The book combines practical insights with academic expertise and shows how organizations can maintain their strengths and capitalize on new opportunities in challenging environments. Leadership is both a craft and an art. It requires sound knowledge, clear concepts, proven methods, and honed skills. However, it only unfolds its full impact through skillful application in everyday practice, when it generates lasting competitive advantages. Contributions on leadership, change management, and ambidexterity, as well as the conceptual foundation of organizational performance in the form of the Performance Core, shed light on central questions of management.
 

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The English edition of this book (1st edition, 2023) is also available from NOMOS-Publishing, opens an external URL in a new window.

Successful in Turbulent Times: Impulses for Leadership, Change Management, and Ambidexterity supports managers and companies with scientific and practical concepts for mastering current challenges in turbulent corporate environments. In addition to the Performance Core, the conceptual framework based on performance behavior in organizations, contributions on leadership, change management, and ambidexterity provide answers to key management questions:

- Why do competitive differences exist between companies and how can competitiveness be influenced?

- Why is good leadership essential and how can managers improve the performance of their departments?

- Why is change challenging and how can change processes be designed effectively?

- Why does ambidexterity promote the long-term survival of companies and how can the continuous development of companies be ensured?

Against the backdrop of environmental and social upheavals, as well as a range of challenges such as the shortage of skilled workers and digital transformation, the 15th issue of the “Austrian Management Review” brings together academic insights and practical experience. Employer branding, the co-evolution of humans and artificial intelligence, an activity-based greenhouse gas management system, and remote work are the key topics of this issue.

Developments such as digital transformation, demographic change and increasing globalization are continually posing new challenges to organizations and their managers. The annual Austrian Management Review bridges the gap between theory and practice in a straightforward manner. It is a forum for dialog that combines the rigor of academia with the relevance of business practice. In cooperation with corporate managers, the latest results from the university's learning and research workshop are reviewed and solutions are discussed for making companies fit for the strategic challenges of an uncertain future.