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Food security in an uncertain world
Andrew Schmitz, P. Lynn Kennedy, Troy G. Schmitz,International trade agreements are central to food security. Food security and poverty are also linked. Even with increased productivity, problems attached to food security cannot be solved without significant changes in income distribution.
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Social ecology in holistic leadership
Erik Lemcke,Many managers and consultants have academic backgrounds in business administration and are trained in contemporary management methods that focus on decision making and economic efficiency. The question is: Are these academic methods the best to further the development of society as well as organi...
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Strategic corporate responsibility and green management
Ananda Das Gupta,This volume of Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability harnesses corporate responsibility and green management to integrate social and environmental concerns into productive business operations, paving the way for future successes in emerging economies.
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Transport and pandemic experiences
Maria Attard, Corinne Mulley,Transport and Pandemic Experiences discusses how the accumulated knowledge of the pandemic needs to be capitalised in our fight against climate change and helps to identify future research imperatives for better understanding and greater policy transferability.
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Team for change
Debra Orr Ph.D.,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.
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Strategic marketing in tourism services
Rodoula H. Tsiotsou, Ronald E. Goldsmith,Focuses on marketing strategies implemented in tourism services firms and includes a collection of papers related to specific marketing strategies. This title presents the application of specific marketing strategies such as experiential marketing, branding, target marketing, relationship marketi...
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The global private health & fitness business
Jerónimo García-Fernández, Pablo Gálvez Ruiz,The Global Private Health & Fitness Business shows the globalization of the health and fitness industry, and its different forms of management according to different countries, the objective being to show the various business models in the fitness industry in seventeen countries around the wo...
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Governance-led corporate performance
Apu Manna, Tarak Nath Sahu, Arindam Gupta,Governance-Led Corporate Performance explores the corporate governance system for developing economies, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between ownership structure, board composition, director multiplicity and CEO duality in relation to corporate performance.
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Environmental reporting and management in africa
Venancio Tauringana,Environment management and protection are top global priorities, but little is known about the reporting in regions of Africa. The six papers in this volume provide much needed information for academics, practitioners and policy makers about environmental accounting and management in Africa.
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Applications of management science
Kenneth D. Lawrence, Dinesh R. Pai,Applications of Management Science is core for those academics, researchers, and practitioners of management science in mitigating significant managerial decision-making problems, for both the public and the private sectors.
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Organizational imaginaries
Katherine K. Chen, Victor Tan Chen,This volume explores an expansive array of organizational imaginaries, or conceptions of organizational possibilities, with a focus on collectivist-democratic organizations, to showcase how organizations can ultimately support and serve broader communities.
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The economics of covid-19
Badi H. Baltagi, Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti,The Economics of COVID-19 contains selected contributions analysing the effects of the global pandemic on macroeconomics, computable general equilibrium models and financial markets, as well as health studies proposing to improve the traditional epidemic models.
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Resistance and accountability
Cheryl R. Lehman,How do public spaces generate accountability and advance social equity? Stimulating the conversation, this volume explores the creation of meaning, the increasing confrontation between regulators and the community they are purported to serve, and the prevalent conflicts in seeking a balancing of ...
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Agri-food 4.0
Rahul S. Mor, Dinesh Kumar, Anupama Singh,Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies addresses new research on digital technologies in the Agri-Food industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts.
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Polish marxism after luxemburg
Jan Toporowski,In Polish Marxism after Luxemburg, Jan Toporowski and leading experts offer a unique and insightful overview of Polish political economic ideas since the early 20th century, building an introduction to some key themes and figurehead political economists.
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Food security in a food abundant world
Andrew Schmitz, P. Lynn Kennedy, Troy G. Schmitz,Food insecurity can result from various events. While an adequate food supply is necessary, when food is abundant the entitlement to food is limited by endowments, the ability to trade, and potential transfers. This volume considers trends in economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, inc...
