Caldwell explains how and why leaders fail to earn the trust of others and why ethics, integrity, and moral behaviour are so critically important for leaders of both today and tomorrow.
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.
How to Manage Your Family Business
This book details the key aspects for success in a family business. It discusses how to develop a common vision and transmit values to the next generation, using the Middle East as an example. It serves as a guideline to the ‘dos and don’ts’ of the family business scene.
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.
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 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.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
This book explains the links between human capital management and an organisation’s performance. Chapters provide an accurate picture of relevant topics in human resource management, including commitment systems, social networks, and happiness at work.
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.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
Overcoming Knowledge Sharing Barriers through Communities of Practice
This book analyzes the barriers obstructing knowledge flows and their impact on new product development in an automotive R&D supplier. It uses innovative social network analysis to map collaboration, identify problems, and improve organizational performance.
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.
This collection of research papers focuses on the challenges of SMEs and innovative solutions. Highlighting work in business and management, with micro and macro-economic aspects, it provides answers relevant to local contexts. This first volume is focused on economic issues.
Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Gathering unique perspectives on developments in the field of entrepreneurship, the essays here present insights that unravel the mysteries of what lies behind the term ‘entrepreneurship’ that propels societies forward.
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.
Experience and New Venture Performance
Does an entrepreneur’s experience predict success? Common sense says yes, but current research suggests otherwise. A founder’s prior experience can have a positive or negative impact. This book explores these inconsistencies through in-depth case studies.
Compiling analyses of a wide range of economic and financial subjects, this collection discusses economic transition and the future prospects of developing countries. It serves to raise awareness of the important opportunities and risks inherent in the global financial system.
Women in the Modern Workplace
This research examines venture creation among women in Ireland. It addresses motivations, the start-up process, and the barriers explicit to the nascent female entrepreneur to propose a theory on the challenges that have the most significant effect.
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.
Kola highlights perspectives concerning the economic and social impact of microfinance products on their clients’ lives. He probes whether being a client of monetary financial institutions’ microfinance programmes brings positive changes to their lives and their community.
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