Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes. In Wellbeing Economics Nicky Pouw puts forward a new framework that places human wellbeing at the centre, instead of economic growth. She postulates ten reasons why economics should change to remain a relevant discipline and develops a Wellbeing Economic Matrix (WEM) to implement this approach...

In deze tijden van toenemende ongelijkheid, klimaatverandering, migratie en pandemieën is het noodzakelijk om onze economie anders in te gaan richten. In 'Welzijnseconomie' presenteert Nicky Pouw een model om de economie duurzamer en sociaal rechtvaardiger te maken. Zij geeft tien redenen waarom onze economie moet veranderen en stelt een matrix voor waarin zij het menselijk welzijn in het centrum van de economie plaatst, in plaats van economische groei.

'Welzijnseconomie' is daarmee een van...

Marieke de Mooij's new edition of Consumer Behavior and Culture continues to explore how cultural influences can affect consumer behavior. The author uses her own model of consumer behavior to try and answer the fundamental questions about consumption - what people buy, why they buy it and how they buy. This edition has been updated to include:An insight into the different roles of the internet and the growing influence of social mediaAn exploration of the various psychological and sociologic...

‘Handboek commerciële vaardigheden’ behandelt alle vaardigheden die je als moderne verkoper nodig hebt. De theorie wordt ondersteund door vele voorbeelden, heldere modellen en praktische cases. Deze nieuwe editie is uitgebreid met digitale onderdelen die het voor u en uw studenten nog eenvoudiger maakt om gespreksvaardigheden te trainen en te toetsen.

Studenten krijgen bij aanschaf: een exemplaar van het boek, toegang tot de online trainingen van TrainTool en toegang tot de bijbehorende ...

As we increase our awareness of the planetary challenges and how they intersect with the discipline or profession we choose to focus on, we have put our attention on the external forces and impacts. What remains untouched however is the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, mental processes, and paradigms that we hold and share: our mindset. But how do we change a mindset?This book is the first to introduce the 12 Principles for a Sustainability Mindset, presenting educators with a framework t...

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big business, approximately 80 percent of hotels currently being constructed around the world are chain affiliated and, in 2014, the five largest brands held over a one million rooms. The high economic importance of the hotel chains and their global presence justifies the academic research in the field however, despite this, there is no uniform coverage ...

Innovation principles to bring about meaningful and sustainable growth in your organization Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, including Cirque du Soleil, early IBM mainframes, the Ford Model-T, and many more, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful groupings the Ten Types of Innovation that provided insight into innovation. The Ten Types of Innovation explores these insights to diagnose patterns of innovation within industries, to identi...

New York Times bestseller - over 25 million copies soldThe No. 1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century "[Thirty] years after it first appeared, the wisdom of The 7 Habits is more relevant than ever. On an individual level people are burning out, and on a collective level we are burning up the planet.

So Dr. Covey's emphasis on self-renewal and his understanding that leadership and creativity require us to tap into our own physical, mental, and spiritual resources are exactly...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb vergaarde internationale faam met zijn bestseller De Zwarte Zwaan, over ingrijpende toevallige gebeurtenissen die ons leven bepalen. In Antifragiel – Talebs magnum opus en het sluitstuk van zijn filosofisch oeuvre over onzekerheid, risico en menselijk falen – gaat hij een stap verder en koppelt hij zijn intellectuele en filosofische interesses aan zijn praktijkervaring.

In Antifragiel leert Taleb ons hoe we moeten handelen en leven in een chaotische wereld, hoe we mo...

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog ...