Business and Management in Asia: Disruption and Change

This book focuses on ＂Disruption and Change＂ in the Asian region. In this context, managers and policymakers face a fast transformation of existing structures and business environments. From a business perspective, change is the adoption of business strategies, activities, and operations that meet the needs of the firm and its stakeholder today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Disruption refers to the radical changes in existing industries or markets due to technological innovation breakthroughs. There is a consensus among scholars and practitioners that organizations must manage the change well to flourish in a competitive business environment. Many business models need to be rethought to establish new ways to stay competitive. The book, with its practical examples, gives the reader impulses for new Asian’s approaches and encourages the readers to dare to think and act in new ways.

Tobias Endress is Assistant Professor at the AIT School of Management and Program Director Business Analytics & Digital Transformation (M.Sc.). He has more than 20 years of professional experience in banking and finance, project business, digital transformation, and change management. His former (non-academic) roles include project and program manager, product owner, and business analyst. He has completed professional training for banking and graduated in Computer Science and Business Administration (IBW) at VWA Frankfurt (Germany) and in Business Economics at Avans+ in Breda (Netherlands). He got Master’s Degree in Leadership in Digital Communication at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), as well as Doctorate in Business Administration at the University of Gloucestershire (UK). He is Fellow of the EuroMed Academy of Business.

Yuosre F. Badir is Associate Professor of technology and innovation management and the Director of the Doctoral Programs (Ph.D. and DBA) at the School of Management of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Prior to AIT, he worked as a Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Associate at the College of Management of Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU), and Lecturer at the European University in Geneva. He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management of Technology (2006) and Executive Master in Management of Logistical Systems (2000), both from the EPFL; M.Sc. in Project Management (1998) from the University of Putra Malaysia (UPM), and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1993) from the University of Benghazi. His primary area of research focuses on managing innovation, technology, and digital transformation in emerging markets SMEs. He has published articles in, among others, Research Policy, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change.