This landmark book takes a retrospective look at the most important and influential works in the study of stakeholders since Freeman?s 1984 publication, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of this watershed in organizational scholarship, so now is an excellent time for Phillips and Freeman to revisit this topical and exciting subject.From the tremendous upsurge in the literature, the editors have carefully selected ground-breaking works on topics including corporate governance, stakeholder-agency theory, management models, ethical theory and stakeholder orientation. This invaluable volume will shape the thinking of scholars and academics for the next 25 years.

Exam Board: Pearson BTEC Academic Level: BTEC National Subject: Business First teaching: September 2016 First Exams: Summer 2017 For all four of the externally assessed units 2, 3, 6 and 7. Builds confidence with scaffolded practice questions. Unguided questions that allow students to test their own knowledge and skills in advance of assessment. Clear unit-by-unit correspondence between this Workbook and the Revision Guide and ActiveBook.

A groundbreaking, proven program for women looking to build wealth and invest with confidence According to studies, women's and men's brains process information differently-especially when it comes to money. As an experienced wealth coach and financial therapist, Barbara Huson has found that men view investing as a challenge whereas women view it as a threat. In The Rewire Response, she shows you how to conquer your fears, reset your goals, and retrain your brain to build wealth quickly, smartly, and effectively. This groundbreaking approach to wealth-building combines the latest neuroscience, psychology, and mind training techniques with more than two decades of financial expertise and hundreds of lectures and seminars. The Rewire Response is the culmination of the author's life work, a simple but powerful mind-realignment program that gives women the confidence, the courage, and the tools they need to improve the way they think about money. This book proves, without a doubt, that you can save, invest, and grow your wealth like a pro-when you put your mind to it.

Introduction to Quantum Natural Language Processing. Overview of Leadership and AI. The Age of Quantum Superiority. Challenges To Today's Leadership. AI-induced Strategic Implementation and Organizational Performance.

Information technology plays a fundamental role in the operations of any modern business. While the confidentiality and integrity of your organisation's information have to be protected, a business still needs to have this information readily available in order to be able to function from day to day. If you are an information security practitioner, you need to be able to sell complex and often technical solutions to boards and management teams. Persuading the board to invest in information security measures requires sales skills. As an information security professional, you are a scientific and technical specialist; and yet you need to get your message across to people whose primary interests lie elsewhere, in turnover and overall performance. In other words, you need to develop sales and marketing skills. This pocket guide will help you with the essential sales skills that persuade company directors to commit money and resources to your information security initiatives. How this book can help information security professionals: Understand basic sales techniques Find out what to do to capture the attention of management and win them over Understand how to present yourself Present yourself so that management takes you seriously, and ensure your proposal receives a proper hearing. Find out how to earn management's trust This guide shows you how to persuade management that you are the kind of information security professional who is interested in supporting, rather than impeding, business success. Learn how to craft a successful proposal This guide offers you invaluable tips on how to write a proposal that will communicate your ideas effectively to senior executives. Improve your powers of persuasion with the board ... Buy this pocket guide today! About the author Alan Calder is the CEO and founder of IT Governance Ltd. He has written widely on IT governance and information security management. This pocket guide is the first in a suite of products to focus on the important subject of making sure you can convince management of information security's importance. A book, a podcast, and more will follow shortly.

The true power of Agile methodologies is not technology; it is business value generation. Use Agile methodologies to turn your IT solution challenges into high business-value returns All too often, IT solutions are plagued by budget overruns, missed deadlines, low-quality outputs and dissatisfied users. Agile methodologies are proven, common-sense methods for substantially increasing the relevance, flexibility and bottom-line business value of your software solutions. Quantify and measure the benefits that Agile methodologies can deliver to your organisation. Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, DSDM, FDD, Lean, XP and Kanban, are proven approaches for applying the finite resources of an organisation to deliver high business-value software solutions on time and within allocated budgets. These methodologies protect organisations from wasting their IT budgets by replacing large upfront financial commitments with incremental investment based on the ongoing business value of delivered software. They encourage collaboration with key stakeholders, empower staff to regularly deliver bottom-line value, and ensure that IT solutions are responsive to ongoing organisational and market changes. Read this guide and ... Understand the 10 core business benefits of Agile. At the heart of Agile methodologies are 10 core business benefits that enable organisations to maximise their IT investments, including: Better risk management, ongoing control of budget expenditure, better alignment with business requirements, and substantially higher quality IT solutions. Agile: An Executive Guide details each of these benefits from a strategic senior management perspective. Identify which Agile methodologies align with the specific needs of your organisation. Agile: An Executive Guide provides you with tools to assess your organisational culture, structure and dynamic in order to determine whether Agile methodologies are suitable to your specific needs, and to select those Agile methodologies that are the best fit for your organisation. Get the essential information you need to implement Agile within your organisation. Agile: An Executive Guide is full of practical advice, including detailed guidelines to help you: Choose the right kick-off point for Agile within your organisation; avoid common traps; monitor and measure your investment; and broaden the use of Agile methodologies into other areas of your organisation. It includes step-by-step guidelines, interactive tools and targeted questionnaires to help you and your staff successfully implement these methodologies. Agile: An Executive Guide describes Agile methodologies in clear business language specifically written for business professionals. It will help you make realistic business-driven decisions on whether Agile methodologies are appropriate for your organisation; whether you are looking to consolidate your IT overheads, to provide better software solutions to your clients, or to have more control over your IT expenditures. This guide provides practical, proven ways to introduce, incorporate and leverage Agile methodologies to maximise your business returns.

