Comprehensive in scope and split into three key parts, the book addresses general, qualitative and quantitative challenges and their various solutions. Chapters examine three primary research challenges: failure to demonstrate a clear and unique contribution to the extant literature; failure to properly frame and align an argument's theory and hypothesis; and finally, failure to measure and conduct appropriate methodological and empirical approaches to a study. Ultimately, the solutions presented offer a better understanding of the unique aspects of conducting research in the family business domain.

With a wealth of expertise and practical information, this guide will be of great benefit to anyone conducting research in family business. It will be especially helpful to researchers and students of business management, law, public policy and social policy as well as consultants and practitioners in the field of family business.

Through a socio-legal lens, this book focuses on the feasibility of implementing board gender diversity rules in Sri Lanka. It demonstrates that board gender diversity rules could be a valuable tool for corporate governance development and to promote gender equality in society.

Sri Lanka is thus an illustrative example of a developing country forced by IFIs to improve its corporate governance practices as a step towards advancing economic growth. However, the Sri Lankan legislators have not yet introduced board gender diversity rules as a measure to improve corporate governance practices within the country. This book addresses some of the ways in which board gender diversity rules could be introduced to Sri Lanka.

This impressive book challenges the orthodoxies that have dominated the construction management research (CMR) field for the past 50 years. Providing a comprehensive framework for understanding the complex and multi-faceted domain of construction, A Research Agenda for Construction Management sets out a range of alternative perspectives which problematise the axioms upon which much CMR knowledge is based and offers new directions for the research community to consider.

Chapters range from exploring approaches to better understand the industry and its various functions, to discussing how alternative theoretical positions might be mobilised to shed new light on complex socio-economic activity. By challenging the ways in which construction is viewed, this Research Agenda subjects dominant research approaches and paradigms to critical scrutiny, ultimately encouraging future researchers to reflect on and adopt more creative and meaningful approaches to their work.

By identifying new and emergent themes and exploring how these can be researched, this incisive Research Agenda will be of considerable interest to researchers and academics in the field of construction management research. Its thought-provoking chapters will also make this a fitting read for research-engaged construction practitioners.

Tracking the seismic shifts in consumerism over time, this cutting-edge Research Agenda provides a theoretical and methodological roadmap of brand management research in the third age of consumption. Leading experts and pioneers of key concepts in brand management give insights into the exponential growth of the field and identify promising directions for future investigation.

Illustrating the significant depth and breadth of research in brand management, contributors explore both foundational topics and contemporary work in the field. They synthesise diverse approaches to provide a holistic and dynamic understanding of the major areas of brand management. Alongside this theoretical taxonomy of the field, this Research Agenda also examines the application of branding principles and best practices in common business contexts. Chapters analyse cutting-edge developments in brand management research including brand co-creation, conscientious brands, online brand communities, non-profit branding, and internal brand management.

Providing a concise overview of key brand management topics and illustrating important areas for further research, this Research Agenda will be an invaluable resource for doctoral students and scholars in marketing, strategic management, and branding.

A unique and powerful strategy for leading others

In this newly revised third edition of Leading with Questions, renowned global leadership consultants Michael Marquardt and Bob Tiede describe how to ask powerful questions that generate short-term and long-term results and success. They show you how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster creative thinking, empower others, create relationships with customers, and solve problems.

The authors offer step-by-step guidance on the process of learning the art of questioning and techniques-like active listening and follow-ups - you can use in myriad situations with individuals, teams, and entire organizations. You'll also find:

• The most recent research on how questions change people and companies for the better
• Interviews with over 40 world-leading executives and managers from a wide variety of industries and regions
• Concrete, hands-on strategies for generating short-term results and long-term change with questions

Perfect for managers, executives, and other business leaders, Leading with Questions will earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in better engaging with and leading others.

Digitalization and Sustainability examines how high-tech and information-intensive industries have brought to light the fundamental tenants of 'business ecosystems', illustrating how in other industries, the opportunities and practices for advancing performance by competing and cooperating in a network of organizations is less understood. It reviews how, in the context of technology management, digital value brings to light the reality that managers in specific organizations need to adopt a new set of cooperative and competitive practices. Chapters offer insights on ways to help these managers navigate an ecosystem to generate value for their own organization while enabling the larger system to evolve and improve.

