Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations
Influence, Adaptation, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
This volume focusses on non-state actors and political conflicts but also attends to the broader themes of the series. The research emphases the roles and motivations of non-state actors in conflicts or post-conflict situations in the post-Cold War era; as well outlining the dynamics of social movements,...
The Sustainable Marketing Concept in European SMEs
Insights from the Food & Drink Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
The food and drink sector represents Europe’s largest manufacturing industry, its largest employer and is a major player in the global economy. It also has one of the greatest environmental impacts. In order to maintain competitive advantage, SMEs need to address their environmental impact and integrate...
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In...
Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth
Coopetition and Knowledge Dynamics within and across Firms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Contemporary markets are increasingly complex and dynamic. Diverse business contexts have become closer, and are increasingly influenced by socio-economic and technological factors. Firms nowadays build alliances even with competing players to ensure entrepreneurial survival and growth. This publication...
Internet+ and Electronic Business in China
Innovation and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Internet + and Electronic Business in China is a comprehensive resource that provides insight and analysis into E-commerce in China and how it has revolutionized and continues to revolutionize business and society. Split into four distinct sections, the book first lays out the theoretical foundations...
Custard, Culverts and Cake
Academics on Life in The Archers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Leading scholars combine their love of The Archers with their specialist subjects, in Custard, Culverts and Cake - a sometimes serious, but most often wry look at the people of Ambridge. A group of Archers Academics take on subjects such as food, geography, social media, faith. There is, naturally,...
The Development of Socialism, Social Democracy and Communism
Historical, Political and Socioeconomic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines how socioeconomic and institutional factors shaped the development of Socialism and its two contending variants of Social Democracy and Communism, investigating why each of these factions enjoyed varying levels of popularity in different societies between 1840 and 1945. It places...
Swarm Leadership and the Collective Mind
Using Collaborative Innovation Networks to Build a Better Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
This book helps you to become the leader of your own swarm by building its collective consciousness. A successful swarm business channels the competitive energies of all stakeholders towards collaboration. The journey from homo competitivus to homo collaborensis starts with recruiting and building...
by David Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
It is apparent that all forms of organisation have governance requirements and procedures but too often we just consider governance in a corporate environment. Equally it is accepted that the concept of governance is concerned with the relationship between the organisation and all of its stakeholders...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also include university-school...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business, particularly individual sports events (such as the Olympics or FIFA Men’s or Women’s World Cup) as well as participant sport, in comprehensive plans toward driving and furthering...
by Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality.
This book develops the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
In recent years, the issues of sustainability, green behavior and corporate social responsibility have become a growing global concern. This increased concern for environmental welfare has started to affect the way marketers, managers and policy makers think and organize their businesses. In Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Communication is developed in our relation to others and in relation to what happens in the social context. It is therefore not neutral but mediates people’s relationships and practices. Technological transitions, economical changes, medical advancements, environmental turbulence, political movements...