Advancing Business and Management series – serie

This cutting-edge book argues that the best way to advance the future of management education is to nurture scholars who take a fascination in the intellectual field itself. Moving beyond recent trends in the scholarship, Stuart Middleton investigates the underlying beliefs of key approaches to management education, identifying important avenues for future contributions to the field.Middleton traces the historical development of management education as a discipline and introduces its three key schools of thought - Rational, Critical and Postliberal. Chapters pose reflective and provocative questions to the reader, allowing them to both understand their position within the intellectual field and develop their own research projects. Bridging the gap between discipline-specific knowledge and knowledge in teaching and learning, the book ultimately provides a fresh, nuanced perspective on the beliefs, institutions, social relations and practices of management education.Advancing the Future of Management Education Research will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students across management and management education. It will also be a vital guide for both new and experienced teachers in the field.

This informative book explores how governance systems evolve to meet diverse organizational contexts and emerging challenges. Providing a range of perspectives from different fields including finance, management, entrepreneurship and law, global experts present new structures and directions for corporate governance research.Blending theoretical frameworks with practical case studies, the book provides critical insights into key topics such as the influence of cultural dynamics, the evolution of startups into established firms, the unique characteristics of family businesses, and the integration of environmental and social objectives. Forward-thinking contributors examine the future of corporate governance accounting for technology, sustainability, and stakeholder priorities, identifying strategies to meet the specific needs of various organizational models, cultural influences, and technological advancements worldwide.A valuable resource for academics and students in business, management and corporate governance, Advancing Corporate Governance Research is also an enlightening read for policymakers, regulators, business leaders and board members.

Using ideas from natural ecology to better understand entrepreneurship as complex systems, this book offers a different research approach to explain how entrepreneurship operates within specific regional contexts. The book aims to: show how ecological thinking offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurial ecosystems.demonstrate how this approach differs from traditional entrepreneurship research.provide practical guidelines for researchers and policymakers working in regional entrepreneurship. It concludes that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach—similar to how ecologists study natural environments—is essential to grasp the dynamic entrepreneurial relationships between people, institutions, organizations, natural resources and attributes in regional economies. The book introduces a new paradigm for studying entrepreneurship that emphasizes interconnectedness and system-level change. Advancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, economic geography and entrepreneurship. Policymakers, practitioners and consultants in entrepreneurship and organizational systems seeking evidence-based techniques to inform their work will also greatly benefit from the insights in this book.