This book will be a valuable resource for students and faculty in the fields of information systems, public management, public policy and technology management. Researchers investigating digital transformation efforts using multiple theoretical lenses and looking for a wide range of research methodologies will find this book informative and instructive.

Chapters introduce new research examining how organisations manage innovative projects to compete in global markets and tackle some of the immense economic, social and environmental challenges facing societies in the 21st century. Leading scholars in the field examine the management of innovative projects in various forms and across diverse contexts, including R&D, new product development, agile, collaboration, trust and ambidexterity. The Handbook outlines efforts to cross-fertilise ideas from innovation and project management, share and create new concepts, and borrow theories from other disciplines to assist empirical research and develop a more integrated research agenda, offering practical guidance on how to manage innovative projects in real-world settings.

Comprehensive and invaluable, this Handbook is a critical read for innovation management and project management scholars and students. Practitioners in both fields interested in developing their professional skills and acquiring thought leadership in a converging field will also benefit greatly from reading this.

Business Analysts and Data Scientists are in huge demand, as global companies seek to digitally transform themselves and leverage their data resources to realize competitive advantage.

This book covers all the fundamentals, from statistics to programming to business applications, to equip you with the solid foundational knowledge needed to progress in business analytics.

Assuming no prior knowledge of programming or statistics, this book takes a simple step-by-step approach which makes potentially intimidating topics easy to understand, by keeping Maths to a minimum and including examples of business analytics in practice.

Key features:

? Introduces programming fundamentals using R and Python

? Covers data structures, data management and manipulation and data visualization

? Includes interactive coding notebooks so that you can build up your programming skills progressively

Suitable as an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Business Analytics or as pre-reading for students studying Data Science.

Ram Gopal is Pro-Dean and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Warwick.

Daniel Philps is an Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Head of Rothko Investment Strategies.

Tillman Weyde is Senior Lecturer at City, University of London.

Including contributions from key researchers in the field as well as those with a more critical perspective, this comprehensive Research Handbook addresses the conceptual backdrop, the measurement and the antecedents of cultural intelligence. It further examines the outcomes associated with cultural intelligence, offers a higher-level analysis of the concept, and concludes with an evaluation of the future research prospects of cultural intelligence. All in all, the Handbook investigates the heightened importance of intercultural interactions among individuals, groups, organizations, and societies in an increasingly interconnected global community.

Covering a wide range of perspectives on cultural intelligence and related constructs, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers in the areas of employment relations, international business, international and cross-cultural management, occupational psychology, and organizational behavior.

"If you want to grow, start by making other people feel taller."

In Great People Make People Feel Great: How Leaders Elevate Teams With Cloud Nine Thinking, accomplished management coach and business veteran Adrian Webster and Stuart Holah set out an inspiring and practical collection of insights into how to unlock the full potential of yourself, colleagues, team members and collaborators. You'll learn to elevate your workplace by shifting assumptions, and choosing new perspectives which generate better outcomes for managers, team members and entire businesses. You'll discover the culture shift that's possible when you give people permission to bring their undiluted selves to work and inspire them to get more out of themselves than they thought possible.

The book will show you how to:

• Find clarity of meaning by simplifying goals and strategies so you focus on what's most important
• Build effective teams and foster collaboration by understanding how to motivate people with diverse skills and strengths
• Celebrate failure for its rich learning opportunities, as well as building on the lessons of success
• Recognize the power of incremental small changes that add up to powerful transformations

An essential handbook for leaders or would-be leaders in any size of organisation, Great People Make People Feel Great will benefit entrepreneurs and founders, as well as senior leadership and board members in established businesses. Each chapter takes a familiar aspect of leadership and examines it from a new angle to show that when we are prepared to ask why we often think and react automatically in certain situations, we can learn to 're-programme' our thinking and consciously adopt more effective strategies.

The strengths and opportunities of ageing and the ageing population.

