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Entrepreneurship and development in the 21st century
The 21st century has brought about new trends in entrepreneurship and development. In this insightful volume, a cast of expert contributors explore how these new trends, along with a variety of political, cultural and social influences, have affected entrepreneurship, in all of its manifestations.
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Personalized principal leadership practices
In this book, McLaughlin examines the eight strategies expert principals utilize to lead equitable, high achieving schools. Each chapter will include strategies, case studies, reflective questions and a chapter summary.
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Best practices in green supply chain management
Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management uses present case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries to offer new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries.
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Energy economics
Energy Economics: Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China presents a succinct overview of research on China’s Energy Poverty as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).
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Ecologically-compatible urban planning
By providing an in-depth analysis of contemporary urbanization, an understanding of the dimension of the phenomena and its cause-effect mechanism, this book maps how ecologically-compatible planning in the contemporary city may successfully design a healthier environment.
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Including a symposium on 50 years of the union for radical political economics
Volume 37A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium celebrating 50 years of the Union of Radical Political Economics, and includes an archival contribution from the papers of Alvin Hansen, reflecting on the influence and contributions of John R. Commons.
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Egg freezing, fertility and reproductive choice
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.
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Integrated business transformation
Drawing upon a model developed over 25 years of experience and successfully taught for many years at his company Wilson Learning, Alberto Pérez La Rotta presents a comprehensive and replicable approach to integrated business transformation that synchronizes natural human behavior with the needs o...
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Knowledge economies and knowledge work
Our global economy is going through a major transformation, from an industrial economy, to a knowledge economy, rendering knowledge a primary factor in production. In this practical, real-world focused book, expert authors come together to define and discuss knowledge work.
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The brexit referendum on twitter
The Brexit referendum on Twitter:a mixed-method computational analysis investigates how Twitter worked in shaping political discourse and its potential for fuelling populism in the month leading to the referendum.
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Action learning and action research
Action Learning and Action Research deepens understanding and contributes to new knowledge about the theory, practice and processes of Action Learning (AL) and Action Research. It clarifies what constitutes AL/AR in its many forms and what it is not.
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Smart villages in the eu and beyond
Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these ...
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A modern perspective of islamic economics and finance
This book aims to develop a blue print for Islamic economics and finance by starting at the grass roots of trade and commerce. It positions Islamic finance within the economic priorities of Islam while providing a cohesive understanding of Islamic economics and finance in a clear and practical ma...
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Entrepreneurship and the sustainable development goals
Given the compelling need to understand how entrepreneurship can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and be appropriately guided, this book explores how entrepreneurial thinking and action can support social change, and investigates alternative entrepreneurship approaches by drawing ...
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Essays on teaching education and the inner drama of teaching
Challenges teacher educators face coupled with select aspects of teachers' genuine experiences of teaching, is an area that has been neglected and is often under appreciated. Essays on Teaching Education and the Inner Drama of Teaching comprises 11 essays that address and illuminate the place whe...
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Joy
Successful relationships with publics are based on how people are treated, so public relations should help foster happiness and joy and by that improve organisational success and the well-being of people. This book explores how public relations contributes to the well-being of its publics and pre...
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Austrian economics
This book brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics and a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy.
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Introduction to sustainable development leadership and strategies in higher education
This topical volume contextualizes the heightened interest in sustainable education across the globe and will be of interest to researchers, university leaders, and students interested in a sustainable future for universities and society as a whole.
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Leading and managing change in the age of disruption and artificial intelligence
This book explores disruption and artificial intelligence in an organisational context to inform and prepare those that are in management positions now and into the future.
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Sdg1 - no poverty
This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1).
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Disadvantaged entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem
This book addresses the lack of current research concerning disadvantage using an entrepreneurial ecosystem lens, and the failure of entrepreneurship policy to widen engagement in entrepreneurship for disadvantaged people and places.
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Robots, artificial intelligence and service automation in travel, tourism and hospitality
Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book focuses on current and future use of RAISA technologies in the tourism economy, including examples from the hotel, restaurant, travel agency, museum, and events industries.
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Emerging research and issues in behavioral disabilities
This volume focuses on emerging research and issues related to emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Chapters include reports of original research and summaries of new and emerging research issues. Specific topics include bullying, technology-based self-monitoring, and issues around identify...
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Cost engineering and pricing in autonomous manufacturing systems
The book focuses on analyzing and proposing costing and pricing models to be used in autonomous manufacturing systems with respect to different effective parameters and factors in such a high tech environment within some applied cases.
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Intersections of financial literacy, citizenship, and spirituality
Through art-based instructional processes that stimulate students' affective awareness, it encourages facilitation of compassionate environments founded on principles of selflessness and will prove invaluable for researchers, leaders and practitioners in the field of social education.
