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This accessible, comprehensive yet remarkably concise textbook is designed to help students and researchers in business and management with their research project.

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Entrepreneurship offers a theory-driven, reflective, and critical take on Entrepreneurship in an accessible and conversational style for students and researchers.

This new book guides you concisely through the marketing planning process from start to finish, drawing on examples from large brands like Ikea and Krispy Kreme to digital start-ups like Starling Bank.

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The 2008 financial crash, the war in Iraq and the Trump Administration are just some of the examples Eugene Sadler-Smith uses to bring hubristic leadership and all its pitfalls to life in this groundbreaking new text. Using critical analysis and reflective anecdotes, this book explores the characteristics and impacts of hubristic leadership and how these might be anticipated, mitigated and allayed.

Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative account sets UK and European practices firmly within a global context. It offers an in-depth and contextual account of enduring, contemporary and cutting edge theories and approaches to diversity and inclusion management.

A critical study of how Africa's dependence on the western world has impacted its economic growth and how the knowledge economy and 4th industrial revolution may aid in its future socio-economic growth and prosperity.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.