Business and Management

“When Business Harms Human Rights” narrates the experiences of different individuals and communities from around the world, examining the impact that business activities has had on their lives. The volume is situated within the multidisciplinary subject area of business and human rights.

Tourpreneurship Triumphs explores innovative, sustainable, and inclusive entrepreneurial practices in tourism, highlighting digital transformations, and strategic insights for building resilient and future-ready tourism ventures.

In The Violent Person @ Work, Laurence Barton, the world’s leading threat assessor, outlines how to prevent, manage, and mitigate persons who may pose a threat to an organization’s people and other assets. theviolentperson.com

In the worlds of education and business, there is a disconnect between stakeholders, their roles and responsibilities in guiding and leading organizations in a shared leadership model. Currently, leaders have a conceptual understanding of shared leadership but lack the tools to effectively guide their staff in enacting the dynamic exchange of ideas and voice among all members of the organization to promote the development of a strategic plan focused on best outcomes. 

More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching is the result of ten years of research and experimentation into the place and role of creativity in learning about and undertaking the skills of coaching in the workplace. The contents outline a wide variety of approaches and ideas to enhance and develop effective coaching relationship

This book examines the reporting systems for corporate social responsibility. It finds an array of flaws that prevent any clear and objective evaluation of corporate behavior, impeding the possibilities for activist investors to make ethical choices.

A theory-driven evidence-based journey into the fascinating, yet challenging, world of business-owning families. A comprehensive, sometimes provocative, narrative that embeds the what (i.e., the practice) in the science (i.e., the why).

This book introduces a new economic system where data – not capital or labour – drive power and profit. It reveals how platforms transform human activity into value and asks what this shift means for work, competition and the future of society.

‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribution to big corporations and foreign countries, and high profit rates for pension fund managing companies.

This book is both a standalone and/or sequel to The Value of Voice in Shared Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival: A Resource Guide for Small Businesses Everywhere. These three books can work together to support the sales of multiple books or independently from one another. The book is unique in that it combines the ideas of management, leadership, shared voice, organizational behavior, and historical philosophy viewpoints that are easily understood by anyone who reads this book, so it can create a responsibility of reason that is required to help all businesses/organizations/schools and government agencies succeed beyond the dreaded 5 year failure point that has plagued many businesses since their inception.