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Taylor & Francis The Essential Guide to Critical Development
Book SynopsisThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes: â 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health â Expanded global coverTrade Review'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the "go to" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsCritical Development Studies: An Introduction 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades Part 1: History as Development 2. Unravelling the Canvas of History Part 2: Thinking Critically about Development 3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies Part 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation 8. Capitalism and Crises 9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era Part 4: Policy Configurations for Development 13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion Part 5: Inside the BRICS 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes Part 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context Part 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States Part 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Part 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment 35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa Part 10: Resistances and Alternatives 39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below Conclusion 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Accounting for Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis book provides a broad overview of how sustainability reporting has grown, how it is used now and where it is heading. Daily, we read and hear in various media about concepts such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability reporting, sustainability accounting, environmental reports, corporate citizenship or environmental management systems. Accounting for Sustainability decodes this terminology by providing an accessible introduction to the topic that explores sustainability reporting from an internal and external perspective. It begins with an overview of how sustainability reporting has emerged and why it is important, before moving on to cover definitions of key terms and specific theories and frameworks. Subsequent chapters explore the role of financial management, sustainability standards, accounting communication and capital markets. With learning outcomes and study questions embedded in each chapter, this book will be of great interest tTrade Review"Accounting for Sustainability is an excellent contribution for education, offering a wide-ranging textbook reflecting the major ideas and theoretical aspects of the current sustainability agenda from an accounting perspective. This is a very useful book for students as well as practitioners." – Charles H. Cho, Professor of Accounting, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada; CSEAR Executive Council & Chair of the CSEAR International Associates Committee"As the world faces growing challenges around climate change, deforestation, habitat loss and a whole range of anthropogenic threats to people and planet, Accounting for Sustainability becomes ever more relevant and important. This book is a welcome addition to the sustainability literature, neatly summarising theory and practice from internal, management accounting for sustainability, to external sustainability reporting and integrated reporting, and their relationship with financial markets. An excellent read for students at all levels and practitioners." -- Jill Atkins, Chair in Financial Management, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, UK; Chair BAFA SIG Corporate Governance"At a time when stakeholder reporting and non-financial disclosures are a must for corporate reporting, this book is a much-needed support not only for academics who are teaching sustainability reporting modules, but also for practitioners who would like to get a clear overview of the sustainability reporting landscape. It conveniently connects theory and practice, without losing rigour. The four parts into which the book is divided provide an interesting perspective from inside companies to external reporting to stakeholders." -- Begoña Giner, Facultad d´Economia, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Chair EAA Stakeholder Reporting Committee"This book provides a holistic overview on the ever-evolving ESG and a Green Finance landscape. It captures key developments in the space and offers extremely useful insights. Industry practitioners will benefit from the broad range of extra-financial perspectives, concepts, frameworks and tools, presented in a comprehensive manner and style." -- Martina Macpherson, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Engagement, MISA (ESG) at Moody’s Investors Service; President of the Network for Sustainable Financial Partners (NSFM), UK"Over the past 30 years sustainability has become increasingly important to accounting, both to business practice and in academia. Accounting for Sustainability is a textbook that has been long needed for teaching sustainability in accounting modules at undergraduate as well as graduate level. This book explores a variety of challenges for companies and interested stakeholders providing a comprehensive review of core concepts and frameworks that are prominent reshaping the current world of accounting." -- Diogenis Baboukardos, Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Essex, Essex Business School, UK; Board Member of the British Accounting & Finance Association’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Special Interest GroupTable of ContentsPART 1: Background and Theoretical Perspective 1. Accounting for Sustainability 2. Theories of Accounting for Sustainability PART 2: Accounting for Sustainability in Practice 3. Management Accounting and Control for Sustainability 4. Integrating Management Accounting and Control for Sustainability 5. Towards a more Sustainable and Integrated Performance Management 6. Sustainability Management Systems and Processes PART 3: Reporting Sustainability 7. Triple Bottom Line 8. Global Reporting Initiative 9. Integrated Reporting 10. Accounting Communication for Sustainability PART 4: Capital Market and Audit 11. Sustainability Reporting from a Financial Market Perspective 12. Socially Responsible Investment 13. Sustainability Audit and Assurance 14. Critical Reflections and Future Developments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Geoeconomics and Power Politics in the 21st Century The Revival of Economic Statecraft Routledge Global Security Studies
Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book sheds light on the new power politics and argues that the changing structural aspects of the international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of state practice.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques Approaches
Book SynopsisThis book locates 101 practical coaching supervision techniques in their theoretical context. It is organised into ten chapters, each reflecting a different philosophical basis for the coaching supervision work: Existential, Gestalt, Person Centred, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic, Solution Focused, Systemic, Thinking Environment, Transpersonal and finally an Eclectic chapter.With contributions and insights from leaders in the field, this book outlines the different philosophies and their principles and explains their application in practice. The book will help readers determine which technique to use and when, as well as offering a step-by-step guide to implementing or adapting it for their own work. With a breadth of techniques, the book will help all supervisors broaden their repertoire and ultimately become a better practitioner.Accessible and practical, this book is a valuable resource for experienced and novice supervisors as well as their supervisees. ItTrade Review"… 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments is written for a primary audience of coaching supervisors, new and experienced. Lucas suggests that coaches may also benefit from the book, in developing their independent reflective practice. With ten philosophies and 101 approaches and techniques, Lucas’ book is a substantial addition to the existing publications in the field of coaching supervision. Its style, somewhere between a book and toolkit, will appeal to a wide audience in search of coaching supervision practices grounded in their own philosophical approaches."Extract from a review by Francoise Orlov in Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 2020, 63-64.Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction, Chapter 1: An Eclectic Approach to Coaching Supervision, by David Clutterbuck; 3-2-1: A Reflective Writing Technique by Liz Ford, Affirmations and Alternatives by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Arrivals & Departures with Picture Cards by Michelle Lucas and Charlotte Housden, Building Confidence: Authority, Presence and Impact by Julia Menaul, Capturing Journeys on a Big Scale by Michelle Lucas and Andy King, Deepening Reflection by Tammy Turner, Developing Behavioural Flexibility by Anne Calleja, Developing Coach Maturity by David Clutterbuck, Developing Courage: Naming Elephants and Speaking Truth to Power by Marie Faire, Dilemma Cards by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Exploring Boundaries by Angela Dunbar, Exploring Relationships with Clean Language by Angela Dunbar, Exploring the Supervisee’s Client with Clean Networks by Angela Dunbar, Feeling Stuck by Anne Calleja, Fishbowl Supervision by Michelle Lucas & Tammy Turner , I am Part of a System by Tammy Turner , Issues, Insights, Ideas and Intentions by David Clutterbuck, Keeping It Real by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Line of Enquiry by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Metaphor Magic Box by Lily Seto, Making Friends with our Inner Critic by Clare Norman, Mentor Coaching by Clare Norman, Misfits by Michelle Lucas, Quiet by Michelle Lucas , Reflecting Through Action Inquiry by Christine Champion, Reflective Writing by Michelle Lucas and Christine Champion, Rehearse, Review, Repeat… by Michelle Lucas, Tammy Turner and Carol Whitaker, Rush Writing by Clare Norman, Seven Conversations by David Clutterbuck, Situation-Thoughts-Consequences by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Supervising with Developmental Action Logics by Claire Davey , Supervision with LEGO® by Damian Goldvarg, Tapping into The Client Perspective by Lesley Matile , The Supervisor in ‘Tutor’ Mode by David Clutterbuck, The Three C’s: Contract, Competence and Client’s Best Interest by Marie Faire, Tree Perspectives: growing your practice through creative reflective writing by Jackee Holder, Trial Triumph Trivia by Clare Norman, Use of Attachment Theory in Supervision by Henry Campion, Using AI in Supervision by David Clutterbuck, Using Vision Boards by Liz Ford, Writing the Labyrinth by Jackee Holder, Chapter 2: An Existential Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Ernesto Spinelli; Deliberately Self-Centred Supervision by Michelle Lucas, Harnessing Self-Doubt by Michelle Lucas, Intentions and Interventions by Benita Treanor, The Value of Noticing by Diane Hanna, Working with Shame Using Embodied Coaching by Tsafi Lederman and Jenny Stacey, Chapter 3: A Gestalt Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Julie Allan and Alison Whybrow; Giving an Object a Voice by Michelle Lucas, Inner Noticing by Julie Allan & Alison Whybrow, Supervision and Sensing by Claire Davey, Transformative Explorations Through Objects and Metaphor by Sue Congram, Two Chair Experiment by Alison Whybrow & Julie Allan, Working with Blocks by Julie Allan & Alison Whybrow, Working with Gesture by Alison Whybrow & Julie Allan, Chapter 4: A Person Centred Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Linda Aspey; Exploring Congruence by Michelle Lucas, Supervisee-led Supervision by Louise Sheppard, Chapter 5: A Positive Psychology Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Carmelina Lawton-Smith; 5% Sentences by Carmelina Lawton-Smith , eMotive Cards by Peter Duffell, FeedForward by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Give Yourself An ‘A’ by Clare Norman, Good News by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker , Personal Strengths Review by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Strengths Cards by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Using Metaphor to Explore ‘at my best’ by Angela Dunbar, Chapter 6: A Psychodynamic Perspective: A Developmental Transactional Analysis Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Lynda Tongue; CHECKS Self Supervision Checklist by Lynda Tongue, Contracting using Four P’s by Michelle Lucas, Desert Island Fantasy by Michelle Lucas & Christine Champion, Discounting and the Steps to Success by Lynda Tongue, Exploring the Potential for Collusion by Michelle Lucas, Exploring Transference and Countertransference by Michelle Lucas and Anne Calleja, Focus on Feelings by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Handling Relationship Conflict Using the Drama Triangle by Julia Menaul, Parallel Process by Lynda Tongue, STEPS for Supervision by Lynda Tongue, Using Time Structuring to Understand Intimacy in Relationships by David Crowe and Michelle Lucas, Chapter 7: A Solution Focused Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Evan George and Denise Yusuf; Sit in Three Chairs by Fredrike Bannink , Solution Focused Scaling Questions by Evan George, Sparkling Moments: Instances and Exceptions by Evan George and Denise Yusuf, Stopping and Starting by Carmelina Lawton Smith and Evan George, The Tomorrow Question by Michelle Lucas, Transferring Competence by Fredrike Bannink, Chapter 8: A Systemic Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Maren Donata Urschel; Mapping What Is by Maren Donata Urschel, One Step Towards Better by Maren Donata Urschel, Resourcing by Maren Donata Urschel, Systemically Oriented Questions by Maren Donata Urschel, Using Free Movement by Damion Wonfor , Working with the Seven Eyed Model by Michelle Lucas, Working with the Shadow by Clare Norman, Working with the Supervisee’s Dilemma by Damion Wonfor, Chapter 9: A Thinking Environment Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Linda Aspey; Dialogue by Linda Aspey, Rounds by Linda Aspey, Thinking Pairs by Linda Aspey, Chapter 10: A Transpersonal Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Hetty Einzig; Centring by Paul King, Healthy Self-feedback by Helen Reuben, Ideal Model by Hetty Einzig, Self-Preparation for Supervisors by Helen Reuben, The Two Dimensions of Growth by Hetty Einzig, Using the Outdoors by Liz Ford, What’s My Environmental Footprint? by Penny Walker, Wise Being by Hetty Einzig, Working our Sub-personalities by Hetty Einzig, Working with Emergent Purpose by Hetty Einzig,
