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Book SynopsisAn executive’s transition into any leadership role can be a challenge. Such transitions do not always go smoothly, and the negative consequences can be significant. This is particularly so for Chief Information Officers (CIOs), as the role has evolved significantly over the years yet remains deeply ambiguous. This is despite information and technology moving from the periphery of an organization to a fundamental driver of innovation and competitive advantage. This book is to help the newly appointed CIO “take charge”: the process of learning and taking action that the newly appointed CIO goes through until s/he has mastered the new assignment in sufficient depth to be effective in the role. This book provides keen insights into the challenges faced by today's CIOs while transitioning into a new role and enlightens readers on how to navigate the organizational environment in order to implement necessary changes. With plenty of practical tools and insights it will help you to: • Decide how best to approach the job • Prioritize the first areas of the business you should attend to • Draw up your goals for the first few weeks and months into the role • Find out if there are there any decisions that you can postpone making Based on over 200 interviews with CIOs, CxOs, and recruiters, this book offers readers guidance on how to take on the role of a business executive with special responsibility for information and technology, with ten key prescriptions to maximize success.Table of Contents1. The Ambiguity of the CIO Role2. No CIO Is an Island3. How New Leaders "Fit In"4. Setting the Stage for CIO Transitions5. Beyond the First 90 Days: Taking Charge6. The Phases of Taking Charge7. The Other Side of the Coin8. Peers, Relationships and Influence9. Taking Off: Guidance for CIOs10. Advice from CIOs to CIOs

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Book SynopsisThis book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote. The intention is to highlight the fact that no matter how an electoral system has been designed, and regardless of the intentions of those who devised the system, there will be goals that are impossible to achieve but also opportunities for improving the situation in an informed way. While detailed descriptions of electoral systems are not provided, many references are made to current or past situations, both as examples and to underline particular problems and shortcomings. In addition, a new voting method that avoids the many paradoxes of voting theory is described in detail. While some knowledge of mathematics is required in order to gain the most from the book, every effort has been made to ensure that the subject matter is easily accessible for non-mathematicians, too. In short, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the meaning of voting. Trade Review“Paolo Serafini has the merit of presenting in a synthetic and pedagogical way the main aspects of the voting theory. This book would be well suited for undergraduate and graduate students who are new to voting theory … . the book is very enjoyable to read … . The present book adds its stone to the series of books on voting theory while distinguishing itself by its pedagogy and simplicity.” (Eric Kamwa, Journal of Economics, Vol. 134, 2021)“This book exposes a variety of social choice systems … . The electoral rules for the formation of the government of several countries are discussed, as examples of application of different aggregation methods, their particular problems and shortcomings are highlighted and opportunities of improvement underlined.” (Annibal Parracho Sant’Anna, zbMATH 1476.91002, 2022)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisWhen crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery. Given the scale and scope of crises, whether natural (such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes), manmade (such as conflict and economic downturns), or often a combination of the two, governments are often seen as being in the best position to identify the problems, understand the circumstances, and direct action. They are also likely to be the entities that have adequate resources to devote to such large-scale efforts. Yet, governments are not spared from the effects of crises. They are composed of individuals who are impacted by disasters and face many of the same challenges in identifying needs, prioritizing action, and adjusting to changing circumstances. It is by no surprise that governments are also often scrutinized during and after crises. How, then, do we understand the capability of and proper role for governments to respond to crisis and to drive recovery? This edited volume—comprised of chapters by accomplished scholars and seasoned practitioners in disaster and crises studies and management, spanning multiple disciplines including sociology, economics, and public administration—examines the roles, expectations, and capabilities of government responses to crises. It gives an overview of the literature, provides lessons learned from both research and experience on the ground during crises, and puts forth a framework for understanding crisis management and subsequent policy implications. It will be of use to any scholars, students, practitioners or policymakers interested in learning from and better preparing for crises and responding when they do occur. Table of Contents Introduction The Rules of the Game and Post-disaster Rebuilding and Recovery Government as Gardener: Cultivating the Environment for Private Sector Natural Disaster Response The Role of the Local Emergency Manager in a Centralized System of Disaster Management Recognizing Vulnerability and Capacity: Federal Initiatives Focused on Children and Youth across the Disaster Lifecycle The Political Economy of Foreign Intervention When is Top-down State-building Appropriate? The European Migrant Crisis: A Case Study in Failure of Government and Supra-governmental Responses

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Book SynopsisCrises occur in all societies across world, and can be natural (such as hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes), man-made (such as wars and economic downturns), or, often, a combination of both (such as famines, the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levy failures, and the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011). Crises cause fatalities, injuries, and property damages as well as introduce uncertainty and challenges for individuals, societies, and polities. Yet, we see individuals and communities rebounding effectively from crises all the time. How do communities go about returning to normalcy and beginning again the mundane life of every day affairs? This edited volume looks at bottom-up responses to crises. The chapters in this volume will highlight the ingenuity and persistence of individuals and private organizations as well as discuss the possibilities, limitations, and adaptability of bottom-up responses. It argues that there are many ways that local leaders, entrepreneurs, and community members can play a role in their own recovery by examining the capabilities, feedback mechanisms, and network effects of decentralized crisis response and recovery efforts. Chapters will focus on the role of local emergency managers in the disaster management process and offer suggestions for reform and the role of businesses, citizens, and children in providing crisis response and recovery. This book will also consider theories of self-governance and nonviolent action in encouraging and sustaining bottom-up recovery.Table of Contents Introduction The What, How, and Why of Bottom-up Rebuilding and Recovery after Natural Disasters Nonviolent Action The Private Sector's Contribution to Natural Disaster Response Formation of Public-Private Partnerships by Local Emergency Managers Children Take Charge: Helping Behaviors and Organized Action among Young People after Hurricane Katrina Bottom-up State-building Government Intervention Induced Structural Crises: Exploratory Notes on the Patterns of Evolution and Response

