This series summarizes current thinking in the field of comparative management. The series is intended to make an academic contribution through focused essays presenting material in a fashion suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

This book provides important guidelines for the digital transformation process and shows how established companies in particular can use digitization for their strategic further development. It highlights developments in IT and data management supported by AI and analyzes how marketing sales HR the corporate organization and controlling must be transformed in the digital age in order to take advantage of these new opportunities as early and comprehensively as possible. The tools offered in this book will support companies in actively shaping the change.

Logisticsisan integralpartofoureverydaylife.Todayit in?uencesmorethanevera largenumberofhumanandeconomicactivities. Inthisbook authorstryto illustrate some advanced logistics and supply chain management topics recently mentioned by academic and industrial personnel. This book has been organized in 12 chapters such that the reader can study each chapter not only independently as shown in Fig. 1; but also as part of a whole. If someone wants to study the book more deeply the suggested approach for this study is shown in Fig. 2. So the readers of this book may be divided into at least two groups: (1) students in Master s courses or higher who can use this book in their courses as a whole and (2) experts who want to learn more about a new topic in logistics and supply chain management; this group may want to read a chapter about a special topic that is found in this book. In the context of global competition the more latent topics in logistics supply chain management are fast growing.This book falls within this perspective and presents 12 chapters that well illustrate the variety and complexity of these topics. This book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 introduces logistics and supply chain management and contains some primal de?nitions about these two concepts; some obstacles prerequisites and infrastructures of modernized logistics and supply chain management and global supply chain management are illustrated.

This book examines the genesis of international monetary relations in the twentieth century. The doctrinal approach of the book draws lessons for modern thought on the subject.

This book proposes a decolonial deconstruction of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR). In so doing it aims to satisfy some specific needs. First it aims to provide an original authorial book on the interdisciplinary study of IL and IR and on the politics of international law which is critical politico-philosophical and (meta)theoretically oriented written by someone from a singular-plural spatiotemporal position in the global south. Second it aims to offer an interdisciplinary study much inspired by critical IL theory critical IR theory deconstruction postcolonial and decolonial thoughts. Third it aims to give centre stage to--the international--supplement and its ontopolitical difference. Fourth it aims to rethink the relation and differentiation between the international and the world provincializing the former while de-anchoring the latter. Fifth it aims to rethink the politics of international law and reimagine the interdisciplinary study of IL and IR before the and of the world that is before the singular-plural hauntological movement of a différant and pluriversal world of many worlds.