The business leader's guide to creating a winning employee experience In Experience, Inc.: Why Companies that Uncover Purpose, Create Connection, and Celebrate Their People Will Triumph, veteran business leader and growth strategist Jill Popelka delivers a hands-on guide to building a flexible, adaptable, and engaged workforce that can enable your organization to evolve with emerging challenges. You'll find the insights you need to build a company culture that prioritizes your people, resulting in an empowered and future-ready workforce. Filled with stories from the author's extensive experience as the President of SAP SuccessFactors, the book also offers: Advice from global thought leaders on some of today's most pressing issues Practical resources for any employee to improve their productivity and impact Tips on creating a culture that works for the organization and its people Experience, Inc. is an essential tool for business leaders of all levels, from the C-suite and senior executives to people managers and human resources practitioners. It is a must-read for organizations looking for ways to build a sustainable, productive, and exciting workplace centered around the most critical driver of business success: employees.

Concise expert guide to important business research topic Summarises the state of the art in available and emerging research Includes references to key research publications in the field

Protect your organisation from information security risks For any modern business to thrive, it must assess, control and audit the risks it faces in a manner appropriate to its risk appetite. As information-based risks and threats continue to proliferate, it is essential that they are addressed as an integral component of your enterprise's risk management strategy, not in isolation. They must be identified, documented, assessed and managed, and assigned to risk owners so that they can be mitigated and audited. Fundamentals of Information Risk Management Auditing provides insight and guidance on this practice for those considering a career in information risk management, and an introduction for non-specialists, such as those managing technical specialists. Product overview Fundamentals of Information Risk Management Auditing - An Introduction for Managers and Auditors has four main parts: What is risk and why is it important? An introduction to general risk management and information risk. Introduction to general IS and management risks An overview of general information security controls, and controls over the operation and management of information security, plus risks and controls for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Introduction to application controls An introduction to application controls, the controls built into systems to ensure that they process data accurately and completely. Life as an information risk management specialist/auditor A guide for those considering, or undergoing, a career in information risk management. Each chapter contains an overview of the risks and controls that you may encounter when performing an audit of information risk, together with suggested mitigation approaches based on those risks and controls. Chapter summaries provide an overview of the salient points for easy reference, and case studies illustrate how those points are relevant to businesses. The book concludes with an examination of the skills and qualifications necessary for an information risk management auditor, an overview of typical job responsibilities, and an examination of the professional and ethical standards that an information risk auditor should adhere to. Topics covered Fundamentals of Information Risk Management Auditing covers, among other subjects, the three lines of defence; change management; service management; disaster planning; frameworks and approaches, including Agile, COBIT(R)5, CRAMM, PRINCE2(R), ITIL(R) and PMBOK; international standards, including ISO 31000, ISO 27001, ISO 22301 and ISO 38500; the UK Government's Cyber Essentials scheme; IT security controls; and application controls. About the author Christopher Wright is a qualified accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified ScrumMaster(TM) with over 30 years' experience providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. For 16 years, he worked at KPMG, where he was head of information risk training in the UK and also ran training courses overseas, including in India and throughout mainland Europe. He managed a number of major IS audit and risk assignments, including project risk and business control reviews. He has worked in a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, the public sector, aviation, and travel. For the past eight years, he has been an independent consultant specialising in financial, SOX and operational controls for major ERP implementations, mainly at oil and gas/utilities enterprises. He is an international speaker and trainer on Agile audit and governance, and is the author of two other titles, also published by ITGP: Agile Governance and Audit and Reviewing IT in Due Diligence.

Look at your data Now available with Macmillan's online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions from the first day of class. Achieve for The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics connects the problem-solving approach and real-world examples in the book to rich digital resources that foster further understanding and application of statistics. Assets in Achieve support learning before, during, and after class for students, while providing instructors with class performance analytics in an easy-to-use interface.