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the reasons behind the declining fortunes of public access channels. Public access, which provided perhaps the boldest experiment in popular media democracy, is in steep decline. While some have argued it is technologically outmoded, Caterino argues that the real reason lies with the rise of a neo-liberal media regime. This regime creates a climate in which we can understand these changes. This book considers the role of neo-liberalism in transforming notions of public obligations and regulation of media that have impacted non-profit media, specifically public access. Neo-liberalism has tried to eliminate public forums and public discourse and weakens institutions of civil society. Though social media is often championed as an arena of communicative freedom, Caterino argues that neo-liberalism has created a colonized social media environment that severely limits popular democracy. Table of Contents1. Public Access in Decline.- 2. The Frankfurt School and its Aftermath.- 3. Public Interest Standards from Radio to Public Television.- 4. The Emergence of Public Access Television.- 5. Neo-liberalism the Public Sphere and the Decline of Public Obligation.- 6. Access Under Attack: Some Examples.- 7. Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Internet Democracy vs Public Access.- 8. A Future for Public Access?.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes process mining use cases and business impact along the value chain, from corporate to local applications, representing the state of the art in domain know-how. Providing a set of industrial case studies and best practices, it complements academic publications on the topic. Further the book reveals the challenges and failures in order to offer readers practical insights and guidance on how to avoid the pitfalls and ensure successful operational deployment.The book is divided into three parts: Part I provides an introduction to the topic from fundamental principles to key success factors, and an overview of operational use cases. As a holistic description of process mining in a business environment, this part is particularly useful for readers not yet familiar with the topic. Part II presents detailed use cases written by contributors from a variety of functions and industries. Lastly, Part III provides a brief overview of the future of process mining, both from academic and operational perspectives.Based on a solid academic foundation, process mining has received increasing interest from operational businesses, with many companies already reaping the benefits. As the first book to present an overview of successful industrial applications, it is of particular interest to professionals who want to learn more about the possibilities and opportunities this new technology offers. It is also a valuable resource for researchers looking for empirical results when considering requirements for enhancements and further developments.Trade Review“The book should interest academics, executives, and professionals with an interest in the topic.” (Anoop Malaviya, Computing Reviews, October 13, 2021)Table of ContentsPart I Principles and Value of Process Mining.- 1 Process Mining in a Nutshell.- 2 How to get Started.- 3 Purpose: Identifying the right Use Cases.- 4 People: The Human Factor.- 5 Processtraces: Technology.- 6 Challenges, Pitfalls and Failures.- 7 Process Mining, RPA, BPM and DTO.- 8 Key Learnings.- Part II Best Practice Use Cases.- 9 Siemens: Driving global change with the Digital Fit Rate in Order2Cash.- 10 Uber: Process Mining to optimize Customer experience and Business performance.- 11 BMW: Process Mining @ Production.- 12 Siemens: Process Mining for operational efficiency in Purchase2Pay.- 13 athenahealth: Process Mining for Service Integrity in Healthcare.- 14 EDP Comercial: Sales and Service Digitization.- 15 ABB: From Mining Processes towards Driving Processes.- 16 Bosch: Process Mining – a Corporate Consulting Perspective.- 17 Schukat: Process Mining enables Schukat electronic to reinvent itself.- 18 Siemens Healthineers: Process Mining as Innovation Driver in Product Management.- 19 Bayer: Process Mining supports Digital Transformation in Internal Audit.- 20 Telekom: Process Mining in Shared Services.- Part III Outlook: Future of Process Mining.- 21 Academic View: Development of the Process Mining Discipline.- 22 Business View: Towards a Digital Enabled Organization.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about what Mark Carney has called ‘the social licence for financial markets’ and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality and the presence of justice-focused aspirations in finance can positively impact individual, institutional, and systemic behaviour: change, not imposed by regulators, but emerging from the very substance of market relationships. The finance sector should have a key role in addressing humanity’s increasingly pressing sustainability challenges. Yet the relationship between finance and society has not recovered from the 2008 crisis and the scandals and austerity that followed. The Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout is sharpening some of the issues and creating new ones. Recognising that financial markets operate subject to a social licence has the potential to galvanise market participants in tackling these challenges, strengthening social solidarity on which markets also depend, and to provide coordinates for navigating a way through the post-pandemic social, political and economic landscape. Trade Review“This book is an important contribution to that debate that deserves to be widely read.” (Bruce Davis, Financial World, November 2020-January 2021)Table of Contents1. The Great Re-evaluation: Reaching for an EndPart I In the Beginning, an End2. People, Firms, Markets, Behaviour3. The Ends of Desire in Financial MarketsPart II The Social Licence and Justice4. The Social Licence for Financial Markets5. Realising Justice: the Role of Written StandardsPart III In the End, a Beginning6. Behaviour—Change in Practice7. Policy Implications8. Conclusion—Not an End, but a Beginning

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to refute the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual’s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, she recommends employing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work, and then becoming passionate about one’s work organically.The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as “meaning-mission fit,” and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for the employees to do the same.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is Meaning-Mission Fit?- Chapter 3. The Experience of Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 4. The Benefits of Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 5. The Experience of Mis-Fit.- Chapter 6. The Process of Attaining Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 7. The Meaning Enactment Process.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisTechnology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.Table of ContentsCh 1: Threats of Imaginable and Unimaginable Proportions.- Ch 2: Beyond the Hype.- Ch 3: Pluses and Minuses.- Ch 4: Technological Messes.- Ch 5: Managing Tech.- Ch 6: The Socially Responsible Tech Company.- Ch 7: The Moral Underpinnings of Technology.- Epilogue: The Future of Technology.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction and hands-on examples that demonstrate how Learning Analytics (LA) can be used to enhance digital learning, teaching and training at various levels. While the majority of existing literature on the subject focuses on its application at large corporations, this book develops and showcases approaches that bring LA closer to smaller organizations, and to educational institutions that lack sufficient resources to implement a full-fledged LA infrastructure. In closing, the book introduces a set of software tools for data analytics and visualization, and explains how they can be employed in several LA scenarios.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role that data analysis plays in the managerial decision-making process. The author presents the notion of "beyond analytics," which proposes that through data collection managers evaluate patterns in business processes through models of cognitive representation, framing and modeling, and knowledge creation in businesses. The book focuses on how the massive amounts of business data can be reduced to manageable volumes, thus allowing managers to make informed decisions. Further, it relates beyond analytics to HR aspects of the business and succession planning. This book will inform organizational behavioral theorists how the management of data impacts the decision-making process in organizations.Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Notion of Business Analytics Chapter 2: The Notion of Beyond Business Analytics: Examples of Business Applications Chapter 3: The Concept of Beyond Business Analytics Chapter 4: Representations of Organizational Events Chapter 5: Illustrative Cases in Human History Chapter 6: The Power of the Few Chapter 7: Beyond Business Analytics and the Pursuit of World Peace Chapter 8: Beyond Business Analytics: How good products made by good companies fail in the marketplace Chapter 9: Beyond Business Analytics: How Good public organizations fail in their mission Chapter 10: The Road Ahead

