Emerald Group Publishing Limited: 750 books
New Ways of Working Practices
Antecedents and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
New technologies, new office concepts and new working environments are all big concepts, and we are just at the start of understanding the impact of these global trends on shaping our behaviors at work. This book describes and analyses the trends known as 'New Ways of Working' primarily addressing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Changing business environments challenge established management ideas and practices. This volume draws on competence-based theory to identify and elaborate some important ways in which organizational competences are evolving - or should evolve - to respond to some fundamental forms of change in business...
International Teacher Education
Promising Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
To this point in time, teacher education has been approached in mostly insular ways because it is largely driven by state and national education policies. However, the spread of the global economy and the increased stature of international comparison tests (i.e., TIMSS) has changed all that. All countries...
Divorce, Separation, and Remarriage
The Transformation of Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
While the family remains a core social institution in every society, it is, nonetheless, an institution which continues to evolve. In many societies, divorce, separation, and remarriage have become a normative part of marriage and family life. These changes have, understandably, led to a great diversification...
Visions of the 21st Century Family
Transforming Structures and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
One undeniable fact about families is that they keep changing, both in terms of structure and behavior. Many factors have served to bring about such changes, including social, cultural, political, and institutional change, resulting in family forms which perhaps may represent the new 'traditional'...
by Dave L. Edyburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Advances in Special Education Technology series is designed to focus international attention on applications of technology for individuals with disabilities. Outstanding researchers from around the world will contribute chapters synthesizing the research evidence on specific types of technology...
Fields of Knowledge
Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying...
Promises Fulfilled and Unfulfilled in Management Education
Reflections on the Role, Impact and Future of Management Education: EFMD Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This is the first of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of EFMD. Through an open-ended interview research process, it seeks to explore the perspectives and views of a wide range of experts drawn not only from the European environment but also from the United States and other global...
New Technology-Based Firms in the New Millennium
Strategic and Educational Options
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This volume is the latest edition of an international edited book series based on the formation and growth problems of High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) begun in 1993. This body of work is unique, and maps the evolution of research in this area through almost two decades of academic research and...
Business & Sustainability
Concepts, Strategies and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
In recent years' research on business and sustainability, particular attention is being given to the motivations driving business managers to incorporate social and environmental strategies into their day-to-day business activities. Such research is critical to the evaluation of green management whether...
by Barbara Cozza, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also include university-school...
Workplace Morality
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Why do honest and decent employees sometimes overstep the mark? What makes managers with integrity go off the rails? What causes well-meaning organizations to deceive their clients, employees and shareholders? Social psychology offers surprising answers to these intriguing and timely questions. Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change explores the relationships between mass media, social movements, and political change. Media plays an important role in social and political change and this volume advances scholarly understanding of how activists and elites alike use...
Notions of Family
Intersectional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives" presents new and original research on gender and the institution of family featuring both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The objective of this volume is to present a framework for understanding the ways in which the salient identities...