Pioneers in Marketing presents a collection of eight biographical essays about seminal marketing scholars of the twentieth century, focusing on the careers and contributions of those who contributed most to the development of the marketing discipline. Five of the eight biographies rely extensively on archival materials which allow for a much more detailed examination of the subject's life and career than earlier published sketches, and two of the biographies in this collection are drawn from from extensive interviews with the subject. The careers of most of the scholars included in this...
Pioneers in Marketing presents a collection of eight biographical essays about seminal marketing scholars of the twentieth century, focusing on the ca...
This text addresses the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon.
This text addresses the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims...
This book comprises current, original, empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. This format facilitates comparative analysis of central features of career-making within as well as across both specific industries and national contexts. The studies empirically and theoretically analyze issues such as career management, temporality, location, recognition processes, competition, uncertainty, gender, chance-arbitrariness, education-to-work transition, mediators, the 'individualization' of...
This book comprises current, original, empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture f...
A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. This book shows how different stakeholders, internal and external, may play a critical role during a merger or an acquisition process.
A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. This book shows how different sta...
This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It focuses on the work of leading scholars of management in and around Africa and the African Context, exploring whether we can at this point refer to 'African Management' as an emerging and distinct stream in the scholarly discourse in management. The main themes are macro and micro issues of Management in Africa, each chapter illustrating the historical or traditional view of Management in Africa versus the newer western business management...
This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It...
Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms are fractured and fragmented by country. This book brings an entirely new perspective to our understanding of changes in working time. In both the UK and the US, effective legal or collectively-bargained regulation of working time has been limited over the last 20 years, to the extent that its...
Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we sta...
Keijzers provides an introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies.
Keijzers provides an introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing env...
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession reshaping work and employment practices?
These are among the questions answered in Recession at Work, the first systematic study in Europe to deal with the effects of the economic crisis on people at work. Drawing on survey data for Ireland provided by nearly 500 managers...
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measu...
Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning within the business domain. In the context of the contemporary macro issues facing higher education, this book presents the latest teaching practices and tools used in higher education business teaching, clearly illustrating the practical ways in which business teachers can confront current pedagogic challenges. All of the contributors to this edited book have outstanding track records in teaching, having won national and international awards...
Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning ...
