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Virtually international
Virtually International introduces readers to basic project management principles that will shorten learning curves and curtail the costs of managing international teams; this book lays out ways that virtual project managers can support productivity and enhance the well-being of geographically di...
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Digital protest and activism in public education
This book addresses this gap and employs an empirical exploration of the way in which online-based protest activity concerning public education issues is constructed, mobilised, and carried out. The authors highlight three cases of online-based mobilisations in Israel, in which teachers and paren...
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The future of the self
When children as young as three can take their own selfies, and customise their own avatars, how should we respond to the opportunity and threat of digital personalization for young children? In this book, Kucirkova offers a comprehensive account of the effects of digitally-mediated personalizati...
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The multifaceted relationship between accounting, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management
The book recognises three compartmental debates surrounding control, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management which need to be integrated to support the entrepreneurial adventure. Acknowledging a need to build a bridge between theory and practice, the book provides a rich empirical a...
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Sdg8 - sustainable economic growth and decent work for all
SDG8 - Sustainable Economic Growth and Decent Work for All evaluates the rationale behind, and the historical and present implementation of, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8). The goal aims to 'promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work fo...
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The entrepreneur’s guide to risk and decisions
Becoming a successful entrepreneur is impossible without accepting risk - the question is which risk to take and at what time. This guide offers practical, no-nonsense advice for marketing and financing your business, bringing on partners and employees, and launching your business as inexpensive...
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The use and abuse of music
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of 'harmful' or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
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The impactful academic
For many academics, impact poses a worrisome proposition. Impact has not generally been integrated into PhD training and many universities have been slow to respond to the emerging impact agenda. Wade Kelly offers a holistic, all-of-career approach to impact aimed at active researchers and those ...
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Achieving academic promotion
This book demystifies the academic promotion process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up t...
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When leadership fails
When Leadership Fails is a critical examination of the worst workplace experiences for the purpose of individual, group and organizational learning. Professionals from various industries unpack personal encounters associated with a range of toxic leadership behaviors, using theory, these examples...
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Building and improving health literacy in the ‘new normal’ of health care
Building and Improving Health Literacy in the 'New Normal' of Health Care identifies desirable paths of action to improve health literacy amongst patients, focusing on new technologies that could facilitate reducing health disparities. It is an essential read for policymakers and health care mana...
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A manager's guide to using the force
By examining leadership theories, this book will help you become at one with the Force to be the best leader possible. The author explores evidence-based leadership and management practices from the unique perspective of the Jedi, making actionable recommendations you can implement in your organ...
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Sdg11 - sustainable cities and communities
SDG11 will map success stories, policies, and strategies from various regions that include actions to improve natural resources management, reduce GHG emissions, and develop urban adaptation, resilience strategies and disaster risk management to help decision-makers, planners and practitioners in...
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Sdg10 – reduce inequality within and among countries
Defining inequality as the social, economic and political challenges of our time, this book will examine SDG10 to look ahead at how policy action might engage multiple stakeholders, involve diverse sectors and address gaps between policy and implementation to tackle key inequalities within and am...
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Evolutionary selection processes
The book explains managerial intervention and its effects on the strategic adaptation mode. It introduces the concept of primary selection (inside an organization) with endogenous mechanisms and explains the strategic process via selecting organizational routines. The book goes beyond the classic...
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Academic mobility and international academics
Throughout this timely collection, chapter authors offer insight into overall academic employment experiences, including their motivations and challenges in steering their academic career. They offer guidance on how international academics can harness their career aspirations and how internationa...
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Hr without people?
HR Without People? is a stimulating and confrontational challenge to conventional thinking on this people-centric profession’s role in the future of work.
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Thriving in academic leadership
Personal and engaging, the stories in Thriving in Academic Leadership speak to a broad population of academics, serving as an inspiration and guide for academics who aspire to leadership, or are currently in leadership positions, looking to climb the leadership ladder.
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Sdg13 - climate action
SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impacts will consider empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation tools and mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools, to demonstrate the potential innovation in implem...
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Beyond the digital divide
This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.
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Transformative research and higher education
Providing a critical look at how it is possible for institutions of higher education to go beyond the institutional constraints that plague the neo-liberal university, the authors of this volume explore the powerful role of transformative university-based research and education.
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European security in a post-brexit world
The security agenda in the Europe Union is linked to the member states’ abilities to work together. This book explores a series of post-Brexit scenarios in an attempt to understand what Brexit will mean for the European Union in terms of its security.
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Body art
Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive psychology, this book disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion of the benefits they can offer.
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Appearance as capital
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Taking a sociological approach, the authors of Appearance as Capital examine physical appearance as a normatively regulated form of capital and explore how it is possible to accumulate and convert capital based on...
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Regional success after brexit
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book examines the metrics used to evaluate regional performance within the UK, arguing that the post-Brexit context is an opportune moment to reappraise the techniques ...
