Management & Strategy

A complete yet concise introduction to strategic management, packed with real-life examples and an emphasis on the essential tools of analysis.

Most studies of precarity exclude categories of diversity, such as gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality. This volume explores precarity and diversity together and will appeal to scholars in human resource management, diversity management, organizational behaviour and theory, the sociology of work, gender studies and public relations.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the recognition of some of the shortcomings of traditional philanthropic best practice. This book explores how philanthropy in emerging markets is creating, implementing, and sustaining effective solutions to large social challenges. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can digital societies still be effectively governed? This book brings together insights from various disciplines to address the pressing question: "How can we develop and apply principles of (good) governance in digital societies that are organized democracies?" Governing the Digital Societypresents a range of governance approaches, focusing on online platforms, artificial intelligence, and the public values that underpin these technologies. The authors position themselves at the forefront of their disciplines, offering perspectives from law, critical data studies, urban studies, science and technology studies, computational linguistics, and the political economy of media. Expert interviews provide additional insights into ongoing efforts to tackle the challenges of governing digital societies. The book demonstrates that governance is not just a technical or legal process but a complex societal one, embedding norms, values, and morality into our institutions and daily lives.

The world of Cybersecurity today is becoming increasingly complex. There are many new Threat Variants that are coming out, but many of them are just tweaked versions of some of the oldest ones, such as Phishing and Social Engineering.

Public policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society. These fields are embedded into our institutions, everyday lives, and the greater culture. This book will explore public interest roles in 2025 from the student, scholar, and practitioner perspective, as well as from their impacts on people and the planet.

This book offers a detailed yet highly focused insight into the exchange-traded notes (ETNs) market. It presents the key attributes and mechanisms of ETNs, and merges the topic of ETNs with the ubiquitous trend in the contemporary investing industry - the increased focus on sustainability and ESG issues.

What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies from around the world provide answers to these questions, and critique and expand both existing sector theory and new sector theories.