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The governance of risk
The Governance of Risk
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Ethics, values and civil society
This volume is a selection of papers from the 19th annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference. Topics covered include journalism ethics, organ donation, as well as an essay drawn from Daniel Wueste's keynote address on the conditions and implications of trust f...
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Securing the future of management education
This is the second of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of EFMD. The second volume discusses a range of alternative future scenarios for management education, and urges the field to resist the lures of the dominant paradigm and to develop new models instead.
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Freight transport modelling
This title addresses the need to develop new freight transport models and scientific tools to provide sound solutions that consider the wide range of internal and external impacts. The international contributions push forward frontiers in freight transport modelling and analysis.
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Social and sustainable enterprise
With current environmental, social and financial challenges facing society and the economy, there has been a rapid growth in interest in the role of social and sustainable enterprise. This volume seeks to draw together contemporary entrepreneurial research which addresses social and environmental...
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Recent developments in neuroscience research on human motivation
This volume provides new insight into motivation theory by integrating noteworthy neuroscience research findings on motivation. This volume is dedicated to advancing our understanding of brain mechanisms of underlying motivational phenomena, including reward, approach, autonomy, intrinsic motivat...
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Increasing student engagement and retention using immersive interfaces
Uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how gaming, simulation, and virtualization are being used to improve teamwork and leadership skills in students, and create engaging communities of practice. This volume discusses a framework for deploying and assessing thes...
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Increasing student engagement and retention using social technologies
Uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice. This volume discusses a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies in highe...
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Reconstructing social theory, history and practice
Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on “Reconstruction”, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.
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Hispanic migration and urban development
Analyzes the pattern of assimilation and incorporation among the Hispanic population in the Washington DC metro region. Following a comprehensive introduction looking at theoretical and policy implication, this book discusses the literature of ethnic incorporation and assimilation in urban regions.
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Maritime logistics
Contemporary practice and scientific innovation consider the logistics aspects of shipping or maritime and seaport operations as one of the most important areas for development of competitive advantages in business and for study and research. This book covers issues having a significant impact on...
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Health literacy and school-based health education
Examines the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes, and the role of schools in promoting health literacy through the curriculum. This volume utilizes research, literature reviews and case studies that examine how education can support health literacy development as a vital 21st...
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Increasing student engagement and retention using online learning activities
Uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how these technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills, and literacy create engaging communities of practice, and as experiential learning tools. This volume discusses frameworks for deploying and ass...
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Warrior women
"Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.
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Social psychological perspectives
Suitable for motivation researchers, this volume presents social-psychological approaches to the study of motivation and achievement, and chapters that cover a broad range of topics, from the influence of peers to the influence of color, on motivation and achievement.
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International handbook of psychology in education
Provides researchers, practitioners and advisers working in the fields of psychology and education with an overview of research across a broad spectrum of work within the domain of psychology of education. This book focuses on typically developing school-age children, although issues relating to ...
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The economics of medical technology
Includes various aspects of the process of treating disease (such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures) is important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare. This title provides theoretical and empirical evidence about the market for medical techn...
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Integrating curricular and co-curricular endeavors to enhance student outcomes
Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance Student Outcomes reports on innovative approaches taken in universities in a number of nations of their experience in bringing together learning in courses with learning in co- and extracurricular activities.
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New perspectives in luxury branding
This collection of key articles offers insights across a range of sectors. Some of the things the book will explain include: - The influence of social media on the building of luxury brands - The effect of the consumption of counterfeit luxury goods on identity - The value of brand extension...
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The exorbitant burden
This economic and political science work is a rigorous analysis that demonstrates that although it is a privilege and a benefit for the US to have its currency, the dollar, as the leading world reserve currency, the privilege also proves to be a very significant economic and security burden impos...
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The world of biology and politics
This volume describes (a) the present academic and institutional status of Biopolitics and (b) the wide range of research areas that have emerged within the field.
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New perspectives on research, policy & practice in public entrepreneurship
Innovation is embedded into daily routines, public service activities, and interactions with non-state actors, making it difficult to uncover excellent practices, but these chapters illustrate how innovative and entrepreneurial actors can be. Scholars have contributed ample evidence of flourishin...
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Garbage can model of organizational choice
This volume illustrates the broad range of research based on the garbage can model of organizational choice. This research varies with respect to decision making characteristics addressed, model extensions and integrations proposed, and organizational outcomes of interest. It suggests that the ga...
