Airline Operations and Management: A Management Textbook presents a survey of the airline industry, with a strong managerial perspective. It integrates and applies the fundamentals of several management disciplines, particularly operations, marketing, economics and finance, to develop a comprehensive overview. It also provides readers with a solid historical background, and offers a global perspective of the industry, with examples drawn from airlines around the world.

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This research monograph argues that Fair Trade constitutes a new type of market, ‘a dispersed hybrid market’, that due to its specific features contributes to a more pro-social functioning of the entire market and taking responsibility for sustainable development by different market participants.

This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. This is an introductory account of the subject, including a wide-ranging guide to further and more advanced relevant literature.

This book discusses challenges that arise for multinational companies from not having a single ‘nationality’ and being exposed to a variety of simultaneous country-specific, legally, and culturally constructed nationalities at home and abroad. The chapters were originally published in the journal Business History.

Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. The book offers a unique and original approach to answering the micro- and macro-psychological questions of how to mitigate against populism and autocratic leadership.

Innovations in e-health can significantly enhance healthcare accessibility, efficiency, and patient safety.

Over the past quarter of a century, Selling and Sales Management has proved itself to be the definitive text in this exciting and fast-paced subject area. This new edition comes fully updated with new case studies, using working businesses to connect sales theory to the practical implications of selling in a modern environment. It also contains the results from cutting-edge research that differentiates it from most of its competitors.

The book continues to place emphasis on global aspects of ...

In order to run a successful business, today's manager needs to combine business skills with an understanding of information systems and the opportunities and benefits that they bring to an organisation. Starting from basic concepts, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to:understanding the technology of business information systems; choosing the right information system for an organisation; developing and managing an efficient business information system; employing informa...

The classic Marketing Management is an undisputed global best-seller - an encyclopedia of marketing considered by many as the authoritative book on the subject. This fourth European edition keeps the accessibility, theoretical rigour and managerial relevance - the heart of the book - and adds: * A structure designed specifically to fit the way the course is taught in Europe. * Fresh European examples which make students feel at home.

* The inclusion of the work of prominent European academics...

An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before.