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Cover Research Handbook on Project Performance
Research Handbook on Project Performance

This engaging Research Handbook presents a fresh look at how to improve project performance for the project sponsor, client and end user using a number of empirical research studies. Focusing on project performance concepts and methods, the Handbook provides a fresh look at successful project completions, achieving project objectives, on-time or ahead of time project completion or delivering within budget.

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Handbook
Published:
17 Mar 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207613
Collection:
Business 2023
Cover Research Handbook on Services Management
Research Handbook on Services Management
Edited by
Mark Davis

This comprehensive Research Handbook reflects the latest research breakthroughs and practices in services management. Addressing services management from a broader strategic perspective, it delves into the key issues of analytics and service robots, and their potential impact. Edited by the late Mark M. Davis, it represents an early foray into the new frontier of services management and provides insights into the future of the field.

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Handbook
Published:
05 Aug 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375659
Collection:
Business 2022
Cover Handbook of Service Business
Handbook of Service Business
Management, Marketing, Innovation and Internationalisation
Service business accounts for more than 75 per cent of the wealth and employment created in most developed market economies. The management and economics of service business is based around selling expertise, knowledge and experiences. This Handbook contributes to on-going debates about the nature of service business and the characteristics of service-led economies by exploring disciplinary perspectives on services, services and core business processes and the management of service business. A series of case studies are also provided. The volume pushes back the frontiers of current critical thinking about the role of service business by bringing together eminent scholars from economics, management, sociology, public policy, planning and geography.
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Handbook
Published:
24 Apr 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781000410
Collection:
Business 2015
Cover Handbook on the Experience Economy
Handbook on the Experience Economy
This illuminating Handbook presents the state-of-the-art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the experience economy. Each chapter reflects diverse scientific viewpoints from disciplines including management, mainstream economics and sociology to provide a comprehensive overview.
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Handbook
Published:
30 Sep 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781004227
Collection:
Business 2013
Cover Handbook of Innovation in Public Services
Handbook of Innovation in Public Services
Leading researchers from across the globe review the state of the art in research on innovation in public services, providing an overview of key issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Topics explored include: context for innovation in public services and public service reform; managerial change challenges; ICT and e-government; and collaboration and networks. The theory is underpinned by seven wide-ranging case studies of innovation in practice.
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Handbook
Published:
29 Mar 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849809757
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2013
Cover Handbook of Management and Creativity
Handbook of Management and Creativity
This Handbook draws on current research and case studies to consider how managers can become more creative across four aspects of their business: innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organisation – and does so in an accessible, engaging and user-friendly format.
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Handbook
Published:
31 Jan 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781000977
Collection:
Business 2014
Cover Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services
Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services
The expert contributors discuss entrepreneurship and innovation from a number of different perspectives, including the entrepreneurial professional team, the entrepreneurial firm and the institutional environment. The first part of the book looks at the challenges of entrepreneurship specific to the professional service firm while the second explores the creation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities in the professional service team. Part III turns to the organization and Part IV to the management and growth of the entrepreneurial professional service firm. The final part discusses the interplay between professions, firms and the institutional environment.
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Handbook
Published:
31 Oct 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781009109
Collection:
Business 2012
Cover The Handbook of Innovation and Services
The Handbook of Innovation and Services
A Multi-disciplinary Perspective
This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.
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Handbook
Published:
31 Mar 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849803304
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
Cover The Handbook of Service Industries
The Handbook of Service Industries
Service activities are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change and public policy worldwide. This exciting Handbook not only contributes to ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and societies; it also pushes back the frontiers of current critical thinking about the role of service activities in urban and regional development and the important research agendas that remain to be addressed.
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Handbook
Published:
25 May 2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847205261
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before