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Innovation has always been a core driver of growth at most organizations and collaboration is key to driving it Collaboration facilitates the exchange of ideas and thoughts among team members who then weigh in on them with collective expertise This book is based on a new paradigm which can create the change organizations need It reveals how to understand analyze create and improve all forms of collaborations with one generic and powerful roadmap Demonstrated by many examples from organizations this book defines the architecture of collaborations The first and second chapters discuss the complexity that characterizes the world today and the changes related to the issue of collaboration which has become extremely central in our time Then the book describes the key barriers to cooperation also defined as our blind spots with a list of the ten most common traps and barriers Most of the time we do not correctly identify our failures and our responsibility for their formation and therefore we do not produce the appropriate responses to those failures The book then continues to deal mainly with the architecture of collaborations describing a structured and systematic model for the effective management of collaborations with complementary aspects Other chap

This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and managed as an innovation journey in which social technological political and cultural dimensions become aligned The journey aspect captures the open and uncertain nature of sustainable developments and highlights the agency dimension with actors navigating negotiating groping and struggling their way forward and sometimes backward The book addresses the following research questions What are the key processes and micro dynamics of innovation journeys Which policy lessons can be drawn for managing sustainable innovation journeys To conceptualize the multi dimensional nature of innovation journeys the book draws on insights from industrial economics evolutionary economics sociology of technology political science and cultural studies The book develops several new conceptual frameworks that make different crossovers between these disciplines These frameworks are empirically tested with case studies on biofuels onshore wind power low energy housing photovoltaic solar cells biomass and fuel cells The empirical studies are also used to derive several robust lessons as to how policy makers can influence sustainable innovation journeys This book was published as a special issue of Techn

For too long business has focused on short term cost advantages through low cost country sourcing with little regard for the longer term implications of global sustainability Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Second Edition not only fully addresses the environmental social and economic challenges of how companies manage purchasing and supply chains but also delves deeper into emerging areas such as modern slavery digital technologies and circular supply chains In addition to explaining the basic principles and processes of both purchasing and supply chain management the book evaluates how to develop strategic and sustainable purchasing and supply chain management Our key message is that purchasing and supply chain management needs to focus on value creation rather than cost cutting This requires the development of new purchasing and supply chain models that involve circular supply structures supply chain transparency and collaboration with new stakeholders in traditional sourcing and supply chain settings Aimed at students educators and practitioners the book integrates sustainability into each chapter as a core element of purchasing and supply chain management This second edition incorporates new examples and case studies from industry throughout

A fearless and important book The End of Alchemy isn t just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas It also gives a genuine insider s account Telegraph The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness Almost overnight belief turned into incredulity Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong But those events vivid though they remain in our memories comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism Alchemy explains why ultimately this was and remains a crisis not of banking even if we need to reform the banking system nor of policy making even if mistakes were made but of ideas In this refreshing and vitally important book former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King an actor in this drama proposes revolutionary new concepts to answer the central question are money and banking a form of Alchemy or are they the Achilles heel of a modern capitalist economy

La Macroeconomía es una parte de la Ciencia Económica denostada a veces por empresarios y financieros, en función de lo endeble de sus supuestos, de la imprecisión de sus predicciones, e, incluso, de la pluralidad de opiniones y escuelas defensoras de la aplicacion de politicas economicas alternativas, ampliamente diferenciadas.Sin embargo, cuando los grandes empresarios, banqueros o sindicalistas se manifiestan en discursos o articulos, siempre se fundamentan en algunas de las teorias macroeconomicas actualmente en vigor. De esta forma, dichas teorias se convierten en los unicos productos de los que disponemos que se basan en la observacion continuada de los hechos y en el analisis racional de sus posibles relaciones.

¿Sabemos realmente a qué dedicamos nuestro dinero, nuestro tiempo y nuestros conocimientos? Hambre, efecto invernadero, desequilibrios Norte-Sur: todos somos corresponsables de lo que ocurre en nuestro planeta, pero pocos son conscientes del poder que tenemos para incitar al sistema a cambiar de orientacion. Rebelion en la tienda es una guia para la objecion y para la afirmacion de la conciencia en el ambito del consumo, del ahorro y de los estilos de vida. Presenta a los consumidores propuestas y testimonios de comportamientos responsables y conscientes que nos permiten alejarnos de nuestra cotidiana complicidad con las numerosas estructuras de injusticia y destruccion. Una aproximacion util a las distintas actitudes existentes frente a la produccion y el consumo en España y en el resto del mundo.