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Health and Safety at Work
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Health and Safety at Work covers the fundamentals of occupational safety and closely follows the NEBOSH National General Certificate syllabus which was updated in 2019 and came into use in 2020.Highly illustrated and over 600 pages in length, it covers all of the essential elements of health and safety management, the legal framework, risk assessment and control standards and also includes checklists, report forms and record sheets to supplement learning. It also has an extensive summary of current health and safety legislation. Aligned to the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Practice questions and answers to test knowledge and increase understanding In addition to helping students study for the NGC, it is used for reference and revision on other Health and Safety qualifications at level 3 and above, including the Nebosh Diploma. It is also a source of reference and guidance for hTable of Contents1. The moral financial and legal reasons for health and safety management, 2. Health and safety management systems and policy, 3. Health and safety management of people and processes, 4. Health and safety management of risk and controls, 5. Health and safety monitoring and measuring, 6. Physical and psychological health, 7. Musculoskeletal health, 8. Chemical and biological agents, 9. General workplace issues, 10. Work equipment, 11. Fire, 12. Electricity, 13. Summary of the main legal requirements, 14. Climate Change, Environmental management, international and other aspects of health and safety, 15. Study Skills, 16. Specimen answers to NEBOSH examinations, 17. Sources of information and guidance
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Taylor & Francis Mobilizing Food Vending
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and
Book SynopsisEven leading organizations with sophisticated IT infrastructures and teams of lawyers can find themselves unprepared to deal with the range of issues that can arise in IT contracting. Written by two seasoned attorneys, A Guide to IT Contracting: Checklists, Tools, and Techniques distills the most critical business and legal lessons learned through the authors' decades of experience drafting and negotiating IT-related agreements.In a single volume, readers can quickly access information on virtually every type of technology agreement. Structured to focus on a particular type of IT agreement, each chapter includes a checklist of essential terms, a brief summary of what the agreement is intended to do, and a complete review of the legal and business issues that are addressed in that particular agreement. Providing non-legal professionals with the tools to address IT contracting issues, the book: Contains checklists to help readers organize key conceTable of ContentsChapter 1. Collecting Basic Deal InformationChapter 2. Software License AgreementsChapter 3. Nondisclosure AgreementsChapter 4. Professional Services AgreementsChapter 5. Statements of WorkChapter 6. Cloud Computing AgreementsChapter 7. Click-Wrap, Shrink-Wrap, and Web-Wrap AgreementsChapter 8. Maintenance and Support AgreementsChapter 9. Service Level AgreementsChapter 10. Idea Submission AgreementsChapter 11. Joint Marketing AgreementsChapter 12. Software Development Kit (SDK) AgreementsChapter 13. Key Issues and Guiding Principles for Negotiating aSoftware License or OEM AgreementChapter 14. Drafting OEM Agreements (When the Company is the OEM)Chapter 15. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)AgreementsChapter 16. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) ComplianceChapter 17. Reducing Security Risks in Information Technology ContractsChapter 18. Website Assessment AuditsChapter 19. Critical Considerations for Protecting IP in aSoftware Development EnvironmentChapter 20. Transactions Involving Financial Services Companies as the CustomerChapter 21. Source Code Escrow AgreementsChapter 22. Integrating Information Security into the Contracting Life CycleChapter 23. Distribution AgreementsChapter 24. Data AgreementsChapter 25. Website Development AgreementsChapter 26. Social Media PoliciesChapter 27. Critical Considerations for Records Management and Retention
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Police Behavior Hiring and Crime Fighting
Book SynopsisThis edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention strategies, police legitimacy, and much more. Understanding how police are hired and behave is a way of understanding different governments around the world. The book will cover the practices of countries as diverse as China, Germany, India, Japan, Turkey, South Africa, the United States, and others. Readers will be exposed to aspects of police that are rarely, if ever, explored. The book is intended for a wide range of audiences, including law enforcement and community leaders and students of criminal justice. Table of ContentsPart I. Police Behavior; 1. Cultivating Well-Being Among Police Officers: Examining Challenges in the Workplace; 2. An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Tragedy of Police-Citizen Encounters: From Social Dilemma via Fairness to Coordination; 3. The Doctrine of Minimum Force in Policing: Origins, Uncertainties, and Implications; 4. Perceptions of Police Officers of the Floating Population: A Pilot Study of Community Justice Initiatives in China; 5. Municipal Police Department's Use of Facebook: Exploring the Potential for Differences Across Size Classifications; 6. Consent Decrees on Police Organizations: Policies and Practices; 7. Police Discretion: An Issue of Untestable Reasonability in A Law Enforcement Process; 8. The Role of Legitimacy in Police Reform and Effectiveness: A Case Study on the Bangladesh National Police; 9. Police Behavior and Public Understanding: Insights and Innovations; Part II. Hiring and Training; 10. Hired with Competence: An Examination of Police Hiring Standards in Canada; 11. An Examination of Police Corruption Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior; 12. Relationship of Police Stress With Coping, Moral Reasoning, and Burnout; 13. An Evaluation of Safety and Security: A South African Perspective; 14. The Effects of Medical and Recreational Marijuana Policies upon Hiring in US Municipal Police Departments: A Case Study of Mesa Police Department, Mesa, AZ; Part III. Crime Control; 15. Policing Cybercrime: Is There a Role for the Private Sector?; 16. Gunrunning 101: A How-To Guide About What to Look For; 17. United We Stand: Collaborations to Combat Human Trafficking in Central Florida; 18. Are Attacks Against Abortion Providers Acts of Domestic Terrorism? A Three-Box Operational Sub-theory of Merton’s Anomie; 19. Freedom Versus Safety on the Roadway in Mesa, AZ: Analysis of Distracted Driving Incidents; 20. An Overview of Wildlife Enforcement Cooperation in Canada and North America; 21. A National Perspective on Retail Theft; 22. Sustained Footwear Characteristics Across Athletic Footwear Over Several Years: A Case Study of Impression Wear Patterns for Investigative Value
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing offers a comprehensive and thorough inquiry into both customary and emergent issues of tourism experience and co-creation. Drawing together contributions from 83 authors from 28 countries with varied backgrounds and interdisciplinary interests, the handbook highlights multiple representations and interpretations of the theme. It also integrates a selection of illustrative global case studies to effectively present its chapter contents.Tourism experience drives the contemporary tourist's behavior as they travel in pursuit of experiencing unique and unusual destinations and activities. Creating a memorable and enduring experience is therefore a prerequisite for the all tourism business organizations irrespective of the nature of their products or services. This handbook focuses on conceptualizing, designing, staging, managing and marketing paradigms of tourism experiences from both suppTrade Review“Filled with thoughtful pieces penned by writers from around the world, this handbook covers a variety of topics focusing on theoretical as well as practical facets of tourism experience management and marketing. The topics covered range from traditional frameworks for designing, delivering and managing tourism experiences to more current and emerging topics such as co-creating tourism experiences with customers and using technological advances to enhance and promote tourism experiences. This volume is a valuable resource for tourism researchers and practitioners.”A. Parasuraman, Professor of Marketing and Holder of the James W. McLamore Chair, University of Miami, USA“The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing represents an unparalleled collection of thoughtful contributions to the advancement of experience thinking. It will prove an invaluable resource not only within the tourism industry, but for any experience-focused professional, as many of the models, metrics, design considerations, and technology twists put forth provide insights applicable to any experience-minded business. Indeed, in the Experience Economy – where time is the currency of consumption – all customers are tourists; and this volume helps set the agenda as enterprises compete to offer compelling places to spend their time.”B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore, co-authors of The Experience Economy: Competing for Time, Attention, and Money“The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing provides comprehensive coverage of recent experience research and thinking. The handbook provides 52 chapters from authors from around the world. Sections of the handbook that are of topical interest include designing experiences, technology-enabled experiences, and sustainable tourism experiences. The chapters cover experience in diverse contexts such as hospitality, attractions, gastronomy, travel, and accommodation. Theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters include international case studies. This edited book is a timely collection providing the state of the art of management and marketing of tourism experiences.”Noel Scott, Professor of Tourism Management, Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart 1: Tourism experience: theories, structure and frameworks 1. Conceptualizations of tourism experience. 2. A Systematic Review of The Tourism Experience Research From 2009 To 2018. 3. Key Drivers of Tourism Experience. 4. Typology of Tourism Experience. 5. Customer Experience in Tourism: An Overview. 6. The Role and Measurement of Emotions in Tourist Experiences. 7. The essence of memorable experience. 8. Service emplyees and customer experience. 9. Relationships between tourists’ emotional experiences, perceived overall image, satisfaction, and loyalty. 10. Tourism and the experience economy: a critique? Part 2: Crafting Tourism Experiences. 11. Understanding the experience design process. 12. Experiential choice in tourism. 13. The service experiencescape. 14. Exploring image, perception and motivation in tourism experience. 15. Learning through extraordinary tourism experiences. 16. Resident Driven City Hospitality Design and Delivery. 17. Experiential Heritage Tourism Designing in United Arab Emirates. 18. Trends in Experience Design: Strategies for Attracting Millennials to Wineries in Victoria, Australia. 19. The Role of themes and stories in tourism experiences. 20. Understanding Performativity and Embodied Tourism Experiences in Animal-Based Tourism in the Arctic. 21. Experiential Dissonance. Part 3: Marketing Tourism Experiences. 22. Traditional versus Experiential Marketing in Tourism. 23. Marketing Approach to the Tourist Experience. 24. Experiential marketing for tourism destinations. 25. Relationship Marketing: A Consumer Experience Perspective. 26. Interpreting Relationships among Oktoberfest Tourists’ Experiences and Perceived Value, Overall Satisfaction and Loyalty Behaviors for Better Marketing Strategy Decisions. 27. Delivering Quality and Memorable Tourism Experience. 28. Marketing gastronomic tourism experiences. 29. Managing Brand Experience and Reputation in the Hotel Business. 30. Managing Service Failure and Recoveries. 31. Dark Tourism: Negative Experiences as Part of Modern Tourism. Part 4: Technology enabled tourism experiences. 32. Sharing Economy and Tourism Experience. 33. An Exploration of Experiential Travel Behavior during Traveler Journey. 34. Co-Construction of the Tourist Experience via Social Networking Sites. 35. Technologies for Enhancing Wine Tourism Experience. 36. Pictures, Colors and Emotions: Shaping the UK’s E-Tourism Experience. 37. Managing Tourist Experience through Social Media: Evidence from South Korea. 38. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Tourism Experience. Part 5: Sustainable Tourism Experience. 39. Sustainable tourism and the visitor experience. 40. Rethinking Sustainable Tourism through Identity Decomposition: The Stratification of the Intensifying Factors of the Tourism Experience. 41. Developing Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences. 42. Towards Green Loyalty: Driving From Green Experiential Quality, Green Emotional Attachment, Green Image, Green Switching Experience And Green Experiential Satisfaction. 43. Guest and Host Relation in Tourism Experience Building: Rising Issue of Sustainability. Part 6: Emerging Avenues of Tourism Experience And Co - Creation. 44. Co–Creation of Tourism Experiences: A Conceptual Framework. 45. Co-Creation of Tourism Experience through Service Dominant Logic. 46. Place-Based Business Models of Value Creation in Tourism: Case of the Albergo Diffuso. 47. Chinese Meaning of Face in Arctic Norway: Cultural Co-Creation for Tourist Experiences. 48. The Emotional Labor of the Co-Created Tourism Experience. 49. Tourism experience and destination competitiveness. 50. Senior Tourism and Customer Experience: Links and Opportunities. 51. Crisis Management and Tourism Experiences. 52. Conclusion: Some Reflections on Experiential Tourism Management and Marketing.
