These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 17th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM) which is being hosted this year by Università Roma TRE, Rome, Italy on 12-13 July 2018.

Connecting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Corporate Governance (CG) is a 21st Century challenge. This edited volume illustrates that CSR can be used as a tool to improve Corporate Governance in organizations and improve the relationship between business and society. Moreover the book argues that they should be treated together in synergy in management literature. This two volume work connects these two crucial business functions, describing the preconditions for successful integration and the tools for practical implementation. Volume 2 puts forward eight recommendations for practice. Contributors put forward research and implications for policy and practice including coverage of knowledge management strategy, socially responsible banking operations and transparency procedures in the context of emerging economies.

The New Digital Era’s two volumes vitally generate new information in order to determine the advantages and risks in which areas this digitalization, which has increased with the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2019 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4. The 41 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They are organized in seven thematic sections: TRIZ improvement: theory, methods and tools; TRIZ and other innovation approaches; TRIZ applications in technical design; TRIZ applications in eco design; TRIZ applications in software engineering; TRIZ applications in specific disciplinary fields; and TRIZ in teaching.