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Book Synopsis This book provides unique information to prepare graduates and newly hired corporate and investment banking professionals for a career in the global markets environment of large universal and international investment banks. It shows the interrelationship between the three specific business functions of sales, trading, and research, as well as the interaction with corporate and institutional clients. The book fills a gap in the available literature by linking financial market theory to the practical aspects of day-to-day operations on a trading floor and offers a taxonomy of the current banking business, providing an in-depth analysis of the main market participants in the global markets ecosystem. Engaging the reader with case studies, anecdotes, and industry color, the book addresses the risks and opportunities of the global markets business in today’s global financial markets both from a theoretical and from a practitioner’s perspective and focuses on the most important fixed-income financial instruments from a pricing, risk-management, and client-marketing perspective.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. A Taxonomy of the Banking Business.- 3. Fundamentals of the Banking Business.- 4. Sales.- 5. Trading.- 6. Research.- 7. Derivatives.- 8. Exercises.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques. Specific topics covered in the contributed chapters include discrete-event simulation, patient admission scheduling, simulation-based emergency department control systems, patient transportation, cost function networks, hospital bed management, and operating theater scheduling. The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, information technology, industrial engineering, and applied mathematics.Table of ContentsA Two-Dimensional Categorization Scheme for Simulation-/Optimization-Based Decision Support in Hospitals Applied to Overall Bed Management in Interdependent Wards Under Flexibility.- Heuristics Based on the Hungarian Method for the Patient Admission Scheduling Problem.- A Bi-objective Algorithm for Robust Operating Theatre Scheduling.- Cost Function Networks to Solve Large Computational Protein Design Problems.- Modeling and Simulation in a Dialysis Center of the Hedi Chaker Hospital- Toward a Proactive and Reactive Simulation-Based Emergency Department Control System to Cope with Strain Situations.- A Decentralized Approach to the Home Healthcare Problem.- Wounded Transportation and Assignment to Hospital During Crises.- Carbon Footprints in Emergency Departments: A Simulation-Optimization Analysis.- The Effect of Risks on Discrete Event Simulation in Healthcare Systems.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the historical, current and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurial activities in the former Yugoslavia, a region that is currently in a process of transition from socialism to a free-market economy. Each chapter presents the past, present and future of female entrepreneurship for each individual country. Some of the questions that the book answers include: Have women been historically and culturally ignored, marginalized, or systematically forbidden to run their own businesses? What are the status quo and future prospects for this group? And, is the investment climate conducive to women-owned businesses? The book provides an extensive overview of female entrepreneurship, its promotion and development, the role of the state, and other key factors that shape the female entrepreneurship ecosystem. Readers will gain an overall perspective on the essential issues and challenges to women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial initiatives and innovation, policy structures and institutional support to female entrepreneurship in the region.Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 – Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: An Introduction Emil Knezović, RamoPalalić , Léo-Paul Dana Chapter 2 -Women’s Entrepreneurship in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ramo Palalić , Emil Knezović, AzraBranković, AzraBičo Chapter 3 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Croatia MihaelaMikić , Maja Has CHAPTER 4 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Kosovo Nora Sadiku-Dushi, VelandRamadani, Dianne H.B Welsh and Ramo Palalić Chapter 5 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Montenegro BobanMelovic, Vladimir Djurisic Chapter 6 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in North Macedonia VelandRamadani, EsraMemili, Léo-Paul Dana and VisarRamadani Chapter 7 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Serbia Maja IvanovićĐukić, SašaPetković Chapter8 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Slovenia Jasna Auer Antoncic, BostjanAntoncic, Robert D. Hisrich CHAPTER 9 Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: Toward The FutureRamo Palalić, Léo-Paul Dana, Emil Knezović

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Book SynopsisThis book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities. The contributed chapters consider operating models with important ecological, economic, and social objectives.The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, information technology, industrial engineering, and applied mathematics.Table of ContentsThe Green-Vehicle Routing Problem: A Survey.- An Integrated Location-Inventory Routing Problem for ATMs in Banking Industry: A Green Approach.- Modelling a Future Routing Concept for Urban Air Mobility.- Putting the SC in SCORE: Solar Car Optimized Route Estimation and Smart Cities.- Evaluation and Prioritisation of Green Logistics and Transportation Practices Used in the Freight Transport Industry.- A Novel Hybrid Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Sustainable Delivery Systems with A Case Study in Izmir.- When Green Technology Meets Optimization Modelling: The Case of Routing Drones in Logistics, Agriculture and Healthcare.- Routing Electric Vehicles with Remote Servicing.

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights lateral management as the answer to the strategic opportunities and challenges posed by digital transformation. Digitalization is now changing the economy and society as dramatically as the dawn of electrification a century ago. Production methods, products, sales structures, marketing, and even markets themselves are set to change in the digital era.In addition to introducing readers to the concept of lateral management, and detailing the structure and functioning of 'lateral companies', the authors show how leadership and cooperation norms carried over from the 20th century need to be adapted for the digital era. They demonstrate the opportunities that digitalization offers companies, employees and managers in terms of enhancing their freedom, individuality, job diversity, and creative and innovative power. The authors also provide a unique management instrument, the 'Lateral Culture Index®', which measures the hierarchies of leadership; provide new benchmarks; and identify seven essential factors for lateral companies. Readers will learn how to implement lateral management in their companies and be familiarized with the instruments that can help them do so. Table of ContentsPrologue: Mail-order companies without catalogues, orchestras without conductors, self-determined footballers and five colours.- Creative Destruction – the Digital Revolution and its Consequences.- A brief history of the management ideas of the 20th century.- Cracks in the world view of classical management.- A Brief History of Successful Lateral Organizations.- Lateral Management in the 21st Century.- Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes patterns of behavior that collectively allow universities to exchange knowledge more effectively with industry, accelerate innovation and eventually contribute to economic development. These are based on the effective practices of leading and ambitious universities around the world that the authors have benchmarked, and the personal experiences of the authors in a number of international institution building projects, including those of MIT.The authors provide guidance that is globally applicable, but must be locally adapted. The approach is first to describe the context in which universities act as engines of economic development, and then present a set of effective practices in four domains: education, research, innovation, and supporting practices. Each of these domains has three to six practices, and each practice is presented in a similar template, with an abstract, a rationale and description, key actions and one or two mini-case studies. The practices are summarized by integrative case studies. The book: Focuses on a globally adaptable set of effective practices, complemented by case studies, that can enhance universities’ contribution to economic development, based on an integrated view of education, research and innovation; Presents effective practices and broader insights that come from real global experience, spelled out in templates and explained by cases; Includes tangible resources for university leaders, policy makers and funders on how to proceed. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Impact of Universities on Economic Development.- Chapter 2. A Systematic Approach to Knowledge Exchange.- Chapter 3. Education and Knowledge Exchange.- Chapter 4. Research and Knowledge Exchange.- Chapter 5. Catalyzing Innovation and Knowledge Exchange.- Chapter 6. Integrated Knowledge Exchange.- Chapter 7. Supporting the Academic Mission of the Adaptable University.- Chapter 8. Evaluation and Expectations at the Adaptable University.- Chapter 9. Alignment by Partners with the Adaptable University.- Chapter 10. Embracing Change at the Adaptable University.