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CRC Press Railway Transportation Systems
Book SynopsisRailway Transportation Systems covers the entire range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high-speed intercity systems to suburban, regional, operating on steep gradients, and urban ones. It also examines in depth freight railway systems transporting conventional loads, heavy loads, and dangerous goods. For each system, the text provides a definition; an overview of its evolution and examples of good practice; the main design, construction, and operational characteristics; and the preconditions for its selection. Additionally, it offers a general overview of safety, interfaces with the environment, forces acting on the track, and techniques that govern the stability and guidance of railway vehicles. This new edition brings two new chapters. One concerns pre-feasibility studies of urban rail projects, and the other analyses the operation of railway systems under specific weather conditions and natural phenomena. New material examines dilemmas, Table of Contents1. The railway as a transport system. 2. Loads on track. 3. Behaviour of rolling stock on track. 4. Tramway. 5. Metro. 6. Monorail. 7. Automatic passenger transport railway systems of low- and medium-transport capacity. 8. Suburban railway. 9. Rack railway. 10. Cable railway systems for steep gradients. 11. Organisation and management of passenger intercity railway transport. 12. High-speed networks and trains. 13. Tilting trains. 14. Metric track gauge intercity railway networks. 15. Organisation and management of freight railway transport. 16. Heavy haul rail transport. 17. Operation of railway systems under specific weather conditions and natural phenomena. 18. Railway safety. 19. Railway and the natural environment. 20. The research in the railway domain - Cutting-edge technologies in railways. 21. Applicability verification – A supporting tool for the conduction of feasibility studies of urban mass railway transportation systems.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategic Sports Event Management
This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport. Introducing key theory and best practice, it offers a practical, step-by-step guide to planning, organizing, managing and evaluating events. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, the book explains the importance of adopting a strategic approach, showing how to implement strategies that lead to successful outcomes over the short and the long term. It uses international case studies in every chapter, from the NBA and NFL to Formula 1 and the English Premier League, offering real-world insight into both larger and smaller events. In addition, woven throughout the book are a series of in-depth studies of several Olympic Games, the ultimate sporting event and an important point of reference for all practising and aspiring event managers. The book covers every key aspect of the spo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Brands on a Mission How to Achieve Social Impact and Business Growth Through Purpose
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Taylor & Francis Consumer Behaviour in Tourism
Book SynopsisNow fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of this bestselling text provides students with a vital understanding of the nature of tourism and contemporary tourist behaviour. It also shows them how this knowledge can be used to manage and market tourism effectively in a variety of sectors of tourism including tour operations, hospitality, visitor attractions, transport, retail travel, cruising and airlines.This fourth edition has been updated to include: new material on the impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) developments in tourism including social media, AR and VR, the links between climate change, sustainability and tourist behaviour, and the impact of crises and natural disasters on tourism and the cruise industry thirty brand new international case studies about topical issues such as Airbnb, travel blogs, overtourism, Covid-19, the flight-shaming movement, wellness tourism, hunting and tourism, terrorism, dTable of ContentsPart 1: Context 1. Introduction 2. The history of tourist behaviour 3. The main concepts and models in tourist behaviour. Part 2: The Purchase-Decision Process 4. Motivators 5. Determinants 6. Models of the purchase decision-making process Part 3: Typologies of Tourist Behaviour 7. Typologies of tourist behaviour and segmentation of the tourism market Part 4: Tourism Demand and Markets 8. The global pattern of tourism demand. 9. National differences: domestic, inbound and outbound tourism markets. 10. The nature of demand in different segments of the tourism market. 11. Consumer behaviour and purchase experiences in the different sectors of tourism. Part 5: Consumer Behaviour and Marketing 12. Researching tourist behaviour: marketing research 13. The marketing mix and tourist behaviour. Part 6: Topical Issues in Consumer Behaviour. 14. Climate change, sustainability and tourist behaviour. 15. Man-made crises, natural disasters and tourist behaviour. 16. The role of information and communication technologies in tourism. 17. Tourists buy experiences not products 18. The cruise market. Part 7: Conclusions and the Future. 19. Conclusions and the future of consumer behaviour in tourism.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashion Writing
Book SynopsisActing as a comprehensive primer for the field of fashion writing, this book provides an accessible entry point for readers from diverse backgrounds, giving them a clear understanding of the intricacies of fashion writing, the outlets in which it appears, and the possibilities beyond the page. Fashion Writing: A Primer lays out a framework for various types of fashion writing (runway and trend reports, service pieces, features, and more), while offering students a solid foundation of fashion history, cultural touchstones, common fashion terminology, and contemporary issues affecting the fashion industry today. Featuring interviews with current fashion journalists, such as Robin Givhan, Sarah Mower, Charlie Porter, and Amanda Winnie Kabuiku, as well as annotated bibliographies centred on the themes of each chapter, this book delivers fashion writing essentials for anyone interested in the field. Readers will come away aware of the many influences on the fashion world,Table of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: Foundational KnowledgeChapter 1: Where Did You Get That Outfit? A Brief History of FashionChapter 2: It’s All in the Details: The Language of FashionChapter 3: The Write Stuff: Writing BasicsSection 2: Working ItChapter 4: Ready for Take-off: The Runway ReportChapter 5: Don’t Get Left Behind: Trend Reports and Service PiecesChapter 6: Do You See What I See? Fashion Beyond FashionSection 3: Broadening Your FocusChapter 7: Taking It All In: Contemporary Issues in FashionChapter 8: Pitch, PleaseAppendix: Postgraduate Programmes in Fashion Communication
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashion Writing
Book SynopsisActing as a comprehensive primer for the field of fashion writing, this book provides an accessible entry point for readers from diverse backgrounds, giving them a clear understanding of the intricacies of fashion writing, the outlets in which it appears, and the possibilities beyond the page. Fashion Writing: A Primer lays out a framework for various types of fashion writing (runway and trend reports, service pieces, features, and more), while offering students a solid foundation of fashion history, cultural touchstones, common fashion terminology, and contemporary issues affecting the fashion industry today. Featuring interviews with current fashion journalists, such as Robin Givhan, Sarah Mower, Charlie Porter, and Amanda Winnie Kabuiku, as well as annotated bibliographies centred on the themes of each chapter, this book delivers fashion writing essentials for anyone interested in the field. Readers will come away aware of the many influences on the fashion world,Table of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: Foundational KnowledgeChapter 1: Where Did You Get That Outfit? A Brief History of FashionChapter 2: It’s All in the Details: The Language of FashionChapter 3: The Write Stuff: Writing BasicsSection 2: Working ItChapter 4: Ready for Take-off: The Runway ReportChapter 5: Don’t Get Left Behind: Trend Reports and Service PiecesChapter 6: Do You See What I See? Fashion Beyond FashionSection 3: Broadening Your FocusChapter 7: Taking It All In: Contemporary Issues in FashionChapter 8: Pitch, PleaseAppendix: Postgraduate Programmes in Fashion Communication
£112.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Implicative Marketing
Book SynopsisThis book is a manifesto for responsible marketing. Taking a critical look at marketing practices of the last 50 years, it explains why they have led to an ethical stalemate and sometimes even a business impasse.Exposed to such practices, consumers have grown tired of meaningless offers coupled with the destruction of value as prices are driven down. As a result, today's marketing professionals find themselves in the firing line of a combat focused on greater social responsibility and environmental sustainability. Thanks to new ways of understanding consumers and branding, this book suggests how such a challenge can be met. Through the presentation of experiences, studies and concrete cases, the reader gains a tangible, fresh perspective on marketing: a new global, responsible, creative and collaborative model that helps respect sustainable consumption.Implicative Marketing presents a paradigm shift, one that will be of considerable interest not juTrade Review"Is traditional marketing definitely dead? For most observers in the marketing and communications fields, it is less and less efficient, and consumers are more and more reluctant to its methods. In this context, "implicative marketing" is a breakthrough: it allows students and professionals to imagine new ways of promoting products and services, based on peer-to-peer principles instead of top-down communications. A precious contribution by Florence Touzé." — Hervé Monier, brandnewsblog.com"This book invents a new and more responsible mission for marketing. Based on a critical analysis of the current role of marketing in the vast majority of companies, it describes emerging practices and makes concrete suggestions for a marketing that contributes to a positive social and environmental impact." — André Sobczak, associate dean for faculty and research, Audencia Business SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Marketing’s Headlong Rush 2. Complexity Killed The Marketing Mix 3. The Emancipated Consumer 4. The Brand: Friend or Foe? 5. Implicative Marketing Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Lean Six Sigma for the Office Integrating
Book SynopsisHistorically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that process workflows tend to be globally dispersed and thus rely heavily on information technology. But in complex service systems that contain a mix of employees, consultants, and technology, standardized protocols have been shown to reduce cycle time and transactional cost as well as improve quality. The successful application of Lean methodologies to improve process workflows is an efficient way to simplify operations and prevent mistakes. In Lean Six Sigma for the Office , Six Sigma guru James Martin presents proven modifications that can be deployed in offices, particularly those offices involved with global operations. Making use of Kaizen and Six Sigma concepts, along with Lean manufacturing principles, this book instructs managers on how they can improve operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction. The author brings experience gleaned from his application of these methodologies in a myriad of industries to create a practical and hands-on reference for the office environment. Using a detailed sequence of activities, including over 140 figures and tables as well as checklists and evaluation tools, he demonstrates how to realize the rapid improvement of office operations, and how to eliminate unnecessary tasks through value stream mapping (VSM). The book also emphasizes the importance of strategic alignment of Kaizen events and the impact of organizational culture on process improvement activities. Latter chapters in the book discuss key elements of a change model in the context of transitional improvements as they relate to the process owner and local work team. By applying the proven principles found in this book, effective and sustainable organizational change can be accomplished, efficiency can be improved, and mistakes can be eliminated. This 2nd edition provides insight into the new tools and methods Lean Six Sigma process improvement professionals need to improve customer experience and increase productivity within high transaction processes across complex information technology ecosystems. It is one-stop self-contained reference for the application of Lean Six Sigma methods enhanced by powerful approaches for process improvement in highly complex service processes. Several new leading-edge topics are integrated into this new edition, such as: â The voice ofâ customers, suppliers, employees and partners â Design Thinking Alignment â Ecosystems in Information Technology â Metadata Definition and Lineage â Information Quality Governance â Big Data Collection and Analytics â Mapping High Volume Transactions through Systems â Robotic Process Automation Applications â Automating for Solution Sustainability â Governing Organizations â Data Privacy (General Data Protection Regulation)Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction ......................................................................................... xiiiAbout the Author .............................................................................. xxviiSTEP 1 Align Improvement OpportunitiesChapter 1 Strategy Alignment ............................................................. 3Chapter 2 Project Identification ....................................................... 51Chapter 3 Lean Six Sigma Basics ...................................................... 83STEP 2 Plan and Conduct the Rapid Improvement EventChapter 4 Rapid Improvement Events ............................................ 135Chapter 5 Data Collection and Analysis ........................................ 167Chapter 6 Process Improvement ..................................................... 225STEP 3 Implementing SolutionsChapter 7 Building a Case for Change ........................................... 259Chapter 8 Implementing Solutions ................................................. 277Chapter 9 Organizational Change .................................................. 303Index .................................................................................................... 339
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control and
Book SynopsisInverse problems of identifying parameters and initial/boundary conditions in deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations constitute a vibrant and emerging research area that has found numerous applications. A related problem of paramount importance is the optimal control problem for stochastic differential equations. This edited volume comprises invited contributions from world-renowned researchers in the subject of control and inverse problems. There are several contributions on optimal control and inverse problems covering different aspects of the theory, numerical methods, and applications. Besides a unified presentation of the most recent and relevant developments, this volume also presents some survey articles to make the material self-contained. To maintain the highest level of scientific quality, all manuscripts have been thoroughly reviewed.Table of Contents1. All-At-Once Formulation Meets the Bayesian Approach: A Study of Two Prototypical Linear Inverse Problems 2. On Iterated Tikhonov Kaczmarz Type Methods for Solving Systems of Linear Ill-posed Operator Equations 3. On Numerical Approximation of Optimal Control for Stokes Hemivariational Inequalities 4. Nonlinear Tikhonov Regularization in Hilbert Scales with Oversmoothing Penalty: Inspecting Balancing Principles 5. An Optimization Approach to Parameter Identification in Variational Inequalities of Second Kind-II 6. Generalized Variational-hemivariational Inequalities in Fuzzy Environment 7. Boundary Stabilization of the Linear MGT Equation with Feedback Neumann Control 8. Sweeping Process Arguments in the Analysis and Control of a Contact Problem 9. Anderson Acceleration for Degenerate and Nondegenerate Problems 10. Approximate Coincidence Points for Single-valued Maps and Aubin Continuous Set-valued Maps 11. Stochastic Variational Approach for Random Cournot-Nash Principle 12. Augmented Lagrangian Methods For Optimal Control Problems Governed by Mixed Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities Involving a Set-valued Mapping 13. Data Driven Reconstruction Using Frames and Riesz Bases 14. Antenna Problem Induced Regularization and Sampling Strategies 15. An Equation Error Approach for Identifying a Random Parameter in a Stochastic Partial Differential Equation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating TV Formats
Book SynopsisCreating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas, develop story lines and characters and hook an audience, whilst staying aware of the realities of the media landscape.Beginning with a discussion about what a TV format is, each chapter then introduces a key aspect of the development process, such as looking for ideas, shaping the underlying story and thinking about participants. Practical exercises guide the reader through each stage of turning an initial idea or subject matter into a hook or insight; the importance of incorporating storytelling principles and techniques for designing and populating a story world. Examples from successful television formats such as First Dates and The Great British Bake Off are interwoven throughout the book alongside exclusive insights from the key industry professionals who brought them to the screen. From short-form digital content to lonTable of ContentsChapter 1 – What is a format?Chapter 2 – Be CreativeChapter 3 – Do CreativeChapter 4 – Shape ItChapter 5 – Build ItChapter 6 – Design ItChapter 7 – Populate ItChapter 8 – Drive ItChapter 9 – Get Out There!Appendix
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CRC Press Next Generation Safety Leadership
Book SynopsisNext Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author's years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change. A key predictor of safety performance is trust, and its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). The next generation of safety leaders will take the profession forward by creating trust and psychological safety. The book provides safety leaders with actionable goals to enable positive change and translates academic languages into practical applications. It leaves the reader with a clear strategy to move forward in developing a safety plan and utilizes stories, humor, and case studies set in high-risk industries. Written primarily for the safety community and can be used to influence day to day safety operations in high-risk organisations.Table of Contents1: Trust: The Currency of Leadership 2: ‘Zero Harm’ and Other Platitudes 3: BBS (aka Behavioral Bull S..t!) 4: Organizational Values or Company Platitudes? 5: What’s Your Story? Building trust through Self Disclosure6: Mind your language!7. Your team has the answers, do you have the questions? 8. Don’t shoot the messenger! Making it safe to share bad news 9. Responding after an incident10. Doing Safety Differently: From Compliance to Care
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CRC Press Next Generation Safety Leadership
Book SynopsisNext Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author's years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change. A key predictor of safety performance is trust, and its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). The next generation of safety leaders will take the profession forward by creating trust and psychological safety. The book provides safety leaders with actionable goals to enable positive change and translates academic languages into practical applications. It leaves the reader with a clear strategy to move forward in developing a safety plan and utilizes stories, humor, and case studies set in high-risk industries. Written primarily for the safety community and can be used to influence day to day safety operations in high-risk organisations.Table of Contents1: Trust: The Currency of Leadership 2: ‘Zero Harm’ and Other Platitudes 3: BBS (aka Behavioral Bull S..t!) 4: Organizational Values or Company Platitudes? 5: What’s Your Story? Building trust through Self Disclosure6: Mind your language!7. Your team has the answers, do you have the questions? 8. Don’t shoot the messenger! Making it safe to share bad news 9. Responding after an incident10. Doing Safety Differently: From Compliance to Care
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Taylor & Francis Modern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist
Book SynopsisModern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance examines the true nature of modern money and seeks ideas for an alternative economic system for a just society.This book suggests that adopting the ideas and institutions of a trust allowed personae to be combined with creditor-debtor relations and, by doing so, led to the evolution of modern money. This also helps explain why modern banking arose in England rather than continental Europe, by conceptualizing modern money as a trust and investigating the inseparable relationship between personae and modern money, because it is more than creditor-debtor relations - it takes the form of a trust. In explaining how the capitalist credit-money economy differs from previous economies, this book is a significant contribution to the literature on modern money, heterodox economics and the philosophy of economics and finance.
