Service Industries

This book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sende...

Entrepreneurship, a dynamic force driving economic growth and innovation, faces multifaceted challenges in today's global landscape. Small firms, v...

From the elegant to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen - or just to gawk - at the hottest restaur...

Programming Recreational Services serves as a handbook for recreational practitioners at every level. It clearly presents the methods and materials...

Scotlands diverse landscapes, extensive coastline and mix of cultural and historic influences are reflected in its rich food and drink heritage. Th...

The collapse of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger' economy, in the wake of a banking disaster, provoked a joint EU/IMF rescue plan in late 2010. The election...

The alternative investment market (AIM) has seen rapid growth over its 19 years, and has emerged as the market of choice for smaller, newer compani...

Andria van der Merwe provides a thorough guide to the critical tools needed to navigate liquidity markets and value security pricing in the presenc...

The current financial crisis started from the US real estate market and after, though the increase of risk premium requested by investors and due t...

Securitization regulation remains, in the eyes of investors, banks, businesses, bureaucrats and politicians, one of the remaining unsolved puzzles ...

Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers k...

In a world economy where rapid change is the only constant, what is the best way for business schools to prepare the leaders of tomorrow? The autho...

There is a prevailing view among researchers and practitioners that abnormal risk-adjusted returns are an anomaly of financial market inefficiency....

Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital. But the actions that led the latest boom and bu...

Africans Investing in Africa explores intra-African trade and investment by showing how, where and why Africans invest across Africa; to identify t...

Localizing Global Finance illustrates that private equity has become a more significant component of China's economy based on a pattern of new dome...

In the last two decades the Tokyo Stock Exchange implemented several important reforms in regulations, market trading mechanisms, and IT trading sy...

The 'good life' for households has passed. The unwanted result which accompanied it is the sea of red ink. Confidence in the western way of life wi...

The financial crisis of 2008 is probably the single most important economic event in post-war history. Macroprudential policy is the response to th...

The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger...

This book takes you on a journey through post-crisis regulatory reform, highlighting the unintended consequences of some of the measures on transac...

This is a succinct guide to the application and modelling of dependence models or copulas in the financial markets. First applied to credit risk mo...

As financial markets expand globally in response to economic and technological developments of the twenty-first century, our understanding and expe...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

How do bank supervisors strike a balance between market self-regulation and pro-active regulatory intervention? This book investigates the choice o...

A practitioner's account of how investment risk affects the decisions of professional investment managers. Jargon-free, with a broad coverage of in...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policy makers have been looking to empirical data to distil both what happened and how a similar e...

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle chal...

This book is an economic analysis of the stock exchange industry. The authors draw on theories from micro- and industrial economics to provide a de...

Take control of your investment decisionsThe investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical ...

With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes...

The first practitioner handbook on export credit insurance and guarantees, providing manufacturers, exporters, bankers, and lawyers with a much nee...

In recent years the continuity of many firms has been achieved by restructuring, a task which takes up a great deal of senior management's time. Wr...

Research on MFI performance is still in its infancy. MFIs are hybrid organizations with dual objectives. Performance studies in microfinance are th...

The European Periphery Debt Crisis (EPDC) has its roots in the structural characteristics of the individual economies affected. This book offers a ...

Any decision by a company regarding the use of profits to pay tax, remuneration or shareholder returns has ethical implications. Sharing Profits re...

Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage h...

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy C...