Advances in group processes

Advances in Group Processes Volume 39 brings together papers related to a variety of topics in small groups and organizational research reflecting a wide range of theoretical approaches from leading scholars who work in the general area of group processes.

Academy of the oppressed

The important insights collated here provide guidance to progress towards institutions where academics possess more control of the policies that guide their careers, the knowledge they create, the knowledge they share, the students they inspire, and the communities they aim to serve.

The new digital era

The New Digital Era’s two volumes vitally generate new information in order to determine the advantages and risks in which areas this digitalization, which has increased with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advances in accounting behavioral research

Focusing on research that examines individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, this series promotes research across all areas of behavioral accounting, and encourages the development, discussion and expansion of theories from psychology, sociology and related disciplines to bet...

Innovation and entrepreneurship

The world of business is constantly changing. Here, a cast of key players from Latin America explore the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools for mini-cases and business challenges to innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

The youth tourist

Anna Irimiás provides an informed overview on the characteristics of youth tourists with a focus on tourism consumption. Youth tourists’ pre-trip, on-stay and post-trip tourism behaviours are studied in light of the current trends. Challenges and implications are critically analysed.

Exploring esg challenges and opportunities

The number of companies that are adopting sustainability strategies and disclosing information related to Environmental, Social and Corporate governance (ESG) issues is on the rise. This special volume encapsulates the transformative journey businesses undertake to balance profitability with resp...

Innovation, social responsibility and sustainability

This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts – developing social responsibility and developing sustainability – both of which are interlinked and interdependent.

The "m" in citams@30

Volume 18 of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications celebrates the thirty year anniversary of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Mixed race life stories

Framing a new theoretical analysis in a field with limited data, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canada builds an understanding of the affective lived experiences of mixed race people, the different ways they are racialized and how that may impact a politics of mixed race mo...

Productivity growth in the manufacturing sector

The growth of manufacturing industries is one of the key sectors in helping to mitigate global recessions. Productivity Growth in the Manufacturing Sector thoroughly discusses issues and potential remedies of this sector for a range of international countries.

Process automation strategy in services, manufacturing and construction

Appealing to business researchers, academics and practitioners, Process Automation Strategy in Services, Manufacturing and Construction brings to life the current trends in process automation and considers what the future holds.

Interpreting the body

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements,...

Rewriting leadership with narrative intelligence

Rewriting Leadership with Narrative Intelligence draws on a range of disciplines and scholarly traditions to build a compelling case for a new perspective on leadership, seeing it as a deeply embodied, intuitive skill of curating shared narratives in influence relationships.

The roles of independent children’s rights institutions in advancing human rights of children

The contributors to this edited collection provide first-hand experiences in directing, working for, and studying ICRIs and detail their unique, in-depth accounts of factors shaping ICRIs’ efforts to monitor and advance children’s rights.

Reshaping youth participation

Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism, chapters consider the spaces in which youn...

Public participation in transport in times of change

Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change discusses various forms of public participation in connection to sustainable mobility, transport planning, policy, health, infrastructure, and active travel, creating a comprehensive analysis relevant for both practitioners and researchers who ...

Inclusive leadership

Inclusive Leadership speaks to the human side of organization and communities. Both practitioners and academics provide insights that broaden our traditional view of diversity issues into a perspective focused on better understanding the theory and practice of inclusive leadership.

Networks, hacking and media - citams@30

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume celebrates the section's thirtieth anniversary. It looks at the history of the section, reviews some of its most important themes, and sets the agen...

Continuous change and communication in knowledge management

Until now, change leadership has lacked a theoretical basis for use by leaders as a starting point when implementing change processes. Continuous Change and Communication in Knowledge Management addresses this.

Resourcing inclusive education

Marking the first time an entire book has been dedicated to the topic of successful inclusive education, in this volume leading experts address international perspectives on funding models, the role of resources, and the development of professionals for the implementation of effective inclusive e...

Autism and covid-19

Autism and COVID-19 both reviews the existing literature and presents new findings from a survey distributed to autistics and parents of autistics during the pandemic, all of which offer a unique and timely contribution to researchers, academics, practitioners, and those working with autistics an...

Applied ethics in the fractured state

This book brings together the refereed proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) 'Applied Ethics in the Fractured State', held at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney in June 2017.

The value of design in retail and branding

The Value of Design in Retail and Branding creates a much-needed bridge between different disciplines involved in retail design, bringing together a range of research and insights for practice in these disciplines, improving the impact of design.