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Responsible management in theory and practice in muslim societies
Yusuf M. Sidani,Responsible Management in Theory and Practice in Muslim Societies delineates principles of responsible management from an Islamic perspective, exploring the concept of responsibility in Islamic religious texts, and how the understanding of responsibility evolved in Islamic jurisprudence.
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New directions in the future of work
Mónica Santana, Ramón Valle-Cabrera,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.
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Talent management in small advanced economies
Snejina Michailova, Dana L. Ott,Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies explores ideas of talent and talent management, and why it matters in the context of small advanced economies. Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott incorporate practitioner and consultant’s views to examine attracting, developing and retaining talent in...
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Advances in taxation
John Hasseldine,This volume presents studies from expert contributors exploring topics such as: corporate tax planning, tax-related accounting misstatements and uncertain tax positions, financial statement readability, the tax effects of a major pension scheme change, and non-professional investor and taxpayer j...
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Radical transparency and digital democracy
Luke Heemsbergen,This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. The analysis, grounded from past examples of novel forms of mediation, unearths radical change over time, from a trickle of paper-based leaks to the modern digital torrent.
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The ten commandments of lean six sigma
Jiju Antony, Vijaya Sunder M, Chad Laux, Elizabeth Cudney,Presented from the perspective of practitioners, researchers and academics, The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma serves as a practical guide for senior managers and executives who want to achieve operational and service excellence in various manufacturing, service and public sector organizations.
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The contribution of fiction to organizational ethics
Howard Harris, Michael Schwartz,Stories are essential to any organization. They help organizations define who they are, what they do, and how they do it. In this issue we consider how fiction has questioned the moral rules, and examined such situations, and in doing so how it has contributed to our understanding of organization...
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Innovation and the arts
Piero Formica, John Edmondson,By dwelling on the need for the convergence of business, innovation and the arts, this book highlights the value of lowering the psychological, organizational and institutional barriers that keep them apart. For educators and practitioners, this is an in-depth discussion designed to stimulate awa...
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Including a symposium on latin american monetary thought
Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak,In addition to general research contributions, volume 36C features a symposium edited by Andrés Álvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America. The symposium features contributions from Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Ricardo Solis Rosales, Florencia Sember, and Edn...
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Beyond perceptions, crafting meaning
Cheryl R. Lehman,Researching accounting’s participation in financial regulation, banking practices, managerial incentives and environmental disclosures this volume presents scholarly work adopting interdisciplinary approaches in auditing and accountability realms.
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Job crafting
Davide de Gennaro,The proactive behavior of job crafting is intended to better align a job with the individual's personal characteristics, knowledge, skills, and abilities. This book provides a uniform conceptual framework on this area of study and demonstrates how its practice results in a more meaningful and sa...
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Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of industry, innovation and infrastructure
Naomi Birdthistle, Rob Hales,Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure examines family businesses in Algeria, Japan, Australia and Germany, analysing how the SDG9 translates into family businesses and providing insights into how businesses can advance innovation, industrialisa...
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Strategizing
Eric J. Bolland,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.
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The savvy investor's guide to pooled investments
H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz,The Savvy Investor's Guide to Pooled Investments offers a practical guide to anyone interested in gaining a basic understanding of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, and real estate investment trusts. It uses a Q&A format to examine what you want an...
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Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak,Volume 40A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the radical economist David Gordon.
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Principles and fundamentals of islamic management
Seyed Mohammad Moghimi,Principles and Fundamentals of Islamic Management examines the concept of business and public management from the viewpoint of Islam. Providing a much-needed insight into the practicalities of management operations in an Islamic context, this book is essential reading for researchers, managers, a...
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Stem-professional women's exclusion in the canadian space industry
Stefanie Ruel,STEM-Professional Women’s Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry: Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space showcases the ‘how’ of exclusion of STEM-professional women from management and executive positions.
