Focusing or fragmenting representation at work?

Reflecting on how existing forms of workplace representation have changed, Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? raises proactive and thought-provoking questions for researchers examining trade unions, industrial relations and the sociology of work, as well as current trade unionists an...

Tourism policy-making in the context of contested wicked problems

This volume offers insights into pathways towards tourism sustainability, analysing current problem-solving capabilities and competences of governments to deal with specific tourism policy issues (or wicked problems) such as the climate emergency, tourism mobility, indigenous disadvantages, the C...

Financial inclusion across asia

Topics discussed in this collection include financial inclusion in under-served markets, financial inclusion products and services, financial inclusion for sustainable and responsible business, micro, small, and medium-sized business practices.

Business strategies and ethical challenges in the digital ecosystem

Business Strategies and Ethical Challenges in the Digital Ecosystem acts as a forum for examining current and future trends related to management and technological adoption, from digital business strategy and industry 5.0, changing consumer behaviour and sustainability to marketing, ethics, data ...

How entrepreneurs are driving sustainable development

How Entrepreneurs are Driving Sustainable Development explores the variety of entrepreneurs across business and their contributions to achieving sustainable development.

Leading effective engineering teams

Specialised tourism products

Specialised Tourism Products models a systematic approach to tourism development, accentuating the growing significance of specialised tourism content in the wake of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Current trends in female entrepreneurship

While acknowledgement of the contributions of female entrepreneurship is present in academic research, Michela Mari and Sara Poggesi uncover two under-researched aspects: innovation in female entrepreneurship and immigrant female entrepreneurship.

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.

Extracurricular enterprise and entrepreneurship activity

Reviewing the growth and development of enterprise and entrepreneurship extracurricular activities within Higher Education Institutions globally, Extracurricular Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Activity considers the form these activities take – their benefits and impacts upon participants, insti...

Breaking ground

Exploring the multifaceted relationship between gender and the construction industry, this work addresses the scarcity of women in construction and demonstrates how we can overcome these challenges.

Sustainable business in the arab region

Randa Diab-Bahman explores the understanding and expression of CSR in an Arab context; through a qualitative pilot study with prominent CSR experts (people with leading roles in CSR in the private, public and non-profit sector) in a predominately Islamic setting.

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.

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...

Advances in taxation

Volume 31 of Advances in Taxation includes studies from expert contributors, exploring topics such as: firms’ domestic and foreign effective tax rates; tax avoidance; and tax compliance. A study reviews prior literature on tax increment financing, an economic development tool frequently used by U...

Leading to succeed: essential skills for the new workplace

Development of international entrepreneurship based on corporate accounting and reporting according to ifrs

Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B provides insights into practical experiences with IFRS application in corporate accounting and reporting adding to ongoing discussions on international trade development through IFR...

Predictive hr analytics

Confidently use predictive analytic and statistical techniques to identify key relationships and trends in HR-related data to aid strategic organizational decision-making.

Business acumen for strategic communicators

Drawing on Ragas and Culp’s prior books, this workbook offers hands-on learning opportunities to help put newly acquired business acumen knowledge into practice. Through briefs, exercises and discussion activities readers will learn to analyze and interpret key business materials produced by comp...

Understanding financial risk management

Financial risk management is a topic of primary importance in financial markets. It is important to learn how to measure and control risk, how to be primed for the opportunity of compensative return, and how to avoid useless exposure.

Research in the history of economic thought and methodology

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.

Sustainable tourism, part a

Bringing together diverse perspectives, including those of destination managers, policymakers, tour operators, local communities, and travellers Sustainable Tourism fosters a collective understanding of sustainability in tourism and inspires a shared commitment towards responsible tourism practices.

Participation based intelligent manufacturing

Presenting ready-to-use, innovative solutions based on scientific evidence, Birutė Mockevičienė has designed this decade’s essential guide for navigating, streamlining and revitalising the industrial field.

Sustainable tourism, part b

The ultimate goal of Sustainable Tourism is to empower the industry to achieve a harmonious balance between conservation and progress, forging a responsible and resilient tourism sector that caters not only to contemporary travellers but also safeguards the well-being of future generations.

Sustainable management in covid-19 times

COVID-19 has demanded management innovations across all sectors. As urban systems are made more sustainable, and our focus shifts towards the Circular Economy, this timely book sheds new light on emerging issues.

Bleeding-edge entrepreneurship

This book contains an Open Access chapter Bleeding-edge Entrepreneurship illuminates new possibilities within the domain of business theory and practice, expanding entrepreneurship’s massive potential to create unexplored physical and virtual realms.

Contemporary methods and austrian economics

Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics, examines the relationship between Austrian economics and these new social scientific methods.

