This book offers a profound exploration into how technology-enabled marketing strategies often undermine personal freedom, undertake unethical, non-permissible marketing and manipulate consumer behaviour. It looks at what remedial actions can be taken to have sustainable, ethical and recuperative marketing. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book delves into the history, psychology, theories, and models of modern marketing practices, revealing the often hidden, coercive strategies ...

Modern Political Marketing and Relational Capital offers a comprehensive examination of how digital transformation is reshaping political marketing strategies. This edited volume explores the evolving landscape of political engagement, emphasising the role of digital relational capital—trust, loyalty, and connections between political actors and their audiences. By delving into emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, augmented reality, and social...

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives. Digital transformation isn’t always easy to implement; organisations can experience resistance to change and a lack of skilled employees.While there is extensive research on digital transformation, there is a lack of research that focuses specifically on emerging markets. Digital Transformation for Business Sustainability ...

Entrepreneurship and Competitive Sustainability: Innovative Approaches is a rigorous, practice-focused edited volume that maps how entrepreneurial action can serve as a powerful catalyst for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By weaving together cutting-edge research, real-world case studies, and practical insights, the volume introduces the concept of competitive sustainability, showing how businesses can simultaneously drive profit, innovation, an...

Market Grooming: The Dark Side of AI Marketing marks a paradigm shift in the field of marketing. This thought-provoking scholarly work examines how customers, markets and communities are groomed, socially conditioned, subliminally marketed to, and influenced by the use of AI technologies.This comprehensive collection of research articles covers various aspects of AI and its impact on marketing, consumer behavior, and market grooming. It delves into the views and attitudes ...

Circular Happiness: Building Sustainable Workplaces for the Next Generation explores how businesses can merge sustainability and employee well-being by applying circular economy principles to create eco-friendly, fulfilling work environments. Focused on the needs of Gen Z, the book provides a framework for organisations to foster both environmental sustainability and mental health, offering practical strategies for enhancing workplace happiness while addressing climate change chal...

Some businesses engage in "greenwashing" or "shared washing," creating a misleading eco-friendly image to deceive consumers into thinking their services are environmentally friendly. As people become more aware of their environmental impact, scrutiny of these deceptive practices in the shared economy has increased. This phenomenon skews public perception, making companies seem more environmentally conscious than they actually are.Eco Illusions: Unmasking Greenwashing in the Sha...

Governments, communities, and developers are considering the use of ICT, renewable energies, and a host of other technologies to build smart cities that meet the economic, social, environmental, and cultural needs of the present as well as the future. However, are our cities ready for this technological shift? Can we put expansion behind us and focus on sustainability and re-generatability? Are the technologies themselves enough to create real impact and an overall healthier planet?

This book is a novel exploration of the complex interplay between modern work structures, artificial intelligence (AI), and economic sustainability.Through meticulously researched insights and real-world examples, this book unravels the intricate dynamics shaping the sharing and gig economies, offering a comprehensive analysis of their implications for the future of work. Key features of this book include a deep dive into the theoretical foundations of AI, the sharing economy, and ...

Many scholars have argued that technology, entrepreneurship, integrated business models and marketing are key to the success of any business, but in particular to the success of unicorn companies. However, there is a need to further investigate interdisciplinary approaches to techno entrepreneurial business strategy, which remains a neglected area of research.In this edited volume, authors explore and develop principles, models and other theoretical and practical concepts to develo...