Good governance is essential to the success of start-ups and scale-ups. In this book, Luc Sterckx, an expert in internal governance and general management, provides firsthand advice on how early-stage companies can be governed in an efficient and workable manner, regardless of their limited financial resources. The book combines legal and regulatory information with practical advice on implementation, including guidance on how to set priorities. As a company transitions from a startup to a sc...

A comprehensive and current introduction to key topics in fundraising that balances theory and practice.

For courses in Hospitality Marketing, Tourism Marketing, Restaurant Marketing, or Hotel Marketing. Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 8e is the definitive source for hospitality marketing courses. Taking an integrative approach, this highly visual, four-color book discusses hospitality marketing from a team perspective, examining each hospitality department and its role in the marketing mechanism. These best-selling authors are known as leading marketing educators and their book, a glob...

For courses in financial management.

Mastering the fundamental concepts of financial operations

Using tools, making connections, and studying for success, are the three learning skills that students will gain in Financial Management: Core Concepts. An ideal resource for non-finance students, this book discusses the key elements of financial operations. The book and support materials encourage students to build their skills and test their knowledge by forging connections between ideas and appl...

As the CEO of a successful multinational company she built from the ground up, Ruth has been given aggressive and ambitious goals by her board to prepare the company for sale. However, her team cannot seem to rise to the challenge. They continue to underperform at every step, making the board's ambitious targets feel more and more like a pipe dream. As she stares at her packed calendar, she wonders how she's going to get everyone to pull together and deliver the results she's promised. In Dif...

Business Analytics: Solving Business Problems with R offers a practical, hands-on introduction to analytical methods, including machine learning in real-world business scenarios. Connecting business decisions and analytical methods across multiple fields, this book guides readers through a wide range of business problems and their fitting analytical solutions, offering examples and implementation using R.

For many students writing an academic text can be challenging. However, with diligent practice, academic writing is a skill you can learn. The online writing course Academic Writing Skills for Economics and Business Administration offers students specific practice as to various ‘micro’ writing skills, including the structure of an academic text, the theoretical framework, data and methodology, results, as well as citing, paraphrasing and quoting, argumentation, cohesion and sentence struc...

Dit standaardwerk over organisatietheorie

is wereldwijd het meest gebruikte studieboek.

Deze Nederlandse vertaling is

gebaseerd op de oorspronkelijke zevende

editie.

Veel studenten die een normale cursus

organisatietheorie volgen, hebben geen

uitgebreide werkervaring, zeker niet op

de middelste en hogere niveaus, waar

organisatietheorie het meest wordt

toegepast. Om studenten te betrekken

bij de moderne organisatiewereld zijn

aan deze druk belangrijke onderwerpen

toegevoegd, onder andere een nieuw

hoofdstu...

Het lezen van dit boek is als het doorbrengen van een werkdag met John Kotter.

De ontwikkeling van de techniek, veranderingen in de markt en de maatschappij en de steeds sterker wordende concurrentie dwingen organisaties om te veranderen. Organisaties moeten deze veranderingen niet alleen kunnen weerstaan, maar er juist op inspelen, om in het nieuwe ondernemingsklimaat te kunnen floreren. Daarvoor is management onvoldoende, en leiderschap noodzakelijk.

Veel recente methodes om organisaties te v...