach taken in this book incorporates valuable elements from various approaches while maintaining a cohesive structure that connects strategy formulation through solution deployment.

The end-to-end strategy execution framework provides an actionable roadmap covering the following:

• Strategy formulation
• Impact assessment
• Business and IT architecture design
• Initiative scoping, prioritization
• Design-driven solution deployment

Unlike previous frameworks claiming to be "end-to-end," the approach defined in this book incorporates the rigor and integration capabilities needed to deliver on its promise, aligning best practices and technologies to streamline every action from strategy through implementation.

Because the framework addresses every aspect of strategy execution, this book is a must-read for everyone involved in strategy formulation, impact analysis, architecture and design, initiative management, and deployment. It enables all strategic stakeholders and contributors to understand the scope and extent of their responsibilities as well as the tasks required to deliver any strategic solution on time and within budget.

Science Under the Yoke of Value examines how science today is fundamentally governed not by an autonomous quest for knowledge and truth, or by the advancement of society, but by coercion to cater to a machinery that feeds on, and in its turn produces, self-implicating values of "quality", "impact", or "productivity", with disruptive consequences for scientific life as a whole.

Drawing on phenomenological analysis and the insights of thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Galilei, Kant, Husserl, Einstein, Heidegger, and Arendt, this book exposes how scholarly pursuits worldwide have become subjugated by non-scientific values. It challenges the uncritical acceptance of evaluation practices that threaten to transform academia into a self-perpetuating system where scholars labour under what the authors aptly term "the yoke of value". Readers will gain profound insights into the philosophical underpinnings of academic evaluation, moving beyond common discussions of "bureaucratization" or "corporatization" to question the very concept of value that drives these systems. This book uniquely interrogates why enormous resources are devoted to evaluation systems without examining whether these values truly serve science or society, thereby diverting attention from the true menace to present-day scientific enquiry. This critical analysis helps scholars understand the mechanisms that "magically" prevent questioning of the system itself, offering a framework to recognize how scientific autonomy has been compromised and what this means for the advancement of knowledge.

This volume will appeal to STEM scholars, philosophers, and social scientists alike, interested in scientific integrity and the autonomy of research. University administrators, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the purposes and trajectory of scientific research in contemporary society will find this analysis essential for understanding the current crisis in scientific and academic life.

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 book is intended to help people newly involved in the development of workplace safety and health programs to understand principles and concepts that can help them roll out what is often referred to as a "safety program." It introduces the safety and health landscape in simple terms and provides a framework for common program start-up or program improvement action steps.

Providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a primer on how to think about and go about creating a safety program, this book presents a higher-level overview, framework models and suggestions, resource information, and shares concepts that can help readers not only meet regulatory requirements but also provide true value to the organization. Safety consultant Greg G. Zigulis presents readers with an accessible overview of the types of things that should be known and considered in order to create and run an effective and sustainable health and safety program.

Written for a broad professional readership, this book will be invaluable for all SME businesspersons and practitioners who need a seasoned expert to provide an understandable introduction to safety programs, whatever their situation. It's particularly relevant to start-ups and people given responsibility for workplace safety without a background in this area.

The book presents empirical insights on the relationship between corporate governance, environmental exposure and environmental sustainability performances of Indian non-financial companies.

The book discusses and analyses the basic theories and concepts associated with corporate governance and environmental exposure like the concept of board size, board meetings, proportion of independent director, CEO duality, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution; and corporate governance theories like the various forms of ownership, agency crisis and its kinds, dominance and expropriation of large shareholders and the possible way out to protect the interest of their minority counterpart etc. It also explores the theoretical postulations, concepts and conventions relating to the topic and critically goes through the literature to develop the hypotheses and to finally testify the set of hypotheses using a set of reliable and suitable econometric estimation techniques to draw meaningful inferences on Indian non-financial companies. The conceptual and theoretical aspects of the topic are presented in a lucid and intelligible manner which enhances the theoretical and practical understanding of the students and scholars in the domain of commerce and management studies.

