This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects. It is divided into four primary themes: value-based approach to infrastructure systems appraisal, enabling planning and execution, financing and contracting strategies for infrastructure systems and digitising major infrastructure delivery. By drawing on insights from their research…
For more than a decade, organizational behavior scholars have highlighted the importance of studying phenomena through a temporal lens by focusing on the role of time and its various implications for research. When a phenomenon occurs, what aspects of the phenomena are being influenced, how these aspects are being influenced, and why this influence occurs are considerations of the utmost import…
Artificial intelligence (AI) describes machines/computers that mimic cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem solving. As businesses have evolved to include more automation of processes, it has become more vital to understand AI and its various applications. Additionally, it is important for workers in the marketing industry to understand ho…
This handbook, which serves as a follow-up text to The Palgrave Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business, reviews theoretical and empirical approaches of experiential learning pedagogy, and its role in increasing the effectiveness in teaching and learning of international business, and also, in the incorporation of international business-related concepts and competences in bu…
The new edition of this SAGE Handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars - and with brand new chapters on key emerging topics such as talent management, engagement, e-HRM and big data - the Handbook focuses on familiarising the reader …
This third edition of The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders is a completely revised and updated reference to all the medical, scientific, and historical aspects of these ancient afflictions. The entries in this book have been carefully selected for their usefulness in the years to come.
The underlying assumption of this book is that every woman wants to take responsibility for her own health. The only way she can act intelligently and safely in her own best interest is to understand the workings of her body and to know what kinds of care and treatment are available. Medicine is not yet a “hard” science; indeed, it may never be one, and certainly not for many years to come.…
The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health is a health reference product designed to inform and educate readers about mental health, mental disorders and psychiatry. The Gale Group believes the product to be comprehensive, but not necessarily definitive. It is intended to supplement, not replace, consultation with a physician or other healthcare practitioners. While The Gale Group has made substant…
This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and covers scholarship on news production; news content; journalism and society; journalism and cul…
A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current inter- national research and professional practice in intercultural communica- tion, this is a key reference book for students, lecturers and professionals alike. Key examples of contrastive, interactive, imagological and interlin- gual approaches are discussed, as well as the impact of cultural, economic and socio-politic…