Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable reflective practice in early years education, and offers depth to the arguments for a research-orientated stance to this vital field of study.

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science.

This book demonstrates how stories and storytelling can be consciously embedded into the curricula of any academic discipline in Higher Education to co-create a better future.

An introduction to strategic environmental assessment (SEA), which considers the environmental impact of various global policies and programmes. The text reviews the current status of SEA, evaluates its application in various countries and analyzes its future importance.

Takes a strategic approach to international retailing, examining in-depth studies of several retailers, and marrying theory with practice to clearly present material for students at every level.

Contains chapters on 'The Nature and Role of Competitive Advantage' and 'The Strategic Management of the Expanded Marketing Mix'. This book covers the changing role of marketing, approaches to analysing marketing capability, E-marketing, branding, customer relationship management, relationship management myopia, and the decline of loyalty.

Concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. This title features a structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process. It offers thinking in marketing and considers the changes it has undergone over the years.

This text offers students a treatment of strategic operations management. It provides an understanding of the importance and nature of operations strategy by determining exactly which management activities, core competencies, resources and technologies underpin an operational strategy.