M: Advertising examines advertising from the perspective of the advertiser as well as the specialists who create advertising. M: Advertising takes students beyond theory to learn about roles within each of these organizations, and to consider which they might one day play themselves in a highly visual, condensed, engaging format. Supported by a robust digital Connect Advertising offer, M is relevant, engaging, and cost-effective for today's business students.

"Filled with creative strategies that work in today's market. A must-read for the real estate investor "
-Albert Lowry, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of
How You Can Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate
A few years ago, even reckless real estate investors could still make money because the market was booming. But many markets have softened, and making a profit isn't as simple as it used to be. However-with the right strategy and long-term thinking-there is still plenty of money to be made in real estate.
If you're willing to look outside your local market, you'll discover emerging markets that are booming. And there are also smart investing strategies that work especially well in slowing markets. You can do it You just need the new rules and wise tactics you'll find in this practical, profitable guide:
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Invest in up-and-coming, high-growth emerging markets
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There are great deals hiding in every real estate market, and this book makes finding those values easy. Whether you want to locate the next up-and-coming growth markets, or find creative ways to finance your investments, Making Hard Cash in a Soft Real Estate Market is a savvy guide to investing for anyone who wants to play it safe and profitably.

The essential, data-driven blueprint to build trust in your organization. Did you know that trusted companies outperform their peers by up to 400%? That customers who trust a brand are 88% more likely to buy again? And that 79% of employees who trust their employer are more motivated to work (and less likely to leave)? The importance of trust is at an all-time high--just as our inclination to trust is at an all-time low. Building trust is your single greatest opportunity to create competitive advantage. With new data at its core, The Four Factors of Trust gives you practical guidance to measure and build trust in the relationships that matter the most--with your customers, workforce, and partners. Trust ultimately comes down to just Four Factors: Humanity, Capability, Transparency, and Reliability. These Four Factors make up Deloitte's HX TrustIDTM, a groundbreaking measurement tool poised to become the gold standard for evaluating organizational performance. Ashley Reichheld and Amelia Dunlop show how your organization can use HX TrustIDTM to measure, predict, and build trust to earn lifelong loyalty--and elevate the human experience with your customers, workforce, and partners. The Four Factors of Trust lays it all out in do-able parts so you can: Create better business outcomes by understanding how trust affects human behaviors Measure your company's trust score--revealing strengths, deficits, and opportunities to (re)build trust with key stakeholders Design actionable strategies to improve trust with your customers, workforce, and partners Build trust and earn loyalty through every business function from marketing to operations to talent experience With compelling stories from leading organizations--and practical applications in Marketing & Experience, Cybersecurity, HR, Sustainability (ESG), and Operations & Technology--The Four Factors of Trust will enable you to create the relationships you want to build, the organizations you want to belong to, and the world you want to live in.

__________ *Picked by the Financial Times as a Best Read of 2021* 'Impressive and inspiring' Financial Times 'I have no intention of making small bets' - Masayoshi Son In order to understand what's happening in Silicon Valley, you just need to look at Masayoshi Son. __________ There is no one in the world right now who is in a better position to influence the next wave of technology than Masayoshi Son. Not Jeff Bezos, not Mark Zuckerberg, not Elon Musk. They might have the money, but they lack Masa's combination of ambition, imagination, and nerve. Masayoshi Son is the most powerful person in Silicon Valley. As CEO and founder of the Japanese investment firm, SoftBank Group, 'Masa' has invested in some of the most exciting and influential tech companies in recent memory - Uber, WeWork, ByteDance, and many others. Prior to that, he was known as one of the first investors in Alibaba and Yahoo! He has an audacious vision for the future and one that is unmatched in the tech industry. Aiming High provides insight into this charismatic and visionary leader. Originally published in Japan, this book charts Son's rise from a Korean immigrant who left Japan at 16 to becoming one of the wealthiest people in the world. With unprecedented access to Son, including exclusive interviews, this book creates an authoritative account of how SoftBank Group and it's visionary and charismatic CEO is shaping the future of tech. __________

This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell. The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy. A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy.

Expands the field by approaching the issue using a qualitative methodology; Presents a compliance perspective within the legal sector; Draws upon responses from a section of the legal profession that can be extremely hard to access for research purposes; Provides international comparisons throughout.

Doing Statistical Analysis looks at three kinds of statistical research questions - descriptive, associational, and inferential - and shows students how to conduct statistical analyses and interpret the results. Keeping equations to a minimum, it uses a conversational style and relatable examples such as football, COVID-19, and tourism, to aid understanding. Each chapter contains practice exercises, and a section showing students how to reproduce the statistical results in the book using Stata and SPSS. Digital supplements consist of data sets in Stata, SPSS, and Excel, and a test bank for instructors. Its accessible approach means this is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students across the social and behavioral sciences needing to build their confidence with statistical analysis.

