The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades. Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the d…
This textbook offers a personal perspective on the broad and complex topic of corporate strategy. The book is structured to follow the journey of systematic corporate strategy development and implementation. “Corporate Strategy” presents frameworks and concepts for strategy development that have proven to be useful in corporate practice. The book covers the fundamental questions of daily…
Effectively and ethically leveraging people data to deliver real business value is what sets the best HR leaders and teams apart. Excellence in People Analytics provides business and human resources leaders with everything they need to know about creating value from people analytics. Written by two leading experts in the field, this practical guide outlines how to create sustainable business…
Crawford's New Product Management provides the management approach to teaching new products, with the perspective of marketing. The streamlined format of 18 chapters focuses on the topics that will be of most importance and interest to new product managers. Significant updates can be found throughout to present the "best practices" of industry and relevancy for today's businesses.New for the 20…
Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This introductory textbook fully explores the multidisciplinary nature of events management and provides the student with all the practical skills and professional knowledge they need to succeed in the events industry. It introduces every core functional area of events management, such as marketing, finance, project managemen…
Cummings/Worley's ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 12th Edition, is the most widely-used textbook in the field. It blends rigor and relevance in a comprehensive and clear presentation. The authors work from a strong evidence-based foundation to describe, in practical terms, how behavioral science knowledge can be used to help organizations develop strategies, structures and processes for su…
For courses in Management Information Systems (MIS) The authoritative, case-based view into how businesses leverage information systems Kenneth and Jane Laudon's popular Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, along with MyLabTM MIS, continues to define the way MIS courses are taught. Designed for business students, the text provides insight into how contemporary bu…
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION is a one-of-a-kind book for the emerging business arena of entrepreneurship and innovation. Built on years of research and experience, the book employs a clear and informative how-to approach and features sections and chapters organized according to a summary model of the corporate entrepreneurship process. This groundbreaking book fulfills a real busines…
Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Needed more today than at any time in the past, this immensely relevant bo…