Epistemology and Methodology of Research in the AI Age maps how artificial intelligence (AI), digital platforms, and big data reshape the foundations of social science and management research. It connects epistemology and research design to the practical choices researchers now face, from defining questions in data-rich environments to handling algorithmic bias and ethical risk.Written for doctoral students, early-career researchers, and methods instructors, this volume su...

This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges.With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the most renowned thinkers in human history, such as Aristotle, Confucius and Nietzsche, provide timeless wisdom for navigating the complexity of today’s business environments. Combining ...

The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, given the fundamental importance of the radical change taking place, it seems that the most appropri...

This innovative book argues that effective leadership requires partnering human creativity, empathy and ethics with AI’s analytical power. Rather than AI replacing leaders, Łukasz Sułkowski illustrates how it can augment their capabilities by automating routine tasks to allow leaders to focus on vision, innovation and interpersonal skills.Chapters interpret classical theories for the AI era, identifying new competencies in data literacy and technological acumen that are needed for ...

Philosophy and Leadership is an ambitious exploration of leadership's philosophical underpinnings from antiquity to the AI-driven future. The book journeys through history, gleaning insights from eminent philosophers and contextualizing their teachings to leadership.The book's foundational premise lies in the symbiosis of philosophy and leadership. Philosophy provides the "why" that drives the practices and decisions in leadership. This intricate connection is unfolded fro...

Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methodologies in Digital Social Sciences brings together quantitative analysis, qualitative inquiry, and mixed methods for the digital era. This volume shows how to design robust social science research using online surveys, platform data, digital traces, and computational tools, while keeping theory, context, and interpretation in view.Designed for doctoral students, early-career researchers, and applied researchers across sociology, p...

This book will help managers understand organizations in non-quantitative manner. The modern-day managers are challenged with dealing with these constantly increasing complexities in the pursuit of efficiency and effectiveness. They must understand how constant changes influence their tasks so they can contribute to establishing a fast-reacting organization. The authors analyze how metaphors can serve as methods or tools that provide insight into how organizations function, and how best to...

Qualitative Methods in Digital Inquiry shows how to design, conduct, and analyse qualitative research in online and technology-rich settings, from virtual ethnography and netnography to visual and arts-based approaches.Written for PhD students, early-career researchers, and instructors across the social sciences and management, the book also supports applied researchers in UX, market research, and organisational development.

Culture in management is an important issue from both theoretical and practical points of view. Culture is a universal medium, in which people act and organisations are submerged. It is a basis for all processes, such as communication; and it also remains an open and ambiguous phenomenon. This book deals with different visions of culture in management, emphasising epistemological and methodological pluralism, and the need for the development of new, creative concepts of culture. The book p...

Quantitative Methods of Research in Digital Landscape equips social science and management researchers to design, run, and interpret statistical analyses for today’s data-rich research environment, from core descriptive statistics and hypothesis tests through to regression modeling and factor analysis, with a clear focus on transparency and responsible inference.Written for PhD and Master’s students, advanced undergraduates, early-career researchers, and practitioners who ...

Tax management and tax evasion represent an intrinsic element of economic turnover, an area of interest both to the institutional and to the real spheres of national economy. These problems, beyond any doubt, should become the focus of interest for all states having a common market, e.g. the European Union, or the countries which have not introduced the universally binding and which are highly susceptible to abuses in VAT tax – such as the United States. With this in mind, the authors of t...

This book presents the perspectives of different Polish authors on challenges in science and practice of management. The authors compare and discuss change models and strategies enabling organizations to anticipate change or respond to it. This book is intended for managers in modern enterprises as a resource of up-to-date knowledge and practical solutions supporting management functions.