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Manohar Spinning Yarns Bengal Textile Industry in the
Book SynopsisSince time immemorial Indian textiles, especially textiles from Bengal, were in great demand and exported to different parts of the world. Textiles from Bengal were appreciated by the Romans as early as first century ad. Numerous foreign travellers including Chinese, Portuguese, Arab and Persian, have mentioned the delicacy and beauty of Bengal textiles. From the mid-seventeenth century, there was a massive spurt in demand of cloth manufactured in Bengal, but after the British conquest of Bengal in 1757 this industry started to decline.This monograph traces the journey of Bengal textiles till its decline. Among the topics covered include accounts of the admiration for Bengal textiles from far and wide, the different types of textiles that were manufactured in Bengal, the major exporters, the major centres of production, the production system, the Dhaka muslin and the silk industry in Bengal, the procuring system that was adopted by the European / Asian merchants, the condition of the artisans who were the chief pillars of the textile industry and lastly the reasons behind the decline of the Bengal textile industry.This is the first comprehensive volume on Bengal textile industry. It is the outcome of the authorâs four and a half decades of work on various aspects of Indian Ocean trade, the activities of the European companies and their impact on Indian / Bengalâs economy.Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri LankaTable of Contents1. Prologue 2. Historical Perspective 3. Bengal’s Advantages over other Regions of India 4. Production Organization 5. The Dhaka Muslin Industry 6. Silk Textiles 7. Procurement of Textiles for Export 8. Role of the European Companies in Bengal’s Export Trade 9. Asian Merchants and Textile Export 10. How ‘Poor’ were the ‘Poor’ Indian Weavers? 11. Technology in Bengal Textile Industry 12. The Decline of the Textile Trade and Industry 13. Conclusion 14. AppendicesAppendix 1: An Account of the District of Dacca, 1801 by John Taylor, Commercial Resident of Dhaka Edited with Detailed Annotations by Sushil Chaudhury; Appendix 2: Letter of a Spinner (Woman) of Santipur, Bengal, published in the Samachar-Darpan of the 5th January 1828; Appendix 3: Names/Terms used in Persian Chronicles in Respect of Textile Production
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reflexive Leadership in Context
Book SynopsisThis concise textbook seeks to unpack the real-life complexities of leadership by examining the theories and models surrounding it and encouraging self-analysis in the individual's own contexts.The book: Provides an outline of the various perspectives of leadership theory; Develops a critical and robust framework for considering existing leadership theory and consequently applying leadership practice across the organization; Identifies important individual characteristics likely to enhance leadership practice in the workplace; Considers a framework for analyzing leadership performance and methods and practicalities for application. Reflexive Leadership in Context provides a practical and concise introduction for executive education students currently studying for MSc/MBA apprenticeship programs, as well as supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying modules within Trade Review"It is very difficult to find leadership books which combine academic rigour with practical relevance. Paul Evan's book manages to achieve this whilst also being engaging, concise and parsimonious. This is a great entry level resource for students and practitioners of leadership alike."Daniel Muzio, Professor of Management at University of York, UK"Reflexive Leadership in Context improves our understanding by moving us beyond the traditional theoretical confines of the area to embrace self-analysis as well as critical frameworks for understanding leadership in practice. The book will indispensable for both students and teachers of leadership alike. An excellent contribution – highly recommended."John Hassard, Professor of Organizational Analysis, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK"Despite the millions of words written and spoken about leadership, still we see chronic problems with the ways in which organizations, firms and nations are led. Paul Evans' book provides a welcome critique of the simplicity and inadequacy of so much of the leadership canon while also offering wise practical guidance. An indispensable introduction to a topic of enduring importance."Leo McCann, Professor of Management, University of York, UKTable of Contents 1. What do we know about leadership? 2. Mainstream Theories, Visions and Transformations 3. Leadership, Organisation and Teams 4. Social Constructionism, Stories and Culture 5. Followers and Leadership 6. Power, politics, resistance and leadership 7. Doing the right thing: Doing things right 8. Becoming Leaderful
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Accounting in its Social and
Book SynopsisUnderlying this book, first published in 1988, is the belief that it is insightful to examine accounting not as merely a technical process, nor as a technical process with social and political consequences, but as an activity which is both social and political in itself. One way of illuminating the social nature of accounting is through studying its cultural variations, for although accounting is a feature of modern industrial society the extent of its use varies across cultures. This book examines the history of accounting and explores the complicated relationship between accounting and society. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Understanding Cost and Management Accounting in its Social and Historical Context 3. Historical Introduction 4. The First World War 5. After the War: Reconstruction and Reality 6. The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants 7. Cost Accounting and Society 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metric Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects and architecture students, with over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers. It remains the ideal starting point for any project and belongs in every design office.The seventh edition references the latest regulations and construction standards and includes new chapters on data centres and logistics facilities alongside basic design data for all the major building types. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer needs to be aware of.As well as buildings, the Metric Handbook deals with broader aspects of design such as materials, acoustics, and lighting, and general design data on human dimensions and space requirements. The Metric Handbook is the unique reference for solving everyday planning problems.Table of ContentsDESIGN BASICS: 1. Design information and dimensional coordination Revised by Simon Douch. Original text: Terry Nichols with David King, 2. People and space Revised by Professor Norman Wienand, 3. People and movement Revised by Professor Norman Wienand, 4. Inclusive and accessible design David Dropkin and Neil Smith, 5. Capital and whole life costs of buildings Chris Bicknell and David Holmes, ESSENTIALS: 6. Structure Revised by Andrew Peters, Arthur Lyons Original text: David Adler and Norman Seward, 7. Materials Arthur Lyons with AHR Architects, 8. Thermal environment Phil Jones, 9. Light Revised by Theo Paradise-Hirst Original text: Joe Lynes, 10. Sound Russell Macdonald and Chris Steel, 11. Fire Beryl Menzies, 12. Flood-resilient design Robert Barker and Richard Coutts, 13. Crime prevention design Nick Hughes Revised by Peter Wozniak, BUILDING TYPES: 14. Agricultural buildings John Weller, Rod Sheard, Frank Bradbeer and others, 15. Auditoria Revised by Mark Foley and Stefanie Fischer (cinemas). Original text: Ian Appleton; Stefanie Fischer (cinemas), 16. Civic buildings Revised by David Selby (town halls); Martin Sutcliffe and Neil Sansum (law courts), 17. Community centres Jim Tanner, 18. Data centres Simon Brimble, Emilia Dobrzynska, Naiane Esteve, Chris Neighbour, Daniel Silva, Miguel Vazquez Cid of Arup, 19. Emergency services Including Fire stations by Michael Bowman, 20. Hospitals Christiane Anders, Claudia Bloom, Vicky Braouzou. Duncan Finch, Mary Reid, Mariangela Zanini of Avanti Architects. Christopher Shaw of Medical Architecture (mental health), 21. Hotels Fred Lawson, 22. Houses and flats Revised by Kathy Watkins. Original text: John Chapman and Kathy Watkins, 23. Homes for older people Justin Bannister and Judith Brown, 24. Student housing and housing for young people Revised by Michael Ritchie. Original text: MJP Architects Ltd, 25. Laboratories Revised by Eugene Sayers Original text: Neville Surti and Catherine Nikolaou, 26. Libraries Brian Edwards with Ayub Khan, 27. Logistics facilities Marcus Madden-Smith, 28. Museums, art galleries and temporary exhibition spaces Geoffrey Mathews, 29. Offices Frank Duffy with Jack Pringle, Angela Mullarkey and Richard Finnemore, 30. Payment and counselling offices Richard Napier, 31. Places of worship Revised by Ian Brewerton (Non-conformist and Free Churches), Atba Al-Samarraie (mosques); Gurmeet Sian (gurdwara), Maurice Walton (Church of England buildings) Original text by David Adler, Ian Brewerton, Leslie Fairweather, Derek Kemp, Atba Al-Samarraie, 32. Primary health care Geoffrey Purves, 33. Restaurants and foodservice facilities Fred Lawson, 34. Retail shops and stores Lucy Dewick-Tew and Eddie Miles, 35. Schools Anthony Langan, 36. Security and counter-terrorism Mark Whyte and Chris Johnson, 37. Sports facilities: indoor and outdoor Philip Johnson and Tom Jones, 38. Streets and spaces for people and vehicles Revised by Ben Hamilton-Baillie (introduction, shared space and place-making), James Horne (vehicles, roads and road design) and Sustrans (cycling routes and parking), 39. Transport terminals and interchanges Airports revised by Andrew Perez with additional contributions by Richard Chapman. Railways revised by Declan McCafferty, 40. Tropical design Patricia Tutt, 41. Universities Revised by Rupert Goddard and Tony Poole, Appendix A – SI system, Appendix B – Conversion factors and tables, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Enterprise Cybersecurity in Digital Business
Book SynopsisCyber risk is the highest perceived business risk according to risk managers and corporate insurance experts. Cybersecurity typically is viewed as the boogeyman: it strikes fear into the hearts of non-technical employees. Enterprise Cybersecurity in Digital Business: Building a Cyber Resilient Organization provides a clear guide for companies to understand cyber from a business perspective rather than a technical perspective, and to build resilience for their business. Written by a world-renowned expert in the field, the book is based on three years of research with the Fortune 1000 and cyber insurance industry carriers, reinsurers, and brokers. It acts as a roadmap to understand cybersecurity maturity, set goals to increase resiliency, create new roles to fill business gaps related to cybersecurity, and make cyber inclusive for everyone in the business. It is unique since it provides strategies and learnings that have shown to lower risk and demystify cybeTable of ContentsPart I: The Evolution of Cybersecurity. 1. Cyber – A business Issue 2. ‘Cyber Risk’ 3. ‘The History of Cybersecurity’ 4. ‘Cyber Consequences’ 5. ‘Cyber Trends and Spending’ 6. ‘Cyber Roles’ Part II: Cybersecurity Basics. 7. ‘Cyber –Attack Surfaces and Digital Asset Inventories’ 8. ‘Cyber Terminology and Statistics’ 9. ‘Enterprise Threats of Today and Cybercriminals’ 10. ‘Cybersecurity Regulations, Standards and Frameworks’ 11. ‘Enterprise Cybersecurity Programs’ 12. ‘Organizational Cyber Maturities’ Part III: Cybersecurity Tools. 13. ‘Cyber Policies’ 14. ‘Cybersecurity Tools Part IV: Cybersecurity Regulation.15. ‘U.S. Federal Regulations’ 16. ‘U.S. State Regulations’ 17. ‘New York State Department of Financial Services Part 500’ 18. ‘Global, Industry or Other Types of Cybersecurity Regulations’ Part V: Incident Response, Forensics and Audit. 19. ‘Incident Response Plans’ 20. ‘Forensic Methods’ 21. ‘IT Audit’ Part VI: Cybersecurity Risk Management. 22. ‘Cybersecurity Financial Exposures’ 23. ‘Digital Asset Cyber Risk Modeling and Scoring’ 24. ‘Mitigating Cybersecurity Scores and Residual Cyber Risk Scores’ Part VII: GDPR and Privacy. 25. ‘GDPR Overview’ 26. ‘GDPR Articles’ 27. ‘GDRP Evidence’ 28. ‘GDPR Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)’ Part VIII: Cybersecurity Risk Management Strategy. 29. ‘CISO Strategies’ 30. ‘Cyber in the Board Room’ Part IX: Cybersecurity Insurance. 31. ‘Cyber Insurance Overview’ 32. ‘Calculating Limits Adequacy’ 33. ‘Ransomware Strategies’ Part X: Introduction to Cybersecurity Vendor Risk Management. 34. ‘Vendor Risk Overview’ 35. ‘Vendor Cybersecurity Regulations’
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Classical Music Industry Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Effective Management Teams and Organizational
