This textbook covers 15 chapters on food, film, shopping, medical, ghost, and suicide tourism, and introduces students, researchers, educators, and tour operators to the demands of affluent tourists from the newly industrialized countries of East and Southeast Asia.
Firms need a risk scorecard. While banks invest significantly in risk management, it is questionable if these programs work. This book responds to this gap by proposing the Banking Risk Balanced Scorecard (BRBS) to enhance competitive advantage and stakeholder value.
In today’s evolving business landscape, managing change is crucial. This anthology offers cutting-edge research and practical insights from leading experts on how organizations can effectively adapt, drive sustainable growth, and implement transformative practices.
Corporate Social Innovation
This book explores Corporate Social Innovation as key to reshaping capitalism. By balancing profitability with purpose, companies can address social and environmental challenges, rebuild trust, and create shared value—providing a roadmap to redefine the purpose of business.
Master the business lifecycle, from launch to profitable exit. Learn to hire, market, sell, grow, and negotiate while sidestepping costly mistakes. This essential guide equips you for lasting success and unlocks your highest earning potential.
Technological Innovation Management
This book shows how to treat your organization as an entity of continuous learning and innovation. Use knowledge as a strategic asset to improve processes, products, and services, leading to improved performance and sustainable value for stakeholders.
A Small and Medium Enterprise’s Guide to Innovation and Growth
Unlock the potential of AI with this guide for SMEs. Break down complex concepts into actionable strategies to innovate, grow, and compete. Learn how to harness AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, outpace industry giants, and thrive in an AI-driven future.
This book delves into the relationship between economic growth and tourism in China’s diverse regions. Emphasizing China’s unique experiences, it offers practical insights and valuable lessons applicable to policymakers, economists, and tourism professionals worldwide.
Master mobile in-app advertising. This guide for publishers and advertisers uses data and case studies to reveal how factors like ad size, position, and timing influence success. Optimize campaigns for higher revenue and an improved user experience.
Circulating Knowledge and Elites
Intelligent bots promise salvation while paradigms clash online. With trust in experts collapsing, new leaders emerge. Are their intelligent designs an improvement on the evolution guessed by blind watchmakers?
Reimagining Human Resource Management
In an age of digital disruption, Human Resource Management has become a strategic powerhouse. This essential guide for HR professionals and leaders provides useful frameworks to build a future-ready workforce, develop skills for the digital economy, and shape the future of work.
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
This book collects chapters from all over the world on quality assurance in higher education. It highlights successful and challenging models, providing diverse perspectives to bridge gaps in understanding and implementing sturdy quality systems among nations.
Money, Payment Systems and the European Union
This anthology probes money as a means of payment and a reserve of value within the European Union framework, with attention paid to community-based currencies. It describes how the EU, considered a unique economic and political partnership, has not clearly defined money.
This book focuses on integrating Knowledge Management (KM) with Project Management (PM) for all project types. This integration improves organisational performance, delivering products better, faster, and cheaper by enhancing communication, decision making, and collaboration.
Green Human Resource Management in Financial Institutions
This book explores how human capital can drive sustainability in the financial sector. It offers practical Green HRM strategies, frameworks, and case studies for leaders seeking to align people practices with environmental goals and enhance ESG performance.
Uncovering the Role of Audit Quality in Firms’ Financial Reports
Why do some firms report financial results promptly while others delay? This book investigates how audit quality shapes the speed and credibility of corporate disclosures, shedding light on the vital role of auditors in promoting timely and transparent financial communication.
Hospitality and Tourism Education in the Digital Era
Authored by experts, this volume explores current research in tourism digital education. It offers sustainable strategies, case studies, and trend analyses to empower hospitality professionals, contributing to the growth, innovation, and sustainability of the tourism industry.
Global Perspectives on Development of the Digital Workplace and Digitalisation of Business Functions
Uncover the digital transformation of business, from leadership to ethics. Combining theory with real-world case studies, this book builds the essential analytical skills for students to thrive in the modern digital economy.
Discover Target Value Delivery: a method for setting budgets based on a building’s functional requirements before design begins. This practical guide for owners, designers, and contractors provides the tools to steer the budget and deliver the project vision with available funds.
Empathy connects us, but social isolation and polarization are driving us apart. A lack of empathy causes society to suffer, making it harder to work with others. How can we learn to demonstrate more empathy? This book sheds light on that question.