Offering robust empirical evidence, this book will be useful for corporate governance professionals, sustainability and CSR managers, environmental consultants, regulatory authorities, policymakers, academics, industry associations, and think tanks working on corporate governance, environmental sustainability, environmental studies, CSR, commerce, management, and banking.

This book identifies the growing importance of the sharing economy and its practical applications in such areas of the economy as tourism, transportation, and micromobility. At the same time, it highlights the challenges and benefits of this modern form of resource and service management. While there is literature available on these issues, this book offers value in providing a synthetic and up-to-date approach to the topic.

It recognizes the impact of the sharing economy on business models, consumer behavior, especially in the tourism market, and urban logistics and answers research questions such as what place sharing has in contemporary economic and consumer trends, how the sharing economy influences the changes in traditional business models, how business financing models are evolving in light of the sharing economy, and what role crowdfunding plays in the era of the sharing economy. It also examines how the sharing economy can contribute to meeting contemporary challenges.

The book provides insights for academics, researchers, and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners, and, more importantly, for further scientific research.

Packed with memorable stories, the latest neuroscience, and original frameworks and models, this blueprint for a successful "gifted" organization is a must read for any leader who is surrounded and supported by an exceptional group of people-and must keep them climbing in a market that demands hyper-growth.

A once inspired workforce is now disillusioned with the workplace, and leaders of extraordinary organizations are terrified to execute high-growth strategies because they won't survive if their precious talent leaves under the strain of such a significant change. In this pithy and pragmatic book, seasoned management consultant John Weathington helps leaders better understand the secrets of esprit de corps in a fresh way that incorporates recent discoveries in neuroscience, anthropology, and organizational behavior. John walks the reader through the technical and emotional decisions that should be made during difficult circumstances, using examples from his own 30+ years of experience working with complex and gifted organizations. This book takes on the thorny subject of collective human behavior and extracts golden nuggets for leaders to apply to their strategy, organizational design, and their own development, all while fostering a healthy, vibrant workplace where people thrive.

Distilling a vast array of science-based disciplines into immediately actionable advice, this book is a transformative resource for C-Suite leaders of mid- to large-sized companies, senior vice presidents of very large organizations, and the professionals supporting these leaders, who all face the unenviable challenge of scaling up an organization while retaining top talent.

This book presents a response to the numerous calls for instituting a rules-based approach in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) dispute resolution. The theoretical framework developed here builds a case that the BRI is a demonstration of China's growing use of "soft power" and that BRI dispute settlement consequently operates on the basis of a "power-oriented" approach. The work analyses what a rules-based approach in dispute resolution means, explores what the BRI actually is, and what BRI disputes are. It then considers why rules are understood to be necessary in BRI dispute resolution and, finally, sets out policy proposals. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of Chinese Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Investment Law, World Trade Law, and Comparative Law.

This popular coursebook offers an accessible introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, causal interactions between the mental and the physical, computational models of thought, and assorted -isms, including: behaviorism, dualism, eliminativism, emergentism, functionalism, materialism, neutral monism, and panpsychism.

Updates to the Fifth Edition include a new chapter on artificial intelligence (AI) and a revised chapter on eliminativism, externalism, and extended mind. In addition, Chapter Summaries and five Discussion Questions now appear at the end of each chapter to highlight key concepts and facilitate meaningful classroom dialogues.

The aim of the Fifth Edition, however, remains the same as the previous four: to offer a clear and engaging, relevant, and metaphysically grounded introduction to philosophy of mind. Philosophy majors and other advanced undergraduate students will, after finishing this book, have a solid grasp of problems central to this field and know where to turn next for the most promising avenues of further inquiry.

Key Updates to the Fifth Edition

• A chapter on Davidson's 'radical interpretation' has been replaced by a chapter on artificial intelligence, reflecting a growing interest in this area
• New sections on 'content externalism' and the 'extended mind' have been added to the chapter on eliminativism
• Revisions to all existing chapters, with the addition or expansion of important topics and the elimination of some less relevant material, make the book more reader-friendly without sacrificing rigor and accuracy
• New Chapter Summaries and Discussion Questions appear after each chapter to cultivate productive student dialogue in the classroom
• Updates to Suggested Reading lists at the end of each chapter and the Reference list at the back of the book

Critical thinking skills are important in decision making, but they're not enough.