Book SynopsisMost contemporary organizations use management teams to manage and coordinate their businesses at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Management teams typically set overall goals, strategies, and priorities, making vital organizational decisions. They discuss issues, solve problems, offer advice, and ensure various processes and units are aligned and interact efficiently. Although management teams are vital for overall organizational performance, research indicates that they are largely underused and less effective than their potential would suggest for value creation. This book provides a research-based and practical model of the characteristics of effective management teams. It looks in depth at each factor of the model, discusses the supporting research, provides examples of how the factors influence the work and effectiveness of management teams, and shares tips and tools for successfully working with management team development. It provides researcherTable of ContentsPart I. The management team 1. A model for effectiveness in management teams 2. The management team – a special type of team? 3. Management group or management team? Part II. Output factors and emergent states: Outcomes achieved by effective management teams 4. What kind of results do effective management teams achieve? Part III. Input factors: Basic conditions for effectiveness in management teams 5. A clear team purpose 6. Appropriate team tasks 7. Appropriate team composition 8. Supportive organizational systems Part IV. Processes that influence management team effectiveness 9. Setting clear meeting goals 10. Focused communication 11. Capitalizing on diversity 12. The absence of political behavior 13. Team boundary spanning 14. Continuous team learning 15. Effective team leadership Part V. How can effective management teams be developed? 16. Management team development – principles and dilemmas 17. Tools for developing management teams
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Strategic Management and the Circular Economy
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the Circular Economy (CE) has gained worldwide attention as an effective alternative economic system to the current take-make-waste model of production and consumption. As more and more firms begin to recognize the potential of this novel approach, the CE quickly moves from theory to practice and the demand for a coherent and structured strategic approach â one that companies can rely upon when commencing their circular journey â grows accordingly. Strategic Management and the Circular Economy aims to bridge the theory-practice gap by putting forward a detailed step-by-step process for analysis, formulation, and planning of CE strategies. Starting from a solid framework of easy-to-grasp constructs (key principles, business objectives and areas of intervention), the authors guide the reader through an understanding of how conventional tools for strategic management can be re-programed under a CE perspective. To assist learning and encourage circular thinking, the reader is constantly prompted with examples of how forward-looking companies across industries and geographies are already applying circular strategies to future-proof their operations, boost innovation, penetrate new markets and secure customer loyalty.Trade ReviewFinalist at the 2019 Best Book Awards (Business general category) for American Book Fest Second in the Philanthropy/ Nonprofit/ Sustainability catagory at the Axiom Business Book Awards 2020‘As mankind is overusing many natural ecosystems, new and rebalanced ways of doing business are needed. Moving towards a circular economy could offer a solution. Tonelli and Cristoni present a comprehensive framework to work on this solution from a strategic management perspective. This book is a must read for scholars and practitioners interested in actionable frameworks, business models, and strategic approaches to developing circular businesses’ [Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Chair for Corporate Sustainability, ESCP Europe Business School – Berlin, GERMANY]‘Over the last decades our awareness of the limits of the use of natural resources has become more and more embedded in evidence. However, only awareness cannot solve this. What we need is a course of action to turn this around. That´s what is offered in this book. The idea of the Circular Economy is both timely and rather straightforward, but its application comes together with many challenges and imperfections. The beauty of this book is that it embraces these difficulties in order to separate the rhetoric from substance. This proves to be very helpful in creating practical guidance for the application of the principles of the Circular Economy.’ [Andre Nijhof, Professor Sustainable Business and Stewardship at Nyenrode Business Universiteit – Enschede Area, THE NETHERLANDS]‘Strategic Management and the Circular Economy opens with Victor Hugo’s eponymous quote "you can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come." With the increasing focus of neo-liberal governments on downsizing, the role of sustainability stewardship is increasingly moving towards the private sector. This book powerfully makes the case for enhanced sustainability management through the circular economy model in shaping the actions we need to take to preserve our own future. It presents easy to understand business models and strategies that will help to achieve the circular economy key principles of improved waste and resource sustainability in a world of finite resources and an ever-growing population’ [Michele John, Associate Professor, Director Sustainable Engineering Group, Curtin – Perth, AUSTRALIA]‘Nowadays circular economy has become a top priority in the political agenda of most developed countries. Many initiatives have been put forward by governments to switch to a circular model, but there is still a poor understanding on how to support companies in adapting to the new economic system. This book provides a thorough analysis of how companies can effectively combine CE principles with business objectives and an exhaustive list of concrete examples from different countries and sectors is shared. All the information is presented from the realistic perspective that we cannot demand companies to radically change their business models and processes from one day to the next, and this aspect represents one of the most important added values of the book. The authors have succeeded in producing a helpful and clear guide for companies and policy makers, while keeping scientific rigour and solidity in their approach’ [Michelle Perello, CEO Consulta Europa Projects and Innovation – Las Palmas de G.C., SPAIN]‘Strategic Management and the Circular Economy (CE) has an implication for the academia, practitioners and policymakers alike as it offers theoretical approaches as well as practical examples. It starts by arguing why enterprises can no longer rely on the linear economic paradigm, before explaining how circular economy as a strategic concept works. Through a series of in-depth and original discussions the book offers a rich contribution to companies, highlighting their interactions with stakeholders at various levels of society for the creation of a better future for us all’ [Lara Johannsdottir, Professor, Environment and Natural Resources, School of Business, University of Iceland – Reykjavík, ICELAND]‘This is an inclusive, informative and appealing book on the complicated subject of the circular economy and strategic management. The way the circular economy is explained to replace the produce-use-dispose approach and to bring this concept into reality through strategic processes, policies, business models, and technologies is amazing. The book has not only highlighted the fruits of the circular economy, as repeatedly done in earlier books but rather practically demonstrated how one nation or society can implement the concept of circularity in its day-to-day activities and so boost its socio-economic and cultural development. Undoubtedly, this book is a must-read for all professions including academics, managers, engineers, scientists, researchers, policy and decision makers. I am very confident this book will have a positive and constructive impact in our understanding and learning of how to move ahead with this sustainable economic approach, in which waste becomes a valuable resource’ [Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies at King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA] ‘The book is an engaging and stimulating reading on the circular economy paradigm, which has gained momentum in recent years. On the one hand, it clearly and thoroughly explains how the adoption of a circular economy framework can have positive implications not only on the environment (e.g. saving scarce resources), which is what most people would expect, but also on society (e.g. meeting the growing needs of the middle-class) and on the economy (e.g. making industrial processes more cost-effective). On the other hand, the authors, while emphasizing the appeal and elegance of what could be described as a win-win approach, do not shy away from the complexities that the implementation of a circular economy model would entail. Indeed, after defining a circular economy theoretical framework, they set out a new and innovative methodology to allow practitioners to integrate such framework with more traditional strategic tools’ [Matteo di Castelnuovo, Director of Master in Green Management, Energy and CSR, Universita` Bocconi – Milan, ITALY]‘The Circular Economy is a potential key driver for sustainable development. The concept has recently gained widespread uptake in business, academia and policy. Strategic Management and the Circular Economy provides an engaging overview for academics and practitioners wanting to understand the concept of the Circular Economy, as well as potential strategic approaches to start the transition from a linear take-make-waste to a Circular Economy paradigm’ [Nancy Bocken, Professor in Sustainable Business Management & Practice, Lund University (IIIEE) – SWEDEN]Table of ContentsPart I: An OverviewChapter 1 – The Challenges of the Produce-Use-Dispose Model Introduction Exceeding Planetary Natural Thresholds Scarcity of Raw Materials and Price Volatility Rising Middle-Class Population Structural Inefficiencies of the Current Economic Model Conclusions Chapter 2 – An introduction to the Circular Economy Introduction Biosphere and Technosphere Products Technological, Regulatory and Social Factors Conclusions Part II: Circular Economy Strategy: Setting the StageChapter 3 − A CE Framework for Action Introduction EMS Versus CE CE Guiding Principles CE Business Objectives CE Areas of Intervention Conclusions Chapter 4 − CE Enabling Technologies Introduction Digital Technologies Design & Engineering Technologies Conclusions Chapter 5 − Business Models for a CE Introduction Net-Zero Innovation Servitization Product Life Extension Product Residual Value Recovery Conclusions Part III: CE Strategic ManagementChapter 6 – Introducing the CE Strategic Process Introduction Organizational Culture The CE Strategic Process Current Strategy Identification Idea Trees Supporting Methods for Idea Tree Analysis: Circular Brainstorming Conclusions Chapter 7 – CE Data Collection and Prioritization: Firm, Industry and External Levels of Analysis Introduction The Value Chain Supporting Methods for Undertaking Value Chain Analysis: Interviewing Key Personnel The VRIE Framework Five Forces Supporting Methods for Undertaking CE Industry Analysis: Interviewing Key Personnel PEST Supporting Methods for Undertaking PEST Analysis: Interviewing Key Personnel Conclusions Chapter 8 – CE Data Integration Introduction PEST vs 5 Forces Matrix SWOT Analysis SWOT Adaptation #1: The Dynamic CE-SWOT SWOT Adaptation #2: The CE-TOWS Matrix Conclusions Chapter 9 – Determining Your Preferred CE Position Introduction Strategic Quadrant Supporting Methods for Market Positioning: Interviewing Key Personnel Approaches to Internationalization Supporting Methods for Internationalization Decision-Making: International Strategic Alternatives Checklist Conclusions Chapter 10 – Gap Analysis, CE Strategy Formulation and Planning Introduction Gap Analysis Supporting Methods for CE Gap Analysis: Environmental Impacts Table Supporting Methods for CE Gap Analysis: Circular Readiness Assessment Formulating a CE Strategy Supporting Methods for CE Strategy Formulation: Decision Priority Matrix Supporting Methods for CE Strategy Formulation: The 4-Step Process for Piloting CE Ideas CE Strategic Planning Supporting Methods for Strategic Planning: Process Alternatives Checklist Conclusions Part IV: CE @ 360°Chapter 11 – Tools for CE Analysis at Micro Level Introduction Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Lifecycle Costing (LCC) Material Input Per Unit of Service (MIPS) Conclusions Chapter 12 – Tools for CE Analysis at Macro Level Introduction Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Value Chain Analysis (VCA) Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Ecological Footprint (EF) Environmentally-weighted Material Consumption (EMC) Land and Ecosystem Accounts (LEAC) Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Conclusions Chapter 13 – Conclusions
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Routledge Journalism from Print to Platform
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media
