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Enterprise Resiliency in the Continuum of Change: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Raj Kumar Bhattarai (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
Copyright: ©2018
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2627-8
ISBN13: 9781522526278
ISBN10: 1522526277
EISBN13: 9781522526285
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DescriptionThere can be no growth in a business without change. Learning how to cope with change and capitalize on new developments is pivotal to organizational growth. Enterprise Resiliency in the Continuum of Change: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical reference source that discusses the components of business-related change and how organizational leaders can progress their company through such alterations rather than fail during turbulent times. Highlighting important topics such as enterprise schemata, change triggers, company resiliency, and intervention theories, this scholarly publication is designed for business owners, enterprise leaders, professionals, and researchers interested in learning more about how to make an organization resilient during times of change.
Reviews and Testimonials
Prof. Bhattarai's book is an important contribution to the discussion of the nature of enterprise and its resiliency in changing environments. The book is integrative yet opens up new perspectives to enterprise activities and entrepreneuring. The book is written for researchers but also has insights for reflective practitioners. It is well timed as the demands for enterprises globally are multiplying from profit motives to the questions of purpose and sustainability.
– Prof. Liisa Välikangas, Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics
The book is recommended for students at the graduate level, and students who are embarking on PhD and researchers in the field of enterprise studies, organizational behavior or organizational management. For students at the graduate level and PhD candidates, the book would strengthen their knowledge on the issues that govern an enterprise. In addition, the philosophical explanations could be used as theoretical discussion materials in understanding for the existence and survival of an organization.
For the researchers, the book gives a foundation and fundamental discussion on enterprise, including the how and the why aspects. Additionally, the research agenda would help in designing related framework, model or policy that set for highly resilient enterprises.
– Dr. Erne Suzila Kassim, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Malaysia
Author's/Editor's Biography
Raj Bhattarai
Raj Kumar Bhattarai, Associate Professor of Management at Tribhuvan University, is a pracademic individual involved in the areas of business and management as an academic and a practitioner for more than three decades. He has experience of working with national and international organizations at multiple capabilities in different areas ranging from small cottage works to big construction projects and shop-keeping to international business. Raj is enriched in understanding of organizations and businesses—working under complex conditions—with his wavering experience of becoming a clerk in private firm to the president of an institution, a client of professionals to a national consultant and an adopter to an academician. Along with such involvements, he has also published twenty-eight research papers, three books, and two book chapters. Some of the areas of his notable contributions are cultural configuration, industrial empathy, organizational immunity, supply chain sustainability and enterprise resiliency. Raj received Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in profit planning and controls. He researched organizational immune system and change management for his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in management. His involvements in various positions in business and academic institutions—including the positions like President, Executive Partner, Advisory Board Member, National Consultant and C-level executive—helped him to develop his insights into human behavior at work, regulatory mechanisms, risk management, social entrepreneurship, youth employment, innovation and creativity. His enduring struggles brought both the success and failure in his careers. The resilient nature of Raj has achieved outstanding performance accolades and has earned a number of national and international awards and appreciations. Raj’s primary research interest includes humanitarian logistics, social entrepreneurship, value/supply chain, change management, organizational culture and resiliency among others. Business environment, regulatory mechanisms and organizational strategy practices are at the focus of his study.
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