How do affect and cognition shape managerial decisions? This book unpacks their interplay at the individual, group, and organizational levels, revealing how these powerful influences can be harnessed or mitigated.
Safety Essentials for Business and Leisure Travel
This book blends in-depth research on global risk mitigation with unique perspectives on travel safety. It tackles hard issues like kidnapping and contingency planning, incorporating the real-life experiences of an author who survived torture and abduction. Essential reading.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
Hybridity in Contemporary Commercial Organizations
Commercial organizations adopt multiple templates, creating hybridity. While this offers a competitive advantage, it also presents tensions and contradictions with negative consequences for employee trust. This book explores individual-level responses to this multiplicity.
Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.
Leadership for the Future
This volume explores leadership approaches from the past and present, analysing them for future challenges. Drawing from future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
This book illustrates how global phenomena like digitalisation and climate change impact multinationals. As extant research does not fully explain emergent topics like digital business models and cleantech companies, this volume serves to fill this critical gap.
Accelerated by COVID-19, the digital transformation of organizations is a critical topic. This volume evaluates the process with an up-to-date perspective from the social sciences, covering fields from human resources and finance to education and marketing.
The Marketing of Works
The first book on a new type of marketing: the marketing of works. It describes activities like repair that change an object’s market value without transferring ownership. Distinguishing works from services, it provides marketing theorists with many opportunities for research.
This book details how social innovations impact society in areas like education and health. Based on the experience of authors from emerging countries, it presents practical methods for successful entrepreneurship and explains transformative advances in business management.
This collection of essays examines emerging research paradigms in communication. It focuses on the shift from traditional unidirectional information sharing to multidirectional channels, providing students, scholars, and practitioners with innovative ways to think critically.
This collection explores global issues in business, from wellbeing at work and marketing innovations to sustainability in the food industry. The volume analyzes the organizational behavior of ISIS and offers insights into secrecy by analyzing scenes from John Grisham’s The Firm.
Productivity of Contemporary Economies
This book reveals original research into the productivity of economies, as the world faces a slowdown caused by digitalization and COVID-19. It will be useful for researchers, policymakers, and all those searching for new ways of thinking about these interdisciplinary problems.
Megaproject overruns are often blamed on project managers, but the real culprit is flawed Engineering Management. Design errors cause overruns that no management tool can fix. Using a Systems Thinking approach, this book explores methods to address these root causes.
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 provides a comprehensive outlook on long-term economic changes in the Western Balkans. It offers decision-makers ways to leverage the rise of digital technologies for sustainable growth based on green and clean solutions.
No other book links epidemiological concepts to leadership. This book identifies leadership determinants and matches research-based antidotes to them. Using over 60 case studies and leadership style assessments, you will learn to improve your leadership and the workplace climate.
This book helps students and practitioners understand marketing and design. It provides an overview of experiential marketing, innovation, branding, and human-centred design, while considering future avenues for creativity in the field.
Agile Strategies for the 21st Century
To succeed in a dynamic world, leaders must build agile organizations. This book provides a practical framework to accelerate innovation and adaptability by shaping a winning culture. Learn to diagnose and fix the unseen root problems that disrupt the flow of critical knowledge.
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.
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