Book SynopsisDrawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its potential countermeasures. Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media presents a model of the disinformation process which incorporates four cross-cutting dimensions or themes: bad actors, platforms, audiences, and countermeasures. The dynamics of each dimension are analysed alongside a diverse range of international case studies drawn from different information domains including politics, health, and society. In elucidating the interrelationship between the four dimensions of online disinformation and their manifestation in different international contexts, the book demonstrates that online disinformation is a complex problem with multiple, overlapping causes and no easy solutions. The book's conclusion contextualises the problem of disinformation within broader social and political trends Table of Contents1. Introduction: Information Pathologies ; 2. Bad Actors ; 3 Platforms ; 4. Audiences ; 5. Countermeasures ; 6. Conclusion: Post-Truth Communication
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Taylor & Francis Strategic Management in Public Services
Book SynopsisStrategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a comparative and international view on the appropriate use of strategic management models that are affecting the way public services organizations are managed. In an era of New and post New Public Management reforms, public managers at all levels are expected to respond to these new approaches, which profoundly affect their work practices, skills, and knowledge bases. Choosing a promising strategic management model and implementing it in a way that works for the organization or inter-organizational network in question also depends on an understanding of local politico-administrative and cultural contexts: this book helps the readers identify how to successfully tailor strategic management approaches to their specific circumstances and needs. This second edition builds upon the successes of the well-received first edition. Thoroughly updated to help public managers meet the challenges of a new decade, it hasTrade Review"I have been using this esteemed book for years for executive master's students in strategic public management. The second edition enriches the importance of 'context' for understanding public organizations by new mini-cases, and adds a very relevant chapter on collaborative governance, making the book even more topical."Nicolette van Gestel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands"The encyclopedic coverage of decades of research makes Ferlie and Ongaro's contribution an invaluable resource for scholars. The mini-cases, drawn from a variety of organizational and policy environments enrich the book and bring the subject of strategic management to life."Jeffrey D. Straussman, University at Albany, USA"Ferlie and Ongaro are to be congratulated on producing this exemplary volume. It is set to become the standard reference point for students and researchers alike."Stephen P Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK"the authors have made a major contribution to the literature on public and nonprofit strategic management. Their book will be a must-read, must-cite resource for any serious scholar or doctoral student studying public and nonprofit strategic management."John M. Bryson, University of Minnesota, USA"In summary, this is a book that focuses on different schools of thought about strategic management. It addresses some very important topics: notably, the impact of strategic management on organisational performance and how lessons about successful strategic management can be transferred from one context to another. It stresses the need to look at the context of strategic management, and thereby points to a need to recognise that strategic management varies in practice. The book is, therefore, a warning against oversimplifying the nature of strategic management. Finally, it is a book that is upbeat about the future of strategic management as a subject of academic study and as a useful development in public administration."Paul Joyce, Local Government Studies"The book serves two main audiences. On one hand, it can be an excellent manual for graduate students in Public Management programs, especially sections 2 and 3, where the authors provide a complete overview of the schools of SM. On the other hand, it is also an advanced contribution for scholars in the field; they may be most interested in reading and discussing sections 6 (about the role of context(s)), 7 (the relationship between strategy and performance), and 9 (conclusions, where the SM in public sector is described as a "science" and "art and profession")."Tommaso Agasisti, MIP Milan Polytechnic University, Italy"One of the unique strengths of Ferlie’s and Ongaro’s work is that they make an, in our view largely successful, attempt at integrating and accommodating these diverse and somewhat controversial ambitions in a single – modestly sized – volume…. A second major strength of Ferlie’s and Ongaro’s book emanates from the emphasis it puts on illustrating theoretical deliberations by concrete and well-elaborated, in-depth examples…. Finally, the book provides a broad reflection with a conclusion chapter, which considers the nature of public strategic management in the public sector."György Hajnal, Local Government Studies "This book presents significant advances in the theoretical and practical understanding of public sector strategic management in its context. The book provides a contemporary public sector strategic perspective that is geared to comprehend the current and future challenges and provide sign posts for scholars and public sector actors to strategically act on the many contemporary challenges."Giuseppe Grossi, Kristianstad University, SwedenTable of Contents1. Introduction: our core argument and overview 2. Schools of strategic management and their implications for contemporary public services organizations - part 1: from structure to culture 3. Further proliferation of schools of strategic management - part 2: the 1980s onwards 4. Collaborative and network based forms of strategy 5. Strategy making and governance in the third sector 6. Strategy as process: a review and prospective agenda 7. Framing the context: managing strategically public services organisations in different politico-administrative ‘houses’ 8. Strategy and performance 9. Strategic management, the quest for excellence, and the ‘best practices’ research in public management 10. Conclusion: strategic management in the public sector as both ‘science’ and ‘art and profession’
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CRC Press Knowledge Engineering
Book SynopsisKnowledge management is far-reaching. It can dramatically reduce costs such as costs of office work repetition, human resource retirement, information reuse, etc. Rather than reinventing the wheel and having it be a costly and inefficient activity, systematic reuse of knowledge can show substantial cost benefits immediately. This book shows how to develop process-oriented methodologies, covers both interorganizational and enterprises models, discusses how knowledge management can dramatically reduce costs and increase speed of response, presents a wide range of quantitative methods applied to various knowledge engineering problems, and offers several graphical presentations of models and processes. Academicians and practitioners in the area of knowledge management and engineering, especially managers in industries will fine this book useful. The material might also be useful in knowledge management graduate studies.
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic
Book SynopsisThis handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic studies. It brings together for the first time in a single volume a complete analysis of current and future economic, commercial, socio-political, cultural and governance challenges facing both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, their athletes and institutions.The book presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Featuring chapters written by leading scholars, athletes and administrators from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, the handbook is divided into four main areas: athletes, business, governance and socio-cultural issues within the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Examining key themes, theories and new emerging issues within the field, the book offers expert insights into every major topic related to the OlympTable of ContentsIntroduction, Part I: Athletes’ Issues in Olympic and Paralympic Games, 1. Dual Career: Balancing success in sport and life, 2. Athletes and CAS: Protecting athletes’ rights, 3. Disability, Classification and the Paralympics: Inclusion and exclusion of elite athletes with disabilities, 4. Women: Rules and classifications in the Olympics and Paralympics, 5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Games: Human rights, unfair advantage and exclusion, 6. Sport and Nationality at the Olympic and Paralympic Games: Flags of convenience?, Part II: Olympic and Paralympic Business, 7. Olympic Values: Sponsorship, values and integrity in sport creating a paradigm shift, 8. Paralympic Brand Governance: The best of both worlds?, 9. Sponsoring the Paralympic Games and Breaking Barriers, 10. Olympic Broadcast Rights, 11. Activation of Olympic and Paralympic Sponsorship, 12. Legal Aspects of the Olympics and Ambush Marketing, 13. The Evolving #Rule40 of the Olympic Charter: Balancing the interest of sponsors vs athletes, 14. Towards a Shared Olympic Responsibility: Paradoxes and Challenges, 15. Esports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games: The business case for integration, 16. Organizing the Olympic Games, 17. Referendums at Olympic Games, Part III: The Governance of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 18. The Composition of the IOC: Origins and key turning points in the governance of the Olympic movement, 19. Changing Parasport Landscape and The Evolution of the International Paralympic Committee Governance, 20. Organisational Change Campaigns of the Olympic Movement: Insights from structural and cultural adaptations, 21. Sleeping with an Elephant: The relationship between the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, 22. The Autonomy of the Olympic and Sport Movement, 23. Political Autonomy and Control of National Olympic Committees, 24. The Changing Attitude of the IOC and the IPC Towards WADA and the Governance of Anti-Doping, 25. Board Renewal and Good Governance in the Olympic Movement, 26. The Relationship Between the IOC and International Sport Federations, 27. The Governance of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Part IV: Socio-cultural and Political Issues of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 28. Theory and Research in Scholarship around the Paralympic Games, 29. Olympic and Paralympic Games and Human Rights, 30. Sport for Development and Peace: Convergence and divergence with the Olympic movement, 31. Home Advantage in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 32. Debating the Future of Olympic and Paralympic Legacy, 33. Can Health-Related Legacies through Physical Activity and Sport be Delivered by the Olympic and Paralympic Games?, 34. Olympic and Paralympic Impacts in Non-Host City Regions, 35. Legacies Beyond the Olympic Games: The case of two Youth Olympic Games, 36. Arts and Culture in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 37. Olympic and Paralympic Games Education Programmes: Education as engagement from a practitioner's view
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Entrepreneurship for Rural Startups
Book SynopsisEntrepreneurs who start out with no network, no money, no market and scarce resources find a big contrast between what they read in books and the success stories from the Valley and their reality, specially first-timers. Most entrepreneurial books focus on the Business Canvas Model, simplifying the process of building a start-up. Many entrepreneurs who have no previous business experience embrace quick and lean methods without the foundations needed to build solid value proposals. This book stands out because it deals with entrepreneurship in environments far removed from large cities with fewer infrastructures, connections and resources but which also need companies that provide services to citizens and society. This book focuses on the basics, treating each part of the business canvas as a discipline itself that must be mastered. The book illustrates key lessons learned and offers guidance on essential topics for new venture success in mainstream markets. It expands criticaTable of ContentsPart I. Basic Principles for Successful Rural Entrepreneurship. 1. First Steps: understanding the start-ups ecosystem Ignacio Morales Conde, José L. Córdoba Leiva and Susan Giesecke. 2. Where is the money? Funding and finances Félix Jiménez-Naharro, María Mar González-Zamora and Tom Horsey. 3. How Do I sell it? Marketing and Communication Fundamentals Gloria Jiménez-Marín and Marta Domínguez de la Concha-Castañeda.4. Business development and day to day operations Rodrigo Elías Zambrano and Javier Domingo Morales. 5. Assembling a tech-team Emilio Solís and Álvaro Pareja. 6. Legal tips for newcomers Víctor López and Ricardo San Martín. 7. Dealing (and working) with large companies Óscar Carreras and Patricia Hernanz. Part II. Entrepreneurship with Rural Start-ups. 8. Spain Coordinated by Patricia López Trabajo. 9. USA Coordinated by Susan Giesecke. 10. Portugal Coordinated by Patricia Margarida Farias Coelho. 11. Latin America (Peru and Brazil) Coordinated by Patricia M. Farias Coelho and Mónica Reyes. 12. United Kingdom Coordinated by Irene García Medina.