Silver empowerment is a valuable paradigm to improve care and support systems for older persons. It aims to counteract the dominant image of ageing, which is all too often one of decline, dependency and vulnerability, and rather sees ageing and the ageing population as a challenge that opens up new opportunities. By focusing on the strengths and connections of older persons, silver empowerment strives for an inclusive, age-friendly society that will allow everyone to grow old with dignity and meaning. In this book, leading academics from a variety of disciplines discuss ways to enhance the empowerment of older persons in practice. Covering a wide range of topics such as resilience, loneliness, community-based care, the interplay between formal and informal care, the inclusion of older persons' perspectives in research and care, and empowering policy, Silver Empowerment is of interest to academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in empowerment and care and support systems for older persons.

Contributors: Jasper De Witte (KU Leuven), Tine Van Regenmortel (KU Leuven / Tilburg University), Leen Heylen (Thomas More), Benedicte De Koker (HOGENT), Dimitri Mortelmans (University of Antwerp), Anja Declercq (KU Leuven), Elena Bendien (Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing), Susan Woelders (Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing), Tineke Abma (Leiden University Medical Center / Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing), Meriam Janssen (Tilburg University), Katrien Luijkx (Tilburg University), Aukelien Scheffelaar (Tilburg University), Annerieke Stoop (Tilburg University), Jozef Pacolet (KU Leuven), Gregorio Rodriguez Cabrero (University of Alcala), Simon Sosvilla-Rivero (Complutense University of Madrid), Katrien Steenssens (KU Leuven).

Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

An understanding of intellectual property is an essential component of management and business strategy in many industries. It can be used to generate value and create competitive advantage and goes hand-in-hand with the study of technology innovation and international business. However, the literature on intellectual property has been dominated by writers with backgrounds in legal science and economics.

This book advocates an interdisciplinary view on intellectual property management for business and management students and professionals. It provides an outline of the field in terms that are tailored to management scholarship and with an emphasis on business decision making. It is intended for business school students of intellectual property management, innovation, strategic management and industry studies, as well as professionals in need of an accessible and business-minded approach to intellectual property management.

The coming of the AI revolution in brick-and-mortar retail

In AI for Retail: A Practical Guide to Modernize Your Retail Business with AI and Automation, Francois Chaubard, AI researcher and retail technology CEO, delivers a practical guide for integrating AI into your brick-and-mortar retail business. In the book, you'll learn how to make your business more efficient by automating inventory management, supply chain, front-end, merchandising, pricing, loss prevention, e-commerce processes, and more.

The author takes you step by step from no AI Strategy at all to implementing a robust AI playbook that will permeate through your entire organization. In this book, you will learn:

• How AI works, including key terminology and fundamental AI applications in retail
• How AI can be applied to the major functions of retail with detailed P&L analysis of each application
• How to implement an AI strategy across your entire business to double or even triple Free Cash Flow

AI for Retail is the comprehensive, hands-on blueprint for AI adoption that retail managers, executives, founders, entrepreneurs, board members, and other business leaders have been waiting for.

The Lower Danube-the stretch of Europe's second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea-was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches-the Iron Gates and the delta-not only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense.

Since the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans. The inconvenience that the river's physical shape obstructed free navigation and the growth of commercial traffic, was an increasing concern to all parties. This book shows that alongside imperial aspirations, transnational actors like engineers, commissioners and entrepreneurs were the driving force behind the river regulation. In this highly original, deeply researched, and carefully crafted study, Gatejel explores the formation of international cooperation, the emergence of technical expertise and the emergence of engineering as a profession. This constellation turned the Lower Danube into a laboratory for experimenting with new forms of international cooperation, economic integration, and nature transformation.

This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history. It aims to show that this phenomenon is at the heart of global capitalism, partly as a response of the ruling classes to the rise of progressive taxation, but for other reasons too: notably the development of a powerful tax evasion and avoidance industry in different countries. The book argues that tax competition between states has stimulated the development of tax havens. It discusses the notion of the'tax haven' and proposes a more rigorous concept - that of the'tax predator'. Finally, the book sheds light on the socio-political conflicts that have developed around tax evasion and the way in which states have fought against or tolerated the phenomenon.