This book offers a kit of conceptual tools that empower you - an already savvy thinker - to advance your ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, and learn quickly. Weaving together insights from both philosophy and psychology and more than a decade of work with professionals and leaders at all levels of businesses, government agencies, and NGOs, Haywood Spangler has written the inquirer's guide to the universe of sources offering guidance regarding civic, personal, and professional choices, from self- help books, to TED talks, to periodicals, financial planners, psychologists, and successful entrepreneurs. Rather than providing oversimplified constructs or generic answers, his book expands your perspective and thought processes, applying concepts from philosophy based on people's actual questions, needs, and challenges. It functions as a handbook, enabling the reader to consult specific chapters as needed, and as a comprehensive guide to developing personal judgment.

This book is for business leaders looking for strategies to vet the results of AI queries, human resource managers wanting to be discerning in their use of data, analysts and forecasters needing a realistic understanding of statistically based predictions - and any professional who selects tools critically to assess trends impacting their life.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance. It aims to encourage inclusive and responsible digital development capable of bridging global digital divides.

AI is playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives and in the development of world economies. In the face of the many potential benefits of AI, it is necessary to reflect on the potentially disruptive effects that the proliferation of new AI technologies may have on our societies. The volume begins with an analysis of some of the most important historical, epistemological, ethical, and phenomenological questions relevant to the concepts of digital development and digital innovation. It continues by reviewing and evaluating the merits and possibilities as well as the potential challenges associated to the widespread implementations of digital and artificial systems in 'lived environments' (in fields such software engineering, blockchain, data forecasting, and medicine). Finally, it looks -from the perspective of general policy making- at the impact of digital development in governance and politics by advocating human-centric values and emphasizing the need to design and adopt multipolar policies that prioritize equitable human flourishing and harmonious societal well-being.

Digital Development will appeal to scholars and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, politics, and sociology who are interested in artificial intelligence.

Now in its fifteenth edition, Law Made Simple is the perfect introduction to the English Legal System and combines an overview of both the legislation and case law relating to all the foundation subjects, including Contract, Torts, Land, Trusts, Criminal, Public and EU. Fully updated, this book acts as a clear and concise guide for students studying law at any level, and takes into account developments across the curriculum. With that in mind, this edition includes additional questions and examples of the law in practice. It is suitable for students studying law at A-Level, or as an excellent background for students thinking of embarking on the study of law or a related course at degree level.

In recent years, the global socio-economic balance has been disrupted by a series of events: first, the economic crisis, then the pandemic, followed by conflicts both within and outside Europe, and finally the energy crisis. These events have had significant repercussions on the resilience of people and organizations worldwide. In this context, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, provide a universal framework for addressing pressing global economic, environmental, and social challenges. They also emphasize the critical role of innovation in developing novel solutions for people, the planet, and prosperity.

Business firms are recognized as key drivers in the global pursuit of the SDGs. However, it remains unclear how to strategically allocate resources and set business objectives that align with sustainability requirements. The path to fully achieving the SDGs is still evolving and requires the generation and application of new knowledge, as well as practical, actionable solutions to support the transition to more sustainable practices.

This book contributes to our understanding of how business firms can support the achievement of the SDGs, drawing on both theoretical developments and practical insights from emerging areas of business research. Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners will find value in these novel perspectives as they engage with the challenges of achieving the SDGs.

With the window to keep the 1.5-degree goal alive rapidly closing, it is now more crucial than ever for organizations to intensify the scope and pace of their actions. This book focuses on the existing gaps in the sustainability accounting research field for carbon matter. It addresses the decarbonization practices adopted by firms to achieve the sustainability transition, including the implementation of new technologies and sustainable practices, analyzing their impact from a socioeconomic and environmental perspective. This book provides a rigorous systematization of scientific literature and grey literature concerning the measurement and reporting systems for the carbon processes that firms are adopting to mitigate climate change.

The evolving regulatory landscape and the increasing institutional pressures underscore the responsibility of each actor, including firms, in making a concrete contribution to a sustainable future. The call for the actions to be taken aligns with the need for a solid framework to guide efforts toward achieving goals related to people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. These efforts align with the United Nations 2030 Agenda, reflecting a global commitment to sustainable development across environmental and social dimensions.

