This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
Responsible Business Professionals
This collection explores responsible business in the context of India’s growing global trade. It delves into creating responsible business ecosystems, developing leadership, and managing cross-cultural communication to enhance the human accountability of business.
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.
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.
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.
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 proposes an approach linking social exchange to market activity and organizational performance. It explains value creation theory, why it supersedes classical organization theory, and offers factors for researchers and practitioners to improve performance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion
Once a famed fashion visionary of the 1920s-30s, Maria Monaci Gallenga was erased by Fascism. This book uncovers the story of the enigmatic artist—her Pre-Raphaelite influences, her entrepreneurial ambition, and her ultimate rediscovery by Fendi.
This book presents an opportunity and a challenge: to develop cultural tourism in the North of Portugal, empowering communities to protect their heritage. The challenge is promoting sustainable tourism for economic growth, while preserving authenticity in culture and heritage.
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.
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.
This book explores the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) model in the Gulf’s not-for-profit sector, using practical examples from Qatar Foundation. It moves beyond theory with data analysis to show how FBPs drive effective decision-making for scholars and practitioners alike.
Ecotourism and Interpretive Nature Guiding
A groundbreaking exploration of ecotourism and interpretive nature guiding. Authored by experts, this comprehensive guide shows how to design experiences that conserve natural resources and benefit local communities, while fostering a profound appreciation for our heritage.
This book’s research proves managers can use intellectual capital disclosure to boost firm performance. It reveals how using the balanced scorecard as a measurement tool for intellectual capital can drive success. An essential guide for executives, managers, and academics.