1. Introduction : the 'Managed Heart' / Marian Iszatt-White -- 2. Leadership as emotional labour : so what's new? / Marian Iszatt-White -- 3. Leadership as emotional and compassionate labour : managing the human side of the enterprise / Joan V. Gallos -- 4. Getting to the 'heart' of leaders...

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d'Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent...

1. The concept of the bioeconomy -- 2. Biopolitics, neoliberalism, and the calculative worldview : the economics of life -- 3. New drug development, biotechnology, and the enactment of life -- 4. The tissue economy -- 5. Living in and managing the bioeconomy.

1. Transparency or the new invisibility : the business of making connections / Barbara Maria Stafford -- 2. Business fiction : global economy by William Gibson / Barbara Czarniawska -- 3. Visible, tradeable carbon : how emissions markets are constructed / Donald MacKenzie -- 4. Imagining...

1. The relevance of studying work orientations / Bengt Furaker, Kristina Hakansson and Jan Ch. Karlsson -- 2. Theoretical and conceptual considerations on work orientations / Bengt Furaker -- 3. Declining work centrality in Western Europe : myth or reality? / Frans Hikspoors, T Oomas Bjarnason...

1. France and the United States : two sets for a single scene -- 2. China : between guanxi and celestial bureaucracy -- 3. Unity and tribalism in Jordan -- 4. Local forms of support in all their diversity : a comparative survey -- 5. Values materialize in harmony with individual cultures.