This book consolidates state-of-the-art knowledge on distance learning methods, best practices, and research findings in online business education. It will help faculty, administrators, and course designers optimize distance courses for the best results.
This book explores how Kuwait can convert its oil “resource curse” into a blessing. It considers the strategic points surrounding oil governance and its implication for growth, arguing that a planned investment in innovation is critical for development.
Egyptian industry bypassed quality control, creating a gap that hinders global competition. This book presents the Holistic Egyptian Quality Management Approach (HEQMA), a new model tailored to Egyptian culture to diagnose problems and strengthen quality.
Innovative Business Practices
In an era of turbulence where conventional business strategies fail, agility and innovation are key. This book presents research and paradigms that transcend classical theory, showing how any business can thrive in the new reality.
This book addresses the main issues within Islamic banking. It analyzes the experiences of Islamic banks worldwide, providing an objective assessment of their successes and failures while discussing the challenges and future of interest-free banking.
The Impact of the Subprime Crisis on Global Financial Markets, Banks and International Trade
This book analyzes financial stability risk across international financial markets, banks, and trade. It offers innovative research and suggests new policy approaches to deal with three major crises: the debt crisis, an ageing population, and climate change.
Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs
This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.
Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management, and computing. Based on practical experience, this accessible, cross-disciplinary text has a strong intercultural flavour, appealing to readers in project management, information systems, and philosophy.
This book presents the best papers from the first Management Theory Conference. Featuring the world’s top researchers, it showcases the latest theoretical developments, an award-winning paper, and a fascinating debate on the future of management theory.
This guide to cluster development in Central Europe maps and compares conditions in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria. It analyses good practices, proposes a development framework, and explores trends like inter-cluster cooperation and World-Class clusters.
This book analyzes fraud as a global process from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. It covers financial, tax, and academic fraud, presenting methods for prevention with empirical evidence from Brazil, Canada, France, and Portugal.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
This book introduces new contexts and emerging research in business performance measurement and management. It presents a variety of perspectives from global authors across accounting, finance, marketing, and operations management in a single volume.
Innovation in Financial Services
Synthesizing academic research and practitioner insights, this book explores innovation in financial services. It analyzes success factors, strategy, and the challenges facing an industry in need of vision and strategic foresight.
This book provides a profound analysis of creating business entities in Russia. It gives readers an understanding of Russian civil and corporate law, covering the legal system, business organizations, foreign investment, and corporate governance.
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.
Term Structure of Profit Rates of Sukuk
This book applies term structure models to analyse the financial instrument Sukuk. It establishes “profit rate yield curves” for sovereign and corporate bonds, providing informative case studies for students and researchers in financial economics.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Poverty Reduction in Africa
Why have SME interventions failed to reduce poverty in Africa? This book offers an innovative approach, moving beyond technical training to focus on mindset, system thinking, and spirituality to help policymakers and entrepreneurs achieve real change.
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.