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Contemporary global issues in human resource management
Focusing on current workplace issues and employee and employer expectations of Human Resource Management in a rapidly changing business environment, this book examines current trends of HR practices and expands on current literature.
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Satire, comedy and mental health
Satire, Comedy, and Mental Health examines how satire helps to sustain good mental health in a troubled socio-political world. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue and a close analysis of satire in various media, the book argues that satire helps us cope in a sick world through its ambiguous com...
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Models of start-up thinking and action
Volume 18 will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered. We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge p...
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Empowering female climate change activists in the global south
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Reimagining intersectional research, this book addresses the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation i...
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Designing for cycle traffic
Designing for Cycle Traffic compares and evaluates international principles and practices for designing for cycle traffic. It is essential reading for designers and planners in traffic and highway engineering, transport planning, and urban design.
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Competencies for effective leadership
What makes a leader? In this critical time of change for leaders, it has become increasingly important to understand the competencies associated with leadership. This essential book explores the ways in which Brent Ruben's Leadership Competency Scorecard can be used within an organizational setting.
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New perspectives in hospitality management
New Perspectives in Hospitality Management is a unique collection of articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship in the sphere of hospitality research. The articles published in this collection identify some emergent themes that have subsequently established themselves as key tr...
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Medusa's daughters
The witchy women are Medusa’s daughters indeed—their gaze kills. But rather than sending heroes to slay them, the writers of this collection celebrate the deadliness of these femmes fatales. After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century t...
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Africa
Civil Engineering Special Issue: Africa focus on important civil engineering projects in Africa.
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Sport startups
Sport Startups: New Advances in Entrepreneurship examines the global growth of startup enterprises in the sports sector and addresses how they contribute to new developments in business innovation and entrepreneurship.
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International migration, covid-19, and environmental sustainability
With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book tackles recent universal subject matter and ties it to key contemporary issues, including globalisation and sustainability, that are related to international migration and its impacts.
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The astructural bias charge
This collection of outstanding essays addresses the concern of an astructural bias. Contemporary interactionists and their critics, social theorists, and students of sociology who are interested in assessing the ability of SI to fully address the social circumstances and social problems of an inc...
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New perspectives in climate change
New Perspectives in Climate Change is a unique collection of articles that discuss key areas of research among academics in the field. These include the following: - Climate change adaptation - Vulnerability to and mitigation of climate change This collection provides an unparalleled insight into...
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First light
In this bilingual collection (Turkish and English), Zafer Senocak returns to the language of his childhood even as he writes from Germany, his home since he was eleven. Readers will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that ...
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Food for thought
Service-learning research is expanding globally, with significant growth in Asia. This book highlights efforts from China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and India, showcasing diverse studies and the strong connections between universities and communities. It emphasizes student learning, commun...
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Vicarious warfare
America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military’s exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase. ...
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Corporate fraud exposed
Corporate Fraud Exposed uncovers the motivations and drivers of fraud including agency theory, executive compensation, and organizational culture. It delves into the consequences of fraud for various firm stakeholders, and its spillover effects on other corporations, the political environment, an...
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Mad hazard
Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the presen...
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Data engineering for data-driven marketing
Offering a thorough exploration of the symbiotic relationship between data engineering and modern marketing strategies, Data Engineering for Data-Driven Marketing uses a strategic lens to delve into methodologies of collecting, transforming, and storing diverse data sources.
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Microcelebrity around the globe
This anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity. Taking account of highly contextualized cultural settings and social histories, the chapters present scholarly interpretations of microcelebrity as it has proli...
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Surrogacy in russia
Surrogacy in Russia focuses on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining workers' reproductive migrations, the study presents insights into cross-border reproductive treatment and travels for assisted reproduction, and links to ethnicity, fem...
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Delivering itsm for business maturity
IT Service Management (ITSM) is an imperative part of achieving business maturity, but has long been thought of only in technical terms, and not as part of a larger whole. In this exciting new take on ITSM, leading expert Beverly Weed-Schertzer positions ITSM at the heart of company strategy to b...
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Emotions, decision-making, conflict and cooperation
In order to use the perspective of emotions to explain conflict escalation and crises, a comparison to conceptions such as the pursuit of power or financial interests is warranted. These theoretical considerations are investigated within cases of civil wars and shown to be effective in explaining...