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Book SynopsisHuawei Goes Global provides a much-needed, comprehensive, and scholarly examination of the business environment and the striving global operations of China’s technology giant. With theoretical research, case studies, data analysis, and empirical studies, this two-volume work tells a fascinating story of internationalization in an emerging economy. As one of the most powerful Chinese companies in the global economy, the largest global telecommunications-equipment producer and a leading consumer-electronics manufacturer, Huawei is a great example of the globalization of the Chinese enterprises in the twenty-first century.In Volume I, scholars critically examine the rise of Huawei as a Chinese global enterprise from the political economy and public policy perspectives, as well as Huawei’s development strategies, innovations, and talent management. In Volume II, multiple authors carefully study the growth of Huawei from regional and geopolitical perspectives, and its corporate communication and crisis management. Within the framework of the trade conflicts between China and the US, controversies over economic sanctions, intellectual property disputes, and espionage and cyber security concerns, this groundbreaking work makes an important contribution to both academic literature and the ongoing public discourse on Huawei.Volume II is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030475789Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Introduction: From Local Dominance to Global Challenge Ilan Alon, Wenxian Zhang, and Christoph Lattemann Part I. The Political Economy & the Public Policy Perspectives of Huawei’s Globalization 2. The International Political Economy of Huawei’s Global and Domestic Environment Thomas D. Lairson 3. Weaponizing Globalization: Chinese High-tech in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics – The Case of Huawei Francis Schortgen 4. Helping Hands for Huawei: Dialing into China’s Technology Policy to Understand Its Contemporary Support for Huawei Jean-Marc F. Blanchard 5. All under Huawei: China’s Vision for a Tech-Sinica Shirley Ze Yu Part II. The Rise of Huawei as a Chinese Global Enterprise 6. Could Huawei Rise the Highest against the Wind? Denise Tsang and David Fuschi 7. Huawei’s Expansion into the Global South: A Path toward Alternative Globalization? Yun Wen 8. Analyzing Huawei as a Chinese Multinational Operating in Three Worlds: Domestic Policy Instrument, Global Economic Agent, and Foreign Policy Target Duane Windsor 9. Huawei's Expansion and Nokia's Retreat: What Lessons Can We Learn? Anders Kjellman, Xiaohua Yang, Xiaobo Wu, and Sun-young Park Part III. Huawei’s Development Strategies, Innovations, and Talent Management 10. Huawei's Long March to Global Leadership: Joint Innovation Strategy from the Periphery to the Center Manuel Hensman and Guangyan Liu 11. Huawei’s Global Quest to Catch-up: Internationalizing R&D by Using Greenfield Investments Kerstin J. Schaefer 12. Independent or Interdependent Innovation: The Case of Huawei Xingkun Liang and Yue Xu 13. Huawei at Bay? A View on Dependency Theory in the Information Age Laura Kirste and Dirk Holtbrügge 14. Managing Foreign High-end Talents at Huawei David W. Hall and Ting Ren

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Book SynopsisHuawei Goes Global provides a much-needed, comprehensive, and scholarly examination of the business environment and the striving global operations of China’s technology giant. With theoretical research, case studies, data analysis, and empirical studies, this two-volume work tells a fascinating story of internationalization in an emerging economy. As one of the most powerful Chinese companies in the global economy, the largest global telecommunications-equipment producer and a leading consumer-electronics manufacturer, Huawei is a great example of the globalization of the Chinese enterprises in the twenty-first century. In Volume I, scholars critically examine the rise of Huawei as a Chinese global enterprise from the political economy and public policy perspectives, as well as Huawei’s development strategies, innovations, and talent management. In Volume II, multiple authors carefully study the growth of Huawei from regional and geopolitical perspectives, and its corporate communication and crisis management. Within the framework of the trade conflicts between China and the US, controversies over economic sanctions, intellectual-property disputes, and espionage and cyber security concerns, this groundbreaking work makes an important contribution to both academic literature and the ongoing public discourse on Huawei.Volume II is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030475635Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Market Entry Strategies of Huawei in Germany and the Russian Federation from a Network Theory Perspective Mario Glowik 2. Huawei’s Growth Strategies and Challenges in Russia Tatyana Tsukanova 3. Huawei in Central and Eastern Europe: Strategic Partner or Potential Threat? Ágnes Szunomár, Joanna Karas and Lulia Monica Oehier-Sincai 4. Crouching Tiger in a Transition Economy: Development of Huawei’s Operations in Poland Krzysztof Klincewicz, Laura Zoboli, Magdalena Marczewska 5. Huawei in Canada: Doing Business in the Midst of Game of Thrones Hadi Chapardar, William Wei and Houssam Chamseddine 6. Huawei-Mexico: Between the Construction of Upgrading and the Uncertainty Caused Jorge Carrillo & Jordy Micheli 7. Partners in Development: Latin America Provides Space for Growth Miguel Pérez Ludeña 8. Exemplar Partner or Controversial Outsider? Huawei’s Strategic Engagement in Oceania Jake Lin 9. Huawei’s Carrier Business in Southeast Asia Serina Al Haddad and Sheryll Namingit 10. Huawei Goes to India: Can the Dragon and the Elephant Marry? Deepraj Mukherjee 11. Assessing the Impact of the Huawei Brand on the Information Communication Technology infrastructure of Ghana Kwame Ohene Djan and Wilberforce Owusu-Ansah 12. Huawei’s Linkages with Local Firms in Tanzania: Idiosyncratic Benefits and Risks Deusdedit Rwehumbiza Part V. Huawei’s Crisis Management, Branding, and Corporate Communication 13. Red Teaming: Huawei's Organizational Leaning Strategies Sunny Li Sun and Chongyang Zhou 14. Untangling Legitimacy Complexity: Huawei's Engagement with Government and Media Lei Li and Sunny Li Sun 15. Framing National Security Concerns in Mobile Telecommunication Infrastructure Debates: A Text Mining Study of Huawei Kenneth C. C. Yang and Yowei Kang 16. Image of Ren Zhengfei: Model Entrepreneur or Representative of State Power Matthias Niedenführ 17. Final Reflections – Connectivity, Innovation, Transformation, and Global Challenges Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon and Wenxian Zhang

