Management and business studies are firmly established as a popular, important and significant area of study in the academic world. Bringing together theories and thought from a wide range of disciplines, this series features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
By Lubomira Trojan, Łukasz Wróblewski
August 30, 2024
The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach. Such a holistic view is offered by the design thinking method, which has been extracted from the field of design and could be applied also in the ...
By Mariusz Sołtysik, Magdalena Wojnarowska, Maria Urbaniec, Vesna Zabkar, Marek Ćwiklicki, Erica Varese
June 21, 2024
Sustainable development is a complex issue and despite many studies and publications in recent years, it remains poorly recognised on best practices in core business areas. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development depends on research...
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By Robert James Crammond, Denis Hyams-Ssekasi
June 03, 2024
Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation: Cases, Collaborations and Contexts provides a wide-ranging overview of entrepreneurship education today from a global perspective. Comprising three parts that address teaching and learning, support and outcomes, and strategic themes, ...
By Regina Lenart-Gansiniec, Łukasz Sułkowski
May 27, 2024
Significant disruption to the educational sector occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This shed a light on the need for new delivery methods and greater collaboration, which has become urgent and obvious as existing structures and traditional channels have struggled to cope or shut down. Higher ...
By Magdalena Biel, Beata Ślusarczyk
May 27, 2024
Family Business and Management: Objectives, Theory, and Practice characterizes the specificity of the functioning of family businesses through the prism of their objectives. It contains both theoretical considerations about the essence of family entrepreneurship and the objectives set by family ...
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By Sławomir J. Magala, Christiane Erten, Roger Matthew Bell, Marie-Therese Claes, Senem Yazici, Atila Karabag
April 30, 2024
Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede’s research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture’s Consequences in 1980. The authors reflect on their changing beliefs about the concept of cultural...
By Simon Ashley Bennett
March 05, 2024
Graft is a common and persistent social pathogen that afflicts the developed and developing world in equal measure. This book describes, through the medium of international case studies, how graft undermines public safety and how, following a near-miss, incident or accident, investigators can use ...
By Arshia Mukhtar, Ying Zhu, You-il Lee, Mary Bambacas, S.Tamer Cavusgil
January 29, 2024
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship program of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative, created to boost economic cooperation between China and Pakistan with significant political and economic implications in the region. This book looks at critical issues when developing ...
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By Azizul Hassan
January 29, 2024
The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in tourism and there has been a surge in new, innovative digital initiatives to help tourism businesses. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the nature of tourism, events and practices in the digital context. The book looks at how ...
By Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska
January 29, 2024
Manufacturing companies need to adapt to the requirements of functioning in the era of Industry 4.0 and major technological disruptions. The use of knowledge-based decision support tools has also become necessary in order for enterprises to survive in a competitive environment. This book offers a ...
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By Nor Aida Abdul Rahman, Kamran Mahroof, Azizul Hassan
November 22, 2023
With recent technological developments, touted also as Industry 4.0, numerous articles published over the years have emphasized the need to investigate the role of technology across all sectors including the halal industry. This book provides a greater understanding of the technologies, trends, and...
By Tim Mazzarol
October 24, 2023
Co-operative and mutual enterprise is one of the oldest and most enduring forms of business, encompassing co-operatives, mutual firms, friendly societies, and credit unions. This book provides an expert overview of contemporary research in this important field. Governments around the world have ...