Books published by Emerald Publishing Limited

The chapters here emerge against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving global landscape, where the informal sector plays a pivotal role in employment, income generation, and economic development, particularly in developing and emerging countries.

Early Contractor Involvement explains how to structure and administer a process of early contractor involvement within a two-stage tender process. It provides clear practical guidance on the range of factors that need to be considered to achieve the benefits of early contractor involvement (ECI).

The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide to the transformative potential of AI in the higher education landscape, focused on the need to nurture technology literacy among educators and learners.

Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny? Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives.

Examining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle to deepen our understanding around the causes and effects of migration.

This collected edition provides practical and effective strategies to fight poverty and advance long-term sustainable development. Authors aim to close the gap between research and practice by offering practical advice and best practices for tackling poverty in an inclusive and sustainable manner.

Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation, the first of two volumes, examines connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice issues while elucidating three themes--transformative, intersectional, and comparative--for guiding contemporary inquiry committed to realizing equity.

Provoking an ethical reconsideration of what we do, or do not do, with excess data, this is a call to action for researchers and scholars to rethink how they conduct their research as the consequences of datafication grow ever more central to both our academic endeavours and our lives.

Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.

The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.

Airlines and the COVID-19 Pandemic assesses the pandemic's diverse impacts on the aviation sector, how airlines reacted to the pandemic, worked with governments, and adapted its operations and business models.

Rooted in lived experiences and real conversations, this book challenges mixed-race studies which often prioritise Black/white binaries in the Global North while excluding multiracial experiences across the Global South.

Future Feminisms is an interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary experiences of women within the private, public, and online spheres. Chapters explore women's experiences of insecurity, instability and change, migration, and diaspora as experienced in both physical and digital communication environments.

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, this collection draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.

Responsible Firms: CSR, ESG, and Global Sustainability examines global contemporary models of the "responsible firm", investigating how broader social responsibilities are, or are not, integrated and proposing new concepts and frameworks to improve.

Navigating the context of welfare regimes undergoing transformation, Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment examines the evidence and questions the capacity of Social Innovation initiatives to tackle social inequalities, especially when it comes to the domain of early childhood education and care.

Young Adulthood Across Platforms explores from a feminist and intersectional perspective, how young adults engage with mobile applications, incorporating them into their daily lives and everyday practices.

In this volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, the international authorship stemming from the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway and Italy provide rich and varied forum for higher education discussions around issues of theory and method.

In the ever-evolving realm of retail commerce, the confluence of groundbreaking technologies is not merely a trend but a transformative force reshaping the industry's very foundations. This work delves into this dynamic landscape, offering an insightful exploration of how cutting-edge innovations are revolutionizing the retail experience.

Drawing on research from around the world, this collection of essays explores key challenges, solutions and applications of business ethics, CSR, and corporate governance in the tourism industry.

The ultimate goal of Sustainable Tourism is to empower the industry to achieve a harmonious balance between conservation and progress, forging a responsible and resilient tourism sector that caters not only to contemporary travellers but also safeguards the well-being of future generations.

The Ark of Shared Value is a fundamental guide for those involved in designing and implementing sustainable business projects. The Ark is a one-page tool that is easy to use and presents the key elements of sustainable projects.

Strategies: Aviation and Tourism Perspectives offers a contemporary global vision of airport marketing strategies in the context of the aviation and tourism sectors.

Artificial Intelligence: Why and How it is Revolutionizing Healthcare Management identifies a roadmap for the appropriate introduction of artificial intelligence in healthcare organizations that responds to the need of decision-makers and managers to have a clear picture of how to move in the developing field of AI.

Leadership literature is dominated by Western paradigms, but what about the lessons of leadership from a cross-cultural perspective? In this highly readable volume, Sy Islam and Gordon B. Schmidt utilise examples from Avatar: The Last Airbender to bring this unique lens of perspective to a range of leadership behaviour themes.

Business Strategies and Ethical Challenges in the Digital Ecosystem acts as a forum for examining current and future trends related to management and technological adoption, from digital business strategy and industry 5.0, changing consumer behaviour and sustainability to marketing, ethics, data security, and much more.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Offering the benefits of a systematic, philosophical encounter between cultures and scholarships which have yet to converge on this topic, Dario Mazzola presents a unique and original theory of citizenship.

Foundation Years and Why They Matter presents a selection of case studies illustrating the diversity of foundation year provision and delivering a compelling narrative about what foundation years are, what they do, how they do it, and the impact they have.

Through a series of short, sharp chapters, Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning delivers a cross-disciplinary critique of placemaking, examining how placemaking occurs, the quality of the places produced, and the experiences of those living and working in them.

This volume serves as a forum for symbolic interactionists to demonstrate how/why their respective lines of research contribute to the quality and substance of symbolic interactionism. Authors advocate their lines of research, the historical development, the importance as well as the prospects of their lines of research.