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The Future of Service Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, Volume 1
(2021)
This open access book is geared towards providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
Chapter 11 Three Markets and Three Types of Competitiveness
(2017)
Paper is a universal and familiar product for any industrial society. Although digitization eroded its dominance as an information carrier, one can hardly live without paper’s use in printing, packaging and wrapping material, ...
Chapter 1 Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of Total War
(2019)
This chapter aims to explore organisational change as a result of political and security risks faced by four major European multinationals, Roche (pharmaceuticals), Nestlé (food), Unilever (non-mineral oil, fats, food and ...
Chapter 15 Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea
(2018)
This chapter examines HRM in Japan and Korea. The two neighboring nations situated in Northeast Asia have a mixed feeling towards each other for historical reasons, despite traditionally sharing much in their HRM systems. ...
Chapter 31 Political risks and nationalism
(2017)
This chapter analyses risks arising from political phenomena including nationalism. Such “non-market risks” include political as well as natural disasters. Taking an historical perspective, the authors interrogate several ...
Chapter 10 Policy transfer and its limits
(2018)
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ...
Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2021)
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances in the development of ...
Chapter 3 The Psychology of Culture in Japan
(2018)
Today’s world is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. Within the context of globalisation and the associated increased contact between diverse groups of people, the psychology of culture is more relevant ...
Chapter 7 Organizational Stress in Contemporary Japan
(2021)
Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work ...
Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions
(2021)
This is an open access proceeding book of 9th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress at Milan 2018. Since many experts from Europe and Japan had very important and fruitful discussion on the management of Cerebrovascular ...