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.
Credit and Collections
The failing economy makes getting paid harder than ever. Learn to take specific steps to maximize your credit management policies, check customer credit to limit risk, and make effective collection calls that work. Protect your business and your cash flow.
Tourism Marketing
This volume presents the best research from the Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, focusing on tourist behaviour and managerial strategies. It covers image, satisfaction, ITC, innovation, and competitiveness. A compelling update for researchers and students.
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.
In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.
Physiology of Organisations
Can we imagine organisations as human bodies? Organisational science today is fragmented. This book fills that gap by constructing a physiological theory of organising to treat organisations when they are ill and ensure they work at maximum efficiency.
Exploring Travel and Tourism
These essays examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years. From Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, the authors unpack the meanings of nationality, postcolonialism, place, gender, and class in travel studies.
Professional Ethics
This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.
Sustainability of Tourism
This book examines policies and practices for sustainable tourism development. It provides real-world examples and international cases related to culture and nature, with guidelines that apply to museums, cities, regions, and countries.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shell in Ireland
An exposé of Shell in Ireland, this book reveals how weak regulation and political influence can turn corporate social responsibility into a tool for exploiting communities and the environment.
In Singapore’s government-controlled economy, pro-business policies are vital. Yet, no comprehensive model exists to predict which firms will succeed or fail. This quantitative book attempts to fill this gap by testing the key factors for success.
From Traditional Attire to Modern Dress
These essays discuss how clothing, jewellery, and fashion are connected to political and social developments. Fabrics and colours are marvellous documents that bring to life our ancestors’ worlds, helping us understand sartorial appearances in the Balkans and Orient.
Research in Management Accounting
This book addresses the gap in management accounting research focused on Malaysia. It provides research-oriented articles on key issues and is an essential reference for researchers, academics, managers, accountants, and policy makers.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
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.
The Plastic Venuses
Consumerism and virtual reality are transforming archaeology. When ancient sites become theme parks and finds are exhibited in casinos, what is authenticity? This book is an innovative, critical, and stimulating appraisal of our relationship with the past.
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.
Looking at the Broad Picture
This book is the story of how ten Irish software companies evolved their development processes over the last decade. It discusses specific change-processes, the benefits of each, and suggests developments for the future.
“Show us what you’ve got”
This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.
Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises
Get a thorough insight into the networking practices of ethnic entrepreneurs in Ireland. This book provides a theoretical grounding, real-life examples, and highlights the motivations and challenges they encounter while setting up a business.