Business and Management

In a world changing faster than ever and as organisations are being reimagined, leaders and their teams need entrepreneurial leadership muscle. This book provides a guide through seven short muscle workouts about how to identify and develop the muscle-power to cope with whatever the world throws at your business.

Investigative Interviewing provides more accurate and reliable information than any other known interview technique. It is founded on interpersonal communication theories and informed by cognitive and social psychology. Equally important, it is designed for practitioners and delivered through a practical model. A Guide to the Professional Interview makes scientifically grounded interview techniques accessible for everyone who asks questions. 

This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times’ presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – Athletic Leadership. Athletic CEOs are not humble or empathic; their leadership is grounded in a combination of toughness and adaptability. They deliver superior performance and transform their companies, employees and near-environments by systematically applying a set of meta-practices.

Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – athletic leadership – that delivers superior results in a specific context, that is, one of fast obsolescence, high turbulence, intense government interference, mediocre levels of human capital development, and traditionally high levels of managerial control.

This book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning and enables students to ultimately become independent learners.

This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China's commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside China and can disseminate Chinese culture more effectively than government-supported media.

This book profiles three large healthcare systems in the United States that have gone bankrupt or currently face financial disaster. The volume develops a grounded theory of hospital bankruptcy and applies the model to these systems.

This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.

Internal reviews of tangible or perceived deviant behaviour within the contemporary business sphere typically involve expert individuals and teams drawn from the legal and financial services professions.

This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces?

This book dissects the role of evidence in public policy making by examining the various forms of evidence used by governments, traces the origins of evidence, demonstrates its importance, and provides analysis tools for practitioners.