Books in the Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series

Offers an overview of International Financial and Reporting Standards (IFRS). This title includes a discussion of the processes of change and developments which have led from a disparate starting position to the current situation. It is fully indexed each includes an introduction by the editors.

A four-volume collection of research about supply chain management.

Examines how national culture influences management practice. This book includes contributions on adaptation and assimilation, communication, negotiation, and cross-national teams.

Corporate governance is a relatively new field, but has now moved from the margins to mainstream business and management education. This collection brings together widely dispersed material in this area for the first time.

This collection of articles by leading British, Chinese and Japanese scholars provides an authoritative insight into the mechanisms at work in Chinese business practices.

This comprehensive set contains some of the most influential and 'classic' writings on the Japanese business phenomenon, and is an invaluable reference tool for practitioners and researchers into Japanese business and management.

This collection synthesises knowledge about small businesses by bringing together key seminal articles on the topic. It enables the reader to better understand why new firms are established and what makes some of them survive and grow.

Whilst there are a wide number of competing definitions of strategy there is a consensus about its importance, about its ability to determine whether a company succeeds or fails. This is a comprehensive collection on all aspects of strategy which is contained in a four volume set.

This new four volume collection will include the key articles and literature to provide an authoritative guide on innovation management, its development, core content, and current and emerging issues.

This set reprints key writings on different aspects of consumer psychology, through theoretical to empirical work. New introductions and a detailed index are included to guide the reader through the material.

Covers the management of brands across cultural and international boundaries. This book explores brands evolution from signals of provenance and quality to their status as carriers of symbolic meaning and trust. It is suitable for marketing and business scholars - as well as those working in allied areas.

The essence of successful and sustainable marketing practice is founded on an understanding of existing and potential consumers. As marketing has grown around this principle, so the subdiscipline - and industry - of marketing research has flourished. This title provides a collection of classic and contemporary contributions on the subject.

With the impact of globalization, comparative management is becoming one of the single most important areas within management studies. Comparative Management offers instant access to material that has shaped this field to date.

Entrepreneurship has come a long way as an academic field, just as it has in our modern economy and society. This collection provides a much needed retrospective view of academic work the area.

This set brings together a cross section of material from both philosophy and business journals. It includes: what is business ethics and how has it developed?; are ethics compatible with the free market?; international business ethics; and case studies.

The set includes accounting research methods; twentieth century theory; record keeping; financial reporting; cost and management accounting, and the professionalisation of accounting.

This unique collection sets out many of the landmark contributions to the theoretical, conceptual and critical advance of the academic subject of human resource management.

Drawing upon a substantial body of knowledge in the area of technology and organization, these volumes gather together foundational papers, influential studies and key emerging themes and debates.