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Academic resilience
This timely book provides perspectives across disciplines, career stages and global contexts on how to develop resilience in academia. These personal stories may empower others not only to survive, but to thrive in times of adversity.
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Debates in marketing orientation
This book examines the fundamental problem of marketing orientation, considering the current state of marketing orientation, customer orientation, and an individual's role in the marketing process. It is a useful reference for marketing practitioners, students, and executives.
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Brexit negotiations after article 50
This book aims to bring together contributors from academia, politics and practice to discuss and debate the progress (or lack of) to date since Prime Minister Theresa May enacted the Article 50 process to leave the EU on March 29th 2017.
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Leadership
Leadership: The Current State of Play seeks to combine current academic and practitioner thinking to present an lluminating and accessible overview of historical and contemporary leadership thought.
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Developing and engaging clinical leaders in the “new normal” of hospitals
Providing a systematic review of previous literature about the increasingly worrying challenge in transforming doctors to clinical leaders, Lega and Pirino offer a qualitative analysis of different countries facing the issue of training this hybrid role.
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Higher education at the crossroads of disruption
Higher Education at the Crossroads of Disruption: The University of the 21st Century looks at the various areas of higher education that will likely undergo radical changes. This books examines how teaching formats will vary, and how curricula and course content will evolve.
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Four dead in ohio
This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US wars in SE Asia at Kent State University providing the needed space for the narratives of those who h...
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Humiliation
This book examines the damaging impact of humiliation in human society. By using case studies of observed humiliation, the book discusses the power play between groups, organizations and nations. It shows how public shame can lead to damaging psychological states and violent responses amongst vul...
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Young children’s play practices with digital tablets
The ebook version of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and is freely available to read online. This book presents how sets of tablet play characteristics shape children's current digital playgrounds.
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Black mixed-race men
This book offers a corrective to pathological and stereotypical representations of mixedness generally, and Black mixed-race men specifically. By introducing the concept of ‘post-racial’ resilience the book shows that Black mixed-race men are active and agentic as they resist the fragmentation an...
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Terror, leisure and consumption
This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism.
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The entrepreneurial dilemma in the life cycle of the small firm
This book explores the different stages in the life cycle of the small firm, and ways to solve entrepreneurial dilemmas that the entrepreneur faces during and in-between these different stages of development.
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Donors
Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be don...
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The v-model of service quality
The V-Model of Service Quality offers a powerful tool for measuring service quality. This book grounds the theoretical interventions in data drawn from case studies in the Sub-Saharan African context to make the models applicable to both researchers and working managers.
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School improvement networks and collaborative inquiry
This book describes the processes and challenges of implementing collaborative practices in School Improvement Networks, focussing specifically on examples from Chile. The Chilean case is significant for other challenging contexts, particularly rural communities, that still seek to implement coll...
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Making aid agencies work
Terry Gibson combines large-scale industry analysis with attention to the lives and worlds of the people the aid industry aims to serve, and he demonstrates how to overcome barriers between the two worlds and free flows of learning, resources, and even political influences that might lead to bett...
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Mad muse
Many of the well-respected scholarly studies of autobiographical writing have little or nothing to say about mental illness. This book uncovers the mysterious relationship between mood disorders and creativity through the lives of seven writers, demonstrating how mental illness is sometimes the d...
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Digital detox
Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, the book demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become a...
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Exploring australian national identity
This book examines the influence of historical and popular figures on the way Australians see themselves in the 21st century. Investigating whether colonial figures such as convicts and bushrangers still influence contemporary Australian identity, and how the influence of sports figures, politici...
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Latin america
Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in recent decades, yet their activities and achievements remain largely unreported. This book analyzes the major events, issues, actors, and "blind spots" in management education in Latin America. It then examines the contemporary ch...
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Crafting your edge for today's job market
Leading strategy expert, Julia Ivy, presents the EDGE Method. Designed for students in capstone courses and working on consultancy case theses, this method guides students through a process of connecting with potential employers, building a base of trust and value, and crafting their own space in...
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Professional learning networks
This book illustrates key attributes of professional learning networks that build educators’ ownership, practice, and expertise and highlights the potential of PLNs to address questions of equity, both for educators working in rural communities who have limited access to professional development ...
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Tweeting the environment #brexit
This book maps Twitter discourses on marginalised environmental concerns during the UK’s 2016 EU referendum campaign. Focusing on EU institutional influence in British environmental protection policy and charting the roles played by ENGOs and British political parties, it reveals how British envi...
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Advocacy and organizational engagement
In providing a comprehensive overview on how to design and execute effective advocacy strategies for organizations, this book challenges the way communications used to be managed. Instead it proposes and provides tools for multilateral advocacy, where multiple actors and institutions cooperate, a...
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The gradual release of responsibility in literacy research and practice
This edited volume discusses how the Gradual Release of Responsibility model evolved and has been applied, how it benefits learners and teachers, and how it can be utilised for years to come.
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