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Rethinking the Business Models of Business Schools
A Critical Review and Change Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Management education growth and the rise in accompanying business schools over the last few decades are fuelled by global economic development, coupled with the promise of success in business careers. Recently, questions have been raised about the value and relevance of a traditional business school...
Developing Africa’s Financial Services
The Importance of High-Impact Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Africa is at a critical moment in its economic development. With the recent decline of commodity prices, it has become apparent that many African economies, which are resource-based, have suffered greatly. The economies of Africa cannot be lifted up only through programs of aid. Indigenous high-impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Contains an Open Access chapter.
Recent estimates suggest that millions of people across the world are involved in some form of social venture creation. After over a decade of thoughtful scholarship on social entrepreneurship, researchers have now begun to examine individuals and organizations...
Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership
New Dimensions and Challenges for Business, Education and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership explores diverse cultural leadership styles and paradigms that are dynamic, complex, globally authentic and culturally competent for the 21st century. An outstanding group of scholars considers how the different worldviews and lived experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This volume provides new conceptual insights, robust empirical studies, and thought-provoking chapters to help organizations improve health and wellbeing in society. Some chapters do this by addressing macro-level change: for example, consulting at the eco-system level and discussing the challenges...
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations
Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Thévenot’s EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dynamics of agreement and disagreement in coordinated action, both within and across organizations, and by so doing, help advance our understanding of...
Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethical Public Relations
Strengthening Synergies with Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Nowhere is the study of workplace ethics more relevant today than in the context of empowering organizations to meet their goals in corporate social responsibility and sustainability (CSR/S). Aimed at helping organizations uphold their commitments to people and the planet as well as profit, these...
Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
Perspectives from the Rock-Face
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management, production...
The Catalyst Effect
12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Have you ever known colleagues who the minute they stepped into the conference room, on stage, or onto the playing field, elevated the performance of everyone around them? Someone whose impact within the team could be seen in nearly everything that was said and done?
These individuals are...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
The Business and Society (BAS) 360 book series is an annual publication targeting cutting-edge developments in the broad business and society field, such as stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and citizenship, business ethics, sustainability, corporate governance and others. Each...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The concept of hybridity, although well developed in various research areas, is relatively new in the management field, where “organisational hybridity” refers to organisations that combine managerial features, value systems and institutional logics of different sectors (market, state, civil society)....
Understanding Brexit
Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
On 23rd June 2016 the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. In this clear and concise book, Graham Taylor argues that the result is the most visible tip of an iceberg of social change that has been decades in the making. Hidden from view are a matrix of economic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices...
Navigating the Investment Minefield
A Practical Guide to Avoiding Mistakes, Biases, and Traps
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
When you think about investing, what words come to mind? Overwhelming? Intimidating? Scary?
Investors face a vast array of investment options vying for their business. They are aware that some of those providing these "opportunities" seek to take advantage of them. And although...