Part I: Organizational Politics -- 1 Fundamental Concepts -- 2 Perspectives on Power -- 3 Latent Conflict -- 4 Open Conflict -- Part II: Software Processes -- 5 Process Design -- 6 Bureaucratic Control -- 7 Cultural Control -- Part III: Political Action -- 8 Politics at Work -- 9 Political...

The aim of this strategic business consultancy project was the development of an applicable project management framework for sustainably successful M&A integration. Although M&As have been undertaken for decades throughout all industries, the reported high failure rates of M&A cases demonstrate...

Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Studying Digitalization Across Levels: An Overview and Introduction -- Part 2. Outsourcing and Multi-party Projects: Reflections and Experiences -- Chapter 2. The Early History of It Outsourcing – a Personal Reflection -- Chapter 3. How to Ensure Collective...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on Reimagining Sustainable Organization -- Part I. Facing the Unknown -- Chapter2. Travelling Leadership Ideas as a Business Virus -- Chapter 3. Possibilities and Missing Links in Knowledge and Management Research -- Part II. Looking for Productive Practices...

Introduction -- Stories in Organizations -- The "Storytelling" Method -- Areas of Application -- Evaluation and Efficacy of Storytelling -- The Storytelling Procedure -- Learning Histories - Application Forms in Scientific and Educational Projects: An Internview with Prof. Rik Peters, University...

Comparative Study between Traditional Learning and Digital Learning amid the COVID 19 Pandemic -- The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Activities of Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine -- Using Polar Indexes to Improve the Efficiency of Regional Management --...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

Chapter 1. Digital transformation and software-defined business -- Chapter 2. IT management in the digital world -- Chapter 3. Innovation-oriented IT management with DevOps -- Chapter 4. DevOps for continuous innovation at T‑Systems MMS -- Chapter 5. Learnings for continuous innovation.

Introduction -- Background: OSS development and acquisitions -- Qualitative study: How does the involvement of firms in OSS matter in the pre-acquisition phase? -- Quantitative study: The role of OSS for likelihood and timing of acquisitions -- Mixed-methods study: The effect of acquisitions on...