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The game plan of successful career sponsorship
The Game Plan of Successful Career Sponsorship explores why it is so important for aspiring leaders, executives and organisations to engage in career sponsorship within the workplace. It illustrates why sponsorship matters more than ever in an era characterised by shifting and evolving career mod...
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Sdg16 - peace and justice
This book details how interested parties can, must and are getting ahead of the curve to promote peace, provide access to justice and build accountable institutions for all. It envisions a hopeful future in which the impacts of SDG16 are likely to be far more positive, transformational, and visib...
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Circular economy in developed and developing countries
Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries: Perspective, Methods And Examples develops a new approach to research, founded on the idea that ecological crisis is proof of the necessity for formation of circular economy.
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The smart city in a digital world
This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential ...
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The politics and possibilities of self-tracking technology
The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of wearable technology to examine how datafication processes redefine the body, and explores what this means for the design, administration and study of self-tracking sys...
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How to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention
How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a School-Based Intervention presents a multi-dimensional evaluation framework, which is not only based on measurable outcomes. Suggesting a cost-effective method of conducting a multi-dimensional evaluation, this book investigates how these skills can be defin...
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Maturing leadership
We've known for years now that demands on leaders are only increasing. Yet we have lacked rigorous ways to support development for leaders to meet these demands. In Maturing Leadership, Jonathan Reams brings together a cast of expert contributors to explore the value of a developmental approach t...
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Gender and contemporary horror in comics, games and transmedia
Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.
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Lived experiences of exclusion in the workplace
Lived Experiences of Exclusion in the Workplace shares the emotional expressions of those who have faced alienation and marginalisation, providing guidance on how to trigger inclusion through various, often simple measures.
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Information pollution as social harm
By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities, are central to the creation and...
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Internet celebrity
This book presents a framework for thinking about different forms of internet celebrity that have emerged in the last decade. Through cross-cultural case studies, the book offers a brief history of internet celebrity; analysis on recent developments in the industry; and commentary on emergent tre...
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A socio-legal history of the laws of war
Rooted in critical historical documents from the Tudors to the American Revolution, this rich history, the first of two volumes, provides a cogent understanding of how the current historical moment has developed, as well as of the potential paths that lie ahead.
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Gender and contemporary horror in television
Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, Th...
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The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution
In the last thirty years, there has been an industrial revolution that has changed the world and given rise to an innovation economy that is changing the face of organizational logic. Here, Jon-Arild Johannessen shows how the knowledge worker emerges to become the new working class of the fourth ...
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Mixed-race in the us and uk
Contributing to the emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e., "doing") of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Research in the sociology of education
Featuring research from settings as diverse as rural China, Germany and the United States, as well as two cross-national comparative studies, this insightful volume demonstrates that many educational issues (including student victimization and STEM outcomes) are not limited to specific societies ...
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Advances in management accounting
This volume of Advances in Management Accounting explores a variety of current issues through rigorous academic research. Topics include the link between CEO compensation and the 2008 financial crisis, the association between performance-based pay and employee honesty, and more.
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Managing brands in 4d
The main value of this book is an organized and systematic approach to branding, supported by literature research, findings and practical implementation.
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Gender, sex and gossip in ambridge
The Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and actor Dr Charlotte Connor (a.k.a. Susan Carter), to examine the power of gossip in Ambridge, portrayals of love, marriage, motherhood, female education and career expectations, women's mental health and the hard-won...
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Inquiring into academic timescapes
There is a pervasive sense of incessant acceleration in the academic world. This book puts the temporal ordering of academic life under the microscope, and showcases the means of yielding a better understanding of how time and temporality act both as instruments of power and vulnerability within ...
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Understanding the mexican economy
This book provides a full, historical, economic, and political context through which to understand the actions of the people and government of Mexico, and it gives insights into how those actions impinge -- and might continue to impinge -- on the United States.
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The quirks of digital culture
This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.
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Learning allowed
Considering what this means for the way we think about learning and how we see ourselves as learners, Learning Allowed builds a foundation for strengthening learner ‘connectivity’ whoever and wherever we are.
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Reputation management
The book aims to give senior executives and communications professionals a guide to the importance of reputation (in terms of how positively or negatively an organisation is perceived by stakeholders such as employees, customers and members of the media), and inspire their thinking in managing re...
