Human resource management is one of the most important components of business operations in any organization, and sport and recreation programs are...

As leaders and organizations struggle to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage, the challenges that they face inevitably are dependent upon ...

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultura...

Thrown into the surreal world of American business, Professor Ray Pendleton must try to make sense out of chaos -- if he is to survive. Nothing in ...

In this delightful, quick-to-read, business-management allegory, Donna M Genett, Ph.D., uses an entertaining narrative about identical cousins, Jam...

Leadership is about creating a culture which will engage all employees in executing the Vision and Mission of the company. This book outlines the f...

A better understanding of how immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy is important. Few studies have examined how immigrant entrepreneurs contrib...

In parallel with the recent trend towards conducting ever more surveys, there has also been a decline in the response rates, making it harder to ob...

This book provides the much needed international dimension on the payoffs of information technology investments. The bulk of the research on the im...

Major technological advances in the last few years have increased our knowledge of the role that genetics has in occupational diseases and our unde...

Businesses are quickly integrating new telecom services into their business plans. Broadband connects entrepreneurs to millions to distant customer...

Closely linked to the concepts of growth and globalisation is the increasing recognition being given to the importance of the workplace as a site o...

Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introdu...

Independent federal agencies are subject to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Because they fall outside of presidential authority, however, ind...

Divided in two sections, this book is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments and deca...

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiv...

The quality of infrastructure services is key to the production and trade of goods and services, contributing to the productivity and competitivene...

Innovation continues to drive economic development and business competitiveness. In the past centuries, innovation has been focused around national...

The purpose of this book is to investigate the innovative process in engineering of consulting firms as a knowledge-intensive service sector. Extan...

This book examines the extent to which product innovations stem from small, young firms versus large, established firms by analysing the patenting ...

Problem-solving is an important part of our lives. Dialectical Networking Thinking (DNT) is a soft-systems methodology aimed at complex problem-sol...

To sustain competitiveness in today's highly local and global markets, an organization needs to excel in all its key dimensions. The world is facin...

This book investigates various drivers of innovation within small businesses, as well as the role that innovation plays in creating value in small ...

Based on thorough studies of several European business schools this book shows that the formation of the content is a complex issue that only can b...

Innovation benefits consumers through the development of new products, processes and services that improve lives and address unmet needs. It is key...

The book is about how the intelligent goods may collect, store, protect and communicate information related to the goods and its transport from A t...

This monograph is focused on intercultural issues, particularly in the global auto industry. The foreign direct investments (FDI) reasons are the r...

Despite the fact that there are internal auditing books in the market, these existing books are mainly written from the perspective of internal aud...

The United States has played an active role in helping to reform financial regulations to address weaknesses revealed by the 2007-2009 financial cr...

Recent research supports that sequential forms of Cross-Cultural Training (CCT), which offered pre-departure CCT as well as post-arrival CCT, are m...

Effective international business operation is not possible without implementing best practices of international human resource management (HRM) to ...

This book reflects on the unique dynamics of the international on-line marketplace.

An introduction to Knowledge Management, focussing on creating and sharing knowledge. This book teaches how to implement knowledge management in a ...

In this note a short introduction to the project "Employment Effects of Entrepreneurs" is presented. First, we describe the purpose of the project;...

Most organisations use, transform, distribute or sell materials of one or several kinds. The management of materials has serious implication on the...

"Many people go through life in a rather hit-or-miss fashion, casting about for ideas to explain why their projects improve or decline, why they ar...

Title IX of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act deals with investor protection and securities regulation. Parts of Title ...

The HRM literature argues that intended leadership practices can be perceived entirely different by employees, and that perceived practices are mor...

This book offers solutions to the often vexing task of organising a large organisation (and even small firms) into an effective marketing engine to...

We extend earlier analyses of the job creation of start-ups vs. established firms by taking into consideration the educational content of the jobs ...

We study whether entrepreneurial spinoffs are important drivers of industry dynamics. More precisely, we investigate whether the quality of jobs in...

In Job Satisfaction: Influencing Factors, Gender Differences and Improvement Strategies, the authors examine the way engagement in a work setting t...

Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational...

This book begins by analysing the relationship between occupational stress and workplace bullying in the educational sector. It continues to examin...

On 30 January 2014, President Barack Obama directed Vice President Joseph Biden to lead a Government-wide review of Federal programs in the workfor...

This book deals with 3 interrelated activities in business and finance: joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and capital flow.

The ability to deliver excellent quality standards in the most productive manner possible is the hallmark of successful organisations in this age o...