TY - BOOK ID - 9337742 TI - Innovative Business Practices AU - Vrontis, Demetris AU - Thrassou, Alkis PY - 2013 SN - 144384604X 1299764916 1443849936 9781443849937 9781299764910 9781443846042 9781443846042 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Organizational change. KW - Management KW - Business & Economics KW - Management Styles & Communication KW - Change, Organizational KW - Organization development KW - Organizational development KW - Organizational innovation KW - Organization KW - Manpower planning KW - Organizational change KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9337742 AB - This second decade of the millennium finds the world changing at a once unimaginable pace. Businesses, tangled in the interwoven threads of galloping globalization, technological advances, cultural diversity, economic recession and deep-rooted human social evolution, struggle to keep up with incessant changes; consequently and inexorably experiencing severe difficulties and disorientation. Executives, much bewildered, habitually turn to conventional, time-honoured strategies and practices, which increasingly fail to offer the much-sought answers and means to survival, competitiveness and growt ER -