A new book by Vlerick Professor Mario Vanhoucke – entitled Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling: baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control – has been published by Springer. The focus of this book – dynamic scheduling – refers to 3 dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a project baseline schedule, risk analysis and the project control phase.
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2012
The recent global financial crisis has indicated that the conventional dominant paradigm in finance is unable to cope with the problems of financial systems, markets, and behaviour of financial institutions, and failed to understand the proper role of finance in society and the economic system as a whole. Moving away from the conventional financial paradigm, this volume demonstrates paradigm shifting in the financial world and provides fresh insights on how we may reshape the financial reality to enable societal betterment and prevent any future financial crisis.
Posted on Monday, January 02, 2012
The world needs leaders that offer solutions to transcend the many financial, political and environmental problems that we are facing. Sadly, such leaders are few and far between. But fortunately there is hope: Beyondership.
Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011
This book examines the daily problems of responsible investment practitioners. It emphasises the importance of asking the right questions as well as getting the right answers; anD of process as well as product. It raises questions about the very purpose of investment and the responsibilities of investors, both economic and societal. Accessible, vivid and illuminating, 'Dilemmas in Responsible Investment' is the first book specifically written for teaching and professional training in responsible investment. It will be required reading for students, academics and practitioners in the areas of finance, ethics and CSR.
Posted on Friday, July 08, 2011
Modern businesses and organizations understand that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important factor for sustainable success. At the same time CSR has established itself as a widely accepted element of courses in managerial training and education. This book, designed to support CSR teaching, collects 14 essays that clearly illustrate and explain the benefits and challenges of socially responsible corporate policies.
Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011
By and large, corporations of the 21st century have come to realize that their obligations to societies in terms of corporate social responsibility are fourfold: economic, ethical, altruistic and strategic. Meeting these four responsibilities is crucial to their survival in their various markets and industries; it also requires them to rewrite their previously less socially responsible business models in order to do so. With contributions from a creme de la creme of scholars from 12 countries, "Innovative CSR" gathers together a cornucopia of innovative practices that will be essential reading for academics and practitioners alike.
Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Innovations are everywhere - and they matter. They matter because they change our lives, for better or worse, and because they are the source of long-term growth. But is innovation always the best policy? Is "now" necessarily the best time to innovate? And how exactly should we go about it? This book seeks to provide the answers to some of these questions. It is not a detailed manual for innovation, since experience suggests that there is no such thing as a simple set of succesful innovation recipes, which work at all times and in all places.
Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
There is a growing interest in the diversity and complexity of entrepreneurial teams because of their potential to shape new business growth. In particular, curiosity is focused on how entrepreneurial teams should be formed in order to allow new businesses to be created and to ensure their growth. This timely collection identifies leading contributions to this developing area and reflects a growing body of research. The editors have written an authoritative introduction exploring the origins and development of research in this field.
Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2010
Eva Cools, post-doctoral research associate at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, edited a book on cognitive styles, together with Steve Rayner from Oxford Brookes University (UK). This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN). The style field is a multidisciplinary, global community made up of researchers in several domains of knowledge including education, psychology, business, computer science, information systems, management, human resources and other related fields.
Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Meant to complement rather than compete with the existing books on the subject, this book deals with the project performance and control phases of the project life cycle. It presents a detailed investigation of the project’s time performance measurement methods and risk analysis techniques in order to evaluate existing and newly developed methods in terms of their abilities to improve the corrective actions decision-making process during project tracking.
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010