Klaus North

Gregorio Varvakis

This book is a timely guide for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) researchers, policy makers and strategists. SMEs are the most important sources of job creation and local development especially in knowledge-based economies. As turbulence in the globalized economies expands SMEs will have to learn to sustain competitiveness by developing their ‘dynamic capabilities’. Based on the findings of a 4-year European and Latin American research project, this book provides a theoretical framework, practical instruments and cases on how SMEs in diverse economic, social and cultural contexts can develop crisis resilience, increase agility, innovate and thus successfully compete in turbulent times.

Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times

Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises

Stefan Güldenberg

Ekkehard Ernst

This book provides well-founded insights and guidance to (self-)manage work in a globalized and digitalized knowledge economy with a perspective of the year 2030. International researchers and practitioners draw a picture of how, when, and where we will work most probably in 10 years. Many cases and examples make this work a compendium for learning and for implementing new leadership and management practices. The book assists managers, knowledge workers, human resource professionals, consultants, trainers, coaches in business, public administration, and non-profit organizations to shape the future of work. Drawing on the authors’ more than twenty years of research, teaching, and consulting experience, this is one of the first professional guidebooks to analyze and discuss strategies for digital and disruptive changes at the workplace.

Challenges, Strategies and Practices for the Next Decade

Managing Work in the Digital Economy

Benno Ackermann

Oliver Krancher

Katrin Schildknecht

Silvia Schorta

In diesem Fachbuch erfahren Verantwortliche aus Unternehmensführung und Personalentwicklung sowie HR-Experten, wie man dem Fach- und Führungskräftemangel durch einen strukturierten und branchenübergreifenden Wissenstransfer erfolgreich begegnet. Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Branchen, Verwaltung und Bildung beleuchten das Thema aus der Sicht der Hauptakteure und behandeln Wissenstransfers unter alltäglichen, aber auch erschwerten Rahmenbedingungen wie Nachfolge mit zeitlicher Lücke, Reorganisationen oder Outsourcing. Die Autoren verfügen über einen sehr breiten Erfahrungsschatz, den sie in Form von Praxisbeispielen sowie der Beschreibung von Hintergründen, Methoden und Werkzeugen einbringen.

Hintergrund – Methodik – Fallbeispiele

Erfolgreicher Wissenstransfer in agilen Organisationen

Ronald Maier

Oliver Haas

This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies. It analyzes how the disruptive power of digitization is becoming a major challenge for knowledge-based value creation worldwide, and subsequently examines the changes in how we manage information and knowledge, communicate, collaborate, learn and decide within and across organizations. The book highlights the opportunities provided by disruptive renewal, while also stressing the need for knowledge workers and organizations to transform governance, leadership and work organization. Emerging new business models and digitally enabled co-creation are presented as drivers that can help establish new ways of managing knowledge. In turn, a number of carefully selected and interpreted case studies provide a link to practice in organizations.

New Findings and Practical Cases

Knowledge Management in Digital Change

Klaus North

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