Management and business studies are firmly established as a popular, important and significant area of study in the academic world. Bringing together theories and thought from a wide range of disciplines, this series features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
By Beata Bajcar
October 04, 2024
Understanding Procrastination at Work focuses primarily on procrastination in the workplace, offering a synthetic and comprehensive review of major theoretical concepts and empirical findings on general procrastination and its specific manifestations, causes, and consequences in the workplace. ...
By Lubomira Trojan, Łukasz Wróblewski
August 30, 2024
The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach. Such a holistic view is offered by the design thinking method, which has been extracted from the field of design and could be applied also in the ...
By Piyush Sharma, Tak Yan Leung
July 12, 2024
Sharma and Leung explore the differences in the national and organisational responses to COVID-19 across various countries. The Covid-19 global pandemic is possibly the worst healthcare disaster ever and recent studies highlight several differences in the response to COVID-19. Some countries acted ...
By Mariusz Sołtysik, Magdalena Wojnarowska, Maria Urbaniec, Vesna Zabkar, Marek Ćwiklicki, Erica Varese
June 21, 2024
Sustainable development is a complex issue and despite many studies and publications in recent years, it remains poorly recognised on best practices in core business areas. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development depends on research...
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By Robert James Crammond, Denis Hyams-Ssekasi
June 03, 2024
Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation: Cases, Collaborations and Contexts provides a wide-ranging overview of entrepreneurship education today from a global perspective. Comprising three parts that address teaching and learning, support and outcomes, and strategic themes, ...
By Elis Carlström
May 27, 2024
Original ideas start in a person´s mind, but the environment where they operate is crucial for the capture and development of these ideas. Equally important is the interaction with others in developing and evaluating ideas, as a brilliant idea only influences the world if it is put into use. This ...
By Regina Lenart-Gansiniec, Łukasz Sułkowski
May 27, 2024
Significant disruption to the educational sector occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This shed a light on the need for new delivery methods and greater collaboration, which has become urgent and obvious as existing structures and traditional channels have struggled to cope or shut down. Higher ...
By Magdalena Biel, Beata Ślusarczyk
May 27, 2024
Family Business and Management: Objectives, Theory, and Practice characterizes the specificity of the functioning of family businesses through the prism of their objectives. It contains both theoretical considerations about the essence of family entrepreneurship and the objectives set by family ...
By Wioleta Kucharska
May 27, 2024
Personal Branding in the Knowledge Economy: The Interrelationship between Corporate and Employee Brands aims to contribute to the academic debate about the marketization of individuals’ knowledge, creativity, and personal images, alongside a growing interest in the whole area of branding in the ...
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By Sławomir J. Magala, Christiane Erten, Roger Matthew Bell, Marie-Therese Claes, Senem Yazici, Atila Karabag
April 30, 2024
Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede’s research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture’s Consequences in 1980. The authors reflect on their changing beliefs about the concept of cultural...
By Simon Ashley Bennett
March 04, 2024
Graft is a common and persistent social pathogen that afflicts the developed and developing world in equal measure. This book describes, through the medium of international case studies, how graft undermines public safety and how, following a near-miss, incident or accident, investigators can use ...
By Arshia Mukhtar, Ying Zhu, You-il Lee, Mary Bambacas, S.Tamer Cavusgil
January 29, 2024
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship program of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative, created to boost economic cooperation between China and Pakistan with significant political and economic implications in the region. This book looks at critical issues when developing ...