This comprehensive Handbook explores limitations and challenges arising from attempts to develop indigenous theories and constructs applicable to Chinese social reality. Key contributors integrate the literature in their topic areas, providing directions for pushing forward the frontiers of...

1. Sustainable careers : introductory chapter / Beatrice Van der Heijden and Ans De Vos -- 2. Facilitating the crafting of sustainable careers in organizations / Monique Valcour -- 3. Merits and challenges of career adaptability as a tool towards sustainable careers / Maximilian B.W. Buyken ......

1. Introduction / Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson -- 2. Australia / Glenice Wood -- 3. Brazil / Andrea E. Smith-Hunter -- 4. Canada / Karen D. Hughes -- 5. China / Jonathan M. Scott ... [et al.] -- 6. Denmark / Suna Løwe Nielsen, Kim Klyver and Majbritt Rostgaard Evald -- 7. Fiji /...

This Handbook presents original research and theory on executives, top management teams, and boards of directors and illustrates the vital importance of this field of study. -- Top management teams are responsible for the strategic choices and major decisions in organizations. These...

'Professors Vinnicombe, Burke, Blake-Beard, and Moore have assembled an internationally and intellectually diverse cast of contributors to chronicle and examine the implications of the seismic shift in women's roles in the global workforce. Collectively, they make a strong case for why advancing...

Diversifying the workforce is becoming increasingly important, with gender equality being a central feature of overall equality. Men seem to be part of the problem and a necessary part of the solution. This collection ties these themes together in the context of talent management and...

An economic recession can affect the aggregate well-being of a population. This highly regarded and timely book shows a significant increase in the mean levels of distress and dissatisfaction in the work place in recent years. -- In particular, increasing job demands, intrinsic job insecurity...

This timely Handbook establishes the 'contextualization' of the learning organization idea as a research field. In contrast to much of the previous literature, which has approached the learning organization as a panacea that every organization could and should adopt, this major new Handbook puts...

Entrepreneurship and innovation are increasingly viewed as key contributors to global economic and social development. University-based entrepreneurship ecosystems (U-BEEs) provide a supportive context in which entrepreneurship and innovation can thrive. In that vein, this book provides critical...

pt. 1. The social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Institutions, innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt. 3. Knowledge, knowledge spillovers, the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship, and growth -- pt. 4. Technology transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt....