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...

The market for skill

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal experience for young workers in crafts and trade. In England, when apprenticeship reached its peak, as man...

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.

Reclaiming economic sovereignty in africa

This book has discussed the critical question of why the continent, despite being the most endowed place on the planet, with a diverse range of natural and human resources, has remained the most impoverished region on the planet. The book shows that this is largely due to lack of economic soverei...

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...

Battlefield tourism

Introducing real-world case studies from across the globe, Battlefield Tourism contributes to the growing fields of dark tourism, destination and risk management, and tourism security.

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...

The future of cultural tourism

This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncert...

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...

Leadership

This volume explores the multi-dimensional nature of leadership, focusing on leaders, followers, and context. It includes articles on leadership and diversity, leader-follower relationships, and systems of interaction. The book is designed for scholars, instructors, and practitioners.

Developing multicultural leadership using knowledge dynamics and cultural intelligence

Combining organizational context, knowledge dynamics and cultural intelligence, the chapters here provide guidance on not only how to lead effectively in a multicultural context, but to leverage these global workforces to increase bottom-line results and improve employee satisfaction.

Digitalization as a strategic tool for entrepreneurship survival and crisis management

The ongoing socio-economic situation in Ukraine is being scrutinized in real-time, providing a distinctive opportunity in this volume to analyze its impact on entrepreneurs’ behavior during their efforts to stabilize businesses and the predominant challenges that most MSEs confront.

Assertiveness in the workplace

This timely work delves into the intricacies of assertiveness and its profound impact on personal and business competitiveness, within the context of emerging and developing countries.

Advances in mergers and acquisitions

Volume 23 of this annual series explores a range of issues, from cross-border mergers and acquisitions, MNE strategies and multi-business firms to outsourcing and strategic choices.

Effective police leadership in the 21st century

Effective Police Leadership in the 21st Century: New Paradigms for a Novel Context provides a platform and pathway to equip existing and emerging Police leaders with a range of leadership mindsets and skillsets.

Creative (and cultural) industry entrepreneurship in the 21st century

Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.

Leaders’ decision making and neuroscience

Leaders’ Decision Making and Neuroscience will take you on a journey of how a decision is made in your brain from a perspective of neuroscience and provides incredible insight into the nature of how the brain and nervous systems work in relation to decision making.

Advances in management accounting

Volume 36 of Advances in Management Accounting features a diverse range of authors from around the world, focusing on theoretically sound and practical management accounting research which has a cutting-edge and wide-reaching appeal to both academics and practitioners.

Advances in accounting behavioral research

The chapters collected in Volume 27 include Budgetary Participation, Family Business Environment and Auditor Judgment, CSR as Insurance, IRS Job Characteristics Model, Early Job Attainment of Accounting Majors, Fairness in Cost Allocation and Work of Special Agents of the IRS Using the Job Charac...

Lean analytics

Organization development in the largest global organization

This book explores the U.S. military's extensive OD programs over 50 years, identifying three epochs: Traditional OD, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Continuous Process Improvement (CPI). It examines how OD interventions evolved to meet environmental demands, enhancing operational readiness.

Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting

Intends to offer research and cases that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. This series features articles on a range of important topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, corporate responsibility, ethical...

The machine age of customer insight

The Machine Age of Customer Insight demonstrates the impact of machine learning and data analytics, combining an academic state-of-the-art overview of machine learning with cases from well-known companies. These cases show the opportunities and challenges of the transformation process for busines...

New approaches to recruitment and selection

Current recruitment practices are a cloning process which seeks to match applicants with their corporate culture. This ignores applicants with different points of view and differing value systems. The authors explore the idea that, while all organisations should promote their core values, the app...

Nurturing modalities of inquiry in entrepreneurship research

This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.

Faculty development on a shoestring

This book addresses the needs of faculty at institutions with limited resources for professional development. Written by experts from the US and Europe, it shares low-cost programs with proven outcomes. Each chapter provides details for implementation and evaluation, aiming to level the playing f...

Small business management and control of the uncertain external environment

This edited collection investigates the potential impact of long-term planning and strategic awareness on the ability of SMEs to remain competitive. The authors demonstrate that whether SMEs are able to identify and act upon external forces and factors, or not, is the defining indicator of their ...