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Coaching and mentoring for academic development
Learning through dialogue brings a powerful opportunity to navigate professional demands and meet the challenges of a turbulent world. Written for all who mentor or coach in universities, this book addresses a critical question: how can mentoring and coaching be an effective and accessible way to...
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Death, memorialization and deviant spaces
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces adapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to explore the multifa...
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Business plasticity through disorganization
Disorganization occurs in all areas of modern business. This book presents a novel approach to both academics and practitioners on how to break the shackles of rigidity and eliminate our fear of disorganization.
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Unsafe spaces
Unsafe Spaces reveals the shocking extent of sexual abuse in English and Welsh universities and offers practical solutions to the present crisis and to the culture of disrespect which blights many universities and allows such abuse to continue unchecked.
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Employee inter- and intra-firm mobility
This volume identifies new theoretical and empirical directions to the study of employee mobility, covering broad sets of theoretical frameworks—which are embedded in strategic, organizational, sociological or entrepreneurial theories—and of empirical approaches—which cover industry, firm, team a...
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Developing an effective model for detecting trade-based market manipulation
Developing an Effective Model for Detecting Trade-Based Market Manipulation determines an appropriate model to help identify stocks witnessing activities that are indicative of potential manipulation through three separate but related studies.
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Professional identity crisis
The book deals with an increasingly crucial but under–researched topic, that is the crisis of the professional identity. It will be both theoretically driven and empirically focused, also attempting to provide useful practical recommendations.
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The swedish microchipping phenomenon
This book maps the discourse around the Swedish phenomenon of microchipping humans. With help from a theory cluster of different theories on human-technology relationships, the author explains different perspectives present within the discourse.
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Advances in accounting behavioral research
Focusing on research that examines individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, this series promotes research across all areas of behavioral accounting, and encourages the development, discussion and expansion of theories from psychology, sociology and related disciplines to bet...
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on human dignity and human rights
This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity.
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Preliminary feasibility for public research & development projects
Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects explains how to evaluate R&D business by exploring the five key features of policy implication, policy improvement, preliminary feasibility study, R&D evaluation, and R&D strategy and will help develop strategic me...
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Jack katz
This book is a timely re-introduction to the work and life of one of criminology’s more respected theorists, Jack Katz, to the next generation of thinkers in this field. For nearly 40 years, his work has offered an alternative philosophical perspective to study crime and criminal behavior that is...
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Contemporary hrm issues in the 21st century
This book explores the contemporary issues that have emerged or evolved in Human Resource Management (HRM) during the 21st century, such as social media, issues of climate change and artificial intelligence (AI), and provides insight from expert academics in the field alongside real world examples.
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The "m" in citams@30
Volume 18 of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications celebrates the thirty year anniversary of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
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Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Volume 39B includes a symposium marking the centenary of Carl Menger’s death in 1921. The symposium, edited by Reinhard Schumacher and Scott Scheall, features contributions from Sandra J. Peart, Günther Chaloupek, Erwin Dekker, and Sandye Gloria. The Volume also features general-research essays f...
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Voices of teenage transplant survivors
In this collection of unique patient narratives, adolescents who survived kidney, heart, and liver transplants explore through poetry issues significant to all ages: body changes, independence, identity, and mortality. Background narratives provide context and analyses of their poems that are ult...
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Corporate ethics for turbulent markets
Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets: The Market Context of Executive Decisions focuses on the HOW of doing business – the economic, social, ethical, moral and spiritual values we bring to our business ventures - and how thereby we impact the world.
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Integrating gender in agricultural development
This book is grounded in the ideology that an alignment between the conceptual and practical understandings of gender equality is a critical component of sustainable development. It draws on six rural case studies to examine the various ways in which gender has been integrated in agricultural res...
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Government and public policy in the pacific islands
This book is a comparative study of government and public policy in the twenty small states of the Pacific Islands, examining the often tense societal interactions over competing conceptions of public-sector institutions and authority, rule-making, and policy processes.
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Rewriting leadership with narrative intelligence
Rewriting Leadership with Narrative Intelligence draws on a range of disciplines and scholarly traditions to build a compelling case for a new perspective on leadership, seeing it as a deeply embodied, intuitive skill of curating shared narratives in influence relationships.
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Advances in mergers and acquisitions
The chapters published in this volume provide cutting edge ideas by leading scholars, and help to inform mergers and acquisitions research around the world.
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Future governments
Governments of today need to be future-oriented. The cases and perspectives are grouped in five themes: government foresight, future orientation, regulatory reforms & strategy, the happiness agenda and the sharing economy. The countries covered are: UAE, Iceland, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Ch...
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Professional learning networks in design-based research interventions
Mei Kuin Lai and Stuart McNaughton provide a theoretical and practical account of how PLNs focused on collaborative analysis of data can be integrated into design-based research interventions to improve practice and student learning outcomes.
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