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Spatial justice and informal settlements
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes oriented around public open space and designed to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.
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Comparative and international education
This book explores the evolution and current state of the scholarly field of comparative and international education over 200 years of development. Experts in the field explore comparative and international education in each of the major world regions.
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Teaching excellence in higher education
This book offers inter-disciplinary, evidence-informed discussion around notions of excellence in higher education teaching. It will act as a key stimulus for institutional and sector-wide debates and a reference point for initiatives around the TEF agenda.
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The ideological evolution of human resource management
This book is a pioneering work that explores and maps out the ideological evolution of HRM research and practices, with a particular focus on our contemporary era of multinational corporations.
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Emotion and the researcher
Contributors to this edited collection argue for an emotional rebellion in the academic world, arguing that the presentation of research as ‘objective’ conceals the subject positions of researchers and the emotional imperatives that often drive research.
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Environmental criminology
Using sociological, criminological, anthropological, historical and media analysis, this multi-disciplinary volume examines local and regional issues in environmental criminology.
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Intimate relationships and social change
This multidisciplinary volume provides a unique and truly global collection of research on the nature of dating, mating, and coupling, as they occur across a variety of cultures in dynamically shifting societies.
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The development of socialism, social democracy and communism
This book examines how socioeconomic and institutional factors shaped the development of Socialism and its two contending variants of Social Democracy and Communism, investigating why each of these factions enjoyed varying levels of popularity in different societies between 1840 and 1945.
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Riding the innovation wave
This book draws on a detailed history of a large German company (HELLA ), now active in over 35 countries, employing 4,000 people and with a sales turnover of around €6,4bn.
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The perspective of historical sociology
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or t...
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Strategy and geopolitics
The world is shifting to a less stable geopolitical structure, and only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will succeed. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalizati...
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Bureaucracy and society in transition
Despite criticism of inefficiencies and unlimited growth, bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies. This volume examines ‘varieties in bureaucracies’ across Europe, with a specific focus on the Nordic region.
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Decentering the researcher in intimate scholarship
This book explores posthuman and multiplistic theories and concepts to decenter the researcher in intimate research. Also featured are conversations with posthuman scholars such as Rosi Braidotti, who highlight the possibilities and challenges of decentering the researcher as a practice of social...
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Trade tales
Read original first-person stories of problems, opportunities and outcomes with a multiple-choice exercise following each story, as well as a critical review by an independent researcher. Gain an international view with stories by Asian, European, New Zealand/Pacific Rim, and North American custo...
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Africa
This is the second of two volumes, written with strong support from the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and the GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), aimed at understanding and examining the challenges of developing management education across Africa.
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Motivation in education at a time of global change
This volume focuses on motivation in education under changing and unsettling times and provides ideas on how global changes affect student and teacher motivation to learn and achieve.
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International origins of social and political theory
This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice.
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Coping with disaster risk management in northeast asia
This book analyzes the diversity of national disaster risk governance across Northeast Asia by comparing the national disaster management plans implemented by the governments of China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. It also provides an overview of the financial protection measures employed by the...
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Twenty-first century celebrity
David Giles examines digital culture’s impact on established celebrities from traditional media while charting the rise of new forms of celebrity such as vloggers and influencers, offering novel insights on topics such as parasocial relationships, micro-celebrity, memes and celetoids.
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Hybrid ventures
Contains an Open Access chapter. Various perspectives on hybrid ventures are explored in this volume, incl. the costs to all when some entrepreneurs do not pursue hybrid approaches, whether hybrid ventures are, or should be, the new norm, and whether the social, environmental, and economic value ...
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Shaping social enterprise
‘Shaping Social Enterprise’ helps researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and international development actors better understand various institutional paths of social enterprise development and where institutional strengths and weaknesses may be located.
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Cross-nationally comparative, evidence-based educational policymaking and reform
In this volume scholars and policymakers examine how large-scale assessments and quantitative data are used to inform policy-making at all levels of education worldwide, and how data can be used to better understand specific national and regional educational challenges.
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Annual review of comparative and international education 2017
This volume surveys the field of comparative and international education (CIE) from several globally-representative perspectives, providing expert analyses on a range of recent trends and important concerns in the CIE community worldwide.
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And now what?
