Groundswell, expanded and revised edition

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an un...

Growth and developmental aspects of credit allocation

Growth and Developmental Aspects of Credit Allocation: An Inquiry for Leading Countries and the Indian States focuses on bank credit and deposit within a variety of economies and specifically examines Indian states to demonstrate how these two financial components are linked to their income growt...

Growth, poverty and developmental aspects of agriculture

This collected edition delves into diverse aspects of agricultural economics and food security across various regions.

Hr without people?

HR Without People? is a stimulating and confrontational challenge to conventional thinking on this people-centric profession’s role in the future of work.

Ideals (innovation and design as leadership)

Inspired by the actual transformation journeys of multinational companies, IDeaLs explores how re-framing our traditional theories reveals a more integrated approach to engaging people for systemic change.

Ideators

Ideators: Their Words and Voices presents the concept of ideation and its applications in a thorough yet accessible format, focusing on the process of idea creation, and also presents a series of protagonists of creativity and innovation who will reflect on their own career changes.

Industry 5.0

Industry 5.0: Pioneering Business and Management Transformations aims to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding, preparing for, and thriving in the era of Industry 5.0.

Industry clusters and innovation in the arab world

Industry clusters promote innovation in the Arab World, through collaboration among businesses, research institutions, and governments. Benefits include the creation and sharing of knowledge, professional networking, access to spill-over knowledge, and specialized talent pools.

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.

Integral ecology and sustainable business

This collection addresses the relationship between business, the natural environment, ethics and spirituality with insights from economists, business scholars, philosophers, lawyers, theologians and practitioners globally. The contributions offer new and invigorating approaches to sustainable bus...

International business in a vuca world

Dedicated to Professor Peter Buckley, OBE, this volume of Progress in International Business Research explores the new challenges for MNEs, SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and INVs (International New Ventures) emerging from this changing and increasingly unpredictable political, economi...

It can be done in government

This provides a roadmap for improving public sector efficiency using teams. Ideal for process improvement initiatives, it distinguishes between processes and projects, emphasizing ongoing, interconnected processes. The book advocates for a balanced internal focus for public sector leaders to enha...

Key success factors of sme internationalisation

This collective book offers a cross-country perspective on the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Scholars from prestigious institutions in Europe, North America, Australia and China provide new insights on how SMEs develop and perform their international activities.

Latino small businesses and the american dream

Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity—a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only am...

Leadership lessons from compelling contexts

This volume uses the idiosyncrasies of compelling contexts to teach fundamental leadership lessons that are applicable to other settings. Practitioners and researchers are challenged to deviate from standard models and provided with new ideas for leadership development.

Lean analytics

Management and organizational studies on blue & grey collar workers

Highlighting the workers who provide the essential services, maintenance and manufactured goods that power the global economy, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers supplies essential knowledge on an often overlooked workforce for a variety of disciplines.

Marketing accountability for marketing and non-marketing outcomes

Review of Marketing Research pushes the boundaries of marketing—broadening the marketing concept to make the world a better place.

Measurement demystified

Your Groundbreaking Framework for Measurement and ReportingMost people find measurement, analytics, and reporting daunting—and L&D professionals are no different. As these practices have become critically important for organizations’ efforts to improve performance, talent development professi...

Metaverse dynamics

Metaverse Dynamics: Exploring the Intersection of Technology, Business Transformation, and User Experience offers a deep exploration of the Metaverse phenomenon, its evolution, and its profound implications for businesses, individuals, and society.

Migrant entrepreneurship

Migrant Entrepreneurship delivers an understanding of up-to-date knowledge on the topic of migrant entrepreneurship, addressing the most relevant gaps, and suggesting new directions for research and policy-making so as to have a broad impact on theory and practice.

Modern organisational governance

In this book therefore we take a broad (and possibly radical) approach and consider governance requirements in the modern world - not just for corporations but for all forms of organisation.

New directions in the future of work

New Directions in the Future of Work explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key challenges in this evolving area of debate.

Organic growth disciplines

If your firm doesn't grow sustainably, can you grow professionally? In Organic Growth Disciplines, business expert Devanathan Sudharshan introduces a new framework for exploring the fuzzy front end of the search for growth opportunities.

