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’.
Today’s profit-only management is obsolete, endangering the planet and disengaging employees. This book introduces 3D Management, a radical redesign that liberates organisations and replaces the bottom line with a model balancing profit, people, planet, and purpose.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
This monograph illustrates Professor Zeng Shiqiang’s insightful observations on the essence of the Chinese style of management science, which has developed around how modern management strategies can be integrated with ancient Chinese philosophical wisdom and ideology.
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.
Non-Financial Information
This guide to corporate sustainability disclosure links theory with real-world practice. It offers practical tools to interpret sustainability data, unpacking not just how companies report but what can be inferred, giving readers a deeper understanding of corporate transparency.
To survive, complex organizations must innovate. This book explores the factors linking well-being and innovation, and is a starting point for the business world to use work-life balance as a strategic investment to stimulate creativity and face a constantly evolving market.
Post-pandemic effects threaten financial system sustainability. This book examines the major challenges facing global financial markets and explores alternatives, including the role of digital currency. An essential read for students, practitioners, and policymakers.
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.
Social Entrepreneurial Intent
What drives someone to tackle monumental problems? This book journeys into the heart of social entrepreneurship, uncovering the motivations that spark individuals to become agents of change and exploring how this knowledge can be used to make a lasting impact.
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.
This book introduces new contexts and emerging research in business performance measurement and management. It presents a variety of perspectives from global authors across accounting, finance, marketing, and operations management in a single volume.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
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.