Management Challenges in the 21st Century

Management has many aspects with many challenges. The goals: increasing profit, growth, efficiency remain unchanged, but the solutions are improved. Novelties in psychology, sociology, engineering and IT need and also generate the new tools and solutions. This book collects works around four important topics: corporate strategy, project management, sustainable development and information management. The authors are related to the University of Miskolc as former or present researchers: Istvn Szintay (corporate strategy); Rbert Marciniak (shared services); Lszl Bernyi (public sector and sustainability); Csaba Dek and Lszl Barna (project management); va Ligetvri (project portfolio management); Kriszitna Szegedi (CSR); Nikolett Deutsch (innovation and sustainability); Pter Sasvri (corporate IT and technology transfer); Zsolt Harangoz (operations and lean management); Michael Schwandt (risk management). The book highlights some actual and interesting issues of the authors' research activity, including theoretical and empirical results.