Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
A Meaningful Life at Work
The Paradox of Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
A Meaningful Life at Work addresses a range of contemporary issues that impact on an individual's experiences in the workplace, including those that may restrict opportunities for personal growth in a professional setting. Understanding an employee's values, their choices and the problems they face...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This volume of Advances in Strategic Management explores emerging trends and contemporary research in the field of organization design. It reflects a renewed focus on the universal problems of organizing—the division of labor and the integration of effort. At the same time, it incorporates new...
Agents, Actors, Actorhood
Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic...
Routine Dynamics in Action
Replication and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Contains an Open Access chapter.
As organizations become increasingly distributed and diverse, and products, technologies and services more complex and dispersed, there is mounting pressure to understand how work can be coordinated across geographical, cultural and intellectual distance, both...
The Suffering Body in Sport
Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Public awareness of and sensitivity to questions of pain, risk and injury in sport is more acute than ever before. Whether it is questions of what sport (and fans) can realistically and responsibly expect of athletes, how revered practices almost inevitably culminate in suffering bodies, or the widespread...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Volume 35B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the economics of Piero Sraffa, guest edited by Scott Carter and Riccardo Bellofiore. The symposium includes new research from Professor Carter, as well as from John Davis, Nerio Naldi and Eleonora Lattanzi,...
Action Learning and Action Research
Genres and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Action Research (AR) is an ideal methodology to enable practical and emancipatory outcomes, as well as to generate relevant and authentic theory. Consequently, it has gained popularity worldwide. However, this emerging paradigm of AR in the Social Sciences has been widely misunderstood and misused...
Re-envisioning the MLS
Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians—and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. Building on the Re-envisioning the MLS initiative from the University of Maryland’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Exploring the management of innovation is a largely interdisciplinary endeavour. It requires scholars to address problems from a variety of perspectives that include strategic, operational, technological and behavioural. The problem domain includes the management of innovation, technology strategy,...
Energy Economics
Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Energy poverty, one of the major challenges facing the global energy system, has drawn wide attention from the international community and academia. As the largest developing country in the world, China faces a number of challenges in understanding and resolving the problem of energy poverty.
Energy...
Project Management
A Multi-Perspective Leadership Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Modern projects are confronted with complexity and ambiguity. To provide a holistic framework, this book presents five core elements of a project: project management, project task, stakeholders, resources, and project environment. This model is used to identify the nature of a specific project and...
Crossroads of the Classroom
Narrative Intersections of Teacher Knowledge and Subject Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book aims to explore and make visible the intersection of subject matter knowledge and teacher knowledge in the narratives of teachers. This complicated interaction between these two bodies of knowledge is often studied and little understood.
This book uses narrative to examine the complexities...
The Lives of Stay-at-Home Fathers
Masculinity, Carework and Fatherhood in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Family forms in the United States are continuing to evolve. Fathers choosing to stay home to care for their children while their wives work is an emerging trend. In this book, the author explores why stay-at-home fathers chose carework over paid work, how such a choice shapes their masculine identities...
Developing Holistic Leadership
A Source of Business Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The book intends to make a contribution to new theoretical concepts and knowledge to existing leadership theory. Through in-depth case studies of international corporations that have achieved business innovation, the book aims to provide new leadership theory of practitioners who promote strategic...