Platforms everywhere

Platforms Everywhere: Transforming Organizations by Integrating Ecosystems in Business Design presents a new comprehensive paradigm for platform businesses and a practical methodology for platforming organizations across sectors and industries.

Policy solutions for economic growth in a developing country

Perspectives on Afghanistan’s Trade and Development offers a rich and varied policy analysis for those who wish to design a policy to bolster exports from Afghanistan, and for academicians, researchers and students who wish to gain greater insight into this developing economy.

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.

Resilient businesses for sustainability

Today,there are many intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, the 2nd volume provides invaluable insights into the role of Human Resource for sustainability and Marketing for building resilient businesses.Offering a comprehensive examination of how resilience is harnessed to build ...

Responsible ai

Learn how to design and operationalize a responsible AI strategy for your organization with this guide for business leaders, covering its strategic, operational and technical bases.

Restarting the future

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what...

Rural marketing as a tool for national development

Charles Chatterjee delves into the multifaceted realm of rural marketing and its impact on national advancement.

Smart industry - better management

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Smart Industry, Better Management explores concepts in future-proofing industrial and product systems, use of cyber physical systems, digitization, interconnectivity, and new manufacturing and product technologies.

Smash

Market shaping is a powerful strategy that unleashes value gains from greater market size, efficiency and profitability. This book, written by experts in the field, presents a universal, teachable, and actionable framework for understanding and shaping markets.

Social entrepreneurship

Volume Five of Business and Society 360 focuses on research from leading scholars in this discipline contribute to a 360-degree evaluation of theory, including cross-discipline research, empirical explorations, cross-cultural studies, literature critiques, and meta-analysis projects.

Sovereign wealth funds and long-term investing

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars. Recently emerging as a major force in global financial markets, SWFs have other distinctive features besides their state-owned status: they are mainly locat...

Strategic information system agility

Ensuring an efficient and agile information system in organizations is a real challenge. Only an agile IT strategy can underpin this. Strategic Information System Agility offers methodological and practical support to achieve effective IT agility in complex and dynamic environments.

Strategic orientation and performance in immigrant firms

Strategic Orientation and Performance in Immigrant Firms introduces a new conceptual model that considers how the entrepreneur’s migration journey serves as a vital source of entrepreneurial heterogeneity, accounting for differences in strategic orientation and performance between immigrant- and ...

Strategic outlook in business and finance innovation

Strategic Outlook in Business and Finance Innovation: Multidimensional Policies for Emerging Economies brings together new theoretical frameworks and develops appropriate strategies to improve the performance of firms globally.

Sustainability in light of governance and artificial intelligence applications

The research presented here emphasizes the vital role of governance and artificial intelligence in ensuring business sustainability across various industries, highlighting the key elements that show how business governance and AI impact company survival.

Sustainable agricultural practices

This comprehensive collection presents a comprehensive exploration of contemporary challenges and innovative solutions in agriculture.

Sustainable entrepreneurship

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs create value from sustainable opportunities offers unique new insights, represents a step towards the development of a more comprehensive analysis of sustainable entrepreneurship.

Sustainable transport and tourism destinations

Transport and sustainability are intrinsically linked. This book examines the links between transport, tourism, and sustainability by means of a series of large case studies covering several countries.

Technology, management and business

Advanced Series in Management: Volume 31 offers cutting-edge research from an international range of academics, who engage with the potential opportunities and challenges of digitization in the workplace.

The digital transformation of organizations

Filling a gap in the research, Volpentesta highlights the novelties related to digital transformation and focuses on the perspective of organizations and industries.

The digital transformation roadmap

The Digital Transformation Roadmap shows every leader how to think beyond the churn of new technologies and rebuild their organization for a world of constant change.

The emerald handbook of appearance in the workplace

The first of its kind in addressing appearance and careers with varying approaches and across a diverse range of concepts, this Handbook provides an essential overview of the unspoken impact that personal presentation and assumptions can have on how employees are perceived and ultimately progress...

The emerald handbook of entrepreneurship in tourism, travel and hospitality

This book is a practical handbook for entrepreneurship in tourism related industries. The book will provide students and prospective entrepreneurs with the knowledge, know-how and best practices in order to assist them in planning, implementing and managing business ventures in the field of tourism.