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The Battle To Do Good
Inside McDonald’s Sustainability Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
In The Battle to Do Good, former McDonald's executive Bob Langert takes readers on a behind-the-scenes eye witness account of the mega brand's battle to address numerous societal hot-button issues, such as packaging, waste, recycling, obesity, deforestation, and animal welfare. From the late 80s,...
Autonomous Driving
How the Driverless Revolution will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand.
Acceptance of driverless cars relies on more than just the technology that delivers it; in this book the authors consider the shift in attitudes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
In the past quarter...
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2017
Shifts in Workplace Voice, Justice, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. The papers deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces. Consistent with...
by Lucrezia Songini, Anna Pistoni
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Manufacturing firms are moving beyond manufacturing to offer services and solutions, often delivered through their products, or at least in association with them. This strategy is called “servitization” and these new business models are based on the Product-Service-System (PSS).
This book,...
Comprehensive Strategic Management
A Guide for Students, Insight for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
A breakthrough approach to strategic management is presented in this book. Traditionally, strategic management texts have offered a largely conceptual presentation of the subject followed by a separate and dominant section containing many different types of case studies. This book breaks from that...
Women in Leadership
Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Women leaders in many parts of the world have leadership opportunities that never existed before as a result of technology, globalization, and demographic shifts that have produced more female graduates than in the past and created a workforce which consists almost 50% of women. Ever more so, in today’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) is a publication of quality applied research in management accounting. The journal’s purpose is to publish thought-provoking articles that advance knowledge in the management accounting discipline and are of interest to both academics and practitioners. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge in applied econometric work in health economics, enhanced by the availability of large micro and macro data sets as well as the rapid development of new techniques and tools in econometrics. Health economics is an important and challenging area of research...
Investment Behaviour
Towards an Individual-Centred Financial Policy in Developing Economies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Investment Behaviour explores the relationship between competing demographic factors, personal awareness and perceived attitudes to risk in shaping the behaviour of individual investors in the stock market. Arup Kumar Sarkar and Tarak Nath Sahu analyse the suitability of using Behavioural Finance...
The Imagination Gap
Stop Thinking the Way You Should and Start Making Extraordinary Things Happen
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Everyone has imagination. Imagination helps us see new possibilities for the future, navigate in times of uncertainty, and spark new ideas. But most of us do not know how to use imagination to its fullest potential or how to harness the power of imagination to overcome obstacles. The result: our most...
Advances in Accounting Education
Teaching and Curriculum Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
All articles in this book explain how teaching methods or curricula/programs can be improved. Non-empirical papers are academically rigorous, and specifically discuss the institutional context of a course or program, as well as any relevant tradeoffs or policy issues. Empirical reports exhibit sound...
Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work
From Strategy and Target Selection to Post Merger Integration
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target...
by Sunil Savur, Sukhbir Sandhu
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book is comprised of international author perspectives from the 2016 Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) conference, hosted by the University of South Australia in Adelaide. The volume brings to life a number of the conference themes including corporate social responsibility,...