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Machine translation and global research
Lynne Bowker and Jairo Buitrago Ciro introduce the concept of machine translation literacy, a new kind of literacy for scholars and librarians in the digital age. This book is a must-read for researchers and information professionals eager to maximize the global reach and impact of any form of sc...
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New perspectives in healthcare
A mixture of original research and thought leadership pieces combine to examine the changing landscape of the US healthcare system. This book provides researchers, professionals, managers and policy makers with a summary of how the US healthcare system has evolved and provides food for thought on...
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Ecologies in practice
A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share e...
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Anthropological enquiries into policy, debt, business and capitalism
This volume explores current issues in national and international policy, business and capitalism and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment of neoliberalism into economic policy and practice, ...
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Managing technology and middle- and low-skilled employees
Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-Skilled Employees explores the rapidly changing use of digital and systems innovations in the management of specific sectors of the workforce in the modern workplace across different industrial contexts.
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Climate change and social responsibility
Climate Change and Social Responsibility explores the complex relationships between climate change and social responsibility, offering a unique blend of historical context, future perspectives, and innovative solutions.
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Experiencing sound
From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the ...
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Reclamation and resurgence
Selected works from Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet who has written about Métis kinscapes and Métis presence from her first book in 1997 to now.
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Gender equity in the boardroom
Gender diversity in boardrooms across India remain below the global average. This book analyses gender representation across industries and focus on the issue of low female representation by interviewing board members, executives and managers.
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Management and administration of higher education institutions in times of change
The experts and practitioners contributing to this volume reveal a complex reality of HEI today. The book links the debate on education to topical issues in politics, society and economy, including questions of technological progress, social responsibility, sustainability, well-being and, broadly...
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Critical conversation analysis
This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. The chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and ...
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A focus on consumer behaviours and experiences in an online shopping environment
A Focus on Consumer Behaviours and Experiences in an Online Shopping Environment is a collection of key articles offering insights across a range of sectors. Some of the topics the book looks at include: - Influences of socioeconomic characteristics in online shopping behaviour - The role trust ...
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How public libraries build sustainable communities in the 21st century
Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.
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Gender equity in hospitality
Providing rich insights into the journeys that women in India navigate, Dr Payal Kumar unpacks the contextual differences of women’s leadership in the Indian hospitality sector drawing comparisons between leadership barriers and enablers in India and the Global North.
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General and special education inclusion in an age of change
This book will address the most current perspectives and issues related to general & special education inclusion and will be written by leaders in the field with particular expertise in this area. This volume will be an excellent resource for special educators, administrators, mental health c...
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Public-private partnerships, capital infrastructure project investments and infrastructure finance
Through the introduction of a new lens through which to view infrastructure finance policy, this book analyses the role of Public Private Partnerships within the context of long-term capital investment and improvement planning, and as a critical aspect of effective long-term capital infrastructur...
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Managing customer experiences in an omnichannel world
Managing Customer Experiences in an Omnichannel World explores how organizations integrating both the physical and virtual environments for consumers will enable them to effectively manage the customer experience.
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Governing climate
After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is c...
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Protest, social movements, and global democracy since 2011
This volume engages with new theoretical and methodological perspectives and illuminates novel aspects of transnational social movement dynamics, such as the evolving role of information technology, deterritorialisation and government counter-responses.
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The great leveler
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequalit...
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Transformation for sustainable business and management practices
Since the introduction of Industry 5.0, there has been a greater emphasis on the human-centric view in human-machine collaboration. As society has benefitted from technological advancements in all aspects of industrial sectors, there has been a rethinking of the role human beings should play in f...
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Politics of the gift
At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show m...
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Strategic responsiveness and adaptive organizations
This volume of the Emerald Studies in Global Strategic Responsiveness presents a selection of articles from the EURAM 2018 conference. They offer a range of new promising approaches about how to deal with the strategic challenges associated with contemporary market turbulence and the increasingly...
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Advances in business and management forecasting
Volume 11 of Advances in Business and Management Forecasting presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to areas including Marketing and Sales, Health Care and Business and Economics.
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New perspectives in employee engagement in human resources
New Perspectives in Employee Engagement in Human Resources is a unique collection of articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship in the field. The articles published in this collection identify some emergent themes which include: - career development - career satisfaction - empl...
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