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.
Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications
Insights are given here into the potential impacts future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements could have at national, European and international levels. Policy setting, implications for trade and consumer perception and food safety are also covered.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This interdisciplinary volume explores communication technologies across fields like economics, education, and science. Adopting a psycho-pedagogical approach, it offers insights into Poland, a country in major transition regarding such technologies.
Islamic Economics
Co-opted by the existing system, “Islamic economics” has become limited to finance, its potential overlooked. This book examines the debate from various perspectives to lay a firm foundation for contemporary socio-economic issues.
Internationalisation of Cluster Organisations
This book explores how international collaboration increases cluster competitiveness. Focusing on the Czech Republic, its findings and recommendations can enrich cluster development in other countries, serving as a guide for practitioners, policy makers, and academics.
Tax Reform in Uganda
Kwagala-Igaga employs political economy and optimal theory to explain the weaknesses evident in the tax system in Uganda since the introduction of extensive reforms in 1997, highlighting the constraints imposed upon tax design and tax reform in the country.
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.
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.
Marketing the SME
A significant element in Ireland’s economic transformation was the role of Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs). This volume investigates the sophisticated, diverse and market-efficient strategies they adopted to ensure global success.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
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 Leadership Imperative
This book combines e-tourism and strategic management to explore internet adoption in small travel firms. Examining firm, external, and personal factors, it finds leadership is a more significant determinant than previously thought and proposes a new model.
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 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.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in management, economics, education, and psychology. With an interdisciplinary approach, it answers key questions and contributes to the discussion on the theoretical and practical use of ICT.
Organisational Anatomy
Organisational Anatomy views organisations as live creatures. This biological perspective allows you to intuitively understand your workplace, classify different organisational archetypes, and recognise pathologies to achieve superior business performance.
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.
Tourism Economics
This book examines tourism economics with specific case studies from countries across the world. Featuring contributions from international experts, it is useful for academics and tourism professionals seeking to update their knowledge at both micro and macro levels.
Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India
In the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through an analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, Sharma shows how Ancient Indian writing can contribute to active knowledge today.