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This book examinesprecarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on twomain sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labourmarket reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the EuropeanLabour Force Survey from 2005-12, capturing various aspects of precariousemployment.

This book offers a framework for the implementation ofinclusive education in developing countries. It proposes bringing the vulnerable to the centre of planning decisions, recognising the history of special education inpsychologizing failure, and that mainstream must own the transformation to inclusive education.

Compliance in Multinational Corporations explores phenomena such as bribery, money laundering, and terrorism financing. Including an empirical analysis of 100 expert interviews, it takes an innovative look at the perspectives of criminals and compliance experts to provide a long-lasting guide for compliance experts.

The transition towards 'smarter' autonomous transport systems calls for a rethink in how transport is governed/who governs it, to ensure a step-change to a more sustainable future. This book critically reflects on these governance challenges analysing the role of the state; the new actors and discourses; and the implications for state capacity.

Talent Management is one of the fastest growing themes in the management field, yet, there is little knowledge about the nature of TM in practice, and how TM evolves over time. This book offers an integrated framework, based on empirical research that addresses the nature and dynamics of TM in organizations.

This book addresses this gap and employs an empirical exploration of the way in which online-based protest activity concerning public education issues is constructed, mobilised, and carried out. The authors highlight three cases of online-based mobilisations in Israel, in which teachers and parents successfully affected public education policy.

Including a series of commentaries derived from research undertaken by the author with women working in tech clusters located within 'tech cities' in the UK, USA and East Asia regions, this book exposes the serious 'problem' of women's position in the tech industry and helps to find solutions and ways forward.

Gali Einav and a strong group of international contributors offer a timely collection that combines academic insights and entrepreneurial case studies focused on digital innovation. By exploring the effect of disruptive technologies within media, health, music, and employment, they help readers to take their next steps into the digital future.

This book offers a deep historical and theoretical investigation into how this authoritarian, populist regime has evolved. Backlash from globalization in the 21st century, dissatisfaction with the European Union and international fiscal institutions have created a situation in which Orban's regime is able to thrive.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy.

The 21st Century era of globalization has opened up many investment alternatives for Africa. This book examines the role of FDI in Africa's socio-economic development with reference to Europe and two economic powers in Asia - China and India.

Drawing from decades of research, Genes,Climate, and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots demonstrates how climate dictates culture and consumption.

Analyzing seven religions through Fudulu's own model, the author delves into the criteria that make all religions amenable to economic analysis. Of interest to economics scholars, students, and those studying religions, Fudulu shows how each religious dogma can be ranked in terms of their consistency with economic performance.

This book considers how a dwelling can protect and promote both our anxieties and our relationships. Both essays use a non-traditional literature to explore being alone and being with others, rather than relying on the social science literature, and offer a distinct and original contribution to the housing studies literature.

The Trump presidency may well be the first phase of a new American political alignment deeply rooted in identity politics. Now more than ever, it seems especially important to understand how leaders compete to engage different human motivations-how presidents, presidential candidates, and other political leaders appeal to potential followers' needs for economic well-being, safety, self-esteem, and a sense of significance. It is time to come to terms with the roles of race and region in US political history. In Realignment, Region, and Race, George R. Goethals addresses this challenge head-on, exploring the place of racial dynamics in American politics from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. He integrates psychology and historical understandings of presidential leadership and politics to explain the way the politics of racial justice and needs for positive social identity have led to different regions in the United States changing party affiliation. He describes the realignment by region of the two major political parties in the United States, the Democrats and Republicans, between the Civil War and the present day, and he considers how for over a century and a half the two parties have offered different social identities, often related to race, that appeal to powerful motives for self-esteem and significance. Goethals's findings uncover deep contexts for understanding how current political leaders engage experiences and attitudes towards African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans in order to tell particular stories about American and regional identities.Realignment, Region, and Race is essential reading for students of politics, history, and psychology, and it is of keen interest to anyone concerned with the power that identity politics has taken on in recent American elections.

In the age of digitalization, even the way we govern is adapting. Here, Israel Patino Galvan suggests a specialized design structure as an alternative to the new, digital governments that are becoming increasingly more common.

This book aims to develop a blue print for Islamic economics and finance by starting at the grass roots of trade and commerce. It positions Islamic finance within the economic priorities of Islam while providing a cohesive understanding of Islamic economics and finance in a clear and practical manner.

This is a step-by-step manual of public procurement for government officials, researchers, and students.

This book argues that knowledge management and HRM systems should be integrated. This integration provides the foundation for designing knowledge-oriented high-performance HR practices.

Inspired by a 2019 conference, Moana Water of Life, and including real-life insights from a diverse range of participants, this book showcases the potential fruits of open dialogue between stakeholders to navigate the critical challenges to planetary health caused by the climate crisis.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.

Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions thataboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal systems inplace, particularly in India, must change to protect this knowledge.This book is a must-read for researchers ineconomics, development studies, and international law.

Knowledge Management is an important part of all business, and yet the discipline lacks a philosophy based on systemic thinking. Exploring this gap, expert author Jon-Arild Johannessen continues his research on knowledge management with the groundwork for a new philosophy. Across the four chapters in this book, Johannessen tackles the issues that have stopped a cohesive philosophy from being formed. Tackling the large questions first, he asks: what constitutes a philosophy for knowledge management? What quality criteria are relevant in a knowledge management philosophy? Johannessen also looks at how the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution has eroded and atomized the cohesion of social systems, and explores how knowledge management works in social systems, as well as whether social laws can be used to explain knowledge management systems.For students and researchers of information and knowledge management, Johannessen offers a new perspective on our current philosophies, bringing systemic thinking to the front of knowledge management philosophy.

This book examines the damaging impact of humiliation in human society. By using case studies of observed humiliation, the book discusses the power play between groups, organizations and nations. It shows how public shame can lead to damaging psychological states and violent responses amongst vulnerable individuals.

The book recognises three compartmental debates surrounding control, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management which need to be integrated to support the entrepreneurial adventure. Acknowledging a need to build a bridge between theory and practice, the book provides a rich empirical analysis to support the theoretical issues raised.

Anselm Strauss observed 40 years ago that the idea of social world was suffering from weak conceptualization and application to those areas of social life where this formation figures prominently in everyday activities. This book provides a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, where they fit in social theory.

Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book offers new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers on a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on job creation and the threats of environmental degradation and trade protectionism.

Blockchain has the potential to disrupt and transform the social media business space. Nitin Upadhyay in this book delves into an insightful discussion of the pertinent and potential implications of blockchain technology on the social media business model in a uniquely accessible way.

This timely book provides a critical analysis of the statutory requirements to promote Fundamental British Values in educational settings in the UK. It explores British values as they appear in contemporary policy and legislation as well as how Britishness as a concept has evolved in relation to education in the post-war period.

In today's climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. SROIM is a framework for tracking, understanding, measuring, and reporting the social, economic and environmental value created by a project, a program, or a business. This value creation can be done: Before the project is initiatedDuring design and development, to plan for maximum value.During implementation, so that maximum value can be attained.During post-analysis, to assess the delivered value against the anticipated value.Acosta presents a methodological approach that can be replicated throughout an organization, to demonstrate a company's creation of value through the social return of the investment.