Count down

Enron killed Arthur Andersen in 2002, leaving only Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. Now the Big Four, with a total revenue of $127 billion, face major threats that need immediate attention. Count Down looks at today’s model and proposes a new Big Audit, fit to serve the capital markets of the 21st ce...

Consumer behavior in tourism and hospitality research

The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists’ buying, consumption, and being through examinations of consumers’ self-descriptions of personal markers of their trip configurations.

How strategic communication shapes value and innovation in society

Let’s Talk Society – and the society we´re talking about is in transition to a green and sustainable society, an inclusive society, and an innovative and reflective society. What is our role as communication professionals in all of this? How can we foster public debate? This book addresses these ...

Consumer culture theory

This book explores the illusions that pervade contemporary consumption as well as the forces of globalization, localization, and hybridization that affect consumption throughout our interconnected world.

The strength of difference

Being different is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source of stigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders, that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who were able to turn their destinies around.

Sharing in the company

Volume 17 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms provides detailed analysis on standard econometric studies to new institutional economics to behavioral economics.

Advances in business and management forecasting

Volume 13 of Advances in Business and Management Forecasting presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to areas such as sales forecasting, retailing, service contracts, bankruptcy prediction, executive compensation, and call center staffing.

Parables, myths and risks

Continuing the search for greater reflectivity regarding accounting’s role in society, this volume identifies the many ways accounting contributes to knowledge creation and the consequences in socio-economic realms.

Continuing to broaden the marketing concept

Review of Marketing Research is a publication covering the important areas of marketing research with a more comprehensive state-of-the-art orientation. The chapters in this publication review the literature, offer a critical commentary, develop an innovative framework and discuss future developm...

Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and ethical public relations

This book offers practical advice for building organizations with social responsibility and sustainability organically built in – based on two-way communication between human resources (HR) and public relations (PR) departments working together as an organizational conscience touchstone benefitin...

Tourism in cuba

From the Flapper Era to Batista, Cuba strove to position itself as America’s Caribbean playground, but Castro’s Revolution put an end to that. Now, the “Cuban Thaw” promises US travelers a return to the island. This book explores the history and development of tourism in Cuba and provides insight...

Diversity within diversity management

This book enhances our understanding as to how diversity and equality are managed in different national contexts. Focusing on workplace equality, diversity, and inclusion, this book brings together a unique blend of scholarly research and professional practice, evidenced through an array of indiv...

Rethinking the business models of business schools

Business schools around the world have grown and prospered in the last few decades, but what does the future hold for business schools? This book explores the potential future disruption of the business school tradition by considering funding, value chains, strategic groups, value orientation, in...

The return of trust?

This book examines the efforts of major Icelandic economic institutions to regain the public’s trust, 10 years after the financial crisis that ruined personal savings and fostered anger towards business and politics. The studies collected here provide insights into restoring relationships between...

Precarious work

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.

Advances in industrial and labor relations, 2017

Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. The papers deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces.

Sustainability assessment

This book makes the case for the development and implementation of environmental and sustainability rating systems (ESRSs) in new industry contexts, including energy, heavy and light industries, manufacturing, transportation, mining, and oil and gas.

Take care

Take Care is a practical guide that will enable employers to better understand and support employees with caring responsibilities. It presents this as part of good management practice that strengthens organizational resilience and sustainability, and also argues that this is now an integral eleme...

Global leadership talent management

Global Leadership Talent Management, as an integrated process, supports the sustainable success of global organizations. This book shows how specifically the selection process can be created as an exchange process in which mutual expectations and perceived fairness and justice play an important r...

The rise of precarious employment in europe

This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on two main sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labour market reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the European Labour Force Survey from 2005-12, cap...

Making sense of change management

Master the models, tools and techniques of successful change management with the sixth edition of this definitive text.

Building intelligent tutoring systems for teams

This volume explores advances in theory, research and technologies needed to advance the state of the art of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) for teams.

Health econometrics

This volume covers a wide range of existing and emerging topics in applied health economics, including behavioural economics, medical care risk, social insurance, discrete choice models, cost-effectiveness analysis, health and immigration, and more.

Ethics in the global south

This volume includes works by authors from the global South and contributions about ethical issues in the global South, including the responses to famine in East Africa, India and Indonesia, and the applicability of international guidelines and ethical frameworks in South Africa.

Culture your culture

Culture Your Culture is the comprehensive guide to Design of Work Experience, an innovative (and much needed) framework for the design and implementation of culture, people strategies, organizational change, and designed experiences that enable both business and people thrive.

