William D Nelson – författare

In this book, Chapter One shows the new challenges for managers in relation to the management of operations permeate aspects of development and/or aggregation of services, stronger link with market strategies, flexible and cost competitive systems, intensive information technology and automation. In Chapter Two, the authors show the methodological process to the identification and the verification of the critical success factors of the TCU's survey variables by means of statistical analysis. Chapter Three argues that against the background of hyper-complexity the usefulness of all mainstream approaches of change management has to be scrutinized. Chapter Four is focused on a theoretical framework motivated by the influence of TMT composition on strategic change and firm performance. Chapter Five examines the importance and the implementation of critical success factors (CSFs) of quality management systems (QMSs). Chapter Six presents the concepts of critical success factors of projects and their applications in various sectors.

Advances in Business and Management. Volume 15 begins by presenting a paper examining the depth and range of psychological stressors and strains that entrepreneurs encounter in their new ventures, aiming to further clarify the confusion and inconsistencies of being self-employed.The following study was conducted in order to analyze the impacts of IT on e-business adoption and to understand the effects of quality IT strategies in e-business performance. Focusing on Chinese users through an online survey, the measurement instrument of this research model was developed from various studies.The authors go on to discuss brand management and the way in which it attempts to tap into collective meanings, associating life-world categories of thought and emotion. A seduction takes place whereby a captured emotional involvement with advertisements confuses the imaginary with perception and circumvents rational thought prior to purchase-all likely to evolve in directions anticipated by the market specialists.One paper shows that the manner an organisation approaches strategic planning is significant. A case study rooted in stewardship, service and divine endowments develops theoretical findings drawing from biblical strategy and blends these with contemporary strategic human resource management.Social impact assessment (SIA) has become a recent concept of interest within the business and public domains, soliciting further study by academics. SIA is an interdisciplinary social science that incorporates various fields and is regarded as a technique for predicting social impacts as part of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) or as a stand-alone process. This book contributes to the knowledge base of SIA and its relationship with b-corporations and integrated reporting, providing insights between these two fields of research.The penultimate current chapter embraces a topic which is still underdeveloped in the literature: how corporate social responsibility may or may not influence brand equity. Therefore, the authors conducted a literature review to analyse past studies on this topic, focusing on four major aspects.Today every customer is digital customer, and every enterprise is digital enterprise. It is proposed that the significantly changing business environment requires enterprises to rapidly change their structures, processes and systems in order to save their customers and to remain competitive and compliant to the requirements of the modern digital economy.

The opening chapter of Advances in Business and Management. Volume 16 studies the determinants of the unemployment duration for university graduates in Spain. The results of these studies showed that the duration of unemployment was significantly associated with the graduate’s age, participation in internship programs, field of study, type of university, and gender. Next, the authors utilize the empirically validated assumptions of two contemporary theories on team motivation (social identity theory and the theory on joint production motivation) to provide an organizational behaviour perspective to the jettisoning of Japanese management philosophy. This compilation also analyzes the political struggle that took place during 1994-1995 in Israel’s Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) under the leadership of Haim Ramon that eventually caused goal transformation within the union. The study in the following chapter aims to identify the impact of social media on the people of Bangladesh as consumers. The authors go on to focus on recent changes in business communication in the past two decades from a sociolinguistics point of view. Later, it is proposed that given the exponential increase of internet users, it is important to study how enterprises have been working and innovating their online communication tools, as well understand how they can improve the communication through these online channels, in order to cover increasing competition in the different business areas. Additionally, this collection demonstrates that there are significant differences in manners of communication that appear to be a very important factor in making some organizations more successful than others. The concluding chapter suggests a combination of a single cost-plus transfer price and the pragmatic process of negotiation assuming non-linear net average revenue curves.

Advances in Business and Management. Volume 17 first aims to analyze the three most significant dimensions of the current technological development of the economy and society: analytics, intelligence, and ethics. Next, this collection introduces the concept of digital disruption, and puts forward the application of new technologies as a valuable asset in the current business landscape. The authors go on to demonstrate that consumer electronic contracts are better protected than in-person contracts, as the European legislation has created certain mechanisms in order to promote electronic contracting, among which are: the duties of information, the right of withdrawal and online arbitration. One study identifies useful information through data mining in an effort to better understand consumer claims about products and services, mainly complaints about the companies that are evaluated. The penultimate chapter discusses in-memory business intelligence, as well as the modeling of business analysis questions. Lastly, the dynamic processes of the foreign equity price and the foreign exchange rate are depicted by identifying a Markov-modulated multi-currency market model capturing both individual jumps and systematic cojumps.

This edited volume includes eight chapters describing recent advances in business and management studies. Chapter One studies how marketing actions can help reduce and prevent food waste in developed countries. Chapter Two examines whether advertising behaves differently over alternative phases of the business cycle. Chapter Three analyzes new crowdfunding systems that are emerging in large Chinese technology companies such as Tencent and WeChat. Chapter Four looks at the influence of a graduate program on students’ decision whether to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. Chapter Five introduces the Economic Value Added model to allow for a cost-benefit analysis of people investments. Chapter Six explores how altruism positively impacts a firm’s performance by strengthening organizational resilience. Chapter Seven discusses how advertisers are adapting a strategy of communicating shared values, such as support for underprivileged groups, to build relationships with socially conscious customers. Finally, Chapter Eight investigates the quantitative importance of the presence of shocks to the depreciation rate of capital for the magnitude of cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria.