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Routledge Managing Projects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding the New Global Economy
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the New Global Economy: A European Perspective argues that globalisation is facing economic and political headwinds. A new global economic geography is emerging, cross-border relationships are changing, and global governance structures must come to terms with a new multipolar world. This book clarifies the fundamental questions and trade-offs in this new global economy, and gives readers the tools to understand contemporary debates. It presents a range of possible policy options, without being prescriptive. Following a modular structure, each chapter takes a similar approach but can also be read as a stand-alone piece. State-of-the-art academic research and historical experiences are weaved throughout the book, and readers are pointed towards relevant sources of information . This text is an accessible guide to the contemporary world economy, suited to students of international economics, political economy, globalisatTrade ReviewA comprehensive and accessible guide on global and European economic affairs; an essential text outlining the underpinnings of current debates on globalisation, digitalisation, and sustainability; a must read for students, executives, and policy makers.Iftekhar HasanUniversity Professor and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance, Fordham University, USAThis book, based on a masterful analytical survey viewed from European perspective, gives update on the structural changes in the global economy. It is a "must" reading for both specialists and nonspecialists interested in the global economy to understand the multi-polarized New Global Economy emerging in the 21st century.Kwan S. KimEmeritus Professor of Economics, Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Fellow, Liu Institute for Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.European integration is Globalisation – writ small and large. Small, though not that small, given its regional dimension. Large, since it allows for a significantly deeper integration and embedding of markets. Harald Sander, in most accessible ways, provides his readers with the data and the tools to understand what is happening around them. A most impressive achievement!Hans-Helmut KotzResident Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA; Former Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche BundesbankThis tour-de-force book provides an analytical framework and essential information for the readers to make their own judgement for the future of globalisation. A must read in the current uncertain world economy.Justin Yifu LinProfessor, Peking University; Former Chief Economist, the World BankTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Global Production, 3. Global Trade, 4. Global Investment, 5. Global Intangibles, 6. Global Money and Finance, 7. Governance in the New Global Economy
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Taylor & Francis Costuming the Curve
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Marketing for Sustainable Tourism
Book SynopsisTourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable products and identifying more persuasive methods of communication to bring behavioural change. This book summarises the latest research on the theories, methods and results of marketing that seeks to make tourist destinations better places to live in, and better places to visit. It shares evidence on the motivations, mechanisms and barriers that businesses encounter, and on successes in changing consumer behaviour and pursuing sustainability goals. Particular attention is given to the methodologies of sustainable tourism marketing, to the subjectâs breadth and complexity, and to its many innovations. Further research is called for to fully understand what contextual aspects influence these pro-sustainability interventions to achieve which outcomes in other settings, in order to validate some of the exploratory studies discussed, and establish the feasibility of scaling up pilot studies for more general use.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Table of Contents1. Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential 2. Corporate social marketing in tourism: to sleep or not to sleep with the enemy? 3. Social marketing, sustainable tourism, and small/medium size tourism enterprises: challenges and opportunities for changing guest behaviour 4. Which hotel guest segments reuse towels? Selling sustainable tourism services through target marketing 5. Using persuasive communication to co-create behavioural change – engaging with guests to save resources at tourist accommodation facilities 6. Improving carbon offsetting appeals in online airplane ticket purchasing: testing new messages, and using new test methods 7. The influence of trust perceptions on German tourists’ intention to book a sustainable hotel: a new approach to analysing marketing information 8. The role of travel agents’ ethical concerns when brokering information in the marketing and sale of sustainable tourism 9. Greenhushing: the deliberate under communicating of sustainability practices by tourism businesses 10. Tourism, information technologies and sustainability: an exploratory review 11. An environmental social marketing intervention in cultural heritage tourism: a realist evaluation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Big Data IoT and Machine Learning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Enterprise Level Security 2
Book SynopsisEnterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World follows on from the authorsâ first book on Enterprise Level Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the discoveries made during the first eight years of its development. This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots, and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together. The chapters cover specific advanced topics derived from painful mistakes and numerous revisions of processes. This book covers many of the topics omitted from the first book including multi-factor authentication, cloud key management, enterprise change management, entity veracity, homomorphic computing, device management, mobile ad hoc, big data, mediation, and several other topics. The ELS model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary of the Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate for DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. The book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers, application developers, and IT security professionals. This is a unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the market. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The First 16 Years.1.1 The Beginning of Enterprise Level Security (ELS).1.2 Design Principles. 1.3 Key Concepts. 1.4 Implementation.Chapter 2. A Brief Review of the Initial Book. 2.1 Security Principles. 2.2 ELS Framework. Chapter 3. Minimal Requirements for the Advanced Topics. 3.1 Needed Capabilities. 3.2 Creating an Attribute Store. 3.3 Registering a Service. 3.4 Computing Claims. 3.5 User Convenience Services. 3.6 The Enterprise Attribute Ecosystem.3.7 Summary. Identity and Access Advanced Topics.Chapter 4. Identity Claims in High Assurance.4.1 Who Are You?. 4.2 Entity Vetting. 4.3 Naming. 4.4 Key and Credential Generation.4.5 Key and Credential Access Control.4.6 Key and Credential Management.4.7 Key and Credential Uses. 4.8 Some Other Considerations. Chapter 5. Cloud Key Management.5.1 Clouds. 5.2 ELS in a Private Cloud.5.3 The Public Cloud Challenge.5.4 Potential Hybrid Cloud Solutions.5.5 Proposed Secure Solutions.5.6 Implementation.5.7 Cloud Key Management Summary. Chapter 6. Enhanced Assurance Needs. 6.1 Enhanced Identity Issues. 6.2 Scale of Identity Assurance. 6.3 Implementing the Identity Assurance Requirement.6.4 Additional Requirements. 6.5 Enhanced Assurance Summary. Chapter 7. Temporary Certificates. 7.1 Users That Do Not Have a PIV.. 7.2 Non-PIV STS/CA-Issued Certificate. 7.3 Required Additional Elements. 7.4 Precluding the Use of Temporary Certificates. 7.5 Temporary Certificate Summary. Chapter 8. Derived Certificates on Mobile Devices. 8.1 Derived Credentials. 8.2 Authentication with the Derived Credential.8.3 Encryption with the Derived Credential.8.4 Security Considerations. 8.5 Certificate Management.Chapter 9. Veracity and Counter Claims. 9.1 The Insider Threat.9.2 Integrity, Reputation, and Veracity. 9.3 Measuring Veracity.9.4 Creating a Model & Counter-Claims. 9.5 Veracity and Counter-Claims Summary. Chapter 10. Delegation of Access and Privilege. 10.1 Access and Privilege. 10.2 Delegation Principles. 10.3 ELS Delegation. 10.4 Delegation Summary. Chapter 11. Escalation of Privilege. 11.1 Context for Escalation. 11.2 Access and Privilege Escalation. 11.3 Planning for Escalation. 11.4 Invoking Escalation. 11.5 Escalation Implementation within ELS. 11.6 Accountability. 11.7 Escalation Summary.Chapter 12. Federation. 12.1 Federation Technical Considerations. 12.2 Federation Trust Considerations. 12.3 Federation Conclusions. ELS Extensions – Content Management.Chapter 13. Content Object Uniqueness for Forensics. 13.1 Exfiltration in Complex Systems. 13.2 Product Identifiers. 13.3 Hidden Messages. 13.4 Content Management.13.5 Content Object Summary.Chapter 14. Homomorphic Encryption. 14.1 Full Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)14.2 Partial Homomorphic Encryption (PHE) 14.3 PHE Performance Evaluation. 14.4 Homomorphic Encryption Conclusions. ELS Extensions – Data Aggregation. Chapter 15. Access and Privilege in Big Data Analysis. 15.1 Big Data Access. 15.2 Big Data Related Work. 15.3 Big Data with ELS. 15.4 Big Data Summary.Chapter 16. Data Mediation16.1 Maintaining Security with Data Mediation. 16.2 The Mediation Issue. 16.3 Approaches. 16.4 Choosing a Solution. 16.5 Mediation Summary. ELS Extensions – Mobile Devices. Chapter 17. Mobile Ad Hoc17.1 Mobile Ad Hoc Implementations. 17.2 Network Service Descriptions. 17.3 Other Considerations.17.4 Mobile Ad Hoc Summary. Chapter 18. Endpoint Device Management 18.1 Endpoint Device Choices. 18.2 Endpoint Device Management ELS Extensions – Other Topics. Chapter 19. Endpoint Agent Architecture 19.1 Agent Architecture. 19.2 Related Work. 19.3 ELS Agent Methods. 19.4 Endpoint Agent Results. 19.5 Endpoint Agent Conclusions. 19.6 Endpoint Agent Extensions. Chapter 20. Ports and Protocols20.1 Introduction. 20.2 Communication Models. 20.3 Ports in Transport Protocols. 20.4 Threats Considered. 20.5 Assigning Ports and Protocols. 20.6 Server Configurations. 20.7 Firewalls and Port Blocking. 20.8 Application Firewalls. 20.9 Network Firewalls in ELS. 20.10 Endpoint Protection in ELS. 20.11 Handling and Inspection of Traffic. 20.12 Additional Security Hardening. Chapter 21. Asynchronous Messaging21.1 Why Asynchronous Messaging?. 21.2 Prior Work. 21.3 Asynchronous Messaging Security. 21.4 PSS Rock and Jewel 21.5 Summary. Chapter 22. Virtual Application Data Center 22.1 Introduction. 22.2 Enterprise Level Security and VADC Concepts. 22.3 VADC Implementation. 22.4 Resource Utilization. 22.5 Distributed Benefits and Challenges. 22.6 Virtual Application Conclusions.Chapter 23. Managing System Changes23.1 System Change. 23.2 Current Approaches. 23.3 The Vision. 23.4 Realizing the Vision. 23.5 Moving into the Future. 23.6 Managing Information Technology Changes. Chapter 24. Concluding Remarks24.1 Staying Secure in an Uncertain World. 24.2 The Model is Important 24.3 Zero Trust Architecture. 24.4 Computing Efficiencies. 24.5 Current Full ELS System.. 24.6 Future Directions. References and Bibliography. Acronyms. Index.
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CRC Press Enterprise Level Security 2
Book SynopsisEnterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World follows on from the authorsâ first book on Enterprise Level Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the discoveries made during the first eight years of its development. This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots, and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together. The chapters cover specific advanced topics derived from painful mistakes and numerous revisions of processes. This book covers many of the topics omitted from the first book including multi-factor authentication, cloud key management, enterprise change management, entity veracity, homomorphic computing, device management, mobile ad hoc, big data, mediation, and several other topics. The ELS model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary of the Air Force for Air Force computing systems and isTable of ContentsChapter 1. The First 16 Years. 1.1 The Beginning of Enterprise Level Security (ELS). 1.2 Design Principles. 1.3 Key Concepts. 1.4 Implementation. Chapter 2. A Brief Review of the Initial Book. 2.1 Security Principles. 2.2 ELS Framework. Chapter 3. Minimal Requirements for the Advanced Topics. 3.1 Needed Capabilities. 3.2 Creating an Attribute Store. 3.3 Registering a Service. 3.4 Computing Claims. 3.5 User Convenience Services. 3.6 The Enterprise Attribute Ecosystem. 3.7 Summary. Identity and Access Advanced Topics. Chapter 4. Identity Claims in High Assurance. 4.1 Who Are You?. 4.2 Entity Vetting. 4.3 Naming. 4.4 Key and Credential Generation. 4.5 Key and Credential Access Control. 4.6 Key and Credential Management. 4.7 Key and Credential Uses. 4.8 Some Other Considerations. Chapter 5. Cloud Key Management. 5.1 Clouds. 5.2 ELS in a Private Cloud. 5.3 The Public Cloud Challenge. 5.4 Potential Hybrid Cloud Solutions. 5.5 Proposed Secure Solutions. 5.6 Implementation. 5.7 Cloud Key Management Summary. Chapter 6. Enhanced Assurance Needs. 6.1 Enhanced Identity Issues. 6.2 Scale of Identity Assurance. 6.3 Implementing the Identity Assurance Requirement. 6.4 Additional Requirements. 6.5 Enhanced Assurance Summary. Chapter 7. Temporary Certificates. 7.1 Users That Do Not Have a PIV.. 7.2 Non-PIV STS/CA-Issued Certificate. 7.3 Required Additional Elements. 7.4 Precluding the Use of Temporary Certificates. 7.5 Temporary Certificate Summary. Chapter 8. Derived Certificates on Mobile Devices. 8.1 Derived Credentials. 8.2 Authentication with the Derived Credential. 8.3 Encryption with the Derived Credential. 8.4 Security Considerations. 8.5 Certificate Management. Chapter 9. Veracity and Counter Claims. 9.1 The Insider Threat. 9.2 Integrity, Reputation, and Veracity. 9.3 Measuring Veracity. 9.4 Creating a Model & Counter-Claims. 9.5 Veracity and Counter-Claims Summary. Chapter 10. Delegation of Access and Privilege. 10.1 Access and Privilege. 10.2 Delegation Principles. 10.3 ELS Delegation. 10.4 Delegation Summary. Chapter 11. Escalation of Privilege. 11.1 Context for Escalation. 11.2 Access and Privilege Escalation. 11.3 Planning for Escalation. 11.4 Invoking Escalation. 11.5 Escalation Implementation within ELS. 11.6 Accountability. 11.7 Escalation Summary. Chapter 12. Federation. 12.1 Federation Technical Considerations. 12.2 Federation Trust Considerations. 12.3 Federation Conclusions. ELS Extensions – Content Management. Chapter 13. Content Object Uniqueness for Forensics. 13.1 Exfiltration in Complex Systems. 13.2 Product Identifiers. 13.3 Hidden Messages. 13.4 Content Management. 13.5 Content Object Summary. Chapter 14. Homomorphic Encryption. 14.1 Full Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) 14.2 Partial Homomorphic Encryption (PHE) 14.3 PHE Performance Evaluation. 14.4 Homomorphic Encryption Conclusions. ELS Extensions – Data Aggregation. Chapter 15. Access and Privilege in Big Data Analysis. 15.1 Big Data Access. 15.2 Big Data Related Work. 15.3 Big Data with ELS. 15.4 Big Data Summary. Chapter 16. Data Mediation 16.1 Maintaining Security with Data Mediation. 16.2 The Mediation Issue. 16.3 Approaches. 16.4 Choosing a Solution. 16.5 Mediation Summary. ELS Extensions – Mobile Devices. Chapter 17. Mobile Ad Hoc 17.1 Mobile Ad Hoc Implementations. 17.2 Network Service Descriptions. 17.3 Other Considerations. 17.4 Mobile Ad Hoc Summary. Chapter 18. Endpoint Device Management 18.1 Endpoint Device Choices. 18.2 Endpoint Device Management ELS Extensions – Other Topics. Chapter 19. Endpoint Agent Architecture 19.1 Agent Architecture. 19.2 Related Work. 19.3 ELS Agent Methods. 19.4 Endpoint Agent Results. 19.5 Endpoint Agent Conclusions. 19.6 Endpoint Agent Extensions. Chapter 20. Ports and Protocols 20.1 Introduction. 20.2 Communication Models. 20.3 Ports in Transport Protocols. 20.4 Threats Considered. 20.5 Assigning Ports and Protocols. 20.6 Server Configurations. 20.7 Firewalls and Port Blocking. 20.8 Application Firewalls. 20.9 Network Firewalls in ELS. 20.10 Endpoint Protection in ELS. 20.11 Handling and Inspection of Traffic. 20.12 Additional Security Hardening. Chapter 21. Asynchronous Messaging 21.1 Why Asynchronous Messaging?. 21.2 Prior Work. 21.3 Asynchronous Messaging Security. 21.4 PSS Rock and Jewel 21.5 Summary. Chapter 22. Virtual Application Data Center 22.1 Introduction. 22.2 Enterprise Level Security and VADC Concepts. 22.3 VADC Implementation. 22.4 Resource Utilization. 22.5 Distributed Benefits and Challenges. 22.6 Virtual Application Conclusions. Chapter 23. Managing System Changes 23.1 System Change. 23.2 Current Approaches. 23.3 The Vision. 23.4 Realizing the Vision. 23.5 Moving into the Future. 23.6 Managing Information Technology Changes. Chapter 24. Concluding Remarks 24.1 Staying Secure in an Uncertain World. 24.2 The Model is Important 24.3 Zero Trust Architecture. 24.4 Computing Efficiencies. 24.5 Current Full ELS System.. 24.6 Future Directions. References and Bibliography. Acronyms. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mass Communication Theories
