Description
The evolving labor market, driven by technological advancements, significantly impacts society by shaping how businesses operate and how individuals work. Companies face the challenge of balancing digital transformation with sustainable practices, ensuring long-term economic and environmental stability. By embracing innovation, fostering resilience, and creating meaningful work environments, businesses can address global economic shifts while improving employee satisfaction. These efforts also align with societal expectations, such as supporting sustainable development and responding to social movements, thereby contributing to a more equitable and forward-thinking global economy.
Global Economic Challenges and Opportunities for the Workplace provides robust theoretical frameworks and business practices on how companies adapts to global economic challenges and explores creative solutions to ways of working. It analyzes new techniques, methodologies, and innovative business practices. Covering topics such as entrepreneurship, marketing, and teleworking, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, managers, business leaders, consultants, policymakers, and more.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Cristina Carrasco-Garrido (Ed.)
Cristina Carrasco Garrido
is a Professor and Researcher at the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain where her research focuses on telework, the welfare and health of workers in the workplace, and the organization and management of companies. She is also a member of the high-performance research group of the URJC Open Innova. Dr. Carrasco also obtained degrees in economics and in the law, and practiced as an auditor at Deloitte Consulting before obtaining her PhD in Business Organization. She earned honors and international mention for her PhD work. After Deloitte, she founded a fintech where she worked as a lawyer to help over-indebted people restructure their debts through the “second chance” law in Spain. Dr. Carrasco also has worked with colleagues in other distinguished universities on special projects including telework at the University of Birmingham (UK) and on workplace mental health at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
Antonio Martínez Raya (Ed.)
Antonio Martínez Raya
holds a Ph.D. degree (EQF level 8) with honors in European studies on Transportation Economics from UNED. Furthermore, he graduated with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering (EQF level 7) together with a minor in aircraft and space vehicles from UPM. He has also earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics (EQF level 6) and majored in European Union (EQF level 7) with a focus on economic and political levels from UNED in both degrees. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero (Ed.)
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero
is Full Professor of Business Administration at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain. Coordinator of the High Performance Research Group OPENINNOVA. Director of the Master Degrees in Business Organization & Logistic Processes Management SAP. She has published articles in impact-indexed journals. WIDS Ambassador. Editor of ESIC Market Journal.