There is a sampling of specific changes, updates, and new highlights in the 14th edition – enough to convey the wide variety of people, organizations, issues, and management challenges. This book remains on the cutting edge of topical coverage and draws from a wide variety of subject matter, sources, and personal experience with a special emphasis on themes throughout the product such as real results, ethics, cultural considerations, and leadership and collaboration. The mission of the product is to inform, instruct and inspire. It informs by providing descriptions of the important concepts and practices of modern management. It instructs by describing how you can take action on the ideas discussed.

This textbook introduces all the key results and insights of behavioral economics to a student audience. Ideas such as mental accounting, prospect theory, present bias, inequality aversion and learning are explained in detail. This book remains the ideal introduction to behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This rich volume offers a highly accessible and exceptionally broad-ranging introduction to the field of International Relations Theory. In 20 chapters the book provides a highly readable and comprehensive overview of core theoretical frameworks ranging from “mainstream” realism and liberalism all the way to queer theory and critical geography. This book is a global conversation.

Drawing from the most recent work on economic regulation, this book introduces readers to the main principles and examines how economic regulation is applied in four key public utility industries – electricity, gas, water and telecommunications. Written for students and practitioners with little prior knowledge of economic regulation, this is accessible, non-technical entry point to the subject area, exploring the fundamental questions: Why do we regulate? What have been the impacts of regulations? Readers will gain a clear understanding of the basic principles that apply to all regulated sectors, as well as the regulatory choices that reflect the specific economic and physical characteristics of different industries.