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  • Creating Resilient Transportation Systems

    Policy, Planning, and Implementation

    by John Renne, Brian Wolshon, Anurag Pande, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Karl Kim ...
    Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning and Implementation demonstrates how the transportation sector is a leading producer of carbon emissions that result in climate change and extreme weather disruptions and disasters. In the book, Renne, Wolshon, Murray-Tuite, Pande and Kim demonstrate how to minimize the transportation impacts associated with these urban disasters, with an ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

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  • Reinventing Business Models

    How Firms Cope with Disruption

    by Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch, Kevin Heij ...
    Although research on business model innovation is flourishing internationally, many important questions on the 'how', 'what', and 'when' of this process remain largely unanswered, particularly in regard to the role of top management. This book answers some of those pressing questions by taking a deliberately managerial perspective. Based on new and original findings derived from a survey among ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Exploring Resilience

    A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory

    Edited by Siri Wiig, Babette Fahlbruch ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increase ... Read more

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  • Copycats

    How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

    by Oded Shenkar ...
    In the business world, imitation gets a bad rap. We see imitating firms as ?me too? players, forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. We pity their fate: a life of picking up crumbs discarded by innovators striding a path paved with fame and profit.In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation?the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation?is ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decarbonizing Freight Transport

    Acceptance and Policy Implications

    by Sarah Pfoser ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This Open-Access-Book analyzes the acceptance of sustainable freight transport and suggests a new framework for policy measures to decarbonize freight transport. Despite intense political endeavors, the environmental performance of the transport system has not improved in the previous years. It seems that the existing measures are not sufficient to motivate transport users to implement sustainable ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I, 2e

    by Myer Kutz ...
    The definitive transportation engineering resource--fully revised and updatedThe two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems--freight, ... Read more

    $224.99 CAD

  • Business Continuity Planning

    Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters

    by Mark Landahl, Brenda D. Phillips ...
    Terrorism, natural disasters, or hazardous materials threaten the viability for all types of businesses. With an eye toward business scale, scope, and diversity, Business Continuity Planning: Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters, addresses a range of potential businesses from home-based to large corporations in the face of these threats, including the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Handbook Of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management: Climate Change And Natural Disasters

    by Christian N Madu, Chu-hua Kuei ...
    Climate change is increasingly of great concern to the world community. The earth has witnessed the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, changes in biodiversity, and more occurrences of natural disasters. Recently, scientists have begun to shift their emphasis away from curbing carbon dioxide emission to adapting to carbon dioxide emission. The increase in natural disasters around ... Read more

    $252.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains

    Reinterpreting and Reimagining Megatrends in the World Economy

    Edited by Renu Agarwal, Christopher Bajada, Roy Green, Katrina Skellern ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    This Companion provides a review of global value chains (GVCs) and the megatrends that are shaping them and will continue to reshape them in deep-set trajectories of change over the next few decades. Megatrends herald both challenges and opportunities. With the growing interest among business leaders and researchers in GVCs, this is a reference work which fills a gap in current literature by ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Social Innovation and New Business Models

    Creating Shared Value in Low-Income Markets

    by Laura Michelini ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Extreme poverty continues to afflict the world, and it requires urgent action. Social innovation can be the driving force to spark change and to find common ground for shared value creation, particularly when it is directed at low-income markets. Leading companies have recently developed innovative forms of social innovation by combining three elements - the concept of shared value creation, the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Organizing Entrepreneurship

    by Anna Grandori, Laura Gaillard Giordani ...
    Entrepreneurship has regained centre stage in the contemporary knowledge-intensive and innovation-driven economy, as well as in research. Integrating classic and recent insights into the organization, economics and management of entrepreneurial activities, Organizing Entrepreneurship aims to blend rigor with relevance, and connects theory with practical problems around key questions, such as:Is ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Disaster Response and Recovery

    Strategies and Tactics for Resilience

    by David A. McEntire ...
    DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERYThe new edition of the standard textbook in the field, updated with new studies and practical guidelines for reacting to the complexities of today’s disastersDisaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience provides a thorough overview of the challenges and functions of the emergency management profession, covering the various types of disasters, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD