The Future International Manager - A Vision of the Roles and Duties of Management

An in-depth look at the desired professional profile of new international managers in different aspects of business. It examines the qualities an international manager needs to possess, including commitment to environmental sustainability, sensitivity toward gender and diversity issues and an engagement in progressive entrepreneurship.

List of contents

The International Manager as a Reflexive Practitioner; S.Junghagen Achieving Environmental Sustainability; A.Tencati & S.Pogutz Developing Social Responsibility; S.Vallentin & M.Morsing Managing Gender and Diversity in Organizations; M.A.Danowitz, E.Hanappi-Egger & R.Hofmann Reinventing Organizations with Information Communication Technologies; P.Bielli Holistic Problem Solving; K.Ims & L.Zsolnai Cooperating with Social and Political Actors; E.O'Higgins, K.Schedler & Z.Boda Engaging in Progressive Entrepreneurship; A.Tencati, F.Perrini, N.Hofstra & L.Zsolnai

About the author

LASZLO ZSOLNAI is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS. He is also fellow associate at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is editor-in-chief of Ethical Prospects published by Springer.

ANTONIO TENCATI is assistant professor at the Department of Management – CSR Unit of Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He has a degree in Business Administration at Bocconi University Milan. He has been a researcher at SPACE (the European Research Centre on Risk, Security, Occupational Health and Safety, Environment and Crisis Management).

Summary

An in-depth look at the desired professional profile of new international managers in different aspects of business. It examines the qualities an international manager needs to possess, including commitment to environmental sustainability, sensitivity toward gender and diversity issues and an engagement in progressive entrepreneurship.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tencati (Editor), Tencati (Editor), A. Tencati (Editor), Zsolnai (Editor), L Zsolnai (Editor), L. Zsolnai (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9781349305353
• ISBN: 978-1-349-30535-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 11 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Illustrations: XXV, 174 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Management, B, Planning, Leadership, Economics, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Business & management, International business, Organizational theory & behaviour, Economics, general, International Economics, business strategy, Management science, International business enterprises, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection