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\"This book, Constructive Discontent in Execution: Creative Approaches to Technology and Management, is a unique collection of thoughts by independent thinkers, researchers, and corporate practitioners that demonstrates the concept of constructive discontent, which can be defined as looking for the change and the opportunity to deconstruct something to build something else or build something better. The book seeks to show how new methods and thinking can drive innovation to help boost the economy and bring agility in various functional areas of business. It includes 18 chapters on advanced technologies used in industry to cope up with new and/or unforeseen challenges. The book both discusses the concept of constructive discontent and provides a slate of examples of its application in practice. Taking an interdisciplinary focus that highlight fostering an innovative and entrepreneurial culture that can lead to creative solutions, the chapters in this volume discuss interesting innovations in information technology, business, the automobile industry and transportation, medical devices, agriculture, and more. The themes across the chapters highlight creativity, new rating and analysis systems, impacting strategies to add value and reduce costs, and the fostering of an innovative culture. Chapters discuss alternate multidimensional models of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO), digital integration and adoption among small businesses, threats to business and labor faced by globalization during the pandemic era, success measurement techniques, risk taking and uncertainty avoidance in determining success, the predictive capability of the theory of planned behavior, and more. The eclectic book is a cumulative effort by corporate practitioners, academicians, entrepreneurs, and technologies and management practitioners that demonstrates valuable techniques and strategies of constructive discontent that can drive innovation and success.\"-- Provided by publisher.