Positioning firms as pivotal agents in climate mitigation, the book highlights the growing importance of integrating artificial intelligence into sustainability accounting and disclosure processes. It advances timely questions about how artificial intelligence can support ethical, transparent, and effective reporting while helping organizations strike a balance between profitability and environmental stewardship, an issue that remains central to current debates among scholars, practitioners, and corporate consultancy firms.

Assunta Di Vaio, Ph.D., is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.

Tayyab Ali has a Ph.D. in economics, statistics, and sustainability (Doctor Europaeus) from the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.

The Past, Present and Future of Education: A Business & Management Perspective critically analyzes the systemic decline of the US Department of Education, questioning its current relevance and advocating for transformative change. The goal of this book is to provide a history of education, the current state, and what needs to (possibly) be done to strategically align the vision of education with the mission of businesses.

Targeting a broad audience - educators, administrators, parents, policymakers, and community leaders - the book presents a compelling case for reimagining the American education system. Through data-driven insights and statistical analysis, it highlights current deficiencies and their long-term implications for American youth. The goal is to encourage collaborative efforts to re-evaluate educational priorities, address systemic flaws, and better align the system with 21st-century demands, ultimately preparing students for a globally competitive environment.

Academically rigorous and pedagogically rich, the book incorporates models, case studies, and chapter-based thematic exercises. These resources make it highly adaptable for use in undergraduate and graduate education and policy courses, as well as in professional development programs. The text offers a forward-looking curriculum tool that prepares students and educators alike to take a proactive role in shaping the future of education.

Developed by Tim Lewko, a 25-year strategy veteran, MOVE shows leaders how to embed artificial intelligence (AI) directly into the strategy process and validate strategic bets, pressure-test assumptions, and adapt faster than the competition - all while maintaining control over final decisions.

Traditional strategy frameworks cannot keep up with trade wars, supply chain disruptions, and shifting consumer behaviour, and leaders can no longer afford to wait for annual planning cycles or lengthy strategy retreats.

MOVE responds to this rapid change by simplifying strategy into a clear, repeatable system of seven essential tools - all powered by AI to accelerate decision-making and execution. It's a practical, leadership-owned operating system that aligns strategic assumptions, project prioritization, and quarterly execution cycles.

Through examples, this book reveals how AI can power real-time data analysis, surface critical indicators that signal when a strategic bet is veering off-course, and show when emerging threats require immediate attention. In a rapidly changing world, MOVE is a key tool for senior executives, business leaders, board members, CEOs, Presidents, and P&L owners to regain control across the entire execution cycle.

MOVE was entered in the 2026 Business Book Awards UK (Smart Thinking category).

This volume offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalence in suicidal agency, a phenomenon that, despite its significance in clinical psychology, remains under-conceptualized.

Philosophers debate what ambivalence amounts to and whether ambivalence undermines practical rationality and agency, yet this discourse has rarely been applied to suicidal ambivalence. This volume examines the structural features of ambivalence in suicidal individuals, focusing, among other things, on the conflicting desires to end one's life versus the desire to live. By analyzing these opposing mental states, it clarifies the psychological and philosophical dimensions of ambivalence and its impact on the transition from suicidal ideation to action. Additionally, it critically evaluates whether ambivalence reflects diminished rationality and whether suicidal ambivalence potentially justifies paternalistic interventions. Bridging psychology and philosophy, this volume provides a nuanced understanding of ambivalence in suicidal agency, with significant implications for clinical practice and ethical decision-making.

Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, clinical psychology, medical ethics, and psychiatry.

Runner-up of the 2026 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) James A. Tankard Book Award.

Part strategy - part pragmatism and full of expert advice, Raising Social Capital combines expert interviews from industry insiders with data-driven insights from cutting-edge research. This book provides insight, strategy and a set of management tools for addressing today's rapidly changing business environment.

