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Creative and cultural industries are growing in almost every nation around the world and over the last two decades have contributed to global, national, and local economies significantly. More recently, policy makers and those who start these creative...

Written by best-selling author and global thought leader Peter Hawkins, Beauty in Leadership and Coaching explores how leaders and coaches can contribute to the urgent task to transform human consciousness to address the great inter-connected challenges...

This book analyses relational contract theory within the context of international energy investment agreements.Putting forth an exhaustive assessment of the field, the book provides a pragmatic resolution to the challenges inherent in the relationship...

Environmental concerns are at the forefront of governments, NGOs, businesses and organizations around the world. Green management has prompted questions about existing management research traditions' profit-oriented structures emphasising the price of...

Die strategische Kommunikationsforschung hat seit jeher Theorien anderer kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Forschungsfelder und wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen aufgegriffen, um mit diesen den eigenen Beobachtungsgegenstand zu beschreiben. Wenn man das als...

In The Closing of the Auditor’s Mind? David J. O’Regan describes internal auditing as an important “binding agent” of social cohesion, for the accountability of individuals and organizations and also at aggregated levels of social trust. However, O’Regan...

Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine brought massive disruption to supply chains around the world, shining a light on the environmental impacts of such systems. What role can Industry 4.0 play in making supply chains sustainable...

This open access book pertains to the "International Conference on Cultural Tourism Advances," held on June 27 and 28, 2023, at KU Leuven, Belgium. It focuses on advancing understanding of the sustainable development potential of cultural tourism by...

Written by best-selling author and global thought leader Peter Hawkins, Beauty in Leadership and Coaching explores how leaders and coaches can contribute to the urgent task to transform human consciousness to address the great inter-connected challenges...

Billions of airline passengers, combined with conditions associated with airline travel and airports, create a conducive environment for the rapid spread of viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted airlines, airports, and their operations significantly...

Green Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe aims to explore the crucial role of green innovation in guiding organizations towards sustainable development amidst contemporary environmental challenges.It comprehensively examines the concept of the green...

In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons? This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed; it's an investigation into greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.Credit Suisse was a...

A prediction market is designed to trade and predict future events. This book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of the prediction market, explaining what it is, how it works, and why it may fail, from the theoretical,...

This book explores multiple types of innovation within the modern wine industry and how it has developed historically.   The book provides and extensive examination of the existing knowledge in this subject. This highlights the evolution of historical...

Over the course of the last 70 years, asset managers⸺from activist hedge funds to the large passive index fund providers⸺have come to own the substantial majority of corporate equities in the United States, and have wielded that ownership to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804995983Author Lawrence McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin (Transworld)Publisher Transworld Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Eine immer mehr digital vernetzte Welt führt zu einer sehr großen Menge von unterschiedlichen Daten, die in Echtzeit generiert werden („Big Data“). Ein großer Teil dieser Datenproduzenten sind Nutzer von Social Media oder auch smarten Geräten, wie bspw...

More productive people and processes, fast.In many countries, productivity growth has been sluggish for over 15 years. It is the reason why we are all working harder for less money, and yet despite many attempts to overcome this, nothing has worked to...

This book discusses five critical game changer models linking local area transfer of technology to revamp innovation for social entrepreneurship for growth and acceleration, social ubiquity, and global accessibility of markets to entrepreneurship in a...

Mindfulness and Business Education – Developing self-aware future leaders, is a practical guide for educators and academics with teaching responsibilities in business schools or colleges. Business schools have a responsibility to equip future leaders...

Dieses Buch zeigt dem Immobilieninvestor und Rechtsanwender auf, wie unterschiedlich hoch die Steuerbelastungsquoten von Immobilieninvestition sein können und wie eine optimale Steuerstrategie in der Praxis aussieht. Die Idee zu diesem Buch entstand beim...

Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance, and business. With contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners,...

Since the emergence of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in and around the 1900s, they have underpinned the trade, industrial and economic expansion of many economies of the world. These institutions were at the heart of the industrial revolutions of...

Der Aufbau und die Transformation digitaler Geschäftsmodelle stellen eine Herausforderung für Unternehmen dar. Dieses Buch unterstützt mit praxiserprobten Bausteinen das Management digitaler Geschäftsmodelle sowie die Gestaltung einer...

The second edition of this comprehensive has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all...

The second edition of this comprehensive has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all...

Hybrid work is here to stay but we haven't got it right yet. To be truly effective, hybrid working must form part of the overall business strategy and work, organizational structures and teams must be designed with hybrid in mind. Making Hybrid Working...

Most people spend on average just 2 days per week doing what they think they’re supposed to be doing at work. Which means you’re almost certainly spending days each week wasting time: in meetings you shouldn’t be in, on some process that doesn’t work,...

A new collection of simple yet powerful words and wisdom from Warren Buffett about today’s economy and how investing has changed in the past two decades – from crypto to climate change – compiled and commented upon by bestselling authors Mary Buffett and...

In this timeless guide on maximizing teams to achieve outstanding business success, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who’s Got Your Back, and Never Eat Alone distills his years of experience coaching teams at Fortune 500 companies and startup...

'An easy to read, yet incredibly detailed step-by-step guide on how to manage your money in the modern day. Real-life examples with excellent storytelling and actionable steps. This is the best financial guide I've read.' Joe Gomez, Liverpool...

This book proposes that sustainable marketing should be founded on a higher level of consciousness, governed by the Eastern ethical principles of dharma and karma. It suggests a socially responsible, integrated marketing strategy to boost...

Global Marketing provides students with an understanding of how marketing works in today's globalized business landscape, covering key topics, theories and applications. Taking a holistic approach to the subject, this new textbook includes chapters on...

'A very valuable field manual for those who want to change our economies for the better' Ha-Joon Chang'A book of dark fears and bright hope . . . Excellent' Danny DorlingA provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a...

First published in 1992. One of the issues of particular interest to political psychologists centers around how foreign policy decisions are made. The psychological phenomena that political psychologists examine have to do with how individuals perceive,...

This open access book examines the long-term impact of Christian missionaries in Zambia, and sub-Saharan Africa more generally, on education, health, and economic development. It examines how Christian missionaries provided Western-style education and...

This insightful book presents a comprehensive understanding of the new technologies impacting digital built asset and facility management. Informative and accessible, it illustrates how the concepts, principles, strategies and applications of digital...

In Organisationen arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die an biografisch unterschiedlichen Punkten im Leben stehen. Die Betrachtung des individuellen Lebenszyklus mit seinen fünf Teillebenszyklen ermöglicht es, Menschen in Organisationen umfassend und...

Innovative new approaches for improving GDP measurement to better gauge economic productivity. Official measures of gross domestic product (GDP) indicate that productivity growth has declined in the United States over the last two decades. This has led...

This book brings together the work of Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and highlights her investigations into the history of economic thought and her quest for an alternative economic thinking. Following an extended introduction that contextualised her ideas and...