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The University Master Plan: How to Get the Marks You Deserve and Smash Your Degree (2023)
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Liddiatt, J. (2023). The University Master Plan: How to Get the Marks You Deserve and Smash Your Degree. Kindle Direct Publishing

Starting or returning to university can be a daunting and costly step. It is important to ensure that you maximize your chances of success and achieve the classification that you desire. So, let’s take this next step together. Having studied vari... Read More about The University Master Plan: How to Get the Marks You Deserve and Smash Your Degree.

Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences (2023)
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Bouzanis, C. (2023). Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201349

This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at whi... Read More about Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition (2023)
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Bolden, R., Gosling, J., & Hawkins, B. (2023). Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition. (2nd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press

What is leadership and why does it matter? Why do people willingly follow some leaders and not others? How can we develop more inclusive and effective leadership? Leadership is one of the most talked about yet least understood concepts in busine... Read More about Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition.

Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty (2022)
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von Bulow, C., & Simpson, P. (2022). Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95768-1

Working in uncertainty has become the new normal, but what do leaders have to draw upon when lacking the requisite knowledge? In this book, the authors make a case for Negative Capability, which enables leaders to work in a state of not knowing witho... Read More about Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
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Waller, R., Bradley, H., & Bentley, L. (2022). Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times. Bingley: Emerald

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ oppor... Read More about Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times.

Team Academy in Practice (2022)
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Urzelai, B., & Vettraino, E. (Eds.). (2022). Team Academy in Practice. Routledge

In his quote “It is impossible to export pedagogical practices without reinventing them” Freire (1997) emphasized the idea that educators should pay careful attention to “cultural differences”, insisting that education should neither impose nor colon... Read More about Team Academy in Practice.

Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (2022)
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Pandeli, J., Sutherland, N., & Gaggiotti, H. (Eds.). (2022). Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021582

This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares ethnographers for the uncertainties and realities of fieldworking. Students faced with the complexitie... Read More about Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide.

Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa (2022)
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Anosike, P. (2022). Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa. London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

High foreign aid dependence, poor human capital, rising high youth unemployment and poverty are just some of the reasons that Africa represents a striking symbol of global inequality today. In this book, the author draws on his research and experi... Read More about Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa.

Team Academy in Diverse Settings (2022)
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Urzelai, B., & Vettraino, E. (Eds.). (2022). Team Academy in Diverse Settings. Routledge

“Entrepreneurship education was born in Genesis. We had no research, no theory, and, therefore, very few options for teaching entrepreneurship except hearing the war stories” (Neck et al., 2014, p.10). This last book of a four-book series collate... Read More about Team Academy in Diverse Settings.

Team Academy: Leadership and Teams (2021)
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Vettraino, E., & Urzelai, B. (Eds.). (2021). Team Academy: Leadership and Teams. Routledge

In his 2006 article, Mark Van Vugt posed the view that “whenever a group of people come together, a leader-follower relationship naturally develops.” The leader-follower relationship in a Team Academy based education programme can be contentious and... Read More about Team Academy: Leadership and Teams.

Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies (2021)
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Kumar, V., Rezaei, J., Akberdina, V., & Kuzmin, E. (Eds.). (2021). Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies. Russia: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73261-5

The emergence of advanced technologies has marked the new era of global development. The large-scale use of digital and information-communication solutions is fundamentally changing social life and restructuring economic relationships. Digitalization... Read More about Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies.

Managerial Perspective to Operational Excellence (2021)
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Tripathi, A., Deb, J., & Kumar, V. (2021). Managerial Perspective to Operational Excellence. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In the current age of manufacturing revival in the United States and other developed countries, companies are looking for a differentiating factor to be able to compete with competitors in low-cost countries. There are several different approaches a... Read More about Managerial Perspective to Operational Excellence.

Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries (2020)
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Galt, F. (2020). Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries. Bristol: Bristol University Press

Frances C. Galt explores the role of trade unions and women’s activism in the British film and television industries in this important contribution to debates around gender inequality. The book traces the influence of the union for technicians and... Read More about Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries.

Absolute Essentials of International Business (2020)
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Sitkin, A., & Mangion-Thornley, K. (2020). Absolute Essentials of International Business. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022234

As challenges to the era of globalisation emerge, international business grows in importance and complexity as a field of study. This shortform textbook introduces learners to the frameworks within which international business occurs and to the range... Read More about Absolute Essentials of International Business.

How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams: Innovation Catalysts (2019)
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Sheffield, R. (2019). How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams: Innovation Catalysts. Singapore: World Scientific

The book focuses on how leaders are learning to develop the creative capabilities of their team members and themselves. Through this learning, teams are developing original approaches to their work, benefitting their customers, patients, employees an... Read More about How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams: Innovation Catalysts.