Network publications

University of Applied Sciences Institute launched its Working Paper Series.

IPM Business School is glad to share the recent publications in research, including “Free Policy Brief: Does Political Illegitimacy in Belarus Imply New Economic Risks?”.

CEEMAN is very proud to announce that the book "The Management Transformation of Huawei: From Humble Beginnings to Global Leadership" written by CEEMAN Borad member Prof. Xiaobo WU, Prof. Can Huang, and Prof. Bin Guo from Zhejiang University, China and Prof. Johann Peter Murmann from Universität St Gallen, Switzerland, will be published at Cambridge University Press in April, 2020. It documents how and why Huawei has been able to grow from a small company with registered capital of USD 5,600 in 1987 to a global leading ICT solutions provider and the most prominent multinational company in China.

A book with focus on the capacity of re-shaping lots of Quality of Life (QoL) Challenges through Behavioural Economics (BE). Dr Buheji & Dr Ahmed explain the QoL socio-economic issues from the human behaviour perspective and how they are related to Inspiration Economy and its tools.

IMTA alumnus Dietmar Sternad, Professor of International Management at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Austria) provides a new comprehensive resource for teaching management with his textbook »Effective Management: Developing Yourself, Others and Organizations«, published by Macmillan International Higher Education/Red Globe Press.

The newly published book "The Disruptive Power of Online Education: Challenges, Opportunities, Responses" has been listed under the „MUST READS“of Tony Bates’ Online Learning News.

This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more and more areas of national law, including such sensitive ones as the patentability of human life.

In order to explore and sustain designing of curious life, this book comes in chapters that help to choose the paths of what and why to design a curious life, then followed by how to design this curiosity. Therefore, after introducing how we create our world by introducing curiosity design, we start to appreciate all the known types of curiosity.

The 'Handbook of Youth Economy' is a very comprehensive holistic multi-disciplinary approach to the most important resource for any individual, organisation, community and country, that is - youth energy and spirit. We invite you to go through the detailed brief and/or visit any of the links to the main international bookstores.

Emerald Publishing are excited to share with you the first issue of their #RealWorldResearch magazine, based on topical research from their Business, Management & Strategy collection. Issue 1 includes the following features and much more.

The International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (JCSR) offers a unique platform for the latest theoretical and empirical research and for innovative concepts for sustainable business strategies which create value for business and society (shared value). It contains best practices, literature reviews and leading foresight thinking in the field of business and society.

In recent years the discussion about the relationship between business and society has made immense progress. This has in turn led to a broad academic and practical discussion on innovative management concepts, such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Sustainability Management. This series offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theoretical and empirical research and provides sound concepts for sustainable business strategies.

A review of contemporary literature devoted to decision making support systems draws attention to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). At the core of the AHP are various prioritization procedures which elicit priorities for alternative solutions for complex decisional problems.

In Digging Deeper, IMTA alumnus Dietmar Sternad (Professor of International Management at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria) together with his colleagues James J. Kennelly (New York) and Finbarr Bradley (Dublin) describe an emerging trend: many successful businesses no longer see making money as their superordinate goal. Instead, they focus on making meaning, and embed an ethic of sustainability in everything they do.

Conference proceedings titled ‘Women Leaders - Agents of Change in Europe' include all the speeches and discussions of the the international conference, which was organized in cooperation with IEDC Coca Cola Chair for Sustainable Development and The European Leadership Centre (ELC) and under the patronage of Nova KBM on the occasion of IEDC 30th anniversary on April 14 and April 15.

Visualizing governments to be a source of inspiration is not an easy task. However, using the method of observation, absorption and reflection, as the author has called in his earlier "Handbook of Inspiration Economy" can smoothen this exploration journey ride.

This first Handbook on Inspiration Economy comes in a time where the world is changing very fast in terms of its speed, challenges, development and opportunities. The author and founder of the concept Dr Mohamed Buheji discusses first about the essence of having a handbook dedicated on Inspiration based Economy. The book discusses about the history of inspiration, then discusses about inspiration an important life asset, away from being a supernatural source. Then, the characteristics of inspiration creator are explored in detail.

An Introduction Using SPSS, Stata, and Excel. This textbook aims to familiarise students of economics and business as well as practitioners in firms with the basic principles, techniques, and applications of descriptive statistics and data analysis.

“Sustainable Development: Economic, Social and Ecological Aspects” is a collective work of several authors from Slovenia, edited by Andrej Bertoncelj, Associate Professor of Management at the Faculty of Management, University of Primorska (a member of CEEMAN). It contains chapters on CSR, sustainable development, risk management, ethics, leadership, education, culture, etc, and since 2014 is available in Slovene and Russian languages. Co-authors: Andrej Bertoncelj, Mitja Brevar, Maja Meško, Andrej Naraločnik, Bojan Nastav, Vasja Roblek, Anita Trnavčevič.

Overfished Ocean Strategy, a new book by Dr Nadya Zhexembayeva, is for everyone who wants to survive and thrive in this new economy – people who are looking for new solutions to their managerial challenges, entrepreneurs and business leaders eager to protect their companies and get ahead of the wave, journalists and academics searching for new level of discussion, educators interested in connecting the dots across disciplines and generations, non-profit leaders trying to understand and engage with the new business word, and, perhaps, most importantly, global youth who will grow into the generation responsible for making the new world work.