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this innovative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of mass communication theories, as well as their origins and empirical supports in psychology, sociology, political science, and philosophy. Each chapter presents a specific theory, describing its basic structure in simple formal terms and providing an accessible summary of the research studies and scholarly writings from which it developed. It breaks each complex theory down into five or six interlinked basic propositions, making them easily digestible for students. This new edition includes up-to-date research; improved coverage of all theories presented; expanded treatments of theories such as cultivation theory, the spiral of silence, and framing; contemporary and social media examples; chapter discussion questions; and informative charts and figures. This textbook serves as an accessible core text for undergraduate and graduate Mass Communication, ComTable of ContentsChapter 1: SHAPING THE AMERICAN MASS MEDIA: AN OVERVIEW Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINS, NATURE, AND USES OF THEORIES Chapter 3: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Chapter 4: PUBLIC OPINION AS SHAPED BY THE PRESS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Chapter 5: COGNITIVE PROCESSING: THE CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 6: THE CONCEPT OF MASS SOCIETY: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGY Chapter 7: JAMES BRYCE’S 19th CENTURY THEORY OF PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PRESS Chapter 8: WALTER LIPPMAN’S 1920s THEORY OF UNINTENTIONAL NEWS DISTORTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NATURE OF PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 9: THE "MAGIC BULLET" THEORY OF UNIFORM EFFECTS Chapter 10: THE SELECTIVE AND LIMITED INFLUENCES THEORY Chapter 11: THE TWO-STEP FLOW OF COMMUNICATION THEORY Chapter 12: GATEKEEPING THEORY Chapter 13: AGENDA-SETTING THEORY Chapter 14: FRAMING THEORY Chapter 15: USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY Chapter 16: MODELING BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY Chapter 17: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS THEORY Chapter 18: MEDIA-INFLUENCED DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY Chapter 19: A THEORY OF AUDIENCE AND MEDIA DEPENDENCY ON POPULAR CULTURE Chapter 20: CULTIVATION THEORY Chapter 21: CRITICAL CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: INTERPRETATIONS OF MEDIA INFLUENCES ON INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY Chapter 22: ADDITIONAL THEORIES AND CONCEPTS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Materials for Engineers and Technicians
Book SynopsisFor over forty years, Materials for Engineers and Technicians has given thousands of students an easily accessible introduction to materials engineering and manufacturing processes. This renowned text is a comprehensive overview of the wide-ranging subject area, written in a straightforward, readable style. It is devoid of excessive jargon and mathematical complexity, and retains a practical down-to-earth approach.This expanded edition references specifications for materials and materials testing that have been updated to include European-wide standards of the EU. More applications of materials and case studies have been included. New content discusses the choice of materials and processes in relation to 3D printing and the importance of materials recycling and sustainability. The increased emphasis on the selection of materials reflects this aspect of materials engineering now seen within current vocational and university courses.In addition to meeting the requirements of vocational and undergraduate engineering syllabuses, this text also serves as a valuable desktop reference for professional engineers working in product design who require a quick source of information on materials and manufacturing processes.Table of Contents1. Engineering materials 2. Properties of materials 3. Mechanical testing 4. The crystal structure of metals 5. Casting process 6. Mechanical deformation of metals 7. The mechanical shaping of metals 8. Alloys 9. Equilibrium diagrams 10. Practical microscopy 11. Iron and steel 12. The heat-treatment of plain-carbon steels 13. Alloy steels 14. The surface hardening of steels 15. Cast iron 16. Copper and its alloys 17. Aluminium and its alloys 18. Other non-ferrous metals and their alloys 19. Plastics materials and rubbers 20. Properties of plastics 21. Ceramics 22. Glasses 23. Composite materials 24. Fibre-reinforced composite materials 25. Methods of joining materials 26. Causes of failure 27. Choice of materials and processes 28. Selection of materials Appendix A: Properties of engineering materials Appendix B: Glossary of key terms
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Taylor & Francis Planned Change
Book SynopsisGil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science, in general, and OD and T-Group training, in particular, have notâmaking the theoretical father of our work accessible. Thus, this book is a gift and with it we can understand more deeply and teach others more accurately what Lewin actually stated and meant. Moreover, the book is reader-friendly, visually appealing, and humorous rather than academically boring. Thank you, Gil!Dr. W. Warner Burke E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and EducationTeachers College, Columbia UniversityKurt Lewin (1890-1947) was a visionary psychologist and social scientist who used rigorous research methods to establish an approach to planned change that is both practical and reliable. He mentored and inspired most of the early professionals who came to identify themselves as practitioners of organization development (OD). He also fostered the emergence of the experiential learning method known as the T-group, which uniquely structures group dynamics into a laboratory for dramatic individual and team development. In the early days, most OD professionals learned much about themselves and about group dynamics through T-group experiences. Lewinâs methods, though little known, yield consistent business results such as increased performance and improved morale. His approaches have the rare impact of not just changing behavior, but changing the beliefs that underlie behavior. Sadly, most OD professionals todayâ business and organizational leaders, community organizers, and people, in generalâhave never read any of Lewinâs actual writing beyond a quote or two. Indeed, some in the OD profession have rejected or distanced themselves from what they think Lewin taught, even though they and many others seem to know very little about his methods or history. Because Lewin was a prolific writer, one of the authorâs main goals is to organize his immense body of published work so that readers can easily explore the source material and form their own opinions. Essentially, this book is aimed at introducing Lewin in a new way, both simplified yet substantial enough to guide anyone who is trying to plan change, whether at the individual, group/team, organizational, or societal levels. Lewin was not trying to create methods for OD professionals alone (or for social scientists as he regarded himself). In his interventions, he taught those how to do their own version of planned change. He believed social science might be the light that helps create a brighter future for humanity. This text transfers this knowledge to a broad audience so that each reader can more successfully implement organizational and social change.Table of ContentsIntroduction I: Lewinian Principles of Planned Change 1: Lewinian Principles of Planned Change II: A Brief Biography 2: The German Years 3: The USA Years III: Methods and Theories 4: A Universal Theory of Social Science 5: Planned Change 6: Group Dynamics and Leadership 7: Social Science and Politics 8: Education, Re-education & Training 9: Social Justice and Change 10: The Birth of the T-group 11: Organization Development IV: Planned Change Now 12: T-groups and OD 13: The Past, Present, and Future of Planned Change APPENDICES Appendix A: The Interpersonal Gap Appendix B: The PECO Nuclear Turnaround Appendix C: KRID Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Synesis
Book SynopsisThe complexity of today's large organisations, businesses, and social institutions defeats management approaches based on monolithic thinking. Most industry and service organisations look at their performance either from a single perspective productivity, quality, safety, etc. or from different but separate perspectives that reside in organisational silos. Quality is treated separately from safety, which, again, is treated separately from productivity, and so on. While siloed thinking may be convenient in the short term, it fails to recognise that any specific perspective reveals only a part of what goes on. Yet it is essential to have a unified view of how an organisation functions effectively to manage changes and to ensure the organisation excels in what it does.Synesis represents the mutually dependent set of priorities, perspectives, and practices that an organisation needs to carry out its activities as intended. It shows how to overcome the fragmentation in foTrade Review"Erik Hollnagel has always been ahead of the curve, and here he is again. A book about safety without the s-word—only to replace it with another s-word! Synesis not only unifies everything relevant about organizational performance, it sums up Erik's decades of remarkable, substantive contributions to our field." - Prof. Sidney W. A. Dekker. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia"Some people are lumpers, trying to build a world of high-level categories. Others are splitters, seeing fine-grained detail and multiple types wherever they look. Few of us can be both, but as with everything he does, Erik Hollnagel shows he can. Synesis integrates huge amounts of detail about organisational life without losing the particulars. It’s an idea destined to become widely used, like so many of his contributions." - Prof. Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia"If we take seriously a 21st century truism that change never starts because it never stops, a book that makes change challenges more comprehensible and change processes more manageable cannot be timelier or more important. Synesis is an invaluable must read for those seeking to change organizational systems through a pragmatic blend of theory and practice." - Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA"This thought-provoking book challenges the long-held beliefs that problems in productivity, quality, safety and reliability of production systems can be solved in isolation, each with its own special measures. It argues that problems in production systems are due to feeble human efforts to get the system working rather than to random cause and that a less fragmented mindset therefore is required. I recommend this book for all interested in the improvement of productivity, quality, reliability and safety in practice as well as in theory." - Bo Bergman, Professor Emeritus, Quality Sciences, Chalmers, SwedenTable of Contents1. A fragmented view 2. Historical reasons for the fragmented view 3. Psychological reasons for the fragmented view 4. Fundamentals of change management 5. Fragmented change management 6. Synetic change management 7. A nexus of necessary knowledge
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Taylor & Francis Nation Branding in the Americas
Book SynopsisNation Branding in the Americas: Contested Politics and Identities provides an overview of nation branding in the Americas, an often neglected continent(s) in debates about the creation, dissemination and management of national images.Drawing on insights from promotional cultures, nationalism, geopolitics, media and communication, as well as their own research, the authors look at national promotion experiences in twelve countries - Canada, the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile - , examining how these cases relate to broader challenges and commonalities, such as the relationship between nation branding and stereotypes, invisibility, heritage or internal contradictions. Nation Branding in the Americas: Contested Politics and Identities is an important contribution to the study of practices and concepts such as nation branding, public diplomacy, soft power, and strategic communication. It highlights the multifaceted nature of nation branding, and how this can be used to perpetuate local and global hierarchies, legitimize the agendas of specific governments, and discipline the inhabitants of a nation, but also become a venue for people to negotiate and communicate the kind of society they want to be. The book will therefore be of interest for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students specialized in marketing, media and communication, and international relations. It will also appeal to professionals in public diplomacy, strategic communication, public relations, and branding, offering a broad overview to the practice and discussion of national promotion in an increasingly contested and cacophonic global communication environment.
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