An approachable, accessible student introduction for those studying hotel and hospitality management and hospitality studies more generally.

Inspiring and practical, get the entrepreneurial tools you need to successfully conduct business in a global and competitive world.

The comprehensiveness of this text, coupled with the opportunity to learn from the most prominent theorists and leadership scholars today, makes this an indispensable text for courses in leadership.

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? This book offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.

In Beyond E-Business: Towards Networked Structures Paul Grefen returns with his tried and tested BOAT framework for e-business, now fully expanded and updated with the very latest overview of digitally connected business; from business models, organization structures and architecture, to information technology. What used to be termed "e-business" is now simply business as usual. Today's successful organizations are complex; they are part of dynamic business networks built on digital channels,...

A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the 'creative types'. But two of the foremost experts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative.

In an entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their wo...

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountered as a part of it?In a turbulent and changing world, organizational culture is often seen as central for sustained competitiveness. Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. Changing Organizational Culture encourages the development of a reflexive app...

Taking a holistic and international perspective, this book critically examines the ethical challenges marketing faces and explores strategies marketers can use to respond to those challenges.

DE ONDERNEMENDE STAAT

Waarom de markt niet zonder overheid kan

Zonder de jarenlange investeringen van de Amerikaanse overheid waren Apple en Microsoft, om twee topbedrijven te noemen, nooit zo groot geworden. De alom gewaardeerde econoom Mariana Mazzucato laat in De ondernemende staat zien hoe belangrijk een investerende en innoverende overheid is; onontbeerlijk voor slimme en duurzame groei.

Mazzucato ontkracht de mythe van een ingeslapen, bureaucratische overheid versus een dynamische, inno...

Studenten ervaren de wereld van de micro-economie vaak als zeer abstract. Deze uitgave slaat een brug tussen de concrete belevingswereld van studenten en de abstracte manier waarop in de micro-economie maatschappelijke vraagstukken worden geanalyseerd. De theorie is ruim geïllustreerd met grafieken. Van algebra wordt slechts beperkt gebruik gemaakt.De theorie wordt op de bijbehorende website toegepast op situaties uit het dagelijks leven zoals de sterke prijsdalingen op de woningmarkt, de ve...