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 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.
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.
How do organizations learn to face the challenges of our turbulent age? This book dispels uncertainties and provides a better understanding of organisational learning, knowledge, and capabilities, focusing on practice, knowledge transfer, and ambidexterity.
Business Review
Business Review: Advanced Applications provides insights on essential topics from cloud computing and HRM to finance and market volatility. This book offers well-grounded theory and practice for scholars, educators, and practitioners alike.
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.
Social Capital in Organizations
This study interprets networks as social capital. It fuses socioeconomic exchange theory with social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Journeys and Destinations
This collection brings together scholarship from diverse fields to explore how journeying is a core component of the fabric of identity and meaning.
How India Found its Feet
Through frank interviews, thirteen business leaders explain the out-of-the-box strategies that fashioned globally competitive businesses in India. These stories of creativity and risk-taking will inspire future entrepreneurs worldwide to innovate and invent.
Synergies Created by a Strategic Fit between Business and Human Resource Strategies
How can HR demonstrate its value in unstable sectors like agriculture? This book uses empirical evidence to show how integrating business and HR strategies achieves sustainable competitive advantage, making it a useful tool for managers, consultants, and scholars.
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.
Strategic HRM and Performance
The link between strategic human resource management and organisational performance is heavily debated, with inconclusive results. This book explores which HR practices enhance performance, how to measure it, and why an interrelated system of practices is key.
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.
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 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.
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”.