The complexity facing today’s organizations calls for a rethinking of leadership. The world is facing grand challenges for people and planet. How do leaders create organizations where values are embedded at every level? This book answers this question and provides a method for leaders to develop a values-based organizational culture.

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance networks and the management of complexities in network settings.

This book proposes that the solution to growing burden of carbon emission lies within the technology innovation as continued advancements in processes make businesses lean and smart.

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing is the most well-established and influential strategic pricing text available, relied on by practitioners and students globally as a core guide for value-based pricing. The book explains how to balance the ability to create and extract value through from markets by managing pricing decisions in a more strategic and profitable manner. Rather than calculating prices to cover costs or to achieve sales goals, readers will learn to frame more strategic choices t...

There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this book develops a new ethics of sustainability for management and organizations.

Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. This book encourages the development of a reflexive approach to organizational change, providing insights as to why it may be difficult to maintain momentum in change processes.

This book is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future. It offers an in-depth analysis of critical environmental issues, human development challenges, and the economic complexities of fostering equitable and sustainable growth.

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager who has been given 90 days to save his failing factory. If he doesn't improve the plant's performance, corporate headquarters will close it down and hundreds of workers will lose their jobs. It takes a chance meeting with Jonah, a former professor, to help him break out of his conventional thinking and figure out what needs to be done.

As Alex identifies the plant's problems and works with his team to find solutions, the reader gains an understanding of th...

Almost all higher educational institutions have built some kind of fieldwork project into the advanced stages of their programmes and the research project should integrate theory, practice, knowledge and skills. Students should be able to apply their acquired knowledge and understanding in a manner that indicates a professional approach to their work or vocation, and have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgements with incomplete or limited information....

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. The second edition has been expanded to incorporate coverage of significant issues that have emerged in recent years including: Growing tensions in t...