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an extensive overview of family business-related topics such as context and uniqueness, lifecycle and ownership configurations, conflict management, corporate governance, succession challenges, internationalization, innovation, and socioemotional wealth. Each chapter features clear learning objectives, key concepts and terminology, and dedicated case studies to demonstrate the main messages. The book not only considers the day-to-day dynamics in family businesses, but also places substantial emphasis on the entrepreneurial skills needed for these businesses to survive and thrive, today and tomorrow. In addition, it elaborates and discusses a number of best practice examples, which offer valuable guidance not only for scholars, but also for students who wish to study these challenges.Table of ContentsNature of Family Business.- Governance in the Family Businesses.- Strategic Management in Family Businesses.- Innovation in Family Businesses.- Succession and Family Businesses Longevity.- Socioemotional Wealth in Family Businesses.- Human Resource Management in Family Business.- Conflict Management in Family Businesses.- Internationalization of Family Businesses.- Case Study 1 - The New York Times Company - The Evolution of a Publicly-traded Family Firm via Changes in Corporate Governance and Strategies.- Case Study 2 - Merdeka College International Communication Bridge (ICB) - Founder's Succession Concerns.- Case Study 3 - Ugarak Product - Preserving Socioemotional Wealth in the Family Business.- Case Study 4 - QCamel: A Journey Full of Ethical Farming.

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Book SynopsisClimate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive. On the way to that bleak ending, moreover, extreme socio-economic injustice and associated political breakdown—now well underway in nations already hard-hit by environmental crisis—can be expected to hasten as well. The time has thus come to plan carefully, thoroughly, and on a scale commensurate with the crisis we face. This book, written by one of the key architects of the Green New Deal and prefaced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former Chief of Staff, indicates how to structure Green New Deal finance in a manner that advances the cross-cutting goals of maximum financial and economic inclusion, maximally democratic decision-making, and an appropriate division of roles both among all levels of government and among public and private sector decision-makers. Integrating into one complete and coherent financial architecture such bold ideas as a 'People's Fed,' an interdepartmental National Investment Council, integrated state and regional public banks, a Democratic Digital Dollar and digital Taxpayer Savings and Transaction Accounts made part of the monetary policy transmission belt, and an economy-wide Price Stabilization Fund, this book is critical reading for policymakers and citizens looking for a fresh path forward towards a revived and sustainable, progressive and productive America.Table of Contents The Green New Deal in Brief Outline What a Green New Deal Finance Plan Must Do A Green New Deal Financial Architecture Comparison to Lesser Alternatives

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Book SynopsisThis book uses relatable case studies to dispense practical financial advice to educators. Written by an expert team of four award-winning economics educators, the book provides an engaging narrative specifically designed for teachers and their unique financial needs. Educators are attracted to the teaching profession for numerous reasons. Prospective teachers enter the profession believing it offers a certain level of job security and good benefits, usually including a defined-benefit, state-funded pension. But things are changing. Pensions vary widely from state to state and even within school districts. Many private schools do not offer even basic 403(b) saving plans and, when they do, they are often not very generous. Much the same can be said of many charter schools and private colleges and universities. The book consists of fourteen chapters covering a comprehensive group of topics specifically curated for educators teaching at the K-12 and university level, including saving for retirement, managing debt, investment strategies, and real estate. Each chapter begins with a case study of an educator in a specific financial situation, which sets the scene for the introduction and explanation of key concepts. The chapters include a Q&A section to address common questions and conclude with a “Financial 911” focusing on a financial emergency related to the chapter topic. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Yes, Teachers Can Be Financially Fit.- Chapter 2: Spending and Saving: A Guide for Teachers.- Chapter 3: Earning Extra Income.- Chapter 4: Teachers’ Wheels: Cars and Transportation.- Chapter 5: Walls and a Roof: Housing for Teachers.- Chapter 6: Managing Credit and Debt.- Chapter 7: Investment Basics for Teachers.- Chapter 8: Retirement for Public School Teachers.- Chapter 9: Saving for Retirement: Options for Charter and Private School Teachers.- Chapter 10: The Higher Education Connection.- Chapter 11: Educators and Insurance.- Chapter 12: Unconventional Risk Management.- Chapter 13: Teachers in a Market Economy.- Chapter 14. Don’t Keep It a Secret.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on human behavioural processes and describes them from an interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces readers to the main theories and approaches in the field of organisational development and change (ODC), and discusses their relevance and purpose with a clear focus on improving how readers perceive and handle change. The book is tailor-made for business students without any background in the humanities, helping them to conceptualise organisational development and change, and to practically organise interventions to increase organisational effectiveness. The book’s goal is to help future managers and consultants recognise and handle the ‘full situation’, which includes purposes, people and relationships. Furthermore, it elaborates on those theories and instruments that can deliver real benefits to real people working in real fuzzy and complex circumstances, and includes several practical cases focusing on the role of the interventionist.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Change Management.- Organisation Development.- Beyond Organisation Development.- Large-Group Interventions.- Changing and Learning.- Change Dynamics.- A Complexity Perspective.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the important role of HR practitioners acting as toxin handlers within their organizations and the dangers they face when dealing with toxic workplace emotions caused by difficult organizational decisions, such as mergers and acquisitions, staff reductions, and restructurings. Exploring what they do, why they do it, and the personal and professional rewards created by the work, it also examines the dangers that await them in terms of risks to their personal well-being. In today's world, layoffs, harassment, discrimination, personality conflicts, or an abusive boss are just a few of the many types of workplace situations that can generate intense emotional pain for employees—feelings like anger, frustration, stress, disappointment, and even fear. Unfortunately, these types of events are predictable and somewhat inevitable, but it is the way organizations handle them—or do not—that can create a serious problem for employees. The responsibility often falls to HR to help troubled employees reduce their emotional pain so that they can re-focus and get back to work as quickly as possible, resulting in positive organizational outcomes. This book highlights the balancing act that HR must perform of caring for employees and championing their causes while at the same time driving toward organizational goals set by senior leaders. The author demonstrates how toxin handlers reduce organizational pain during tough times while also exploring the costs to their own well-being. Readers will learn to minimize the negative impact of toxic emotions from an organizational as well as individual perspective. This book will teach HR professionals strategies about how to anticipate and navigate the organizational toxicity caused by some of the inevitable and difficult people-related situations that are likely to come their way.Table of Contents 1 Toxin Handlers: Who They Are and What They Do 2 What Causes Toxic Workplace Situations? A Focus on the Economic and Legal Drivers 3 What Causes Toxic Workplace Situations? A Focus on the Individual, Situational, and Systemic Drivers 4 What Causes Toxic Workplace Situations? A Focus on the Ethical Drivers 5 Why They Do It 6 How They Reduce Organizational Pain 7 Why Organizations Need Them 8 Friend or Assassin: Whose Side Is HR On, Anyway? 9 The Price They Pay 10 Running on Empty: Warning Signs of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout 11 Perceived Low Value of HR’s Work to Senior Leaders (and How HR Can Fix This) 12 Promising Macro Strategies to Minimize Harm to Toxin Handlers 13 Promising Micro Strategies to Minimize Harm to Toxin Handlers 14 Can We Reduce Organizational Toxicity by Improving Our Leaders? Hint: Yes, We Can! 15 The So-What? Making Sense of It All 16 Epilogue: A Manifesto for a New (and Better) Future Correction to: The So-What? Making Sense of It All Appendix A: Executive Summary of the Research Study Appendix B: Technical Report Bibliography Index ​

