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In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Frugal innovation is considered a new source of innovation, mainly
to meet the needs of low-income customers. Hence, frugal innovation
has primarily been explored emphasizing affordability. The concept
of frugal and social innovation is a new idea and requires
perspectives from academicians, researchers, and organizations to
reach its full potential. Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions
in the Digital Era considers the social value of innovation, frugal
innovation, and social innovation in society at local, national,
and international levels and calls the attention of scholars and
researchers around the globe to focus on the social perspectives
and social patterns of human life and society. Covering key topics
such as emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and social change,
this reference work is ideal for computer scientists, business
owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, instructors, and students.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
As the world population is expanding and resources are shrinking it
creates a challenging environment for people in low income and
transitioning economies as well as developed countries. Hence,
researchers are proposing different solutions and entrepreneurship
is one of them. Academic institutions need to update their study
programs and knowledge, modernize the curriculum and integrate
research activities in degree programs about entrepreneurship.
Economic challenges are getting very difficult to handle for every
country and entrepreneurship can play a key role in dealing with
these new realities. Aspects of academic entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurial education unlock the discussion about the concepts,
risks, actions and approaches towards the entrepreneurial
university. Academic entrepreneurship focuses on the educated
population who are learning and working in the universities and how
they can create an entrepreneurial ecosystem so that academia can
play forth the role of entrepreneurship after teaching and
research. This book will contribute to the knowledge on developing
an entrepreneurial ecosystem through academia. The target audience
are university teachers, students, and researchers. This book will
be appropriate for universities and policy makers to adopt and
apply entrepreneurial approaches to develop academic
entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Frugal innovation is considered a new source of innovation, mainly
to meet the needs of low-income customers. Hence, frugal innovation
has primarily been explored emphasizing affordability. The concept
of frugal and social innovation is a new idea and requires
perspectives from academicians, researchers, and organizations to
reach its full potential. Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions
in the Digital Era considers the social value of innovation, frugal
innovation, and social innovation in society at local, national,
and international levels and calls the attention of scholars and
researchers around the globe to focus on the social perspectives
and social patterns of human life and society. Covering key topics
such as emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and social change,
this reference work is ideal for computer scientists, business
owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, instructors, and students.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil
in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came
to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms
scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As
the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers
take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so
that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience
should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and
Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal
institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics,
political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building
more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and
provides implications for countries to improve the social system
through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee
psychological distress, democracy, and higher education
institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource
for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental
organizations, students and faculty of higher education,
sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource
managers, researchers, and academicians.
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development is
growing rapidly and has great importance in the different aspects
of social and economic development at the national and
international levels. This idea is characterized as a process that
links economic and social factors while maintaining the ecological
levels of analysis, such as national, regional, international,
organizational, and individual. Sustainable human resource
management (HRM) features a set of techniques and procedures of HRM
that enable the attainment of social, financial, and environmental
goals with an influence both inside and outside of the business
while managing the unexpected consequences. Sustainable Development
of Human Resources in a Globalization Period explores the dynamics
of sustainability in the context of the development of human
resources. The book further discusses different strategies for the
betterment, welfare, and operation of organizations. Covering
topics such as digital media determinism, organizational
commitment, and worker performance, this premier reference source
is an essential title for business leaders and managers, human
resource managers, nonprofit organizations, students and faculty of
higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.
Economic challenges are becoming very difficult to manage
throughout the world, and entrepreneurship can play a key role in
handling these new realities. Due to this, academic institutions
must update their study programs and knowledge, modernize their
curricula, and integrate research activities in their degree
programs that encompass topics about and related to
entrepreneurship. Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Academia
provides implications, best practices, and approaches for countries
to improve their economic systems using entrepreneurship and
increasing entrepreneurial education. As the world population is
expanding and resources are shrinking, it creates a challenging
environment for people in low-income and transition economies, as
well as developed countries. This book discusses entrepreneurship
and entrepreneurial education as a potential solution and critical
concept. Covering a range of topics such as financial education and
entrepreneurial management, it is ideal for instructors,
academicians, researchers, practitioners, business professionals,
policymakers, and students.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil
in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came
to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms
scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As
the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers
take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so
that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience
should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and
Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal
institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics,
political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building
more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and
provides implications for countries to improve the social system
through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee
psychological distress, democracy, and higher education
institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource
for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental
organizations, students and faculty of higher education,
sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource
managers, researchers, and academicians.
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development is
growing rapidly and has great importance in the different aspects
of social and economic development at the national and
international levels. This idea is characterized as a process that
links economic and social factors while maintaining the ecological
levels of analysis, such as national, regional, international,
organizational, and individual. Sustainable human resource
management (HRM) features a set of techniques and procedures of HRM
that enable the attainment of social, financial, and environmental
goals with an influence both inside and outside of the business
while managing the unexpected consequences. Sustainable Development
of Human Resources in a Globalization Period explores the dynamics
of sustainability in the context of the development of human
resources. The book further discusses different strategies for the
betterment, welfare, and operation of organizations. Covering
topics such as digital media determinism, organizational
commitment, and worker performance, this premier reference source
is an essential title for business leaders and managers, human
resource managers, nonprofit organizations, students and faculty of
higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.
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