Service Industries

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...