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Book SynopsisThe “Blue Economy” is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fisherman’s curse – or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceans’ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including “fishing down” for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem. How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the “equations of fishing,” why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play “Moby Dick,” a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea. Table of ContentsChapter1: Introduction: If a jellyfish stings you, there is a reason.- Chapter2: Man and the sea.- Chapter3: The war against the sea.- Chapter4: Understanding overshoot.- Chapter5: The blue economy.- Chapter6: Conclusion: The horror that came to Sarnath.

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Book Synopsis This textbook offers a fully integrated approach to the theory and practice of service management, exploring the operational dynamics, management issues and business models deployed by service firms. It builds on recent developments in service science as an interdisciplinary research area with emphasis on integration, adaptability, optimization, sustainability and rapid technological adoption. The book explores seven fundamental processes that are key to successfully managing service businesses, helping students gain insights into: how to manage service businesses, with coverage of both small firms and large transnationals service business models, operations and productivity managing service employees how service firms engage in product and process innovation marketing, customers and service experiences internationalization of service businesses the ongoing servitization of manufacturing This unique textbook is an ideal resource for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying service businesses and practitioners. Table of Contents1. Reading and Managing Service Businesses2. Service Research and Service Theory3. Business Models and Service Strategy4. Techno Service Worlds? Digitization of Service Businesses5. Service Operations and Productivity6. Service Personnel and their Management7. Process and Product Innovation in Service Businesses8. Customer First: Understanding Customers9. Marketing Services10. Manufacturing Companies and the Shift towards Servitization11. Supply Chains and Logistics Services12. Internationalizing Service Businesses13. Measuring Company Performance and Customer Satisfaction14. Reading and Managing Service Businesses: An Integrated Case Study Approach.

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Book SynopsisWhat does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe.The volume is based on the ethnographic research conducted in Italy, a country internationally known for its food tradition and one of the European countries where the gap between rural and urban space is most pronounced. It offers an anthropological analysis of food festivals, exploring the transformational role they have to change and develop rural communities. Although the festivals aim mostly at tourism, they contribute in a wider way to the life of the rural communities, acting as devices through which a community redefines itself, reinforces its sociality, reshapes the perception and use of the surrounding environment. In so doing, thus, the books suggests to read the festivals not just as celebrations driven by food fashion, but rather fundamental grassroots instruments to contrast the effects of rural marginalization and pave the way to a possible better future for the communityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development.- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape.- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices.- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices.- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices.- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Food festivals as development devices.

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Book SynopsisSports are big business. Most companies want to expand into global markets, enhance their brand and understand varying market conditions. This textbook supports sports marketing students as they learn about the challenges and opportunities that are specific to the global sports industry. Written from the perspective of different stakeholders in the sports sector, such as fans, sports entity holders, clubs, sponsors and the sports media, it offers a holistic view of this evolving and ever-changing industry.Taking a truly global approach, this textbook helps students understand the current issues facing sports marketing professionals and is relevant across all regions of the world. Drawing on the author’s years of industry and teaching experience, it blends theory and practice with case studies including the International Olympic Committee and FIFA. Crucially, the book provides comprehensive coverage of hot topics such as sports governance, digital marketing, and the globalization of the sports product. Written in an accessible style and accompanied by a full suite of online resources, this textbook is for ideal for anyone looking to excel as a sports marketer or progress within the wider sports industry. It is a valuable resource for Sports Marketing courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA levels.Table of Contents The Global Sports Sector in Context Sport and Its Role and Contribution to Society and Economic Development Sports Governance Understanding Fans and Their Consumption of Sport Sports Distribution and Media Rights Formulating and Implementing Sports Marketing Strategy Ticketing Strategies in the Sports Sector The Sports Product and Brand-Building Decisions Globalization Strategies for the Sports Product Managing the Sports Sponsorship Process Future Challenges for Sports Marketers

