Empowering women through italy's recovery and resilience plan

Empowering Women through Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides a comprehensive examination of women’s empowerment within the framework of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

Managing the partners in strategic alliances

This book is part of the Research in Strategic Alliances series, offering new scholarship on strategic alliances.It covers interdisciplinary frameworks, practical problems, and emerging inquiries. The book includes empirical studies and insights on partner management, selection, control, interpar...

Conflict management and leadership development using mediation

Conflict management is key in leadership development. Mediation enhances leadership and organizational growth in higher education. With frequent conflicts, this workbook offers strategies to help college personnel manage conflicts, improve communication, and address issues effectively.

Research in economic history

For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.

Market grooming

Establishing a paradigm shift in the field of marketing, this thought-provoking scholarly work examines how customers, markets, and communities are groomed, socially conditioned, subliminally marketed to, and influenced by the use of AI technologies.

Resolving the african leadership challenge

Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa’s leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness.

Agents of innovation

What does it mean to innovate? What skills are needed? What thought processes are involved? Answers to these questions can be found in the real-life stories of Agents of Innovation.

Navigating corporate cultures from within

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise.

Mindful marketing and strategic management

Mindful Marketing and Strategic Management is a great resource for management and practitioners as it provides practical tools and approaches for incorporating mindfulness into effective strategic management practices

The engineering executive's primer

Communication in uncertain times

Communication in Uncertain Times explores how different organizations, from private to governmental and non-profit, deal with issues, risks, and crisis situations through communication.

Regenerative tourism industry

An in-depth and practical approach to regenerative tourism. This innovative study analyses the synergistic relationship between gender equality, tourism and climate change and shows researchers and policymakers what they can do to improve both social and environmental conditions.

Do women entrepreneurs practice a different kind of entrepreneurship?

Alison Theaker examines female entrepreneurs’ experiences to understand whether their entrepreneurship practices conform to existing models, and whether the concept of “success” has different meanings for such businesses than in mainstream entrepreneurial theory.

Digital twins in the built environment

Digital Twins in the Built Environment offers a comprehensive, systematic and clear view of digital twin development in the engineering, architecture, construction and facilities management sectors.

Assertiveness in the health domain

This comprehensive guide offers invaluable tools and strategies for educators, parents, caregivers, and health professionals to cultivate assertive skills, enhance the quality of care, and improve teamwork and interpersonal relationships in health-related environments and educational institutions.

Designing a safer built environment

Designing a Safer Built Environment places the statutory obligations on designers into the real world of commercial projects.

A how-to guide for business school practitioners

This book addresses the struggles of independent colleges, focusing on declining enrollments and financial constraints. It highlights factors business school practitioners must consider and offers guidance for parents and counselors. The authors propose remedies to improve business programs and p...

Digital mentorship

Authors embark on a comprehensive exploration of digital mentoring within the landscape of Industry 5.0, elucidating the crucial interplay between human mentoring and AI in the digital age, ultimately paving the way for nuanced discussions on the future of mentoring amidst the burgeoning influenc...

Managing interpartner cooperation in strategic alliances

This book explores new scholarship in strategic alliances, covering interdisciplinary frameworks, practical problems, and empirical studies. The 12 chapters address issues like legitimation, coopetition, trust, innovation, R&D collaboration, knowledge flows, and partner diversity.

Managing team centricity in modern organizations

This volume addresses the challenges of leading teams, especially with the shift to remote work due to COVID-19. It includes literature reviews, conceptual development, and research on team management, performance, flexible work arrangements, and virtual teams, offering insights for HR and organi...

Managerial practice issues in strategy and organization

This volume explores diverse issues in strategy science, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and hybrid organizations. It covers topics like Big Science collaborations, open innovations, business modeling, management of uncertainty, and institutional logics in alliances, providing a comprehe...

The global evolution, changing landscape and future of financial markets

The Global Evolution, Changing Landscape and Future of Financial Markets provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolving financial landscape and the importance of creating a more inclusive and diverse digital finance ecosystem.

Big data applications in labor economics

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. This volume showcases original research using Big Data to gain fresh insights into how labor markets work, compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the econo...

The role of artificial intelligence applications in business

The Role of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Business examines key aspects of how digital technologies impact businesses, including AI-powered chatbots, self-service portals, and online customer support systems which can help enhance the overall customer experience.

Neurodiversity in entrepreneurship

The seven chapters in this volume advance our understanding of neurodiversity in entrepreneurship by offering theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and interdisciplinary insights. 

