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This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.
Today’s profit-only management is obsolete, endangering the planet and disengaging employees. This book introduces 3D Management, a radical redesign that liberates organisations and replaces the bottom line with a model balancing profit, people, planet, and purpose.
In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.
As the use of physical currency diminishes, investors can access digital assets like Bitcoin and NFTs. This book provides aspiring investors and stakeholders with a fundamental understanding of digital finance, crypto-currency exchanges, and regulatory mechanisms.
A Business Health Service
If businesses function like living organisms, can they benefit from a professional healthcare service? This book explores the need for such a service and evaluates whether business advisors can meet the professional standards of medical care.
A Clinical Guide to Organisational Health
Is your organisation healthy enough to survive? This book treats it like a living organism, using a holistic diagnostic model to explore its core functions—Survival, Protection, Operations, Information, Language and Strategy (SPOILS)—and build fitness.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
Explore Agile’s evolution from a software technique to a broad organizational philosophy. This essential guide covers frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, their application across industries, and their role in navigating the future of work and organizational agility.
A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships
This book argues that the pleasures of a cruise have changed little since the nineteenth century. Drawing on travel writing from Mark Twain and the author’s own voyages on cruise and container ships, it examines what passengers do with their time and how that time is controlled.
This book explores various leadership styles and models, demonstrating their dynamic nature. It is an essential reference point for both academics and practitioners.
Central to Yoruba fashion is the role of women in its making. This book shows how textile commodities, entangled in global economic histories, created a local industry that portrays new ways of work—revealing a critical, but often neglected, aspect of being Yoruba.
This volume provides an international debate on social, environmental, and sustainable accountability. It considers how companies must be legitimated in a sustainable world to prevent environmental destruction and give the world its best chance of survival.
This book develops a new mathematical model for modern human resources that is both organisational output-focused and employee-focused. It investigates various measurement and evaluation approaches to facilitate the adoption of alternative HR practices.
This text serves to help a potentially uninformed retail trader understand more about financial markets, and assist them in gaining the technical skills required to profit from trading. It represents a beginner’s guide to trading, with a core focus on stocks and currencies.
A Small and Medium Enterprise’s Guide to Innovation and Growth
Unlock the potential of AI with this guide for SMEs. Break down complex concepts into actionable strategies to innovate, grow, and compete. Learn how to harness AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, outpace industry giants, and thrive in an AI-driven future.
A Social and Solidarity Economy
This volume explores the social and solidarity economy in America, Europe, and Australia, with a focus on its development in Ukraine. The collection will be of interest to academic scholars, as well as political and public decision-makers.
This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.
This monograph represents a tool for comparative analysis for researchers and academics dealing with the business environment. It discusses various facets of the Czech business environment, focusing on the quality and sustainability factors that influence Czech industries.
Odih identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory wearable technologies, arguing that the paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies is the proliferation of risk. It also deals with the neoliberal construct of the entrepreneurial lifestyle insurance subject.
The future of higher education depends on responding to rising costs, changing labour markets, and new technologies. Pervasive technology has transformed the sector, demanding new business models. A rupture with the past is needed to prepare learners for an uncertain world.