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Book SynopsisThis book assembles many of the great leaders of the senior living and care industry to discuss their paths to and views on leadership. Each chapter provides readers with ideas, information, and inspiration on how to achieve leadership in this dynamic, mission-focused industry. It includes various strategies for success, such as promoting meaning and purpose in corporate culture, making decisions in the absence of perfect information, managing your personal assets of relationships and reputation, and finding competitive advantages through technology, training, and team-building. These leaders also share their experiences responding to COVID-19 and discuss how the pandemic may change the future of leadership in the industry. Whether your path starts in gerontology, nursing, social work, design, real estate, finance, law, operations, or technology, and whether one pursues work in the private, nonprofit, or government sectors, this volume provides a valuable resource for all aspiring and developing leaders in the senior living industry.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. How an Innovator Thinks: Applied Evangelism.- Chapter 3. The Founder.- Chapter 4. Pioneer in Assisted Living.- Chapter 5. A Revolutionary in Aging.- Chapter 6. Changing the World: From Government to Assisted Living.- Chapter 7. Memory Care Futurist.- Chapter 8. From Pro Athlete to Senior Living to Pro Sports. Chapter 9. Leading the Way, South of the Border.- Chapter 10. Competition channeled into Leadership. Chapter 11. A Social Entrepreneur.- Chapter 12. Hippie at the Helm.- Chapter 13. Breaking the Mold.- Chapter 14. Innovating Senior Living.- Chapter 15. Making Decisions Without All the Information.- Chapter 16. Marketing My Way into Senior Living.- Chapter 17. Transforming an Organization.- Chapter 18. Financial Leadership.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of econometric techniques for the financial sector and their applications in economics. By doing so, it offers invaluable tools for predicting and weighing the risks of multiple investments by incorporating data analysis. Throughout the book the authors address a broad range of topics such as predictive analysis, monetary policy, economic growth, systemic risk and investment behavior. This book is a must-read for researchers, scholars and practitioners in the field of economics who are interested in a better understanding of current research on the application of econometric methods to financial sector data.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Exploratory Classification of Time-Series.- Predicting the tail behaviour of financial time series exchange/Johannesburg stock exchange closing banking indices - Extreme value theory approach.- Financial Econometrics and Systemic Risk.- Monetary Policy Shocks, Financial Heterogeneity and Corporate Dynamic Investment Activity: Financial Heterogeneity and Corporate Dynamic Investment Activity.- Oil Price Scenarios: Its Economic and Fiscal Impacts on the Kuwait Economy.- Exchange Rate Sensitivity of Firm Value: Evidence from Non-Financial Firms Listed on Borsa Istanbul.- Limited Dependent Variables (Logit and Probit Models) and An Application on BIST-100: Logit and Probit Models.- Vector Autoregressive Model: Model and Analysis.-Construction of the Monetary Conditions Index with TVP-VAR Model: Empirical Evidences for Turkish Economy.- Monetary Policy Regimes, Fiscal Implications, and Policy Interactions among Developing Economies.- The impacts of transportation sector and unemployment on economic growth: Evidence from asymmetric causality.- ARCH Models and An Application on Exchange Rate Volatility: ARCH&GARCH MODELS.- Using CoGARCH Filtered Volatility in Modelling within ARDL Framework.- Performance of MS-GARCH Models: Bayesian MCMC based estimation.- Volatility Spillovers Between Oil Prices and BIST (Borsa Istanbul) Dividend Indexes: Oil Prices and Dividend Indexes.- Volatility Spillovers Between Oil Prices and BIST (Borsa Istanbul) Dividend Indexes: Oil Prices and Dividend Indexes.- Panel Data Analysis.- An Amalgamation of big data analytics with tweet feeds for Stock Market Trend Anticipating Systems- A Review: Big data analytics with tweet feeds for Stock Market Trend Anticipating Systems.- Capital Structure Adjustment Speed: Evidence from Borsa Istanbul Sub-Sectors.