Complete with a roadmap and set of management tools, this book serves as an essential guide for C-Suite executives, public relations professionals and corporate communicators navigating the perfect storm of political controversy, partisan media and global sustainability crisis facing today's leaders. Topics include:

• Understanding and de-risking the volatile business landscape
• Driving public engagement and building public trust
• Navigating controversy, political pushback and the partisan press
• Managing employee activism and workplace incivility
• Balancing profit with purpose while keeping an eye on the bottom line

Built on expert advice and evidence-based research, Raising Social Capital offers the keys to driving change and balancing profit with purpose amidst difficult and rapidly changing conditions. Excellence is built on strong leadership and good governance. We invite you to join us on this journey to change the way you lead and raise our collective social capital.

This book is a practical, straight-talking guide for professionals who are ready to stop chasing quick fixes and start leading with purpose. At the heart of this book is the Process-People-Product Model. A practical framework that helps leaders focus on what drives performance. It starts with building consistent, repeatable processes, then shifts to developing and supporting the people who carry them out. The third element, product, is not about obsessing over output. It is a reminder that when your processes are sound and your team is capable, the product will naturally follow. Too often, leaders get stuck chasing results while ignoring the systems and behaviors that create them.

This model keeps the focus where it belongs and gives leaders a simple way to solve problems, lead better, and drive steady improvement. The challenges facing leaders today are not new. Missed targets, team disengagement, and improvement efforts that never stick. The same problems show up in every industry, every company, and every plant. The real difference between teams that thrive and those that stay stuck is not tools or technology; it is leadership.

Author and seasoned decision-making expert Chris Ortiz draws on more than 25 years of hands-on experience across engineering, marketing, business ownership, maintenance, continuous improvement, and top-level management to show how real change happens. Through relatable stories and two real-world case studies, he illustrates why so many companies fail to improve. And what it takes to finally break the cycle.

Each chapter dives into specific roles and reveals the most common leadership pitfalls in each. More importantly, it offers a roadmap to correct them by applying the Process-People-Product Model in clear, actionable ways. Whether you lead a project team, sales force, production line, human resources, or own a business, the leadership concepts apply anywhere systems and people intersect. The problems may look different, but the opportunities are always the same for those willing to step up and lead differently.

This book is not about trends or theory. It is about getting back to what works. If you are ready to stop watching your team repeat the same mistakes and start driving meaningful, lasting change, this is your blueprint.

Management: A European Perspective provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex and ever-changing field of modern management with a rich focus on the socio-economic context of Eastern and Central Europe.

This book explores the dynamic changes and challenges that contemporary managers face in a competitive environment and provides real-world examples of the core theoretic concepts. Chapters include coverage of leadership; adapting to change and technology; diversity; ethics and social responsibility; and climate change and sustainable business practice. This book's structure is designed to enhance learning outcomes with each chapter featuring clear learning objectives, informative sidebars explaining key terms, practical exercises, review questions, and mini case studies that bring theoretical concepts to life.

This is an accessible and unique introduction to management and is an ideal starting point for students on international business, leadership, organisational studies, and diversity management courses.

Online resources include PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

Amplifying Your Leadership Voice is a transformative guide designed to help professionals at all levels to discover, refine, and amplify their leadership voice. This step-by-step, evidence-based approach moves beyond basic communication skills, emphasizing self-awareness, confidence, and authenticity to expand your influence, impact, and presence. Since communication is the primary yardstick by which others assess your leadership-whether or not you have a formal title-the more attention and practice you give to verbal, nonverbal, and written expression, the more confident and effective you'll become. This book empowers you to communicate with intention and lead with purpose.

Through four distinct levels-discover, refine, amplify, and sustain-you'll learn to assess your strengths, identify growth areas, craft compelling stories, navigate difficult conversations, and leverage digital tools. Each chapter offers actionable tips, real-world examples, reflective exercises, and expert insights to help you speak up more often and influence others. Whether you're an emerging leader or an experienced executive, these strategies will help you overcome fear, build resilience, and foster meaningful connections to advance your career and create lasting impact.

If you're ready to move beyond silence and step into your leadership power, this book is your essential guide to sustained growth and success. Ideal for both new and seasoned professionals, it is also an excellent resource for executive education, MBA, and graduate courses in leadership communication.

