This book explores tourism management in Bulgaria in the COVID-19 era. It covers smart destinations, digital technologies, online consumer behavior, and innovative approaches in hotel management, outlining key challenges and opportunities for the industry.
This book critiques the partial explanations of current change management theories. It proposes a comprehensive model, using case studies to introduce a “polyphonic” management style where considering the interests of all stakeholders contributes to successful change projects.
This book explores the challenges linking tourist motivations, World Heritage Sites, and local culture. With a focus on Portugal and Brazil, it draws on international examples to explore themes like marketing, sustainability, authenticity, and preservation.
Leadership for the Future
This volume explores leadership approaches from the past and present, analysing them for future challenges. Drawing from future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
Neoteric Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the major research categories in Management Science in Engineering (MSE) and evaluates and classifies each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students.
This book explores technology business incubation in India. It maps the role of various actors in the incubation process, provides an overview of the innovation ecosystem, and examines how the country’s science and technology culture influences its overall development pathway.
We don’t see reality as it is. Instead, your brain uses experience to create a story—your private narrative. This book shows how this narrative enables humans to anticipate the future, engage in complex thought, and communicate, providing a new way of viewing human experience.
This book studies how hidden and malicious intent in business decisions led to collapses like the 2008 Great Recession. It proposes a conceptual AI-augmented model, based on a cancer analogy, to detect and correct these destructive decisions before they harm the economy.
This book examines the link between individual entrepreneurship and the competitive performance of an industry, using Kenya’s leather industry as a case study. It refocuses attention from knowledge-based industries to primary sectors that are typical of African economies.
Conflict-based strategy is obsolete. This is the essential guide to cooperative strategy for modern leaders. In a world where the choice is stark—”cooperate, or die”—this book provides the playbook for a successful future.
This book develops a new mathematical model for modern human resources that is both organisational output-focused and employee-focused. It investigates various measurement and evaluation approaches to facilitate the adoption of alternative HR practices.
Management Accounting in the Third Millennium
This book is an innovative review of monetary and non-monetary incentive schemes and their effects on employee motivation and performance. It provides a schematic approach to navigate reward systems, offering practical insights and best practices for practitioners and managers.
Accelerated by COVID-19, the digital transformation of organizations is a critical topic. This volume evaluates the process with an up-to-date perspective from the social sciences, covering fields from human resources and finance to education and marketing.
This comprehensive book explores the evolving landscape of sustainable entrepreneurship. It delves into the intersection of business and sustainability, analyzing technology, investment, empowerment, and AI-driven commerce through diverse case studies and analyses.
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 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.
This book provides solutions for organizations to achieve competitive advantage. It reviews the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), considers the Six Sigma technique, and discusses the agile manufacturing (AM) approach.
In today’s competitive environment, the manufacturing sector in developing countries must succeed through technological innovation. This book identifies the barriers to implementing technological innovation, paving the way for improved performance in this competitive landscape.
This book explores the challenges of managing software projects, from changing requirements to uncertain technologies. It presents a holistic, adaptive framework with practical strategies and expert perspectives to manage teams, communicate effectively, and deal with uncertainty.
No other book links epidemiological concepts to leadership. This book identifies leadership determinants and matches research-based antidotes to them. Using over 60 case studies and leadership style assessments, you will learn to improve your leadership and the workplace climate.