This book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.

This book covers high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 18th International Symposium of Organizational Sciences (SymOrg 2022) held in Belgrade, Serbia, from 11 to 14 June 2022. The aim of the book is providing stimulative framework for readers to explore viable alternatives and indicate implications for the post-pandemic world. Researchers from academia and industry present their original work focusing on different aspects of sustainable management and digital transformation including blockchain technology, business analytics, e-business, innovation, digital operations and logistics management, financial industry, public administration, lean business systems, digital transformation projects, human resources, marketing and communication, and quality and standardization. The chapters could be useful for industry experts, research institutions, universities, and all others who share a common interest in contemporary organizational sciences.

This book aims to introduce the reader to the broad concept of management from the content of this book the reader will understand different aspects, such as management functions, skills and problems, environment, and levels of management, but all the sub-topics are related and interconnected since it supports the core concept of the management. In addition to the ideas of the pioneers' scholars of management-initiated principles for managers, and those principles became as main guidelines for the late scholars and practitioners, From the practices and observation of the early management scientist, the principles were developed and introduced as the first organized and theoretical nucleus for management science. Moreover, the book comprehensively covered the area of management functions; planning, organizing, staffing and leading However, planning is surrounded by many factors constraining and affecting the plan performance; these factors have been considered in this book, also Organizing is a function of smoothing the organization well established principles and systems, beside theories associated with human resource staffing, and leading staff as one of most important topics in management. The book discusses the core concepts of leading, elements of leading, motivational factors, theories of Motivation and how leaders motivate their subordinates. Lastly the book highlighted the contemporary issues in management.

This edited volume contains the selected papers presented at the scientific board meeting of the German Cluster of Excellence on “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries”, held in November 2014. The topical structure of the book is clustered in six sessions: Integrative Production Technology, Individualised Production, Virtual Production Systems, Integrated Technologies, Self-Optimising Production Systems and Human Factors in Production Technology. The Aachen perspective on a holistic theory of production is complemented by conference papers from external leading researchers in the fields of production, materials science and bordering disciplines. The target audience primarily comprises research experts and practitioners in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.