"This book will help readers better understand the impacts that a crisis episode has on a small business, entrepreneurs, and the SME sector by drawing on evidence (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) based on experiences and practices in multiple jurisdictions and offering novel...

This paper explores the impact of developments in the Irish economy and labour market on computing course development in the Irish Higher Education (HE) sector. Extant computing courses change, or new courses are introduced, in attempts to match labour market demands. The conclusion reached...

Graduate development programmes such as FUSION continue to be seen by policy-makers, higher education institutions and SMEs as a primary means of strengthening higher education-to-business links and in turn improving the match between graduate output and the needs of industry. This paper...

This research aims to understand how the general management literature informs event management. We review the themes that have emerged from contemporary event management literature and then develop a conceptual framework to aid our understanding of the management practices of event managers....

While technological driven change in the retail sector is intrinsically worthy of detailed study, it also has utility in the context of wider academic debates, specifically those relating to research agendas. Therefore, in this paper we explore the implications for academic research activity of...