Economics, Finance, Business & Industry Books

New and Published Books

1. Professional HR

   Evidence- Based People Management and Development

   By Paul Kearns

   A new breed of HR Professional is needed who can offer the sort of effective people management that can change the way organizations work. They will first have to resolve the legacy left by an absence of professionalism in people management amongst both operational managers and the HR departments...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Whither Chinese HRM?

   Paradigms, Models and Theories

   Edited by Malcolm Warner

   This symposium explores Chinese people-management as an academic subject, looking at where it is currently going and the likely direction of its progress. After the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China saw the introduction of Human Resource Management (HRM). This book...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Expanding Disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing

   Edited by Douglas Brownlie, Paul Hewer, Mark Tadajewski

   Series: Key Issues in Marketing Management

   Expanding disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studies. It contains theoretical reflections on critical marketing whilst building on the key concepts and ideas, which are vital to the subject, through...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Sport Management in the Middle East

   A Case Study Analysis

   Edited by Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Sean O'Connor, David Hassan

   The Middle East is one of the fastest growing and significant markets in world sport, as well as a powerful source of investment in sport. Bids for the Olympics in 2020 and the soccer World Cup in 2022, as well as remarkable investments in Formula One motor racing, horse racing and English Premier...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Risk Intelligent Supply Chains

   How Leading Turkish Companies Thrive in the Age of Fragility

   By Çağrı Haksöz

   This unique avant-garde book brings the risk intelligent supply chain (RISC) concept to life for the first time. It answers the question of how to become a risk intelligent supply chain. It proposes the I-Quartet Model with four essential roles "Integrator, Inquirer, Improviser, and...

   Published April 1st 2013 by CRC Press
7. Low Carbon Nation?

   By Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
8. Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary Capitalism

   Edited by Birgitte Andersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book is a timely contribution to an important debate on the increased, changed or new scope of Intellectual Property Rights in the light of Contemporary Capitalism. How the expanded or pushed Intellectual Property Rights domain encourages an individual and corporate self-interest over...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Philosophy of Economics

   A Contemporary Introduction

   By Julian Reiss

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

   Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. Throughout,...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Disasters and the Networked Economy

    By J.M. Albala-Bertrand

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge