Emerald Group Publishing Limited imprint: 750 books

by Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of human welfare and is authored by an expert in the field. One deals with how technological change affects the distribution of earnings, two deal with how workers...

Multi-Channel Marketing, Branding and Retail Design

New Challenges and Opportunities

by Charles McIntyre, T. C. Melewar, Charles Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Recently, many researchers have found that their work crosses the borders of design, branding and marketing. This orientation finds itself in contrast to the generally discipline-delineated world of academic journal publishing where cross-sector studies often find difficulties in acceptance (design-based...

Globalizing China

The Influence, Strategies and Successes of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs

by Huiyao Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

In recent years, a new spectacular group of entrepreneurs in China called Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs (CREs) has emerged. Not only have they contributed enormously to the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, but they also have connected China to the outside world in today's globalized economy....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

In 2008, the world entered a new period of turmoil. Financial markets collapsed, banks and other financial institutions went in to crisis; credit dried up, consumption reduced and firms started to cut back and reduce investment in the light of uncertainty. Unemployment increased and welfare payments...
by Timothy M. Devinney, Torben Pedersen, Laszlo Tihanyi
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

This volume advances the debate on the past, present and future of international business and management research. A truly international group of experts present their perspectives, and ask the question 'What is it that we know?' when discussing major issues and concepts in the field. This annual...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series provides a comprehensive collection of research focused on the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of work and labour. This volume includes contributions...

Looking for Consensus

Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management

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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

Within the labor relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees ‘have a say’ and influence organizational issues at work. Whilst we know much about employee voice in the Anglo-American (developed) world, we know much less about how employee...

As the World Turns

Implications of Global Shifts in Higher Education for Theory, Research and Practice

by Carol Camp-Yeakey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

"As the World Turns" examines two of the major problems confronting higher education in this modern world: access to higher education remains a persistent problem for disadvantaged students around the world; universities that are highly segregated by race, culture, language, nationality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

Volume 37 explores the question, what can the emerging discipline of intersectionality studies contribute to our quest to understand and analyze social movements, conflict and change? This collection is part of a continued broadening and deepening of the theoretical contributions of intersectional...
by Patrick G. Coy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015

A long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities. The first, concentrating on ecology, serves in part to further explore the theme of climate change. It looks into aquifer usage and ecology in the Midwestern United States,...

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Social Technologies

Facebook, E-Portfolios and Other Social Networking Services

by Charles Wankel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services" uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in...
by Phyllis Jones, Scot Danforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015

This volume focuses on inquiry into inclusive education from the perspective of scholarly influences in the field of practice and research. A group of key international researchers in the field of inclusive education have each contributed a chapter about a piece of scholarship they believe has influenced inquiry in the field, as a whole.
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