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Social media use in crisis and risk communication
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social media use in crisis and risk cases: a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and an infectious disease of international concern, this book investigates how social media plays a cruci...
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Los muertos
Stories about the Day of the Dead tradition and the cultural understanding of death
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The lived experience of work and city rhythms
The Lived Experience of Work and City Rhythms looks at the working environment, with a focus on the geographical workplace, how this affects the experience of our working lives, and raises key questions, such as: does where we work affect our experience of work? What is the relationship between p...
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Financial derivatives
Should we fear financial derivatives, or embrace them? Finance experts Simon Grima and Eleftherios I. Thalassinos explore what financial derivatives are, and whether the investment world should consider them useful tools, or a complete waste of time and money.
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Applying partial least squares in tourism and hospitality research
Ten chapters discuss key aspects of advanced PLS analysis and its practical applications, covering new guidelines and improvements in the use of PLS-PM as well as various individual topics.
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New perspectives in accounting ethics
New Perspectives in Accounting Ethics is a unique collection of articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship and identifies emerging themes in the field. These include the following: - Accounting and Sustainability - Corporate Social Responsibility - Whistleblowing
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Designing and constructing prestressed bridges
Designing and Constructing Prestressed Bridges focuses on troubleshooting the problems that are connected with finding the correct structural solution of bridges, the methods of their construction and the corresponding arrangement of prestressing steel.
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The politics of melodrama
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politic...
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The design thinking workbook
After years of research and practice in Design Thinking, CJ Meadows and Charvi Parikh have distilled their expertise into this definitive guide for making the most of this approach for business growth and problem-solving.
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Effective learning environments in higher education online settings
This book focuses on effective and affective online pedagogy, emphasizing the importance of building community and social presence in online learning. Written by experienced faculty, it provides methods for creating meaningful online environments and highlights the necessity of social presence fo...
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Disruptive innovation in business and finance in the digital world
This volume contains fourteen articles split across four parts, exploring the debate around the topics of fintech, AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. Featuring a cast of global contributors, this is an unmissable volume exploring the most current research on digital innovation in the financial a...
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Libraries of the mind
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisibl...
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Drawn to the flame
Drawn to the Flame investigates incidences of burnout and burnout avoidance among educators in both K-12 and higher education spheres during the COVID-19 pandemic – a period that saw an intensification and increased frequency of polarizing sociocultural and socio-political conditions. .
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Specialised tourism products
Specialised Tourism Products models a systematic approach to tourism development, accentuating the growing significance of specialised tourism content in the wake of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Finance and economy for society
The latest volume of Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability examines the social, economic and environmental impacts of corporations, and the real effects of corporate governance, CSR and business sustainability on societies in different regions.
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Built environment and property management
Built Environment and Property Management - A Focus on China and Hong Kong is a unique collection of previously published articles that identify themes that have established themselves as key trends in the field. These include the following: - Public-private partnerships - China's property boom a...
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Leading local government
Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors provides a critical assessment of the role occupied by directly elected mayors in the leadership of English local government. Built on original research and historical analysis, the book examines the impact of elected mayors upon publi...
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What drives inequality?
There is a great deal of coverage on inequality, and the key determinants of recent trends are increasingly well-documented. However, much less is known about the driving forces behind international differences in inequality.
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A focus on slm and sls methods in 3d printing
A Focus on SLM and SLS Methods in 3D Printing is an indispensable collection of articles for anyone involved in additive manufacturing - from academics and researchers through to engineers and managers within the manufacturing industry.
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Mary kitagawa
This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast and forbidden to return to western British Columbia until long after World War II had officiall...
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Applications of management science
Volume 19 of Applications of Management Science focuses on the application of management science methodologies, data envelopment analysis and multi-criteria decision making.
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Cesmm4 revised: examples
CESMM4 Revised: Examples provides a comprehensive range of example Bills of Quantities, based on Section 8, Work Classification, of the Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement (CESMM).
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Against all odds
Against All Odds explores leadership through the lens of the characters from HULU’s TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and the original novel by Margaret Atwood, alongside Atwood's more recent sequel The Testaments (2019), analyzing the ethical dimensions of leadership.
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Fundamentals of market access for pharmaceuticals
This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems around the world, providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students, executives from companies, publ...
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Digitized
Gali Einav and a strong group of international contributors offer a timely collection that combines academic insights and entrepreneurial case studies focused on digital innovation. By exploring the effect of disruptive technologies within media, health, music, and employment, they help readers t...
