Author: Mark S. Glynn
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: business, advances, marketing, purchasing, exercises, study, executive, brand, management, theory, research, case
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $164.95
ISBN-10: 1848556705
ISBN-13: 9781848556706

Providing broad and deep coverage, this volume focuses on sensemaking, decisions, actions, and evaluating outcomes relating to managing business-to-business brands including both product and service brands. This book goes well beyond basic marketing textbooks to provide extensive reviews of relevant studies, original research reports, and in-depth implications for the following B2B brand management issues: Building a Strong B2B Brand; Building a Strong Brand to Resellers; B2B Brand Equity - Theory, Measurement, and Strategy; Effective Strategies for B2B Service Brands; Brand Meaning and its Im

Authors:Charmine E. J. Harte, Wilfred J. Zerbe,  Nea
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: organizations, emotion, research, cultures, emotions, groups
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2009-07-09
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 1848556543
ISBN-13: 9781848556546

The study of emotions in organizations is unlocking new and exciting insights into why employees behave as they do in groups, organizations and in different cultural contexts. In this 5th volume of "Research on Emotion in Organizations", a collection of the latest work advancing knowledge and practice in these areas is showcased. The readings will appeal to all seeking a better understanding of the social and emotional competencies that help employees thrive in the workplace, the types of emotional self-management strategies employees use in managing emotion work and how the work context affec

Author: Kala Saravanamuthu
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: accounting, advances, public, interest, century, accountability, concept, total, extending, schumacher
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1848553005
ISBN-13: 9781848553002

A decade on from Schumacher’s 1997 work, there are renewed calls for a paradigm shift from the metaphysics of materialism that informs conventional thinking, to holistic theorisations of how we should engage with the other. Twenty-first century frameworks of accountability should emancipate society from the hegemony of neoclassical economics. This special issue posits Schumacher’s Middle Way thinking in the context of growing concerns about global warming and climatic changes and, teases out its implications for holistic accountability by introducing readers to the science of clima

Authors:David Lewin, Bruce E. Kaufma,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: relations, labor, industrial, advances
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2009-03-27
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 184855396X
ISBN-13: 9781848553965

Volume 16 of "Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations" ("AILR") highlights important and interesting aspects of industrial and labor relations. Such issues include alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, labor-management partnership and mutual gains, high involvement work systems and union-management communication networks, a new paradigm for IR/HR theory and research, implications for women of private pension reform, and competing ethical conc

Authors:Fredrik Engelstad, Trygve Gulbrandsen,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: comparative, social, research, volume, political, studies, elites
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $116.95
ISBN-10: 076231379X
ISBN-13: 9780762313792

How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? Any democratic society is inevitably confronted by this basic question. This book reviews existing research on elites and their interactions with those around them. How the recruitment to elites changes in the long run according to class and gender is one of the core themes of the present volume. Other topics explored include the relationship between elites and the population, collective action and elite cohesion, and elites and democracy. The approach is multinational, with examples provided from countries around the wo

Authors:Marc Epstein,  John Y. Lee,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: accounting, management, advances
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2010-02-20
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1849507546
ISBN-13: 9781849507547

"Advances in Management Accounting" ("AMA") publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, "AMA" is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.

Authors:Thomas E. Scruggs,  Margo A. Mastropieri,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: behavioral, disabilities, learning, advances, practice, policy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-04-11
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 1848553102
ISBN-13: 9781848553101

In the study of learning and behavioral disabilities, effective practice and public policy enacted to implement this practice are closely intertwined. In this volume, a number of internationally prominent authors discuss issues and advances both in public policy, and in state-of-the art practice in providing service for individuals with learning and behavioral disabilities. Topics include educational equity, imputations of malice in social policy, analytical discussions of Response to Intervention and No Child Left Behind legislation, policy implications of functional behavioral assessment, im