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 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.
Sun & Sea Tourism
While foreign tourism companies condemn local corruption and nationals decry exploitation, they often flourish symbiotically. This book exposes this toxic cocktail and provides recommendations for creating a virtuous cycle to restore the beneficial effects of tourism.
As the return on marketing often fails to justify the cost, this book introduces cost-effective strategies to achieve benefits with minimal resources. It explores human, product, and technological perspectives, like AI, to enhance employee performance and customer loyalty.
Safety Essentials for Business and Leisure Travel
This book blends in-depth research on global risk mitigation with unique perspectives on travel safety. It tackles hard issues like kidnapping and contingency planning, incorporating the real-life experiences of an author who survived torture and abduction. Essential reading.
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.
Strategic HRM and Performance
The link between strategic human resource management and organisational performance is heavily debated, with inconclusive results. This book explores which HR practices enhance performance, how to measure it, and why an interrelated system of practices is key.
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 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.
National Economies
After WWI, the collapse of the global economic system led to racist cleansing and mass murder. This book explores the fault-lines that deepened in European economies, asking: who decided who was to be excluded, and where did the boundaries lie?
This book argues that innovation is influenced by learning, which is driven by knowledge. Articles by renowned experts show how to manage knowledge and learning to drive innovation, and alert management to the risks of a poorly managed process.
This book presents the best papers from the first Management Theory Conference. Featuring the world’s top researchers, it showcases the latest theoretical developments, an award-winning paper, and a fascinating debate on the future of management theory.
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.
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.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
Leadership Theories and Case Studies
Effective leadership does not occur by chance; leaders must be trained for the daunting responsibility of leading organizations. McGiboney shows here that this is possible and illustrates why and how, based on research and case studies from an epidemiological perspective.
International Marketing
With an emphasis on developing countries, this text explains international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment. It describes global environmental forces and basic marketing strategies for international marketing.
This book provides a rigorous examination of sustainable tourism, with particular attention paid to Slovenia. It offers a unique and balanced view of both theoretical issues and practical cases, making it valuable for students, researchers and professionals.
This book addresses the main issues within Islamic banking. It analyzes the experiences of Islamic banks worldwide, providing an objective assessment of their successes and failures while discussing the challenges and future of interest-free banking.
Based on papers from a Eurasian economics conference, this collection investigates the economic environment in Eurasian countries. It analyses the region from perspectives such as globalisation and economic integration, and economic growth and development.