Emerald Publishing Limited: 1159 books
Children and Mobile Phones
Adoption, Use, Impact, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
This book provides a resource for readers interested in the issues surrounding mobile phone use by children. Mobile phones are ubiquitous in young people’s lives around the world. Most teenagers and many pre-teenage children have their own mobile phone and carry it around everywhere they go. While...
Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge
Women in The Archers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
The intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting exposé on the lives of the women of Ambridge. In this new book, the Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and real-life Academic...
And Now What?
A Guide to Leadership and Taking Charge in Your New Role
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you’re actually faced with. And Now What? helps you manage this gap between expectation and reality, ensuring that you get off to the best possible start in your new job.
This...
The Responsive Global Organization
New Insights from Global Strategy and International Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The responsive global organization can adapt business operations across multinational markets in response to unpredictable changes in the turbulent global marketplace. This book deals with different aspects of the effective multinational corporation (MNC) pointing to new ways in which the MNC can...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections. In the first, 'Religious Inspirations and Legal Responses', contributors examine the interaction between law and religion. They consider the liberal tradition in which the law stands in stark opposition to religion,...
Including a Symposium on Mary Morgan
Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Volume 36B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium reflecting on the significance of Mary Morgan's contributions to the history and philosophy of economics. Symposium participants include guest editors Marcel Boumans and Hsiang-Ke Chao, as well as Harro...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. Makerspaces and business incubators have become featured attractions in public and academic libraries and provide a unique way to reach out to a user group that can bolster a community in...
Re-envisioning the MLS
Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians—and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. Building on the Re-envisioning the MLS initiative from the University of Maryland’s...
Democrats, Authoritarians and the Bologna Process
Universities in Germany, Russia, England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
The Bologna Process, initiated in 1999, now includes 47 member countries of the Council of Europe. In 2010, it was renamed ‘the European Higher Education Area’, it was expanded. It now attracts the interest of many countries around the world.
Without sanctions, it has transformed the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Culture has been referred to as a shared frame, the lens through which group members make sense of the world. It has been robustly linked to economic outcomes on the macro level and is also directly linked to decision-making: in recent years, experimental and behavioral economists have found evidence...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Air transport service has become an indispensable source of long distance transport for businesses and leisure travelers and for high-value-low-volume products. The significance of this transport service as a driver of economic growth is made abundantly apparent when examining the interdependence...
Key Success Factors of SME Internationalisation
A Cross-Country Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
This collective book offers a cross-country perspective on the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Scholars from prestigious institutions in Europe, North America, Australia and China provide new insights on how SMEs develop and perform their international activities....
by George R. Goethals, Scott T. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Heroes permeate our culture. From superheroes on screen to the everyday heroics of our public services, the word 'hero' is a familiar descriptor in every form of media. But what makes a hero? And what makes heroes 'heroic'?
Leadership experts George R. Goethals and Scott T. Allison explore...
Strategic Management in Emerging Markets
Aligning Business and Corporate Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Traditionally, analysis of strategic management has divided the focus between a business and corporate level. This text goes beyond that to help readers recognize the interplay of the “how” and “which” of strategy. It embraces the integrated nature of learning to avoid the compartmentalization...