The all-new edition of the 4-color, global bestseller, Business Model You Many people dream of different careers or life paths, yet most lack a structured, practical way to reinvent themselves. The first edition of Business Model You pioneered a design-thinking approach to career reinvention. It used a single-page tool enabling readers to sketch a "personal business model" to reveal new, more satisfying career and life possibilities.

Published in 20 languages, the book has been used by hundre...

Now in its eighth edition, this trusted Procurement and Supply Chain Management text provides a complete introduction to the important principles underlying the subject area using a flexible managerial perspective. Fully updated and restructured to reflect contemporary thinking and practice, this highly respected textbook covers the latest developments in procurement and supply chain management with clear and well-structured content. Strong case studies that are relevant and engaging compleme...

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the “perfect” market of classical economics. This blend of sophisticated logistics and larger than life entrepreneurs makes it a unique case study of classical economics in a modern setting.

The enlarged and substantially rewritten Maritime Economics u...

WINNER: 2018 Les Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain - The Committee Special Prize As we learn more about the climate and biodiversity crisis, it is clear that how we make and consume things is a major part of the problem. Extraction and processing of materials, fuels and food makes up about half of global greenhouse gas emissions and over 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress. Many modern businesses deplete resources, destroy ecosystems and dump waste and pollution at every stage - harming ...

Terwijl iedereen zich afvraagt hoe de wereld er na corona uit zal zien, kampen we met de ecologische schade en sociale kosten van ons huidige economische stelsel. Kees Klomp en Shinta Oosterwaal gaan te rade bij de belangrijkste en meest vernieuwende economische denkers, zoals Kate Raworth, Charles Eisenstein, Clair Brown, Helena Norberg en Daniel Wahl.

In dit boek wordt de essentie van hun gedachtegoed geschetst waardoor je in één keer bij bent op het gebied van alle nieuwe denkrichtingen:...

Recente ontwikkelingen in de organisatietheorie, de sociale wetenschappen en de filosofie komen hier bij elkaar in een theorie, die een geheel nieuw licht werpt op de praktijk van de organisatieadviseur en de manager. De veelvormigheid van conflict en onderhandeling vraagt om een benadering waarin de meest voor de hand liggende valkuilen en blunders worden voorkomen.

Dit boek is bestemd voor zowel professionele conflicthanteerders als voor degenen die – om welke redenen dan ook – geïnter...

Learn to assess the situation, manage your emotions, and move on. While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos.

Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each...

Combining theory, empirical data, and policy this book provides a fresh analysis of sustainable finance. It explains the sustainability challenges for corporate investment and shows how finance can steer funding to certain companies and projects without sacrificing return, speeding up the transistion to a sustainable economy.

Brealey, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 11e, is an introduction to corporate finance focusing on how companies invest in real assets, how they raise the money to pay for the investments, and how those assets ultimately affect the firm's value. It also provides a broad overview of the financial landscape. The book offers a framework for systematically thinking about most of the important financial problems that both firms and individuals are likely to confront: financial management is impo...

Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post, including computer literacy. The emergence of large multi-national ship management companies has also changed how business is conducted and this is turn means that the ship manager and tiers of man...