A holistic approach to R&D products' evaluation for commercialization under open innovations is developed. The approach is tested on the example of the device of the interferometric determination of the refractive index of crystalline materials in the optical range. The proposed approach will...

The low volatility factor in conjunction with the style factors Quality, Value and Momentum, has empirically proven to be able to moderate market risks and improve a portfolio’s overall risk-return profile. By integrating ESG into such a factor portfolio, future risks may be mitigated. We...

Modern service design practices conceptualize services as multi-step processes. At each step, customers derive an uncertain value, which depends on a functional benefit and a subjective experience. The latter may depend on experiences realized at previous steps. Service designs determine the...

Current economic and social systems transgress several ecological planetary boundaries by far but without sufficiently fulfilling human needs and this in a globally unequal way, posing enormous challenges to political strategies and economic structures. To tackle these challenges, under a...

"The book is an exploration of the relevance of Indian classical wisdom in reorienting modern management. It highlights the urgent need for facilitating an internally-directed spiritual dimension to business management, including management education as an alternative to instrumental rationality...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. About ‘Strategy for Existing Geography and Business’ -- Chapter 2. Business Model -- Chapter 3. Strategy Blueprint -- Chapter 4. Financial Plan -- Part 2. About ‘Strategy for New Geographies and/or Businesses’ and ‘Strategy & Execution’ -- Chapter...

A growing consensus has emerged in the post-crisis financial regulatory agenda that the European architecture of financial supervision and regulation is far from ideal. Rather than moving to a ‘holistic', cross-sectoral regime such as the ‘twin peaks' model, the post-crisis reform simply...

The latest perspective of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focuses in particular on risk management (RM) issues due to the need for aligning the CAP to the new agricultural operating conditions. The future of agricultural policy has become, as never before, increasingly climate-dependent and...

Cybersecurity has traditionally been the purview of information technology professionals, who possess specialized knowledge and speak a language that few outside of their department can understand. In our current corporate landscape, however, cybersecurity awareness must be an organization-wide...

Through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community has recognized the need for an approach to development that considers the interdependence of human and natural systems. Single-sector approaches to development challenges are insufficient to produce sustainable...

Part 1: Basics -- 1. Vision of Efficient Processes -- 2. Prerequisites and Framework Conditions for a Successful Improvement Culture -- 3. Process Improvement Methods -- 4. Tools for the Optimisation of Workflows -- 5. Influence of Digitalisation on Process Optimisation -- Part 2: Practice -- 6....

The assets of the hedge fund industry are nearly equivalent to the GDP of the UK. The industry, which claims returns independent of markets conditions and has been blamed for economic crises, has attracted the interest of a wide range of financial and political players and academics. This paper,...

Chapter 1. Facing the Challenge Holistically -- Chapter 2. Basics of Systems Science -- Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Market Competition -- Chapter 4. Market Entry and Market Partition -- Chapter 5. What is Happening?- Chapter 6. Successfully Ride Waves of Transient Competitive Advantages --...

"From the lens of holistic systems theory, this book discusses strategic management adapted to evolving convergence in an era of advanced ICT from the viewpoint of the major management elements of strategy, organizations, technologies, operations and leadership. To discuss corporate change in...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the content of multinational corporations' (MNCs') web sites from a holistic viewpoint. Specifically, seven types of content, including communication, general information, marketing information, employment information, financial information, service, and...

Climate change is a complex phenomenon, however, the accounting methodology used for climate change remains poorly understood. This paper proposes a broad concept of carbon accounting: carbon accounting is a system that uses accounting methods to record and analyse climate-change information as...

This article reflects on confronting Western Balkans countries with the sustainable development. The goal of this paper is to present the importance of the development of the concept of the ST model and its role in economic and social development of rural areas of the Western Balkans. The...

High and multi - faceted dynamic of business changes increases customers requirements in relation to their business partners. Operation of holistic marketing together with lean management can enable response and act on time in relation to the customer. But is it possible to implement and...

This paper studies the predictive power of expected volatility in the cross-section of expected stock returns. Evidence indicates that total and idiosyncratic volatility levels and volatility innovations have predictive power in the cross-section of expected excess stock returns. The results...

"This is the first detailed view of the managerial accountant's role and responsibilities in organization setting. Its aim is to foster role development: the opportunity to work at an advanced level of practice. Accounting studies develop technical skills associated with topics, and, responding...

This paper presents a novel approach to detail the propagation of shocks to public debt. The modeling technique involves a structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) estimator with an endogenous debt accumulation equation. It explores how the main drivers of sovereign debt dynamics - the primary...

This volume brings together new research that bridges the domains of stakeholder theory, non-market strategy and social movement theory. Although these three research domains have developed via relatively distinct academic communities, they speak to a common set of phenomena at the intersection...

"This book focuses on various approaches to brand culture and communication across industries. It explores an array of contemporary issues, critical analysis of complex societal phenomena, gain deeper understanding in the nascent fields of digital media and public relations research and provide...

The need -- A world full of challenges -- Creating the knowledge -- Learning the lesson for the first time -- Deepening: debriefing techniques and guidelines -- Learning from quality-based processes -- Experience -- Managing the created knowledge -- Actions -- Knowledge and a knowledgebase to...