When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you’re actually faced with. And Now What? helps you manage this gap between expectation and reality, ensuring that you get off to the best possible start in your new job.
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The lives of stay-at-home fathers
An in-depth sociological look at stay-at-home fathers’ familial experiences for a deeper understanding of this new familial role, of men’s evolving masculinity and fathering identities, and the interaction of community and sense of belonging among those considered “outsiders"
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The globalization of foreign investment in africa
The 21st Century era of globalization has opened up many investment alternatives for Africa. This book examines the role of FDI in Africa's socio-economic development with reference to Europe and two economic powers in Asia - China and India.
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Making mergers and acquisitions work
This book addresses the salient question of how to make mergers and acquisitions work using a five-step approach. It explores insights gained from Prysmian’s acquisitions and other prominent M&A deals, and compares them to existing best practices.
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Metric culture
Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today’s society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a “metric culture” in which practices of self-tracking and quantification...
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Theory and method in higher education research
Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, provides a forum specifically for higher education researchers to discuss issues of theory and method. This latest volume presents a truly international approach with contributions from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, German...
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Contested belonging
Contributions address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Focussing on three particular dimensions of belonging: belonging as space (neighbourhood, workplace, home), as practice (virtual, physical, cultural), and ...
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The tourism-disaster-conflict nexus
Tourism is often seen as the world's peace industry. Yet while tourism may play a major role in post-conflict and post-disaster recovery, the sector can also be a trigger of crisis and disaster. This book examines the complex linkages between tourism, disaster and conflict through a series of cas...
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Social movements and media
This volume focuses on media and social movements. Contributing authors draw on cases as diverse as the Harry Potter Alliance to youth oriented, non-profit educational organizations to systematically assess how media environments, systems, and usage affect collective action in the 21st Century.
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Immigration and health
This book brings together leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines to provide a comprehensive account of the health and well-being of one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population: immigrants and their descendants. Re-orientating present-day debates over immigration, it she...
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Understanding mattessich and ijiri
This book deals with current discussion of the classic works by two prominent authors on accounting, R. Mattessich and Y. Ijiri. Their antecedents, and the way in which each author came to construct his work, make up the central subject of this study.
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Global tensions in financial markets
The volume first investigates the impact of macroeconomic variables on equity values in emerging economies as compared with developed economies. Next it affirms the efficiency of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator electricity exchange. Finally it investigates efforts to stimulate emerg...
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Growing presence of real options in global financial markets
The broad theme of this volume of Research in Finance is "Comparing the Influence upon Equity Valuation of Strategy Compared with Cash Flow Expectations." Contributions assess the strong role of strategy in equity valuation, compared with valuation of expected dividends.
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University partnerships for pre-service and teacher development
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.
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Service-learning
This book investigates the role of Service Learning in supporting inclusive practice. Specifically, it explores the process of Service Learning and the intersection with inclusion in classroom and community.
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Organizing marketing and sales
Organizing Marketing and Sales offers case studies to demonstrate in detail the kinds of challenges faced by multinational, multiproduct firms. It also draws upon theoretical perspectives in order to examine contemporary challenges in marketing and sales organization.
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Design of technology-enhanced learning
This book explains how educational research can inform the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. After laying pedagogical, technological and content foundations, it analyses learning in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Learning and Virtual Worlds to derive nuanced principles for ...
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Public procurement fundamentals
This is a step-by-step manual of public procurement for government officials, researchers, and students.
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Delivering victory
In this book US Army Transportation Corps Historian, Richard E. Killblane, utitlizes the expertise of professionals with lived experience of synchronizing military transportation from end to end to uniquely explore how military transportation logistics have evolved during the last half of the 20t...
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Airline economics in asia
Covers low-cost carrier growth in Japan, competition against full service hub carriers in the Middle East, aviation market liberalization in Central Asia, high-speed-rail and airline competition in China, air transport and tourism in Asia and Australia, airline performance and outsourcing, airpor...
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Advances in accounting education
Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting pedagogy.
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Digital health and the gamification of life
This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can fost...
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The impact of the oecd on education worldwide
This volume investigates the history, contexts, agendas, and initiatives associated with the OECD’s educational impact globally. The goal is to present information, case studies and empirical research about the development of the OECD’s educational agenda as a whole.
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