Native american and indigenous peoples' world of work

This book contains an Open Access Chapter. Native American and Indigenous Peoples' World of Work aims to fill the gap in research into Native American and indigenous peoples' work issues in human resource management and related fields, highlighting benefits of including indigenous people in organ...

Human resource management

Human Resource Management: Rationalising Managerial Decisions provides a concise overview of current HRM practices, revisiting fundamental concepts and examining their contemporary applications.

Managing and negotiating disagreements

Managing and Negotiating Disagreements shows how AI can both aid and complicate conflict resolution processes, offering readers a nuanced perspective on the intersection of technology and human conflict management.

Ai will take your job, and it's for the best

AI Will Take Your Job, and It's for the Best examines how AI will free people from mundane tasks, allowing them to pursue more meaningful and creative roles. It’s more than a forecast—it’s a guide to thriving in the age of AI and embracing the radical new social contract it requires.

The ethically responsible organization

This book argues that businesses must be ethically responsible, emphasizing the importance of building and sustaining an ethical culture. It discusses preventive measures to avoid scandals, the role of continuous learning, and strategies for reinforcing ethical practices through consistent traini...

Future-proof accounting

Future-Proof Accounting: Data and Technology Strategies equips accounting students, professors, and industry experts with the knowledge needed to navigate the dynamic realm of accounting.

Text messages to my sons (new edition)

2025 North American Book Award Gold Medal Winner in Parenting/FamilyReader Views 5 Star Review Recipient2025 Independent Author Network Book Award FinalistText Messages to My Sons offers a simple, heartfelt way for parents to foster deeper connections with their children through daily messages of...

Marketing for the health and fitness industry

Marketing for the Health and Fitness Industry: Technology, Strategy and Value provides an encompassing exploration of the current landscape in health and fitness marketing, expertly navigating the evolving challenges and transformations shaping the industry.

The vulnerable consumer

Review of Marketing Research pushes the boundaries of marketing—broadening the marketing concept to make the world a better place. Here, leading scholars provide new insights, approaches and directions to set out for research on consumer vulnerabilities.

Cultural values in strategy and organization

This book explores the growth of strategy science, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and the impact of hybrid organizations. Across 11 chapters, it highlights the need for diverse research in strategy issues, covering on topics like cultural integration, corporate responsibility, and natio...

Marketing and design in the service sector

Providing a practical, evidence-based vision of how to enhance and enrich customer experience through tangibles, exterior and interior design and space within the service industry. In other words, looking through the space-scape and design-scape to improve service performance to better address cu...

Cognitive psychology and tourism

Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’.

Amplifying management research for the common good

This book bridges the gap between management research and real-world application, making empirical insights accessible to non-academic audiences. Experts expand on research to offer practical lessons for individuals and organizations. Covering topics from supply chains to workplace changes, it pr...

Stress and quality of working life

This eighth edition of the Stress and Quality of Working Life series offers theories and methods on coping with stress and quality of working life issues. It addresses traditional, work-from-home, and hybrid workplace models, providing insights from international experts on managing stress at wor...

Sustainable agricultural practices

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

Self-healing and self-recovering systems under the spatial grasp model

Perfect for system scientists, application programmers, industry managers, defence and security commanders, emergency agencies, university students, philosophers, and psychologists too.

Technology and innovation in latin america

Technology and Innovation in Latin America gathers scholars from all over Latin America to present their research exploring the dual aspects of technology and innovation and their interrelatedness.

Blessed are those who ask the questions

This book explores the intersection of management, spirituality, and religion in organizations, posing critical, often overlooked questions. It examines how leadership, culture, and belief systems shape organizational dynamics and proposes new research directions beyond Western, Christian framewo...

Accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion in the cultural sector

Advocating for the immersion of ADEI practices into the heart of art organizations, this title links theory, practice and context as a way to further enrich cultural communities and wield the deeply human power of art for real human impact.

The $5k startup

Start a Real Business—Even If You’re Broke, Busy, or Burnt OutYou don’t need a trust fund, tech idea, or business degree to become your own boss. You need a plan—and less than $5,000.The $5K Startup is the ultimate playbook for launching a legit business on a shoestring budget. Whether you’re a 9...

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 ...

Transformation of supply chain ecosystems

Transformation of Supply Chain Ecosystems: Technological innovations and collaborations brings together the contributions from the experts in designing and implementing supply chain systems, like inventory and transport management, warehouse operations, analysing customer preferences, and supply ...

Trajectories of declining and destructive capitalism

Volume 40 explores themes related to various “trajectories of declining and destructive capitalism” within the framework of contemporary Marxism. Social scientists from ten countries at various stages of their careers work to strengthen Marxism, applying methods to the interpretation and, above a...