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This book concentrates on understanding the relationship of religiosity with various aspects of consumption and consumer behaviour to improve policy and build on an under represented topic.

This book examines the development of sport sponsorship and its impact on global public health. It argues that sport governing bodies should not continue to treat fans solely as consumers, and that a more ethical approach should be taken to sport sponsorship.

Drawing on qualitative research methods, the book explores examples from the Greek food industry to analyse restaurateurs' and consumer constructed meanings of authenticity, how it is transmitted and received.

Can the likes we give on Instagram and Facebook predict a purchase or foresee who will win the election? Yes, they can! Large digital platforms can target ads to hyper-segmented to influence audiences. It is the moment to think deeply about these technologies. As citizens, we must reflect on our digital future.

Recent advances in digitalization is transforming sectors such as healthcare, education, tourism, Information technology, and others. Social media analytics are tools that can be used to measure the innovations and the equation between companies and consumers.

Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability, innovation and societal transformation, this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future, and also identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way.

This edited volume provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on how digital technologies and high-tech brands are interrelated.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines and Scandinavia.

This book presents recent research on the adaptation and implementation of Blockchain technologies in supply chain management in Society 5.0. It discusses different applications of blockchain, its important role in connecting information technology with human lives.

This book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

This book articulates a clear and persuasive argument for the development of compassion in higher education in a global climate of increasing competition, complexity and uncertainty.Drawing upon a range of interdisciplinary, theoretical and professional perspectives, the book addresses the key challenges facing the 21st century university.

This book presents a fresh perspective into the nuances of ECSRS education especially with reference to the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) pedagogy and framework in a novel context; the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

An unprecedented and important reference work, this research companion covers a range of aspects of happiness, an aim everyone aspires to achieve, yet can be easily overlooked in today's demanding and multi-challenged world, or confused with a plethora of quantifiable or career goals.

This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and managed as an innovation journey in which social, technological, political and cultural dimensions become aligned.This book was published as a special issue of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.

Analytic philosophy has come to dominate organizational theory and management education, despite criticism from several notable scholars. The European continental philosophical tradition, on the other hand, is seen by some as a counterpoint to US- and UK-dominated functionalistic organizational theories. These two very different schools of thought are now largely practiced in isolation from one another. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century philosopher Ernst Cassirer served as a mediating force and facilitated a fruitful dialogue between the two schools until he was forced to leave Germany when the Nazi party came to power. In Pluralism in Management, author Eirik J. Irgens utilizes Ernst Cassirer's pluralistic philosophy in order to investigate how different but connected forms of knowing, including art, myth, religion, science, and history may help us become better organizational scholars and management educators. With a special emphasis on the complementary qualities of art and science, Irgens builds on Cassirer to discuss how art and science represent two different but complementary channels to reality, in contrast with each other but not in conflict or contradiction, and the challenge of developing "e;two-eyed"e; managers.Revitalizing Cassirer's almost forgotten philosophy, the book illustrates the value of philosophical application to organizational study, and the need for bringing together the best of the humanities and the science based management traditions in order to improve management education.

This collection examines a key new development in the contemporary marketing landscape, the relationship between the informal exchange of information and advice among consumers - known as word of mouth (WOM) - and emerging social media.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Communications.

The economy is commonly described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination. This book scrutinizes the ways in which the economy is performed, in order to situate where precisely politics is located with regard to economic matters.This book was originally published as a special issue of the

This edited collection attempts to demystify Chinese management, highlighting recent research into these significant changes and their implications in a wide range of business enterprises both in China and overseas.The book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

This book provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studies and contains theoretical reflections on critical marketing whilst building on the key concepts and ideas through detailed empirical studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. This book is the first on the market to offer models and approaches to informal entrepreneurship as well as to its prospects for economic development. Offeri