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This is the frank and honest story of the Thornton family and their confectionery business. It's the story of the building of one of Britain's premier brands by a family that was frequently at war: the battles of the generations and of sibling rivalry. A family that was at the same time highly creative in a chaotic way and a younger generation that was determined to expand and exploit the opportunity despite the stringent and restrictive control held by the older generation, Norman and Stanley Thornton until their deaths. Nothing is held back, the good times, the bad times, the successes, the failures, the conflicts, the battles, the love affairs and the moments of high elation and deep depression. Peter Thornton, Ex-Chairman of the family business tells his story with startling frankness, starting in 1956, through to his dismissal from the company in 1987 after a career which had been very successful. It was a dismissal which seemed to be entirely a result of family politics and jealousies and nothing to do with performance - a dismissal resulting from a boardroom coup that tore the heart out of the Thornton family. Thorntons began in Sheffield in 1911. This book describes the family at that time and after: their battle for survival through problems of illness and the death of the founder, period descriptions of old Sheffield, the struggles of the family and the business to survive and grow through two World Wars, recession, depression and the General Strike. Thorntons became the premiere confectionery brand in England. But along the way were family betrayals, suicides and extra-marital affairs. After the boardroom coup of 1987, Peter Thornton had to rebuild his life. He had been groomed from birth to run the family business, and had to start all over again. But he never lost his love for and interest in the family business, which became a public company, and changed beyond recognition. Peter explains where things went wrong and where he thinks the future of the company now lies. Themes of destructive and dysfunctional personal relationships, conflict and emotional difficulties are candidly covered. And there is a strong feeling of nostalgia for old times and the traditions of the old business. The moral is that success and money can come at a horrible price - even to one of Britain's best-known brands.

The starting point in learning marketing analytics is to understand the marketing problem. The second is asking the right business question. The data will help you tell the story. We live in a global, highly competitive, rapidly changing world that is increasingly influenced by digital data, expanded analytical capabilities, information technology, social media and more. The era of Big Data has literally brought about huge amounts of data to review, analyze and solve. Today's undergraduate and graduate students will need to have a keen understanding of not only the right types of questions to ask, but also the tools available to help answer them. Essentials of Marketing Analytics covers both, in a comprehensive, readable and flexible manner. Coverage includes the most popular analytics software tools, such as Tableau and Python, as well as a variety of analytical techniques, including but not limited to social network analysis, automated machine learning, neural networking and more. Supported by a robust student and learning package via McGraw Hill Connect, Essentials of Marketing Analytics 1e is the most comprehensive, current, adaptable product on the market!

The noted "Wall Street Journal" columnist uncovers the tectonic power shift in the corporate C-suite of the last five years - one that has made the life and tenure of today's CEO nasty, brutish, and short - and uncovers how the Internet and politicised shareholder groups will forever change how CEOs perform their jobs. The imperial CEO is gone. In its place is a new, and often messy, system of board rule, in which a group of people, many of whom have relatively little experience in business, are holding sway over corporate titans, and in which an array of new interest groups - shareholders, regulators, hedge funds, employees, and labor unions - are learning to successfully flex their muscle. This book would tell the tumultuous inside story of that revolution, examine what caused it, and explore what it means for the future of American business.

Increasing corporate social responsibility demands professionals possess the necessary knowledge, abilities, and competencies to answer the needs of a diverse organization's stakeholders. This book highlights the most recent issues related to higher education in the fields of management and engineering. It explains why a sustainable education is a requirement for professionals, as well as the organizations they collaborate with. Higher Education: Progress for Management and Engineering focuses on the latest research findings in the field of higher and sustainable education. It discusses the progress, shares knowledge and insights on an international scale, and highlights the challenges faced to obtain and secure a more responsible and sustainable management system. Selecting different options and strategies, how to set priorities on managing competition, and how to succeed as an organization that can lead to successes in both national and international markets are covered within this book. This book can be used as a reference for researchers, academics, managers, engineers, and other professionals involved in higher and sustainable education in management and engineering.

First published in 1994, Locating Gender combines a case-study approach with significant theoretical development to challenge explanations of occupational segregation. It examines the diversity of women's employment experience, gender segregation within employment establishments, employment and domestic relations, and the place of gender in perceptions of inequality. The book develops the concepts of component-wage and full-wage jobs in the context of work histories and employment relations, and establishes their usefulness in the study of the social adequacy of wages. In doing so, it provides a close and critical examination of the power of gender as an explanatory concept in employment and domestic relations, including an in-depth analysis of the circumstances prior to, and following, changes to eliminate sex discrimination from official practices in a particular workplace. It will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, the sociology of work and social stratification, social policy, business studies, and labour economics.