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This book is a fresh reflection on the study of museum innovation, with special attention paid to the enabling role of collaboration within the process. It sets out to capture the innovation dynamics of museums and explore to what extent and how...

Strategy is essentially about achieving organisational success. Growth, Adaptation, Resilience, and Competition (GARC) is a general framework that helps organisations think creatively about attaining success and acknowledges the reality that there is no...

Over the past two decades, several sudden, unforeseen, and significant changes have occurred in the world's political and economic landscape. This book explores their impact on the processes of contemporary disruptive innovations during the Fourth...

Illicit business is big business. It covers a diverse range of activities from money laundering, drug trafficking and human trafficking through to the manufacture of counterfeit goods and the multiple activities in informal and shadow economies. This...

Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics and as the point of departure for further empirical and analytical studies of the behaviour of...

You are working hard. You are sustaining your job. You are doing well in your field. Life seems fine. But there is something that’s holding you back from making it to the top in your field of work. That something could be an annoying habit, a behaviour,...

It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work. Yet gender is rarely considered in those debates. This path-breaking book, written by a leading thinker on gender, inclusion and...

This book looks at different perspectives on finance and the adoption of digital tools in business.The book discusses key issues of business organisation as well as its management focusing on practical and actionable guidance and innovative tools that...

It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work. Yet gender is rarely considered in those debates. This path-breaking book, written by a leading thinker on gender, inclusion and...

Revolutionize your go-to-market strategies and drive growth by transforming your revenue-generating teams into a high-performing, well-oiled machine with this practical how-to guide.

Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth.In Misbelief social scientist...

Exploring the fusion of Smart Cities and Circular Economy principles, addressing resource depletion and environmental concerns for sustainable urban living, this timely volume unveils the transformative potential and challenges of integrating these ideas...

Two seminal crises of the early 21st century – the 9/11 terrorist attacks and COVID-19 pandemic – have led emerging generations of workers to prioritize the meaning and purpose of work. At the same time, other social and environmental crises are...

From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover how you can harness the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour: true cultural engagement.'Compelling and vivid' – Robert Cialdini, author of Pre-SuasianWe all try to influence...

This book explores the effects of the previously ignored factors of path dependence and product features on technology acceptance with a focus on robo-advice. A newly developed model introduces path dependence to technology acceptance research allowing...

Inheritocracy is a provocative and eye-opening analysis of how parental support is the real economic story of the twenty-first century. This is a recent development but has echoes in the nineteenth century. The modern reality is that for those under...

Success requires taking a risk, or two. But have you ever bet the house on a seemingly good idea for it to become a bad business decision? Risk isn't just about being risky and having a blasé attitude to responsibility. It's about understanding risk...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.The author shows why today's global food...

Success requires taking a risk, or two. But have you ever bet the house on a seemingly good idea for it to become a bad business decision? Risk isn't just about being risky and having a blasé attitude to responsibility. It's about understanding risk...

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America are responding to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial, palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are...

State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. However, none seems to capture the predatory, at times surreal, nature of the economy of the world’s most...

The need for artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals to understand basic business concepts so they can successfully pursue their chosen creative profession has only grown since the publication of this textbook, now...

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice...

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on health care, while other developed countries throughout the world average 8.7% of GDP on healthcare expenditures. By 2028, that percentage in the United States is projected to be 19.7% of GDP.Yet all...

Most nonprofits approach strategic planning in ways that take too much time and effort, focus on the wrong issues, and set up the plan to be something that gathers dust on a shelf rather than being implemented. If you want a different approach, this is...

This book makes sense of the finance world from a non-finance perspective. It introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of business finance to those who do not have a financial background or training. The book delineates the financial workings...

What is the 'rule of law'? How do laws get made? Does our legal and political system achieve justice for all Australians equally? Designed for beginners as well as non-law students, this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to...

The book provides a picture of the increasing significance of Central Europe and especially Poland in global production networks, discussing the underlying economic, social, and political factors. The key question it answers is to what extent the growth...

This timely and innovative book explores the dynamics of inter-island/island-island tourism – also known as archipelago tourism – on the cusp of the post-pandemic epoch.Embellished with illustrative maps and diagrams, the volume examines what novel...

While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality. There are very few publications...

The goal of Lean is to Identify and eliminate nonessential and nonvalue-adding steps in the business processes to streamline operations, improve quality, and gain customer loyalty. Implementation of Lean technologies for many prestigious Fortune 500 as...

We need Insatiable Leaders. Nothing less will do.More than ever before, the world needs leaders of unlimited potential, leaders with the ideas, capabilities and mindset to drive continuous growth.Merely adapting in the face of constant change can lead to...

Business fluency is essential today for effective strategic communication. To fulfill the mandate of trusted counselors and advisors to executives and the C-suite, communication professionals must no longer just have excellent communication skills, but...

We need Insatiable Leaders. Nothing less will do.More than ever before, the world needs leaders of unlimited potential, leaders with the ideas, capabilities and mindset to drive continuous growth.Merely adapting in the face of constant change can lead to...

The Valuation Book contains the tools needed by anyone who wants to make a robust valuation of a business. No detailed prior knowledge of business valuation is required - the book covers everything you need to know, including how to read relevant parts...

Leadership and Succession in Family Business examines leadership and succession in family business, showing how current and next generation members can develop the business side by side. It challenges the traditional, hierarchical model of leadership and...

The way we measure success is ready for a redo.This is a handbook for a new kind of entrepreneur: the kind that wants to create not just a profitable business but a worthwhile life. With inspiration and insights from a wide range of business builders, Dr...

The way we measure success is ready for a redo.This is a handbook for a new kind of entrepreneur: the kind that wants to create not just a profitable business but a worthwhile life. With inspiration and insights from a wide range of business builders, Dr...

Essentials of Economics in Context is specifically designed to meet the requirements of a one-semester introductory economics course that provides coverage of both microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations. It addresses current economic challenges,...

This scholarly book explores the intersection of social cognition with a democratic philosophy of human resource management, to advance a theory of workplace function that maximizes creativity.It examines how the work of Polanyi on tacit knowledge...