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This book conceptualizes and measures the cognitive and affective aspects of subjective wellbeing from multiple different perspectives, and relates these to important factors such as values, trust, democratic rights, views about politics, and the role of the government. It examines how happiness and subjective wellbeing have evolved in Singapore.

Due to automation, nearly half of the jobs will vanish over the next two decades in the USA. However, the problem is not confined to any particular country. This book explores international management education in light of exponential development in automation.

Trust is a pervasive catalyst of human and business relationships that has inspired interest in researchers and practitioners alike. It has been shown to enhance engagement, communication, organizational performance, and online activities.

Understanding the latest trends and technologies and their impact on enterprises, organizations or state administrations is essential to successfully develop a business in the age of Industry 4.0.

This book is the first to systematically introduce Chinäs tourism education system and the various tourism education practices in China. It provides relevant knowledge to international tourism education providers, industry practitioners, human resource managers, government officials, and tourism academics, researchers, and students.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Halal in logistics, supply chain management and the future implications for the Halal industry. It discusses a wide range of Halal logistics practices and theories in Japan, Korea, Spain, Oman, and SEA countries.

Most firms perceive innovation as the best way to grow. However, how it can best be manged is still uncleared. While the number of publications on innovation has skyrocketed over the past two decades, it is still increasingly difficult to gain an overview of its most critical aspects.

This book looks at how successful businesses have revitalized and innovated their business models through the lens of Business Model Innovation (BMI) theories in a digital world. Its insights will interest business consultants, researchers and academics in the fields of sustainable business, organizational change, and digital transformation.

This book looks at Japanese companies in manufacturing and services sectors and how they are emerging from the prolonged uncertainty of the pandemic. Aimed at academics, researchers, and practitioners, this book provides valuable insights into how Japanese organizations are adapting to the pandemic and advancements in digital technologies.

This book presents selected and key aspects of managing contemporary organizations in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, enriched with empirical analyzes relating to various countries of the world.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the nature of tourism, events and practices in the digital context. It will be a useful reference to those researching on tourism, culture, hospitality and marketing and as well as destination planners, regulators, certification bodies, local tourism board authorities and policy makers.

Original ideas start in a person¿s mind, but the environment where they operate is crucial for the capture and development of these ideas. Equally important is the interaction with others in developing and evaluating ideas, as a brilliant idea only influences the world if it is put into use.This book hopes to inspire the team leader, innovation manager or research group leader. It deals with the delicate balance of managing and controlling intellectual property in a collaborative environment. Insights on how new inventions can be evaluated are offered. Following the whole cycle of innovation from a creative idea to where a product or service can be put on the market, examples illustrate how an innovative environment can be created and maintained. Strategies and solutions based on the science of team development are presented and leadership models for the different phases of group development are provided.The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, product developers, entrepreneurs, and advanced students in the fields of technology and innovation management and entrepreneurship and small business management but also for leadership.

Relationship marketing builds and maintains long-term relationships with customers through value creation and delivery. This book examines the key principles of relationship marketing and online relationship marketing. It looks at three main areas of relationship marketing as understanding relationship marketing and the continuum, the drivers and scope of relationship marketing, and how organisations should restructure for successful relationship marketing in the digital context.The book also addresses the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of relationship marketing in various types of organisation and suggests different effective relationship-building strategies and techniques for successful customer relationship management.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced society to re-evaluate security, crisis and risk management principles and policies so we are better prepared to deal with contemporary threats. This book provides an overview of selected and key changes that have taken place in the security environment across entities.The book analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the security environment and modern societies. Using a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to security issues, it draws attention to political, military, cultural, information, legal, psychological and social aspects. Combining theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives, the editors and contributors present the result of research on both current and forecast effects of the pandemic on individuals, social groups, countries and the international community.This edited collection will be directly relevant for researchers and academics across a range of management disciplines, including risk, crisis and security management, information management and related fields.

Set in the not so distant future, this book helps us navigate through challenging times by identifying areas where opportunities will develop. Written by qualified experts from a diverse range of backgrounds, the book provides a unique viewpoint for readers to analyse contemporary trends, while presenting a balanced future perspective.

Crowdsourcing for Innovation in Higher Education aims to transform the education space by enhancing existing methodologies and offering innovative possibilities to develop new pedagogical techniques.

This book addresses the broader issue of cultural influences on knowledge management, with specific focus on indigenous cultural norms, including guanxi, face and jeitinho and the impacts they have on knowledge sharing. It will be useful to both management academics and business practitioners.

Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy advances contemporary thinking on digital entrepreneurship and aims to become the ultimate reference guide on the subject.

This book provides a unique perspective of activities taken in the field of HRM in local subsidiaries of such enterprises and presents results of verifying many hypotheses for each of the six models for single HRM subfunctions and their four relationships with the results of company performance.

This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside down as it focuses on control of executives who find white-collar crime convenient. The bottom-up approach to executive compliance focuses on organizational measures to make white-collar crime less convenient for potential offenders.