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Philosophy of management and sustainability
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff,Using an interdisciplinary focus, this book combines the research disciplines of philosophy, business management and sustainability to aid and advance scholar and practitioner understanding of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Enterprise risk management in europe
Marco Maffei,Enterprise Risk Management in Europe advances understanding of ERM in Europe, providing a novel and unique set of perspectives on the ongoing dynamics between ERM and corporate processes. This is an essential guide for researchers, practitioners and policy makers both in and beyond European borders.
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An introduction to algorithmic finance, algorithmic trading and blockchain
Satya Chakravarty, Palash Sarkar,The purpose of the book is to provide a broad-based accessible introduction to three of the presently most important areas of computational finance, namely, option pricing, algorithmic trading and blockchain. This will provide a basic understanding required for a career in the finance industry an...
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Creativity and marketing
Eleonora Pantano,Creativity and Marketing: The Fuel for Success presents a diverse collection of theoretical analysis, real world evidence, and case study applications to synthesize emerging studies on how creativity is important for marketing success.
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Looking for information
Lisa M. Given, Donald O. Case, Rebekah Willson,This fifth edition is redesigned to reflect the breadth of research across information behaviour studies, with a new streamlined, six-chapter structure, presenting a refreshed look at information needs and seeking practices, while also embracing contemporary concepts such as information use, crea...
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The cross-disciplinary perspectives of management
Yaakov Weber, Demet Varoğlu, Evangelos Tsoukatos, S. M. Riad Shams,This book provides cross-disciplinary management research that integrates theories, concepts, and perspectives from two or more scientific disciplines. It aims to resolve complex theoretical problems within multiple industries, fields and areas of management including mergers, SMEs, hospitality, ...
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Advances in the technology of managing people
Pamela Ann Gordon, Julie A. Overbey,The book provides a comprehensive look at emerging technological trends in the workplace. Technological issues and trends are compiled from different venues and explored from management, HR, ethical, and organizational behavior viewpoints.
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Smart cities
Ayodeji E. Oke, Seyi S. Stephen, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Deji Rufus Ogunsemi, Isaac Olaniyi Aje and moreProfessionals in the construction industry must respond quickly to meet the increasing pressures of heightened urban migration, and provide sustainable alternatives to resource scarcity in established cities – Smart Cities offers solutions to the demands of rising urban populations.
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Managing silence in workplaces
Sivaram Vemuri,Managing Silence in Workplaces explores employee voice and the issues inherent for organizations in not allowing their employees to freely express their feelings and thoughts in the workplace. The study promotes a transdisciplinary approach combining perspectives on employee silence from human re...
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The natural economic science
Paul Fudulu,Economics is widely regarded as a social science. In this ground-breaking new study, Paul Fudulu crosses the divide between natural and social science to introduce a new theory of natural economic science, based on one of the most important causal laws of physics: the entropic degradation of the ...
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New insights on trust in business-to-business relationships
Houcine Akrout, Karine Raies, Arch G. Woodside,New Insights on Trust in Business-to-Business Relationships provides readers with advanced original insights on trust antecedents, processes and consequences within the B2B marketing context and offers practical tools alongside suggestions for future research.
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Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting
C. Richard Baker,Devoted to publishing high-quality research and cases focusing on professional responsibilities of accountants, this volume explores topics such as whistleblowing, sustainability reporting, and ethical tax standards.
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Designing and tracking knowledge management metrics
Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Farah Gheriss, Denise Bedford,Knowledge management metrics are one of the weakest areas of practice in the field. Providing practical guidance for identifying different types of measurements and metrics, as well as methods for defining and collection information about metrics, this is an essential book for knowledge managemen...
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Advances in mergers and acquisitions
Sydney Finkelstein, Cary L. Cooper,Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions stands out from the competition due to its focus on three key characteristics: studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspective.
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Diversity in action
Marina Latukha,Diversity in Action: Managing Diverse Talent in a Global Economy highlights the latest development in relation to strategies and practices on diversity management, providing specific examples of how different talent diverse groups should be involved in organizational business processes and effect...
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Knowledge management as a strategic asset
Jon-Arild Johannessen,Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.
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