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Next Generation Talent Management: Talent Management to Survive Turmoil
by A. HatumIn the past talent was largely an issue for Human Resources personnel. Now, in an era characterized by workforce heterogeneity and changing environments, talent is an important issue for managers themselves. This book explains the organizational transformations that have occurred and the new talent challenges managers have to confront.
When Business Meets Culture: Ideas and Experiences for Mutual Profit
by Beatriz Muñoz-Seca & Josep RiverolaThe cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP. This book presents insights on how cultural institutions can find new perspectives in their management and provides ideas to hasten culture's role as an economic developer.
Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa
by T. Sonobe K. OtsukaThis book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters.
Regulation and Instability in U.S. Commercial Banking: A History of Crises (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Jill M. HendricksonThe historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation. A pattern emerges that some may find surprising: regulation often contributes to bank instability. It suppresses competition and effective response to market changes and encourages bankers to take on additional risk. This book offers a valuable history lesson for policy makers.
Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice (Technology, Work and Globalization)
by Jannis KallinikosInformation produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)
by Wim NaudéLeading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.
From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options (International Labour Organization (ilo) Century Ser.)
by Iyanatul Islam & Sher VerickThis book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex and multiple causes of the Great Recession, delineates the diversity in the macroeconomic and labour market consequences, and highlights the effectiveness of policy responses undertaken so far.
The Essential Financial Toolkit: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Finance But Were Afraid to Ask (IESE Business Collection)
by J. EstradaMath and jargon make essential financial concepts seem intimidating, but that is simply because most books do not have the goal of being accessible to interested readers – this book does. In ten easy-to-read chapters, it explains all the essential financial tools and concepts, fully illustrated with real-world examples and Excel implementations.
Financial Econometrics Modeling: Derivatives Pricing, Hedge Funds And Term Structure Models
by Greg N. Gregoriou & Razvan PascalauThis book proposes new tools and models to price options, assess market volatility, and investigate the market efficiency hypothesis. In particular, it considers new models for hedge funds and derivatives of derivatives, and adds to the literature of testing for the efficiency of markets both theoretically and empirically.
Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Markov Switching Models, Persistence And Nonlinear Cointegration
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets.
Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Forecasting Models, Computational And Bayesian Models
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book investigates several competing forecasting models for interest rates, financial returns, and realized volatility, addresses the usefulness of nonlinear models for hedging purposes, and proposes new computational techniques to estimate financial processes.
Technology, Innovations and Growth
by J. K. SenguptaThis book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.
The Individual in Business Ethics: An American Cultural Perspective
by T. KavaliauskasToday we are witnessing social and political dominance of large corporations. They provide for its employees moral values and business principles. Moreover, they institutionalize their codes of ethics. The theory of Business Ethics provides the moral guideline and standards for corporate life and concrete business organizations apply those standards to practice. The individual employee, as a member of a business organization, accepts those standards. Therefore, it is important to examine the foundation of the individual's moral value in Business Ethics in order to understand on what the foundation of the moral value depends on. This highly interdisciplinary text is a critique of Business Ethics as an ideology and life politics. The author discloses how contemporary business ethics grovels before corporations, how it is too weak to create a truly critical voice of American capitalist economy. The individual's treatment in corporate life is revealed through the eyes of American Protestant culture and its coercive work tradition where efficiency value usurps values of individual choice and freedom. This book suggests a new concept of an out-corporate individual.
Wise Wealth: Creating It, Managing It, Preserving It
by J. Schwass H. Hillerström H. Kück C. LiefCaptures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time. It presents a deep and broad approach to understanding why and how wealth is created, managed and preserved over generations.
Developing Innovative Organizations: A roadmap to boost your innovation potential
by B. GaillyCombining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.
People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership
by J. BirchallSo what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.
The Transformation of Japanese Employment Relations: Reform without Labor
by J. ImaiThis book systematically evaluates the impacts of deregulatory reforms on employment relations in Japan especially focusing on the core white collar workers. Concentrating on changes in three aspects of employment relations; contracts, employee mobility and worker effort, it examines the process of social negotiation and its results.
A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption
by David Kivinen Keijo Rahkonen Jukka Gronow Arto NoroKaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.
Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: Dimensions of Transformative Practice
by M. Büscher D. Goodwin J. MesmanThis book explores ethnographic studies of diagnostic work in diverse settings. Switching attention from product ('diagnosis') to process ('diagnosing'), it reveals the importance of collaborative, socio-material, technologically augmented practices, exploring the potential of the multi-disciplinary studies presented to inform innovation.
Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia
by G. ÖzcanThe transition economies of Central Asia are faced with the most daunting challenge of modern capitalism: the move from vassal pseudo-states of the former Soviet Union to competitive nations. This book is the first to explore the first 15 years of economic emergence, and assess the capabilities of these countries to transform their economies.
The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire: With Lessons for Aspiring Economies
by C. ReadWe have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economic empire eventually bring about its demise and replacement by other economic superpowers?
Financial Instability: Toolkit for Interpreting Boom and Bust Cycles (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by V. D'Apice G. FerriThis book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy misconceptions to explain, in plain words, why and how global finance needs fixing. Otherwise, the world may not withstand the next, even bigger, financial crisis.
The Swedish Financial Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by A. ÖgrenHow did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? This book discusses the role of politics and economics in this change and what it means for economic development, market integration and financial crises.
Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses (International Political Economy Series)
by Paul Bowles & John HarrissGlobalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Integrated Brand Marketing and Measuring Returns
by Philip J. KitchenA successful marketing manager needs to be able to use different media channels to reach specific audiences, and know through campaign research and evaluation, how the component parts of integrated brand marketing are working. This book explores this criteria.