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Book Synopsis Provides well-written self-contained chapters, including problem sets and exercises, making it ideal for the classroom setting; Introduces applied optimization to the hazardous waste blending problem; Explores linear programming, nonlinear programming, discrete optimization, global optimization, optimization under uncertainty, multi-objective optimization, optimal control and stochastic optimal control; Includes an extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter and an index; GAMS files of case studies for Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 are linked to http://www.springer.com/math/book/978-0-387-76634-8; Solutions manual available upon adoptions.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Linear Programming.- 3. Nonlinear Programming.-4. Discrete Optimization.- 5. Optimization Under Uncertainty.- 6. Multiobjective Optimization.- 7.Optimal Control and Dynamic Optimization.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Brexit – Revisited builds upon and extends the analysis contained within the authors' previous book, The Economics of Brexit: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the UK's Economic Relationship with the EU, which arguably represented the most comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the UK’s economic relationship with the EU. The Economics of Brexit – Revisited continues where the previous volume left off, given that the UK has now formally withdrawn from the EU, and therefore the focus of the evidence presented concerns the potential economic implications arising from Brexit and considering the options available to those negotiating the UK's future economic relationship both regionally and globally. The Economics of Brexit – Revisited seeks to provide greater clarity to a range of issues that have been hotly debated over the past few years, ranging from the trade and fiscal implications of Brexit, to the economic impact of regulation and migration. The significance of different Brexit options are discussed in detail, including the significance of demands for regulatory harmonisation (the 'level playing field'), along with their implications for UK trade with the EU and the rest of the world. A wide range of economic analyses are evaluated to determine their relative methodological strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately whether their conclusions are sufficiently robust to engender confidence. Finally, noting that a key determinant of the effectiveness of any post-Brexit economic strategy depends upon the degree of flexibility created for economic policy, the book provides an extended examination of the potential relating to different economic policy options available to the UK government, depending upon the form of final trade settlement that is agreed with the EU. These policy options include more active forms of macroeconomic management, combined with industrial and procurement policy. The Economics of Brexit – Revisited therefore seeks to combine evaluation of the available evidence indicating the economic impact of Brexit, together with consideration of policy trade-offs that lie at the heart of the choices surrounding Brexit, and how these might be resolved. The Economics of Brexit – Revisited therefore maintains its position as the most comprehensive analysis of the economics of Brexit in the market today. Trade Review Table of ContentsChapter One. The Elusive Economic Consensus over Brexit.Chapter Two. The Fiscal Impact of Brexit.Chapter Three. Brexit and Trade.Chapter Four. Foreign Direct Investment.Chapter Five. Regulation.Chapter Six. Migration and the Labour Force.Chapter Seven. Economic Growth and Productivity.Chapter Eight. Economic Policy Considerations.Chapter Nine. Alternative Trading Models After Brexit.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented in practice. Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmental economics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future.An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance.Table of ContentsPart I: The sustainability process - context and scope.Chapter 1: The policy context of the sustainability discourse.Chapter 2: The historical context - sustainability in the modern society.Chapter 3: The knowledge context of the sustainability discourse.Part II: Economic and ecological knowledge in the sustainability process.Chapter 4: Economics outright - management of natural resources.Chapter 5: Environmental economics - orthodox perspectives.Chapter 6: Ecological economics - critical perspectives.Chapter 7: Conflicts, relapse and failure in the sustainability process - neglected problems.Part III: The future - sustainability transformation.Chapter 8: Changing relations of science and practice in the sustainability process.Chapter 9: Re-thinking temporal perspectives of the sustainability transformation.Chapter 10: Recreating sustainability – conjectures and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on grit, its measurement, manifestation and development. Specifically, it provides a comprehensive and balanced response to critiques associated with the construct within the contemporary positive psychological literature. These critiques revolve around the lack of consensus in the conceptualisation, measurement, and management of grit, as well as consensus on its difference from other psychological constructs such as conscientiousness, diligence or determination. Therefore, this volume thoroughly reappraises and consolidates the nature, function, measurement and implications of grit in order to effectively advance the science of achievement. It looks at grit scales developed in various countries and evaluates the concept in various aspects of life, from work performance to sports. Written by a team of multi-disciplinary experts in fields ranging from neuroscience, sociology, and education to human resource management and psychology, this volume firmly positions grit within the discipline of positive psychology’s nomological lexicon.Table of ContentsPrefaceHow Do Grit and Gratitude Relate to Flourishing? The Mediating Role of Emotion RegulationJana Patricia Valdez and Jesus Alfonso Datu A “GRRR” goal orientation process-model: Workplace long-term relationships among Grit, Resilience and Recovery Andrea Ceschi, Arianna Costantini, Giorgia Malavasi, Stephan Dickert and Riccardo Sartori How does grit compare to other psychosocial factors in predicting university students’ math performance and subjective wellbeingChen Chen and Xinmei Gong How Does Perseverance of Effort Influence the University Outcomes of Historically Underrepresented Students? Kevin Fosnacht and Keeley Webb-Copridge Enhancing Grit: Possibility and Intervention StrategiesMae-Hyang Hwang and JeeEun Karin Nam Gritty Goal Pursuit and Perceived Chronic Stress: Exploring Implications for Academic ProblemsVrinda Kalia Grit Lit: An Effort to Cultivate Grit and Task Perseverance through a High-School Language Arts CurriculumEric Patrick Sinclair Deconstructing Grit’s Validity: The Case for Revising Grit Measures and TheoryMichael C. Tynan Neurological correlates of grit: A critical reviewSong Wang and Jingguang Li High Hope and Low Rumination are Antecedents of GritBuaphrao Raphiphatthana and Paul Jose Can the Components of Grit Predict the Long-Term Educational Outcomes?Yulia Tyumeneva & Julia Kuzmina Exploring the Grit-Performance and Grit-Career Success Relationship: The Role of Psychological OwnershipChantal Olckers and Eileen Koekemoer Developing Gritty Job Seekers: A Need-Supportive Approach to Grit Interventions Leoni van der Vaart, Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl and Jessica van Wingerden

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the main theoretical foundations behind smart services as well as specific guidelines and practically proven methods on how to design them. Furthermore, it gives an overview of the possible implementation architectures and shows how the designed smart services can be realized with specific technologies. Finally, it provides four specific use cases that show how smart services have been realized in practice and what impact they have within the businesses.The first part of the book defines the basic concepts and aims to establish a shared understanding of terms, such as smart services, service systems, smart service systems or cyber-physical systems. On this basis, it provides an analysis of existing work and includes insights on how an organization incorporating smart services could enhance and adjust their management and business processes. The second part on the design of smart services elaborates on what constitutes a successful smart service and describes experiences in the area of interdisciplinary teams, strategic partnerships, the overall service systems and the common data basis. In the third part, technical reference architectures are presented in detail, encompassing topics on the design of digital twins in cyber physical systems, the communication between entities and sensors in the age of Industry 4.0 as well as data management and integration. The fourth part then highlights a number of analytical possibilities that can be realized and that can constitute or be part of smart services, including machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. Finally, the applicability of the introduced design and development method is demonstrated by considering specific real-world use cases. These include services in the industrial and mobility sector, which were developed in direct cooperation with industry partners.The main target audience of this book is industry-focused readers, especially practitioners from industry, who are involved in supporting and managing digital business. These include professionals working in business development, product management, strategy, and development, ranging from middle management to Chief Digital Officers. It conveys all the basics needed for developing smart services and successfully placing them on the market by explaining technical aspects as well as showcasing practical use cases.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction to Smart Services.- Introduction to Smart Service Management.- Grasping the Terminology: Smart Services, Smart Service Systems, and Cyber-Physical Systems.- Industrial Maintenance in the Digital World.- Part II: Smart Service Design.- Introduction to Smart Service Design.- Smart Service Engineering.- Smart Service Prototyping.- Capturing the Value: How to Charge for Smart Services.- Market Launch of Smart Services.- Part III: Smart Service Architecture.- Introduction to Smart Service Architectures.- Reference Architecture Models for Smart Services.- Reference ArchitectureModels for Smart Service Networks.- Smart Services in the PhysicalWorld: Digital Twins.- Part IV: Smart Service Analytics.- Service Analytics: Putting the “Smart” in Smart Services.- Part V: Smart Service Use Cases.- Introduction to Smart Service Use Cases.- Designing a Smart Service for Customer Need Identification in B2B Ticketing Systems.- Smart Services: A Condition Monitoring Use Case Utilizing System-Wide Analyses.- Developing Real-Time Smart Industrial Analytics for Industry 4.0 Applications.- How Transformational Management Enabled the Development of a Next Level Condition Monitoring Solution.

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