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By Mariia Kozlova, Julian Scott Yeomans
October 14, 2024
SimDec is a revolution in decision-making support. SimDec “teases out” inherent cause-and-effect relationships and reveals the intricacy of relationships between sets of input and output variables. At its core, SimDec is an amalgamation of uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis with an ...
By Monika Jedynak
August 30, 2024
Due to the growing importance of global interdependencies, Corporate Social Responsibility has become an important issue both for the business and the entire society. Customers expect corporate social responsibility, and if an organization is insensitive to these issues, it runs the risk of losing ...
By Regina Lenart-Gansiniec
August 01, 2024
Crowdsourcing in Management Research explores the evolving landscape of academic research in the context of contemporary legal, social, cultural, and technological shifts. The book delves into the intricate processes and challenges associated with managing crowdsourcing initiatives in science. It ...
By Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Nadine Strauß
July 26, 2024
Financial communication and investor relations are strategic corporate functions, tasked with fostering relationships with financial audiences. These financial audiences are of critical importance to the establishment, growth and sustainable success of corporations and ultimately determine ...
By Paweł Poszytek
June 07, 2024
Technological transformation should lead to enhance people’s potential and the development of their cognitive and social competences, especially those connected with effective communication on different levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified all these processes and, for better resilience and...
By Łukasz Sułkowski, Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz, Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
May 13, 2024
Philosophy and Leadership is an ambitious exploration of leadership's philosophical underpinnings from antiquity to the AI-driven future. The book journeys through history, gleaning insights from eminent philosophers and contextualizing their teachings to leadership. The book's foundational premise...
By Anna Wziątek-Staśko, Karolina Pobiedzińska
March 27, 2024
This book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are instruments with an increasingly significant impact on the ...
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By Judyta Lubacha, Beata Mäihäniemi, Rafał Wisła
December 22, 2023
The “digital economy” is a conceptual umbrella referring to markets, organizations and their networks that are based on digital technologies, communication, data processing and e-commerce. It is multidimensional and its dynamic structure must be analysed from various dimensions, such as economic – ...
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By Aneta Kuźniarska, Karolina Mania, Monika Jedynak
September 11, 2023
The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension...
By Marcin Lis
March 30, 2023
The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered ...
By Łukasz Sułkowski
March 02, 2023
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important ...
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By Agnieszka Niemczynowicz, Radosław Antoni Kycia, Joanna Nieżurawska
February 08, 2023
Generation Z (Gen Z) is the young generation born between the mid-1990s and 2010s. They are now entering the market and starting their first jobs. Therefore, managers must shape the company workplace environment to encourage young employees to work efficiently and connect their future with the ...