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IT Service Management (ITSM) is an imperative part of achieving business maturity, but has long been thought of only in technical terms, and not as part of a larger whole. In this exciting new take on ITSM, leading expert Beverly Weed-Schertzer positions ITSM at the heart of company strategy to build a layered operating model.

Leadership:The Current State of Play seeks to combine current academic andpractitioner thinking to present an illuminating and accessible overview ofhistorical and contemporary leadership thought.

Heroes permeate our culture. But what makes a hero? And what makes heroes 'heroic'? This exciting and innovative study explores how charisma and human needs create images of individuals as heroes and villains.

The book focuses on analyzing and proposing costing and pricing models to be used in autonomous manufacturing systems with respect to different effective parameters and factors in such a high tech environment within some applied cases.

Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. In All That's Not Fit to Print, Amy Affelt offers tools and techniques for spotting fake news and discusses best practices for finding high quality sources, information, and data.

The book aligns the best of established theory, empirical evidence and industry practice to operationalise equity investment and match it to practices in the real world. It does not merely repackage the contemporary investment paradigm, but develops a new perspective that follows a rigorous research philosophy and is based on field evidence.

By identifying major emergencies that have occurred in the hotel industry; investigating hotels' preparation for emergencies in the past; and exploring how hotels manage and overcome such emergencies; this book will increase the awareness of emergency managers on how to manage and overcome the impact of emergencies in the hospitality industry.

This book critically examines research evidence from around the world concerning the nature and effects of gambling advertising. It draws upon political and regulatory debates about this type of advertising, which provides regulators with evidence to control factors that encourage problem gambling.

This book examines the fundamental problem of marketing orientation, considering the current state of marketing orientation, customer orientation, and an individual's role in the marketing process. It is a useful reference for marketing practitioners, students, and executives.

Professional learning networks (PLN) are considered to be an effective way to foster school improvement. In order to generate change PLNs require effective support from school leaders, but these leaders might best support PLNs is currently little understood. To address this, this book presents a case study of the leadership of one PLN in England.

TheGame Plan of Successful Career Sponsorship explores why it is so important for aspiring leaders, executives and organisationsto engage in career sponsorship within the workplace. It illustrates why sponsorship mattersmore than ever in an eracharacterised by shifting and evolving career models.

STEM-Professional Women's Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry: Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space showcases the `how' of exclusion of STEM-professional women from management and executive positions.

H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen show new investors how to avoid rash financial decisions and basic investing sins. They help them to recognize and avoid common investing mistakes, behavioral biases, and traps that can affect sound judgment and reduce wealth. Ultimately, they explain how to separate investment fads from time-tested principles.

On the crossroads between the cultural influences of perceived global models and local specificity, entangled in webs of post-communist complexity, Bulgarian popular music has evolved as a space of change and creativity on the edge of Europe. An ethnographic exploration, this book accesses insight from music figures from a spectrum of styles.

Drawing upon frameworks employed in the human sciences, Breton builds a multi-faceted theory of accounting, conceiving it as a fundamentally social activity that puts preparers of financial statements in contact with users in order to help them make economic decisions, and analyzing the behavior of perparers and users.

Seyed Mohammad Moghimi examines both the everyday and the theoretical insights offered by Islamic sources for managing organizational behavior. He takes a wide-ranging approach to key organizational issues, including organizational communication, organizational leadership, conflict management, and organizational culture and ethics.

This book addresses the seismic political events of Donald Trump's presidency and the British vote to leave the EU. It explores why citizens vote against their own best interests, and demonstrates the role and value of universities in a time when evidence, expertise and facts often dissolve into opinion, emotion and fake news.

Principles andFundamentals of Islamic Management examines the concept of business andpublic management from the viewpoint of Islam. Providing a much-needed insight into the practicalities ofmanagement operations in an Islamic context, this book is essential reading forresearchers, managers, and students.

Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.

This book offers a holistic model for what it calls "innovation leadership," which includes entrepreneurial action,creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process.

Tools and Techniques for Financial Stability Analysis explores all key aspects of analytical tools and challenges for sound financial stability assessments. Comprehensive coverage is given to value at risk, stress testing, graphical tools for financial stability, the financial system stress index, as well as ratios and metrics.

This book provides a full, historical, economic, and political context through which to understand the actions of the people and government of Mexico, and it gives insights into how those actions impinge -- and might continue to impinge -- on the United States.

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.

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.

TheV-Model of Service Quality offers a powerful tool for measuringservice quality. This book grounds the theoretical interventions in data drawn from case studiesin the Sub-Saharan African context to make the models applicable to bothresearchers and working managers.

This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of "intensive" writing in social media of this kind.

This book draws on primaryresearch to present a critical overview of debates about UK university campusesas a location for radicalisation and the impact of counter-radicalisationpolicies. It provides a historical overview and a contemporary assessment ofradicalisation in Universities and covers teaching, student and governanceaspects of HE.

Beingdifferent is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source ofstigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders,that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who wereable to turn their destinies around.

SDG4 - Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For All will explore the multifaceted and complex nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education.

Long regarded as a maudlin mental state, nostalgia is everywhere and has been reimagined as a signifier of good mental health. It is no longer the bailiwick of right-wing reactionaries but a crucible of critical thinking and revolutionary intent. This book explores the revolution in nostalgia and the nostalgia in revolution.