Behavioural Economics

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and...

This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic ...

The cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP. This book presents ...

With their word-of mouth advocacy of products or brands, superpromoters influence us and how we buy with the power of enthusiasm. Business managers...

Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radi...

This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions ...

Risk Culture is a practical volume devoted to the qualitative aspects of risk management, including those that should be firmly embedded in the cor...

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission i...

This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian pater...

This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian pater...

Using 18 new cases this book shows that in the past companies did not manage labour or customers as long as they did not need to. Tougher competiti...

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutio...

Through sharing the research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in leadership development, this book, written by...

A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within...

Finding Insight delves into the essential yet often misunderstood process of insight discovery. This valuable guide is for anyone seeking to compre...

This volume explores and engages with the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of economics to better understand how individuals coordinat...

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture demonstrates that a new frontier for corporate social responsibility is possible in theory and practice. The k...

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact ...

The book explores how time is materialized and performed in organizations; examines how organizations and organizational members are constituted by...

Banking with Integrity provides rich and in-depth case studies of banks which were doing well during the financial crisis of 2007-2010. While other...

This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrate...