The ethical contribution of organizations to society

Papers in this volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations discuss what an organization provides to society and explains the ethical aspects of that contribution. The volume also explores the ethics of the customer's response in society to what an organization provides, including produc...

Effective procurement of ground investigation

Effective Procurement of Ground Investigation is a client’s best practice guide to procuring good quality ground investigations which will ensure that ground related and other risks are suitably and sufficiently assessed and that the required data is obtained to meet the project objectives.

Applied single subjects research for school psychologists and educators

This book is a practical guide to single-subject research design for graduate students and professionals in education, psychology, and health fields. It covers statistical concepts, research methods, and the use of R for data analysis, making it accessible to those with no prior experience. Ideal...

Reshaping performance management for sustainable development

Reshaping Performance Management for Sustainable Development explores how performance management plays a central role in improving the policy cycle and contributing to public organizations' management and accountability.

Responsible management in africa, volume 1

Responsible Management in Africa delivers a rich reservoir of indigenous value-narratives based on a well-balanced philosophical anthropology, enriching global knowledge in the philosophy of management and in business ethics and contributing much-needed insights for leaders around the world to m...

Sustainability after rio

Ideas about sustainability have changed considerably since the Climate Change Convention was agreed in Rio de Janeiro 20 years ago. This volume re-examines the concept of sustainability and considers what issues are now considered pertinent around the world.

The house of the satrap

Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental scale, as their empire reached from the Iranian plateau to eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa. Beyond the imperial center, the kings’ vast...

Organizational neuroscience

This volume aims to introduce organizational researchers and practitioners to the role of neuroscience in building theory, research methodologies and practical applications. The volume introduces the field of organizational neuroscience and explores its influence on topics such as leadership, eth...

Modeling economic growth in contemporary indonesia

Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Indonesia explores Indonesia's most recent business and economic developments with chapters covering topics such as SMEs, public companies, stock markets, government, or non-profit organizations to explain the economic growth and relevant factors.

International pedagogical practices of teachers (part 2)

While online learning is regarded to be a rapidly growing field of research in and of itself, supporting diverse learners in online settings is an especially rapidly growing subfield.

The high school teacher technology guidebook

This guidebook helps high school teachers navigate educational technologies. It offers strategies for effective use, based on U.S. teachers' experiences with technology in teaching. It emphasizes the importance of how and why technology is used, rather than specific tools.

Chile in their hearts

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.   In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allend...

Poetry as enchantment

“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that will appeal to tenured professor...

Organization and governance using algorithms

Avramopoulos offers a ground-breaking theory and application on organisational systems design, including discussions on organisational systems design requirements, such as productivity, emotion, and reward, the problems of unaccountability, including hierarchical delegation, and the benefits of a...

International teacher education

The book fills a gaping hole in the teacher education literature. Nowhere is there a volume that globally surveys teacher education pedagogies and invites international scholars to describe the most productive ones in their home countries.

Four points of the compass

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millenniaNorth, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal directions ...

The key to everything

An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poetMay Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her lette...

Age of inference

This book explores cultivating a scientific mindset for critical thinking and informed decision-making. It guides educators in shifting to student-centered, evidence-based STEM instruction, aligning with modern educational frameworks in the “Age of Inference.”

Out of turmoil

This volume argues that social sciences are in transition, marked by uncertainty and ideological tensions. It calls on educators to reimagine education, using lessons from recent years and history to foster innovation, solidarity, and re-imagine teaching.

Agile management and vuca-rr

Agile Management and VUCA-RR provides cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and expert insight into the advancing technologies and new strategies being used in businesses settings, as well as for administrative and leadership roles in organizations.

Transnational cinema solidarity

After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. José Miguel Palacios builds upon...

Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting

Volume 19 of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting brings together a range of articles exploring the professional responsibilities of accountants, codes of conduct which affect them, and securities regulations.

The heartbeat of the youth development field

This book highlights the vital role of youth work in fostering positive development. Through research and personal essays, it emphasizes the importance of youth workers' voices in shaping programs and policies. It advocates for equity, inclusion, and belonging to inspire transformation.

Occupational therapy with older people into the 21st century

Using best evidence as well as professional and personal perspectives, Mountain explores the realities of later life, ageing in place, the implication of the technological age, meeting needs for rehabilitation, revisiting and valuing the core principles of occupational therapy, and more.