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Entrepreneurial rise in the middle east and north africa
Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa: The Influence of Quadruple Helix on Technological Innovation explores the relationships and inter-dependencies between innovation, political regimes, and economic and social development throughout the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Getting the most out of your doctorate
Navigating the gap between novice and expert is a process that will continue for years into an early academics’ career. This book will serve as practical tool for PhD candidates and early career researchers (ECRs), providing them with an understanding on how to sustain long-lasting supervisory re...
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Corporate ethics for turbulent markets
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. The book extends the discussion on human dignity to its practical applications & maps out strategic approaches for responding to turbulent markets.
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Assessing austrian economics
Here, leading economists explore whether Austrian economics is still relevant today. Starting with Peter Boettke’s lead essay, “What is Wrong with Austrian Economics?”, chapters include an array of perspectives responding to this question, ranging from economics, to intellectual history, to polit...
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Perspectives on access to higher education
This book brings together researchers and practitioners to critically reflect upon the current diversity of Access to Higher Education programmes and their different perspectives on widening participation and access education.
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Dynamic future-proofing
Recognising that companies which respond to disruptions in the early stages of amplification can convert potentially existential threats into transformative opportunities, this book shows us how good leadership, intelligent informed opinion, and rapid action in a time of change can help organizat...
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Modern management in the global mining industry
This book brings together perspectives from economics, specifically minerals economics, to the management of global mining companies. It covers volatile price forecasting, cost analysis, investment decisions, and the social, environmental, and developmental impacts of mining.
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Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences
This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”
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Topics in identification, limited dependent variables, partial observability, experimentation, and flexible modeling
In honor of Dale J. Poirier, experienced editors Ivan Jeliazkov and Justin Tobias bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore the most up-to-date research on econometrics, including subjects such as panel data models, posterior simulation, and Bayesian models.
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Return on investment in corporate responsibility
In today's climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies.
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Emotional intelligence and critical thinking for library leaders
As the use of libraries changes, leaders need to improve their emotional intelligence and critical thinking in order to attract and retain users. Focused on practical management advice, this is an engaging discussion of how library leaders can grow in their role.
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Inclusive growth
The book outlines a journey from enabling models of government and business to strategies for creating both financial and social inclusion and entrepreneurism as mechanisms for sustainable and inclusive growth.
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Navigating the investment minefield
H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen show new investors how to avoid rash financial decisions and basic investing sins. They help them to recognize and avoid common investing mistakes, behavioral biases, and traps that can affect sound judgment and reduce wealth. Ultimately, they explain how to separa...
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Evidence-based innovation leadership
This book offers a holistic model for what it calls "innovation leadership," which includes entrepreneurial action,creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process.
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Creating entrepreneurial space
This collection of papers aims to generate new and exciting opportunities for a holistic view of entrepreneurial research agendas, and advance the manner in which academics and researchers think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.
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Asia-pacific contemporary finance and development
This volume of The International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores and investigates contemporary challenges and issues facing the Asia-Pacific economies. For researchers and students of economics and finance, this volume is a fascinating exploration of emerging topics in one t...
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Modeling economic growth in contemporary greece
Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Greece assesses the conditions shaping the Greek economy's restart, discussing the effect of institutions on the business environment and highlighting the factors which are critical for achieving sustainable economic growth.
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Real time strategy
Combining classical scenario thinking (the gentle art of perception) with the analytical power of big data and artificial intelligence, Real Time Strategy presents the decision making of the future which enables decision makers to develop dynamic strategies, monitor their validity, and react faster.
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Disruptive activity in a regulated industry
This book brings together the research on the effects of disruptive activity in a regulated industry, taking as its illustrative industry that of primarily mobile telecommunications. It provides case studies of both individual countries and international operators.
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Intoxicating followership
This book is for those who desire to gain insight into the leader/follower dynamic in order to serve others by unmasking the dangers of toxic followership, provide prevention suggestions, and reveal followers’ power, even in desperate situations.
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Inequality, taxation, and intergenerational transmission
Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under alternative...
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Understanding financial stability
Understanding Financial Stability undertakes an in-depth analysis of all the issues related to financial stability. It establishes a general framework for a holistic assessment of financial stability, provides a comprehensive analysis pertaining to the genesis of financial crises and offers key t...
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Harold cecil edey
Harold Cecil Edey was instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s, and his scholarship influenced a generation of students. This edited collection of his unpublished manuscripts sheds light on his contribution to modern accounting thought.
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