Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
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...
Out of the Shadows
The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Supplementary education consists of private instruction that complements and sometimes 'shadows' formal school content. Providers range from informal and part-time tutors to highly institutionalized, multi-national corporate franchises. This phenomenon is growing worldwide and has many potential impacts...
Blue Ribbon Papers
Behind the Professional Mask: The Autobiographies of Leading Symbolic Interactionists
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
"Volume 38 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction" is devoted exclusively to the "Blue Ribbon Papers Series", which is under the intellectual leadership of Lonnie Athens. In this issue, Athens presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant contributions to symbolic...
by Anthony H. Normore
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This book will feature lessons learned about the successful implementation of leadership program preparation and development programs that are grant-funded by the United States Department of Education through the School Leadership Program. Each chapter will highlight one or more practices that have...
Discretionary Behavior and Performance in Educational Organizations
The Missing Link in Educational Leadership and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This volume of "Advances in Educational Administration" examines discretionary behavior/performance, an emerging yet critical phenomenon for educational organizations to be effective in responding to the complex expectations of the 21st century. Discretionary behavior refers to the employee...
Management and Leadership of Educational Marketing
Research, Practice and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The introduction of educational markets into public and higher education in many countries has led to more competitive environments for schools and higher education institutions. This, in turn, has led to an increased priority being given by school leaders to the marketing of their institutions, largely...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
The purpose of the series is to explore the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a pluralistic, free enterprise economy. The primary goal of the research studies published here is to examine how profit seeking and not for profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way.
by Melody G. Tankersley, Bryan G. Cook, Timothy J. Landrum
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
How do students with learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral disorders fare in adulthood? Are their rates of employment, graduation from post-secondary schools, living independently similar to their non-disabled peers? What can schools and communities do to teach and support youth and young...
Bad to Good
Achieving High Quality and Impact in Your Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
For decades, scholars have bemoaned the low relevancy and impact of most research in the leading journals in business, management, and marketing. The majority of the research that gets published, perhaps 70% of it, hardly has any measurable scholarly impact in terms of citations. Rather than low relevancy,...
The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Gated, Regulated and Governed
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This volume focuses on the rise of educational regulation and educational governance in a post-2015 era. Across the globe, unfettered globalization is being curtailed and cooperation and collaboration at the regional level appears to be at an unprecedented high, yet there are still substantial disparities...