Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for many mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, as well as significant regional and local events, where the event organisers are required by funding bodies and governments to generate broader outcomes...

Ben jij een wereldmens?

Society 3.0 is een hoopvol lees- en doeboek voor iedereen die zich realiseert dat onze huidige samenleving toe is aan een nieuw waardesysteem. Society 3.0 biedt visie en vraagt om visie. Alles in dit lekker leesbare boek draait om jou als wereldmens en jouw rol in Society 3.0, een aanlokkelijk perspectief.

Durf jij het nog grotendeels regenteske Nederland aan te pakken?

Deel 1 brengt je verbijstering en onbehagen, met scherpe ironische observaties van ongelooflijke maar w...

How honest can you be when no one is watching?

Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, texting, Snapchat, YouTube…the world has become one giant confessional. In a reversal of this trend, Burn After Writing encourages you to share nothing. With its incisive questions and thought experiments, this private journal challenges you to play a game of Truth or Dare with yourself.

Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book t...

How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed-open, complex, dynamic, and networked-and require a radically different response. In this book, Kees Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to proble...

Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the first textbook for non-business based entrepreneurship courses, focussed on students with a background in science and technology. Its comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible approach originates from the authors considerable experience mentoring students as they turn their technological ideas into real-life business ventures.

The text is separated into three parts providing a roadmap for successful entrepreneurial projects:Part I fo...

Shortlisted in the Management and Leadership Textbook Category at CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2016, this book explores the key questions and challenges prevalent in CSR including the history, key drivers, main theoretical perspectives and the dominant practices found in the business community, and also how to implement CSR in practice.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3rd Edition is an accessible text on innovation and entrepreneurship aimed specifically at undergraduate students studying business and management studies, but also those on engineering and science degrees with management courses. The text applies key theories and research on innovation and entrepreneurship and then reviews and synthesises those theories and research to apply them in a much broader and contemporary context, including the corporate and public se...

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the tulipomania of 17th century Holland, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and in this new edition, ...

'Cross Cultural Competence' serves as a comprehensive, practical, and workshop-based program that allows facilitators and organizational change agents to help organizations and people develop cross cultural skills and global competence. The book is grounded in the most rigorous and relevant theories, research, and learning methods and makes them easily accessible and fun to apply. Rich with exercises, case studies, survey instruments, and tools, it is based on the authors' extensive experienc...

In de 17e en 18e eeuw ontstaat het ‘kapitalisme 1.0’. Het ontaardde in een mensonterend door egoïsme gedreven economisch stelsel.

Ook het moderne ‘kapitalisme 2.0’ ontspoort. Nu in financiële uitwassen, graaicultuur, fraudes en economische crises. Het is ethisch al failliet.

Het gezonde gemoed zegt dat het echt anders moet, maar hoe? Daarover gaat dit boek. Het schetst niet alleen de huidige economische problemen, maar komt ook met een herontwerp: een nieuwe benadering inclusief ...