This volume includes eleven chapters that present various research updates in the fields of business and management. Chapter One describes the current disruptive process and growing fragmentation in the global labor market and shows how digital platforms have reconfigured the organization of work and the trends that emerge in the context of the pandemic. Chapter Two addresses how the development of people in organizations around the world is achieved and what advancements are on the horizon in this area, specifically in Latin America. Chapter Three analyzes corporate social responsibility in agribusiness in Latin America. Chapter Four investigates whether the shift in focus of companies from shareholder to all stakeholders has led to a reorientation of renumeration incentives. Chapter Five explores the role of buyers’ personalities on their responses to business-to-business advertising messages. Chapter Six analyzes the main entropy measures applied to the sovereign credit rating data of the European Union. Chapter Seven highlights the importance of collaborative entrepreneurship education. Chapter Eight describes strategies for success for small and medium enterprises using action-oriented systems thinking simulations. Chapter Nine analyzes narrative practices of greenwashing developed by multinational corporations in Spain. Chapter Ten discusses major policy changes for Bhutan in light of the impact of the pandemic on tourism. Finally, Chapter Eleven proposes and evaluates a framework augmenting the standard business cycle model with shopping time to study business cycles in Bulgaria.

This volume contains eight selected chapters covering recent advances in business and management. The first chapter is a comparative empirical analysis of financial entropy from the perspective of asset management. The second chapter asks how to balance innovation and regulation in regards to SMEs and FinTech in the European Union. The third chapter provides a study of how interest rates effect consumption in the United Kingdom. The fourth chapter utilizes the Simus-Iosa method to perform a sensitivity analysis via lineal programming to support stakeholders in the decision process. The fifth chapter provides a systematic approach to substantiating chain management structures in business. The sixth chapter is a guide to implementing knowledge management in financial institutions which provides a flowchart for practice. The seventh chapter reviews the effects of competitive resources and capabilities as a driver toward sustained competitive advantage among manufacturing MSMEs in emerging markets. The eighth and final chapter displays the application of random walks to Bayesian classification and business decision making.

This volume includes eight chapters that detail recent advances in business and management. Chapter One examines the link between industrialization and economic growth through a three-single-country analysis of their manufacturing output. Chapter Two details the impact of digitalization on women’s entrepreneurship. Chapter Three outlines research on strategic and operational analysis methods in the contemporary operational environment using integrated methods and analyses. Chapter Four analyzes the evolution of agribusiness from a transdisciplinary research framework based in a circular economy to determine strategies for its successful application for sustainability of agribusiness and biorefineries of the 21st century. Chapter Five aims to understand the investment strategy of migrant workers: options, and sector of choice, to model their investment trajectory on local investment. Chapter Six maps out the emotional intelligence, experiences, perceptions and subsequent actions of higher education leaders in a change process, and also charts the perception of leaders on how employees respond to change. Chapter Seven builds on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and draws on human behaviour and human psychology on leadership management to propose a new theory linking the success of change initiatives and organizational performance. Lastly, Chapter Eight presents Fintech as a solution to financial inclusion in India.

This volume includes eight chapters that detail recent advances in business and management. The authors in chapter one examines intra-generational differences among Gen Zs, uncovering three distinct clusters with specific work-value profiles. Chapter two draws from Social Exchange Theory, and focuses on professional counselling, interactions with sales representatives, and service reliability to determine the long-term impact on B2B relationship strength. Chapter three delves into the most significant developments and breakthroughs in the field of business management, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of contemporary practices and their implications for organizational success. Chapter four discusses the question “What should Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP) do with the UN 2030 Agenda and how can its interventions contribute to sustainable and fair development and the implementation of decent work worldwide?” Chapter five aims to outline the scientific trajectory of the notion of human capital in recent decades, highlighting its new role in the managerial paradigm in order to understand its current status, role and uses. The authors of chapter six conclude that pricing tactics for the digitalization age include: incorporating Industry 4.0 into pricing models, network pricing, gathering market intelligence, establishing the capacity for the 4th industrial revolution, early detection of pricing hazards, implementing pricing intelligence, instigation of dynamic pricing, and employing value engineering. In chapter seven the author delves into the journey of ‘TechAdvance,’ a pioneering technology firm that epitomizes the harmonious blend of innovative business practices with an unwavering commitment to social responsibility. The last chapter describes some initiatives that propose the organization of risk-related terminology via ontologies in order to improve information systems, knowledge disclosure, and discovery.

This book focuses on advances in business and management. Chapter 1 aims to establish the theoretical foundations of meaningful learning and creativity to promote the teaching of artificial intelligence, based on a constructivist pedagogical model, and to outline the implications of this model. Chapter 2 conducts a systematic literature review of Islamic sources published in the Scopus index to ascertain the fundamental nature of the concept of Al-Itqan. Chapter 3 investigates the impact of adopting sustainable production practices by businesses on consumer behavior in the UAE. Chapter 4 analyses the potential of implementing a blockchain system on a securities platform for Islamic crowdfunding. Chapter 5 focuses on tourism development in community-based fisheries in Indonesia. Chapter 6 aims to construct a model for developing extra-role behavior in Generation Z employees by leveraging employer branding and perceived organizational support, with organizational commitment serving as a mediator. Finally, Chapter 7 examines the Blue Ocean Strategy, a strategic framework proposed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, exploring its potential as a transformative strategic approach versus a passing management fad.