This book argues that contemporary fashion is a performative-conceptual turn. It presents a new approach from visual semiotics, where fashion emerges as a visual code for our hyperreal societies, combining cybernetics, fetishism, and transgression.
Climate change, over-indebtedness, and demographic aging put pressure on future generations. This book explores how corporate and financial social responsibility can leverage intergenerational harmony and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.
This book analyzes the challenges in establishing new institutions of art and culture and provides recommendations for young managers. It is a study guide for managers’ training and self-education in the creative fields.
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.
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 volume of international tourism research presents innovative solutions provoked by today’s challenges. It explores innovations in tourism development, management, and staff training, alongside new approaches to foreign language education for the industry.
Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century
This inquiry showcases the rich diversity of religious and secular pilgrimage. Scholars explore travel for transformation, revealing why it is one of tourism’s fastest growing segments and how this age-old phenomenon is central to what it means to be human.
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 volume provides an international debate on social, environmental, and sustainable accountability. It considers how companies must be legitimated in a sustainable world to prevent environmental destruction and give the world its best chance of survival.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity with Simpson’s diversity index. With examples from real employment data, it illustrates how to analyze demographic diversity and use regression to assess its influencing factors.
Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding
Professions are riddled with complexities and ethical conflicts that obstruct the goal of meaningful work. This book explores the reflections of spiritual master Thomas Merton, offering the confidence to transcend these challenges and transform workplaces through moral action.
TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon’s influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.
This book explores how innovative technology can facilitate a post-COVID transition to a net-zero carbon economy. It examines the roles of central banks, green finance, and digital payments in addressing transition risks and achieving a sustainable future.
This volume explores approaches to monitoring sustainable tourism at seaside destinations, focusing on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It presents a systematic process of gathering data to assess and manage development. Essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
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.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
Family firms are over 80% of businesses worldwide. This book offers valuable insights into how they operate, exploring HR management, financial practices, and family integration as a source of competitive advantage. It provides a comprehensive analysis of these key challenges.
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.
A Business Health Service
If businesses function like living organisms, can they benefit from a professional healthcare service? This book explores the need for such a service and evaluates whether business advisors can meet the professional standards of medical care.
Showcasing the latest breakthroughs in data science, this volume brings together contributions from leading experts. It covers key areas like machine learning and AI, anticipating future trends and serving as a valuable resource for novices and researchers alike.