This book presents different perspectives in finance and the adoption of digital tools in business in India. It discusses key issues in strategy, organisation, and management for businesses focussing on practical and actionable guidance and innovative tools which offer insights into the formulation and implementation of effective strategies and solutions. The book also looks at the adoption of new digital tools and strategies in different areas of business and management and ways in which these tools can be employed in business analysis, strategy, risk assessment, and management. It presents an overview of the application of new technologies in the industrial, banking, corporate, and agriculture sectors, among others, all aimed at increasing performance and profitability, assessing financial risk and volatility, and improving customer and employee experience. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series, this book will be useful to practicing managers, researchers, and students who are interested in business and financial strategy, social inclusion, e-business, social entrepreneurship, information management, finance, and banking.

Entering an export business requires careful planning, management commitment, knowledge on capital and market know-how, competitive pricing strategy and access to quality products. Export Challenges and Strategies in Indian Industry covers a wide range of topics relating to export business in India, viz., production challenges, procurement challenges, technological challenges, cost challenges, supply chain challenges, HR challenges, financial challenges, quality challenges, research & development challenges, international pricing challenges, infrastructure challenges, government policy challenges, international packing and marketing challenges, export shipping challenges, export marketing, WTO related issues, trade and non-trade barriers, market survey, India’s export potential, export competitiveness, market-related issues, policy issues, issues from Indian standard, issues relating to foreign direct investment, labour issues, and so on. This volume is an attempt to augment the existing resources on export business.

I3E 2001 is the first in a series of conferences on e-commerce, e-business, and- government organised by the three IFIP committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum, where users, engineers, and scientists from academia, industry, and government can present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, and- government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. The conference comprises a main track and mini tracks dedicated to special topics. The papers presented in the main track were rigorously refereed and selected by the International Programme Committee of the conference. Thematically they were grouped in the following sessions: – Sessions on security and trust, comprising nine papers referring to both trust and security in general as well as presenting specific concepts for enhancing trust in the digital society. – Session on inter-organisational transactions, covering papers related to auditing of inter-organizational trade procedures, cross-organizational workflow and transactions in Business to Business platforms. – Session on virtual enterprises, encompassing papers describing innovative approaches for creating virtual enterprises as well as describing examples of virtual enterprises in specific industries. – Session on online communities containing three papers, which provide case studies of specific online communities and various concepts on how companies can build and harness the potential of online communities. – Sessions on strategies and business models with papers describing specific business models as well as general overviews of specific approaches for E- Strategy formulation.

To effectuate is to engage in a specific type of entrepreneurial action. It has special importance for situations where the future is truly unknowable or human agency is of primary importance. In this new and updated edition of the bestselling Effectuation, Saras Sarasvathy explores the theory and techniques of non-predictive control for creating new firms, markets and economic opportunities.

One of the major knowledge challenges in the domain of Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems refers to the integration of perspectives on consumption, patterns that support public health, inclusive value chains, and environmentally sustainable food production. While there is a long record of the analysis of separate interventions, this special issue generates integrated insights, provides cross-cutting perspectives, and outlines practical and policy solutions that address these global challenges.The collection of papers promotes the view that sustainable food systems require thorough insights into the structure and dynamics of agri-food production systems, the drivers for integrating food value chains and markets, and key incentives for supporting healthier consumer choices. On the production side, potential linkages between agricultural commercialization and intensification and their effects for food security and nutritional outcomes are analyzed. Value Chains are assessed for their contribution to improving exchange networks and markets for food products that simultaneously support efficiency, circularity, and responsiveness. Individual motives and market structures for food consumption need to be understood in order to be able to outline suitable incentives to enhance healthy dietary choice.The contributed papers focus on interfaces between food system activities and processes of adaptive change that are critical for overcoming key constraints and trade-offs between sustainable food and healthy diets.