Mastering brexits through the ages

A pragmatic analysis of the challenges a post-Brexit world offers for the small business community. This book combines historical insights and economic theory to give practical tools that can help identify the way forward for entrepreneurs and SMEs.

Experimental economics and culture

The contributions in this volume discuss new approaches to the measurement of culture and how to conceptualize and define values and beliefs and the groups that share them, and they contribute to the growing body of literature that documents how cultural differences in social and economic behavior.

Materiality in financial reporting

This book offers an integrated perspective of materiality from the different angles of accounting, auditing, internal controls, management commentary, financial analysis, management control, forensic analysis, sustainability reporting, corporate responsibility, assurance standards, integrated rep...

Inside knowledge

Inside Knowledge provides practical guidance for women working in professional service firms who aspire to achieve their full potential in what have traditionally been male work environments. It aims to help women thrive within these organisations, and to rise to a level commensurate with their k...

Future cultures

The only way to succeed tomorrow is to act today. Transform your business and prepare for the innovations, technologies and challenges of the future through Future Cultures.

Entrepreneurship education

Policymakers consider enterprise education, and the skills it develops, as increasing student’s employability skills. This book delivers further insight to validate this. Authors provide evidence to inform the entrepreneurial education discipline in terms of best practice, success stories and ide...

Employee ownership and employee involvement at work

With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in the field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In this volu...

Applications of management science

Section one is focused on multi-criteria decision applications, the second on supply chain management and finally authors look at productivity analysis. Thus this volume will be of interest to those involved in the applications of these methods, in a realistic managerial problem solving environme...

Tech-led culture

Discover the tech-led strategies that will upgrade your business, leading to increased productivity, collaboration and performance.

Demystifying china’s mega trends

This new book examines the structural forces behind mega trends in China, refuting conventional wisdom and demystifying media and market hypes about business opportunity and policy. It uses rigorous economic research and evidence to provide a new view of mega trends in China, and expose new trend...

Quality control procedure for statutory financial audit

This new work takes a comprehensive look at the quality control framework for statutory financial audit. Saha and Roy focus on identifying the different factors governing quality of audit and establish a comprehensive framework for quality control.

Swarm leadership and the collective mind

The future of business is swarm business – whether it’s at Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, or Apple, it’s not about being a fearless leader, but about creating a swarm that works together in collective consciousness to create great things and reinvent your business.

The passenger experience of air travel

Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, tra...

Modern energy market manipulation

This book explores the important economic and legal questions of market manipulation that have arisen in restructured energy markets, paying particular attention to the actions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Developing africa’s financial services

Financial services are an essential element in powering entrepreneurial activity beyond resource extraction in Africa. This book examines the macro-trends and highlights inspiring success stories of entrepreneurial financial sector ventures that are making a lasting contribution to the economic d...

Doing business in the mena region

Leadership and management education has relied too heavily on insights from North America and Europe. Based on the best submissions of the annual EFMD case competition, this book enables the reader to learn more about the success factors as well as the particularities of doing business in the MEN...

Management and diversity

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical perspectives.

Servitization strategy and managerial control

This book intends to present and discuss the main challenges that companies interested in servitization strategies have to overcome, with a particular focus on the design of managerial control systems. The book can represent a useful tool for companies interested developing successful servitizati...

Cultural intelligence for marketers

Use advanced cultural insights to transform your marketing strategy and discover what you can do to make your process culturally intelligent and genuinely inclusive.

The austrian and bloomington schools of political economy

The volume is a unique attempt to explore the relationship between two of the most interesting contemporary schools of thought evolving at the interface between social science and social philosophy: The Austrian tradition of F A Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the Bloomington tradition of Elinor ...

Making trade missions work

This book provides a unique perspective on and approach to trade missions and how to make them more successful. By combining research and practice-based insights from international business and international relations it proposes an approach to trade missions focusing on preparation, visiting and...

Navigating sustainability data

Get a grasp on the sustainability data that leaders need to drive strategic, impactful decision making in their organizations.

Fundamentals of organizational behaviour

Explore the practical implications and relevance of organizational behaviour with this concise textbook that successfully bridges the gap between theory and practice.

Big money in franchising

2025 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST – ENTREPRENEURSHIP/SMALL BUSINESS"A ground-breaking and definitive roadmap to finding success through the dynamic partnership of private equity and franchising."—Justin Nihiser, Operating Partner, Garnett Station PartnersPrivate equity (PE) is profo...

The inclusive leader