This book analyzes fraud as a global process from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. It covers financial, tax, and academic fraud, presenting methods for prevention with empirical evidence from Brazil, Canada, France, and Portugal.
This guide to cluster development in Central Europe maps and compares conditions in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria. It analyses good practices, proposes a development framework, and explores trends like inter-cluster cooperation and World-Class clusters.
This book presents the best papers from the first Management Theory Conference. Featuring the world’s top researchers, it showcases the latest theoretical developments, an award-winning paper, and a fascinating debate on the future of management theory.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management, and computing. Based on practical experience, this accessible, cross-disciplinary text has a strong intercultural flavour, appealing to readers in project management, information systems, and philosophy.
Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs
This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.
The Impact of the Subprime Crisis on Global Financial Markets, Banks and International Trade
This book analyzes financial stability risk across international financial markets, banks, and trade. It offers innovative research and suggests new policy approaches to deal with three major crises: the debt crisis, an ageing population, and climate change.
This book addresses the main issues within Islamic banking. It analyzes the experiences of Islamic banks worldwide, providing an objective assessment of their successes and failures while discussing the challenges and future of interest-free banking.
Innovative Business Practices
In an era of turbulence where conventional business strategies fail, agility and innovation are key. This book presents research and paradigms that transcend classical theory, showing how any business can thrive in the new reality.
Egyptian industry bypassed quality control, creating a gap that hinders global competition. This book presents the Holistic Egyptian Quality Management Approach (HEQMA), a new model tailored to Egyptian culture to diagnose problems and strengthen quality.
This book explores how Kuwait can convert its oil “resource curse” into a blessing. It considers the strategic points surrounding oil governance and its implication for growth, arguing that a planned investment in innovation is critical for development.
This book consolidates state-of-the-art knowledge on distance learning methods, best practices, and research findings in online business education. It will help faculty, administrators, and course designers optimize distance courses for the best results.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
The Leadership Imperative
This book combines e-tourism and strategic management to explore internet adoption in small travel firms. Examining firm, external, and personal factors, it finds leadership is a more significant determinant than previously thought and proposes a new model.
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.
In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.
Professional Ethics
This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shell in Ireland
An exposé of Shell in Ireland, this book reveals how weak regulation and political influence can turn corporate social responsibility into a tool for exploiting communities and the environment.
In Singapore’s government-controlled economy, pro-business policies are vital. Yet, no comprehensive model exists to predict which firms will succeed or fail. This quantitative book attempts to fill this gap by testing the key factors for success.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
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