Leadership development aims to disrupt leaders' behavioural and thought patterns. However, for many decades leadership development has not changed significantly: nobody seems to be disrupting the disrupters. It needs to evolve if leaders are to deal successfully with the disrupt…
Die Interviewstudie fokussiert die zielgruppenspezifische Akzeptanz von Marketing- und Kommunikationstrends. Im Zentrum stehen u.a. Ansätze technischer Art (z.B. Virtual Reality) sowie inhaltliche Optionen (z.B. Purpose Driven Marketing). Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen …
Provides a critical examination of corporate governance reform in Southeast Asia especially after the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
Comprises papers presented at the ASEAN Roundtable of 18 June 2009. Covers issues of social, strategic and political implications, the economy and finance.
"This book presents an analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening the working week, and flexible work practices. From the broad perspective of social economics, time at work is determined within a complex web of evolvi…
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
"Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. However, other…
Compilation of conference papers comprising an interdisciplinary research study of commerce and domestic markets in West Africa - covers the development of commerce and trade since the pre-colonialism period, the development of specialized marketing groups and retail marketing c…
Since 1995, 17 African countries have defied expectations and have launched a remarkable, if little-noticed, turnaround, Emerging Africa describes this revitalization and why it is likely to continue. "Steve tosses out the stereotypes and unearths reality ... A meticulous and f…
Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years…
Holger Rust gilt als der pointierteste und wirkungsvollste Kritiker der feuilletonistischen "Trend- und Zukunftsforschung". In seiner aktuellen Expertise zu den jüngsten Angeboten der Branche unterzieht er die Methoden und Befunde der vielfältigen Trend- und Zukunftsagenturen au…