Emerald Group Publishing Limited: 750 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Edited by Naresh K. Malhotra, this volume of Review of Marketing Research delivers a high powered range of articles from leading researchers and universities. The issue provides insights of interest to marketers throughout the discipline. Topics covered include a critical review on consumer experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
The chapters in this volume are selected from the best papers presented at the 11th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held in Lille, France in July 2016. The diverse interpretive research and theory represented in this volume provides the reader with intellectually stimulating opportunities...
by Alain Verbeke, Rob van Tulder, Rian Drogendijk
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This latest volume of Progress in International Business Research explores novel ways in which international business is organized. Contributions advance our understanding and stretch our thinking about new organizational and geographic structures in MNCs, and other organizational forms across borders...
by Shaoming Zou
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Interdisciplinary approaches are critical to solve the interesting problems of the day. Branding, product design, and innovation are topics that have not been covered in the series so far but have been gaining attention. In all three cases, there is significant research and practitioner interest....
Angel Financing in Asia Pacific
A Guidebook for Investors and Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Angel investment and finance have been spreading from Silicon Valley to other parts of the world, including Asia, at an accelerating pace. Yet there have been few attempts to document this phenomenon and examine the hows and whys of startup financing in the region. Angel Financing in Asia Pacific...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
An efficient air transport system is critical to countries attaining and sustaining healthy economies in an increasingly interconnected world economy. Competing successfully now means quick shipping over long distances at reasonable rates. Societies also prosper when people from different countries...
by Stephen Ison, Jon Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010. The five sections of this volume review the challenges facing urban transport internationally...
by Stephen Ison, Jon Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This book explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. In conditions of relatively low use, cycle users become more closely identified with their means of transport than users of other...
Black Male Teachers
Diversifying the United States' Teacher Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Recently, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan suggested that placing Black men in the classroom as teachers is a critical need in the American educational system. Many education policymakers and researchers falsely believe that Black male teachers have a primary responsibility to foster the social...
Applied Ethics
Remembering Patrick Primeaux
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
The late Patrick Primeaux, a past editor of this series, was an outstanding teacher of business ethics and a longtime chair of the Theology Department at St John's University in New York City. Patrick, through his teachings, research articles and books, had a profound influence on how many contemporary...
Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy
From the Bureau to Network Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
This special volume brings together leading scholars in the field of organisation studies to reflect on the universal phenomena of hierarchy (vertical organisation of tasks) and bureaucracy (rule-bound execution of tasks). The result is a colourful kaleidoscope of thought-provoking, critical and refreshingly...
Transforming Learning Environments
Strategies to Shape the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments. Questions such as to what extent, in what way, and how are we doing will need to be raised...
Living the work
Promoting Social Justice and Equity Work in Schools Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This unique volume has been written collaboratively by children, families, teachers, school leaders, scholars, and community organization representatives. With each author having a platform to express his or her individual voice, chapters centre on the authors' lived experiences (ranging in skills,...
Gifted Children of Color Around the World
Diverse Needs, Exemplary Practices and Directions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
We live in a global society, wherein our dependence on our neighbors is growing more intensely each year. Technology, travel, and interdependent economic systems require that nations know more and share more of their natural resources. Among the most precious of these resources is the intellectual...