Affirming identity, advancing belonging, and amplifying voice in sororities and fraternities

This book explores identity development in fraternities and sororities amid calls for racial justice and inclusion. Centered on amplifying voice, affirming identity, and advancing belonging, it highlights diverse student experiences and challenges systemic oppression.

Other to other (o2o)

"Other to Other (O2O)" introduces a model for engaging across diverse contexts, focusing on knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and motivation. It discusses task analysis, scaffolding, and the ValueExpectationCost theory, providing examples and describing the dynamic aspects of the O2O m...

The development of open government data

Providing a unique and enhanced theoretical and practical understanding of OGD and its usage, as well as proposing directions for OGD portals’ future development in order to encourage citizens’ OGD utilization, this is a must-read for researchers and policymakers examining the impact and possibil...

Certificate of cloud security knowledge (ccsk v5) study guide

Elaine

The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet—a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English l...

The handbook for aspiring higher education leaders

This book offers wisdom and advice from past and present higher education leaders for new and aspiring leaders. Each chapter shares experiences, strategies, and recommendations, reflecting on leadership journeys and providing tips for success. It serves as a handbook for navigating careers in hig...

An estate planner's guide to buy-sell agreements for the closely held business, fourth edition

An Estate Planner's Guide to Buy-Sell Agreements for the Closely Held Business is a comprehensive guide to buy-sell agreements for estate planning attorneys and other professionals who advise closely held businesses and their owners. It includes a detailed discussion of the objectives of a buy-se...

The backpacker tourist

The Backpacker Tourist: A contemporary perspective explores the increasing number of people traveling around the world as backpackers and analyses the great diversification of this demographic and their varied experiences while traveling.

Advances in accounting behavioral research

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research addresses a wide range of issues that affect the users, preparers and assurers of accounting information. Volume 18 exemplifies this focus by including research from auditing, taxation and managerial and information systems.

Strategic marketing management in asia

With a view to continue the current growth momentum, excel in all phases of business, and create future leadership in Asia and across the globe, there is a felt need to develop a deep understanding of the Asian business environment, and how to create effective marketing strategies that will help ...

Organizations behaving badly

This volume explores how individual actors, organizational contexts, and behaviors interact to create negative organizational practices. It provides case studies and empirical research, offering insights into controlling these behaviors with basic HR practices, aiming to understand and mitigate n...

Replumbing the city

Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City traces the enormous urban waterscape of Los Angeles in a state of flux. For more than a century, the city of Los Angeles has relied on faraway water for the vast majority of its municipal supply, bu...

From reversal of fortune to economic resurgence

This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors t...

Changing mission, unchanging faith

A story of the church’s transformation, told through the lens of a mid-American city. Indianapolis is demographically close to the median American city and has experienced many of the same dynamics as other similarly sized American cities. Indianapolis is also home to a set of unique Episcopal in...

The data economy

Tools from macroeconomics and finance to incorporate the central role that data plays in the economyThe most valuable firms in the global economy are valued largely for their data. Amazon, Apple, Google, and others have proven the competitive advantage of a good data set. And yet despite the grow...

Advances in financial economics

This volume contains eight empirical papers that examine corporate governance from a number of different perspectives.

Casebook of indigenous business practices in africa

Africa’s unique and diverse culture, embedded in age-long business practices, presents an interesting proposition for advancing indigenous knowledge and building sustainable structures. Casebook of Indigenous Business Practices in Africa is a collection of case studies across Northern, Eastern, C...

Syria, revolt and war in the digital age

An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demo...

Pipeline cinema

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Pipeline Cinema explores the intertwined histories of documentary film and the oil industry in mid-twentieth century Iran and Ira...

The engineering leader

A guide to data-driven leadership in modern schools

A Guide to Data-Driven Leadership in Modern Schools offers insights for school leaders and educators on practical data use. It covers data-driven decisions, accountability, and standardized testing. Chapters discuss data use in management, instruction, and personnel evaluations, emphasizing the n...

Diversity and discrimination in research organizations

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations considers whether and to what extent the social identity of the academic workforce affects their individual integration in research organizations.

Women, politics and the public sphere

Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the...

Queering christian worship

A groundbreaking collection of writings that place queer ritual at the center of the theological conversation.In this collection of essays, leading scholars in queer theology and liturgical studies explore the ways in which the distinctive theological voices of LGBTQIA+ Christians challenge and e...