Humanizing higher education through innovative approaches for teaching and learning

Innovative pedagogy is the only solution that can bridge both scarcity and quality in education. This edited collection showcases how innovative approaches to teaching and learning have become the need of the hour in higher education. How might new technologies and a fresh take on curriculum des...

Strategic business models

As strategic business models are important to understand the transformative operations of an enterprise system, for present and future competitiveness, Betz's exploration into both manufacturing and financial firms, along with retailing firms and conglomerates, broadens the business literature.

Awakening the management of coworking spaces

In Awakening the Management of Coworking Spaces, the chapter authors combine a scientific approach with managing implications, developing theoretic constructs, reporting qualitative and quantitative findings about challenges, potentials, effects, managerial solutions, and success stories.

Artisan entrepreneurship

Artisan Entrepreneurship analyses handicraft enterprise using different approaches at an individual, group and societal point of view, providing a better understanding about how these workers contribute to societal wellbeing and aid cultural heritage preservation for future generations.

Entrepreneurship and green finance practices

Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices focuses on critical issues such as the role of Green Financing in Green Entrepreneurship in Asian Countries and looks for the mechanisms that can help in idea-generation and the launching of successful Green Start-ups.

Team for change

Team for Change: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementing Change in the Modern Workplace addresses the problems and multiple complexities of change process, focusing on the most intractable and unpredictable aspect of change: the human aspect.

Advances in accounting education

Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research publication whose purpose is to help meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve accounting classroom instruction at the college and university level.

Wellness, social policy and public health

Wellness, Social Policy and Public Health: Bridging Human Flourishing with Equity explores current welfare policy and its relationship with wellness activities, demonstrating that individual flourishing related to wellness is activated only in a context of solid welfare infrastructures.

Emotion in organizations

In this 19th volume of Research on Emotion in Organizations, editors Neal M. Ashkanasy, Ronald H. Humphrey and Ashlea C. Troth orchestrate a retrospective view of the field in order to address a wide range of emotion-related topics and point to the future of research in organizational behavior an...

The engaged business school

Bridging the gap between business and business schools: fulfilling potential or thwarted ambition. The Engaged Business School is a road map to unlocking the potential between business and business schools at a time when it really matters, responding to a global, economic and social recovery.

Neighbours around the world

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people living next door, analysing the ways in which these relationships are changing in the face of large-scal...

Sport and the environment

This volume examines sport’s relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from th...

The sociological inheritance of the 1960s

The 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of sociology, this book reveals both the continuities and the departures the field has seen in its core principles and approaches over the past several d...

Leading to succeed: essential skills for the new workplace

Clean language interviewing

Combining academic rigour with real application examples, a global range of contributors analyse the use of Clean Language Interviewing in multiple settings including business, education, and healthcare.

Strategizing

Strategy is an essential part of business, but strategizing often gets ignored or left behind. In this exciting new work, Eric J. Bolland introduces strategizing as a key component of strategy development and execution, showing strategizing as a way to aid organizations with their futures.

Building a better normal

Drawing on case studies and narrative reflections, contributors offer crucial insights that can guide higher education and schools of education on structural and conceptual shifts in approaches to leadership, research, teaching, learning, and student and staff well-being.

Developing and engaging clinical leaders in the “new normal” of hospitals

Providing a systematic review of previous literature about the increasingly worrying challenge in transforming doctors to clinical leaders, Lega and Pirino offer a qualitative analysis of different countries facing the issue of training this hybrid role.

Running, identity and meaning

Running, Identity and Meaning showcases how gender, class, age and ethnicity influence whether and how different groups participate in the sport, and explores its role in the reproduction of social structure and the search for distinction.

Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of climate action

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Climate Action examines family businesses in Germany, Australia, the U.S and the U.K, analysing how the SDG13 translates into culture and the practice of doing business, providing insights and key takeaways into how family businesses can play a r...

Decolonisation and legal knowledge

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teachin...

The romance of heroism and heroic leadership

Heroes permeate our culture. But what makes a hero? And what makes heroes 'heroic'? This exciting and innovative study explores how charisma and human needs create images of individuals as heroes and villains.

Transforming state responses to feminicide

This book provides a new, positive story from Latin America by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine how action by the women's movement has resulted in significant improvements in the investigation, prosecution and p...

Broadlands and the new rurality

The work is a story of an English village and rural change more broadly. Based on original fieldwork funded by the RCUK, the book offers an important and original contribution to our understanding of rural spaces and the behaviour of the people who occupy them.

Covid, brexit and the anglosphere

With fresh thinking Covid, Brexit and The Anglosphere equips academics, students policymakers and general readers with the tools to drive growth in a post-Pandemic post- Brexit fragmenting world order facing rapidly advancing technical change.