THE DESIGN FLAW

Technical teams build capabilities but often lack business context. Business leaders demand solutions but rarely fully understand technical constraints. Data teams control the raw material but are often disconnected from both. And when things go sideways-as they often do-the fingerpointing begins.

This isn't a minor coordination issue; it's a fundamental design flaw in how organizations approach artificial intelligence (AI)-and a fundamental failure in how we create, capture, connect, and communicate its value. It is also a failure in our underlying understanding of how to get value from AI.

The Values of Artificial Intelligence shows how to fix this flaw-not through reorganization or the usual buzzwords, but through frameworks that make value creation truly broadly-owned when it succeeds and accountable when it fails.

The tools in these pages are practical, tested, and deeply human-designed to bridge what technology delivers with what people ultimately value.

Written by experts who have trained global audiences in finance and designed real-life solutions, this book provides exactly what financial decision-makers need: a survival kit for disruptive times.

The increasing use of AI has posed challenges and brought benefits at organizational and individual levels. However, financial decision-makers are often not equipped with the necessary skills and may even feel threatened by the speed at which AI is automating the decision-making process. This book takes a balanced look at how AI and ML are applied across operations, finance, and risk management. It is not meant to turn finance professionals into coders; instead it shows clearly how these tools can be used to tackle real business problems. This will help financial decision-makers actively engage with projects involving the implementation of ML tools in their organizations. Beyond simple ML tool identification, the book goes one step further and provides representative codes that the reader can use by tweaking information to make it relevant to their own situation. To keep up with the rapid developments in AI and ML, this book is accompanied by a website where tools and codes will be regularly updated as standards change.

Anyone involved in financial decision-making will find this book to be an invaluable resource, whether a CFO, finance director, management accountant, budget officer, auditor, strategic planner, or early career professional.

Leading Digital Transformation: Management, Governance and Control explores how digital transformation is reshaping governance, control and management across organizations and society. It examines the effects of digitalization on strategy, structure and systems while offering historical context and addressing key areas such as AI, digital platforms, sustainability, leadership, risk, regulation and ethics.

Uncovering the hidden forces driving digitalization, this book highlights the positive potential for digital technologies to guide and govern organizations toward a better society. In combining analytical depth with thematic breadth, the authors capture the complexity of digital transformation while also addressing practical implications for governance, strategy and control.

Comprehensive and accessible, this book serves as an indispensable guide for those seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation. This is an ideal book for students and practitioners in the areas of digital transformation, innovation, organizational change, corporate governance and leadership.

This comprehensive textbook examines the digital maturity of modern supply chains, presenting innovative frameworks for assessing and enhancing digital capabilities across procurement, production, distribution, and city logistics while offering forward-looking scenarios for supply chain evolution.

Logistics and Digital Transformation: The Challenges of Modern Supply Chains leads the reader through the various applications of information and communication technology (ICT) in logistics and suggests how digital logistics systems may develop in the future. These concepts present research conducted at the scale of the entire supply chain, as well as at the scale of individual logistics subsystems (supply logistics, production logistics, distribution logistics), and in the area of city (urban) logistics, which is closely related to the development of modern distribution systems. Unique to this book is its description of the relationship between the digital development of individual subsystems and entire supply chains, to identify the determinants of this development and challenges - this approach has not yet been addressed in the literature.

This book will find an appreciative audience amongst advanced students, researchers, practitioners in logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing, trading, IT companies, and policymakers interested in logistics innovation and digital maturity.

This book addresses marginalization as a form of disempowerment - social, economic, and political exclusion that prevents people from realizing their potential. In response, it explores how organizations can foster empowerment, focusing on Social Business Hybrids (SBHs), which use market-based strategies to activate the economic capabilities of marginalized people. However, such empowerment only succeeds under specific conditions, especially in relation to the environments - or "loci" - where SBHs operate.

The book aims to understand both the transformative actions SBHs undertake and the contexts in which these actions occur. Drawing from the Capabilities Approach (Sen, Nussbaum, Kabeer) and Community Psychology (Rappaport), the authors develop a framework integrating two key concepts: The empowering role of organizations and an ecological perspective that considers the relevance of social spaces.