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Community management of urban open spaces in developing economies
Dr. Bharati Mohapatra examines the social, functional, physical and emotional aspects of neighborhood Open Space and the attitude of people for community participation in managing the Open Space, as well as development of a framework for community participation by integrating the social, psycholo...
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Looking for consensus
This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The chapters examine key conceptual and theoretical ideas in contemporary international public management.
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The past, present and future of international business and management
A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.
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New perspectives in marketing by word-of-mouth
New Perspectives on Marketing by Word-of-Mouth offers insight to a world where consumers play an even bigger part in the building or breaking of a company's reputation. Some of the things the book will explain include:- How brand love is built in the fashion industry - How larger organisations ef...
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Video research in disciplinary literacies
This edited volume provides a collection of research-based chapters that reflect the state of the art for video reflection in literacy settings. The volume foregrounds explorations of disciplinary literacies and discourses in teacher education and pre-K-12 classrooms.
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Legal frontiers in education
This book examines issues in educational law and the way leaders, policymakers and policy implementers influence just processes and outcomes in schools. From the lens of professors, attorneys and administrators we explore how lessons learned from authors' experiences and research might improve th...
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Nuclear disarmament
This volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France. Chapters present and analyse the relationships between India, Pakistan and the USA, Russia and the USA, the position of the EU and of Israel.
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Special issue
This volume carefully examines the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. It identifies social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that c...
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Dimensions of ritual economy
Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming.
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Enabling gender equality
This volume of Research in Political Sociology addresses a broad range of gender equality issues from women's status and opportunities at work, education, health, political participation, community involvement and global migration; from a vast domain of countries in Europe, America, Australia, As...
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Video reflection in literacy teacher education and development
Within education there is a growing body of research focused on the use of video as a mediational tool for reflection. The purpose of this volume is to bring together research and research-based practices from a wide array of literacy scholars and practitioners who are using video in educational ...
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No social science without critical theory
Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social...
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Sociological studies of children and youth
This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on children, youth, or both children and youth; and come from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Two prominent themes of the volume are adolescents' transition to adul...
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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.
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Social conflict and harmony
The book primarily employs Coser's (1956) social conflict theory for a discussion of tourism development in Chinese communities.
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Strategic financial management for small and medium sized companies
Research shows a majority of small businesses fail in their early years due to poor financial management, turning the dreams of many business owner and novice entrepreneur into nightmares. This book serves as a guide to prevent small business owners and novice entrepreneurs from experiencing fina...
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Sociological studies of children and youth
The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.
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The challenges of ethics and entrepreneurship in the global environment
Volume 25 focuses on challenges and visions in entrepreneurship and ethics. The contributors have provided the latest perspectives on how ethics is impacted by or impacting the field. With a combination of theoretical and conceptual papers, the scholars have created a framework for the ethical ch...
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Building blocks for sustainable transport
This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management
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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. All articles explain how teaching methods or curricula/programs can be improved.
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Classroom behavior, contexts, and interventions
Intended to be of interest to clinicians, teachers, researchers, graduate students, and others who work with students with learning and behavioral disabilities, this book focuses on identify and review issues and outcomes associated with behavioral concerns of students with learning and behaviora...
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Innovation africa
This book contains a number of case studies that examine the nature and origins of emerging high-end innovation hubs in Africa. It analyses, highlights and draws lessons from some of the most promising and successful innovation cases in Africa today, exploring the key factors driving their succes...
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Children and youth speak for themselves
The volume is a collection of articles from scholars who pay particular attention to children and/or adolescents' voices, interpretations, perspectives, and experiences within specific social and cultural contexts. Contributions include research stemming from a broad spectrum of methodological an...
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New ways of working practices
The purpose of this volume is to examine new ways of working, technologies and working environments and the impact of these on our behaviors at work. Addressing trust, social cohesion and diversity, leadership, teamwork and innovative work behavior, we show that NWW-practices are changing everyon...
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Marketing places and spaces
Marketing Places and Spaces brings context to the forefront for advancing theory and management sensemaking in understanding the influences of marketing on tourism behavior. This book is for tourism professionals and educators seeking deep knowledge of how visiting places transforms the lives of ...
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Advances in hospitality and leisure
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review series, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism.
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Structural, historical, and comparative perspectives
In this volume, childhood is conceived as a structural feature of society and comparable across time and cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to stress children's agency and to favour ethnographic methods of ...
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