Description
For any organization to be successful, it must operate in such a manner that knowledge and information, human resources, and technology are continually taken into consideration and managed effectively. Business concepts are always present regardless of the field or industry – in education, government, healthcare, not-for-profit, engineering, hospitality/tourism, among others. Maintaining organizational awareness and a strategic frame of mind is critical to meeting goals, gaining competitive advantage, and ultimately ensuring sustainability.
The Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology is an inaugural five-volume publication that offers 193 completely new and previously unpublished articles authored by leading experts on the latest concepts, issues, challenges, innovations, and opportunities covering all aspects of modern organizations. Moreover, it is comprised of content that highlights major breakthroughs, discoveries, and authoritative research results as they pertain to all aspects of organizational growth and development including methodologies that can help companies thrive and analytical tools that assess an organization’s internal health and performance. Insights are offered in key topics such as organizational structure, strategic leadership, information technology management, and business analytics, among others. The knowledge compiled in this publication is designed for entrepreneurs, managers, executives, investors, economic analysts, computer engineers, software programmers, human resource departments, and other industry professionals seeking to understand the latest tools to emerge from this field and who are looking to incorporate them in their practice. Additionally, academicians, researchers, and students in fields that include but are not limited to business, management science, organizational development, entrepreneurship, sociology, corporate psychology, computer science, and information technology will benefit from the research compiled within this publication.
Reviews and Testimonials
"This book’s postulate is that Web 2.0 tools as the technological infrastructure and crowdfunding the pioneering ventures of the platform economy can considerably support, develop and promote digital entrepreneurship and economic and social inclusion in several ways. First, the Web 2.0 technologies and crowdfunding platforms lower the barriers to access capital and resources needed to venture because they allow raising funds from many people and reduce the dependance on the conventional banks and institutions. Second, they provide access to a wider and global audience, particularly for entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities who may face geographic or other barriers to accessing markets. Thus, they promote social and economic inclusion in underrepresented communities through job and business creation. Third, crowdfunding platforms and social media facilitate the building of communities with valuable feedback and support around an entrepreneur and his/her product and service. They allow testing and refining new products and services with potential customers. The contributors of this book explore different economic, strategic, legal and social aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and crowdfunding platforms to support the democratization of access to capital, resources and innovations, along with the promotion of digital entrepreneurship and the social and economic inclusion."
– Prof. Djamchid Assadi, Burgundy School of Business, France
Author's/Editor's Biography
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour D.B.A. (Ed.)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA). Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg for almost 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (
www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (
www.irma-international.org) and Executive Director of the World Forgotten Children Foundation (
www.worldforgottenchildren.org). He is the author/editor of more than 100 books in information technology management. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) and the
International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR), and is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the
Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ),
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO),
Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), and the
Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.