They identify two main types of SBH actions: "creation empowerment" and "access empowerment", and two types of empowerment spaces: "safe spaces" and "open spaces for reconnection". These dimensions come together in the proposed SBH Empowering Matrix, which outlines four strategies - safe creation, open creation, safe access, and open access. Each is illustrated through a dedicated case study, providing practical insights into how SBHs can unlock the potential of marginalized people.

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.

Businesses deliver value to their stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders. Therefore, value creation is pivotal to management theory, but there is a lack of agreement amongst scholars about value at the conceptual level. This book uses invariant properties of human activities to develop a novel theory of value to help resolve controversies and integrate scholarship from different specialisms. To establish boundaries for the task of integration, business, management and organisation scholarship is identified as being an applied, supra-disciplinary mega-field. Its fragmented nature means that different academic fields, such as strategic management and marketing, approach the concept of value in distinct ways, based on their respective roots in economics and other social sciences. Tracing the evolution of ideas on value over time, a new theoretical framework is developed, the integrating theory of value co-creation, as an alternative to existing theories on value creation for individuals and organisations. The cornerstone of the integrating theory of value co-creation is that exchange is the fundamental basis for value co-creation, which enables it to cover both provider and customer perspectives. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to any social scientist interested in the management of organisations.

This book on Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Data Privacy is designed to equip apprentices, students and professionals across various industries with a deep understanding of this holistic approach to organizational security and risk management, quality management and regulatory responsibilities. It involves aligning a company's governance structure, quality and risk processes and compliance and data privacy activities to better enable the achievement of the company's strategic goals. It also looks at what is an Enterprise Security Architecture through the lenses of TOGAF and SABSA, which isn't about the technical implementation; think of building a house where you get an architect to design it and you ensure the construction is aligned to best practices and your goals.

Whether you are an Information Security or Cybersecurity specialist, a risk management practitioner, or simply seeking to enhance your knowledge in this domain, this book will provide you with the necessary framework and tools to excel in your current or future role. It teaches you the fundamentals of GRC, including what GRC is and why it is important; the key components of GRC; how to implement a GRC program; what Data Privacy is beyond protection; and how to use GRC to improve your company's performance.

Business networks consist of interconnected business relationships that evolve over time. The main notion is that firms coordinate business activities and adapt their resources towards counterparts so that long-term business relationships are formed. From time to time, however, ongoing business between suppliers and customers is subject to unforeseen and uncontrollable events that cause sudden stops in business activities all over industries.

Bringing together contributions from scholars in the field of business relationships and networks, this book presents unique insights into how and when rapid responses can be possible in the challenging times following business disruption. It explores the various origins of business disruptions, identifying channels for more active and apt monitoring of business contexts by managers. Readers will gain contemporary and highly relevant knowledge on several aspects of the widespread impact of sudden stops in business. The chapters provide readers with individual and detailed accounts and conclusions about business discontinuity and place them within a cohesive common ground in business relationships and networks.

This edited volume will be a valuable resource for scholars across business disciplines, including business-to-business (B2B) marketing and organisational studies.

This book offers innovative strategies for designing an Integrated Product Portfolio Management (IPPM) system that prioritizes customers, quality, growth and profits.

It explores current frameworks for building product portfolios and provides creative ways to adapt to dynamic environments. The authors present practical solutions to overcome challenges and ensure products and services remain competitive amidst shifting stakeholder expectations, customer demands, economic changes, technological advancements and social trends. The book includes case studies from different industries and showcases ways to balance product portfolios, analyze trends, adapt to changing market conditions, anticipate hurdles, and build flexible and sustainable product portfolios. It highlights the role of machine learning, including applications of ChatGPT, and examines the evolving nature of stakeholder capitalism, emphasizing environmental, social and governance pressures. A practical guide for leaders and individuals looking to advance innovation, it offers personal, professional and corporate guidance on ways to improve the odds of product and service success.

This book will be a valuable resource for middle and senior managers, strategic planners and product development professionals. It also will be of interest to students and faculty in marketing, product management, entrepreneurship and small business management, project management, strategic management and business leadership.