Imperialism and the political economy of global south’s debt

Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt recognises the systemic nature of the Global South’s external debt, revealed only further by the economic uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the need to analyse it in relation to existing imperialist structures.

Responsible management of shifts in work modes – values for post pandemic sustainability, volume 2

Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes – Values for Post Pandemic Sustainability, Volume 2 explores ethical leadership, people management, resilience, and the management of consequences for business and healthcare systems.

Now hiring

Now Hiring allows readers to consider their individual biases - as well as organizational employment practices and processes - and assess how these factors may be altered to increase hiring for individuals with a criminal history, prompting conversations surrounding current hiring systems.

Value management implementation in construction

Value Management Implementation in Construction addresses various factors that can enhance the application of the discipline as well as its adoption among concerned stakeholders and discusses the practice of value management in various developed and developing countries.

Current problems of the world economy and international trade

Current Problems of the World Economy and International Trade reveals the determinants of competitiveness and drivers of economic growth of individual countries provides useful applied advice on post-crisis recovery and the development of the world economy and international trade in the post-pand...

Marconomics

Marconomics is about human economics. This text introduces marconomics, examining how the use of the social sciences, consumer behavior in particular, is used to explain and develop economic activity. Blawatt argues the philosophy and principles of the classical school of economic thought are pro...

Institutional interconnections and cross-boundary cooperation in inclusive business

Institutional Interconnections and Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Inclusive Business explores the nature and characteristics of institutional interconnections in inclusive business and how these connections can be developed to help alleviate poverty through business activities in developing countr...

The impact of foreign interventions on democracy and human rights

The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights provides holistic studies exploring the relationship between military and economic interventions and the policies, methods, intentions, and consequences of the various American, French, and Chinese interventions in the case studies...

Nature-based solutions for more sustainable cities

Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities makes a clear case of performances, impacts, and benefits generated by NBS in cities providing a comprehensive framework approach to understand the real and full potential of NBS at the urban level.

Entrepreneurial place leadership

Entrepreneurial Place Leadership explores how locations with entrepreneurial meaning are created, maintained, exploited, and amplified to generate future value, considering how entrepreneurs lead in a complex entrepreneurial landscape.

Corporate financial distress

Financial distress and crises for businesses can be used to implement substantial organizational changes and turnaround the damage done to achieve financial equilibrium in the short term and financial stability in the long term. Plans, methodology and tools are provided here to examine how this t...

Secrets of working across five continents

As technology erodes the impact of time and distance, more and more people live and work across cultures. This book equips readers with the tools to embrace the richness and beauty brought by cultural diversity, and ultimately engage with the key skills for thriving in today’s fast-paced, highly ...

Entrepreneurship and post-pandemic future

Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Future illuminates entrepreneurship in the African setting, focusing on the prospects, challenges as well as the post-pandemic future and captures insights on the impact of Covid-19, the containment strategies that businesses are embracing to cope, and the post-...

Transformation of strategic alliances in emerging markets

Transformations of Strategic Alliances in Emerging Markets Volume II deals with changes in strategic alliances in the complex settings of European emerging markets. It includes 40 years’ worth of data as it makes an in depth study of the changes in education, networks, work performance and enviro...

Advances in accounting education

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations investigates how teaching methods or curricula/programs in accounting can be improved.

Organizational intelligence and knowledge analytics

Organizational Intelligence and Knowledge Analytics expands the traditional intelligence life cycle to a new framework - Design-Analyze-Automate-Accelerate - and clearly lays out the alignments between knowledge capital and intelligence strategies.

Leading lean six sigma

Leading Lean Six Sigma: Research on Leadership for Operational Excellence Deployment assesses the impact of organizational leadership on the deployment of Lean Six Sigma in organisations. This book details what leadership traits are needed for a successful deployment, presenting a ground-breaking...

Measurement in marketing

Measurement in Marketing is built to provide a state-of-the-art discussion of current topics in measurement and deepen readers’ appreciation of the fundamental role of measurement in empirical research in marketing.

The law and economics of patent damages, antitrust, and legal process

The Law and Economics of Patent Damages, Antitrust, and Legal Process examines several areas of important research by a variety of international scholars. Areas include technical papers on the appropriate way to estimate damages in patent disputes and methods for evaluating relevant markets.

Strategic corporate communication in the digital age

Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Age explores how contemporary communication approaches are crossing boundaries as innovative media formats and digital transformations offer new challenges and opportunities to academia and practitioners.

Tourism destination quality

Tourism Destination Quality: Attributes and Dimensions critically compares dimensions of tourism destination quality established in the TDQ study with dimensions of product quality, service quality, place quality and destination service/product quality.

Workplace productivity and management practices

How firms are structured, the management practices they develop, as well as the way in which workers and managers interact can have wider implications for both the performance of the firm and the well-being of its workers. This volume contains ten original articles that investigate aspects relate...