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The theory and practice of directors' remuneration
This book argues for a correct balance between risk and reward and for Directors' remuneration to be equitable to all parties and stakeholders. By examining the current theories, practices and regulations and explaining them in detail it provides a state of the art overview of one of the key corp...
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Creative writing
Imagining new, introspective outlets for the support of mental and physical wellbeing, pracademic duo Mark Pearson and Helen Foster draw on their clinical and archival expertise to equip both healthcare professionals and general readers to unleash their creativity and unlock the comfort and creat...
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Media use in digital everyday life
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Filling a gap between classic discussions on everyday media use and recent studies of emergent technologies, this book untangles how media become meaningful to us in the everyday, connecting us to communities and ...
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Break the wall
Break the Wall: Why and How to Democratize Digital in your Business examines problems facing business units and top management adapting to digital transformation and offers solutions.
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Financial and managerial aspects in human resource management
Financial and Managerial Aspects in HRM: A Practical Guide breaks new ground by being the first to compile the everyday management and financial decisions of HR managers in a single book. It is an essential resource for understanding core practical HRM issues in the modern workplace.
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A history of the world tourism organization
This book looks at a variety of topics from a UNWTO prospective: tourism statistics, the flow of tourists by country, the protection and safeguarding of tourism 2019; natural assets, tourism’s impact on world trade, tourists’ interactions, and tourism’s promotion across countries. A definitive bo...
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Accessibility for persons with disabilities and the inclusive future of libraries
With contributions from researchers, educators, and practitioners from across a range of fields, this volume will be an important resource for library professionals in all types of libraries as well as a reference for researchers and educators about the efforts, challenges and opportunities relat...
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Millennial north korea
North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown ...
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Creative (and cultural) industry entrepreneurship in the 21st century
Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.
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The truth about confident presenting, 3rd edition
More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.
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Leadership and organization in the innovation economy
Since the 1980s, society has undergone enormous change. And yet management styles have stayed the same, not adapting to the change in focus from efficiency and productivity, to creativity and innovation. Here, leading innovation expert Jon-Arild Johannessen offers a replacement to traditional goa...
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Building communities in academia
This book contains an Open Access chapter. Building Communities in Academia poses important questions, providing extensive insights that scholars and practitioners can use when developing community-related activities to enhance connection in academia.
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Protecting the future of work
Protecting the Future of Work analyses the changes that worker protection institutions have undergone with the decline of traditional measures such as trade unions, mapping out the new systems and approaches to protect wages, conditions and job security.
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Database management systems
Zygiaris provides an accessible walkthrough of all technological advances of databases in the business environment. Readers learn how to design, develop, and use databases to provide business analytical reports with the three major database management systems: Microsoft Access, Oracle Express and...
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Social media influencing in the city of likes
Providing a much-needed de-Westernising perspectives of Dubai’s social media influencing industry within the broader context of global platform capitalism, Zoe Hurley offers an important contribution to the field of social media through illustrating visible economies in a city circuited by social...
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Life's devices
An entertaining and informative book that explores how living things contend with nonbiological realityLife on Earth is subject to the pull of gravity, the properties of air and water, and the behavior of diffusing molecules, yet such physical factors are constraints that drive evolution and offe...
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Effective alternative assessment practices in higher education
This book explores how higher education institutions can improve learning and equity through alternative assessment practices. It shares faculty experiences with non-traditional grading methods to enhance student success and belonging.
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The impact of global terrorism on economic and political development
This edited collection seeks to address and analyse the ramifications of terrorism and terrorist activities at a world-level, with a specific focus on the economies and political systems in the Afro-Asian regions.
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Data science and analytics
Data Science and Analytics explores the application of big data and business analytics by academics, researchers, industrial experts, policy makers and practitioners, helping the reader to understand how big data can be efficiently utilized in better managerial applications.
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Advancing methodologies of conducting literature review in management domain
Covering planning and setting the objectivity of review papers, search processes, data selection and screening, review types and designs, and evaluation criteria, validity, and reliability, in the field of management literature.
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Followership in action
As the study of followership further escalates into the global mainstream of leadership studies, this book proactively engages future leaders and followers in issues that they are likely to face in various everyday human resource development, management, and leadership contexts.
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Qualitative research in the study of leadership
This text offers comprehensive coverage of the design and use of qualitative methods in leadership research. The book equips leadership researchers at all levels with the knowledge to make informed choices of research strategies. The second edition features 50% new research and includes new devel...
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The insight discipline
In his re-published book The Insight Discipline, Liam Fahey details the analysis methods and modes of deliberations required to overcome the insight challenge and to create an insight-driven culture. He lays out the business case for why leaders must emphasize the goal of attaining new insight if...
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