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Social science libraries. interdisciplinary collections, services, networks
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Se…
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- 9783110232158
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- 138 p.; 23 cm.
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- IFLA Publications : Vol. 144
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- 021.2 SOC s
Crisis management - theory and practice
Crisis management is an interdisciplinary subject field represented by theoretical problems, practical activity, people management and the art of crisis situation solving. Overall, the studies that this publication contains are to provide an overview of the state of the art mainly focused on crisis management cycle represented by certain phases and steps. Topics include also lessons learned fro…
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- 9781789232349
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- 268 p.; 22 cm.
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- 144.2116 CRI c
Knowledge management strategies and applications
Knowledge management (KM) has become an important business strategy in an era of accelerated globalization, digitalization, and servitization of products and services. Maximizing the use of organizational resources becomes fundamental for continuous growth and prosperity. Organizations of various kinds such as resource-based organizations, product-based organizations, as well as knowledge-inten…
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- 9789535136170
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- 276 p.; 22 cm.
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- 658.8 KNO k
Human capital and competences in project management
People's competence has a strong influence on the strategy of human resource management, affecting daily aspects, thought patterns, and behavioral modes of executive management and employees. From a business perspective, there is a strong relationship between human capital and success and also an integral development of the human factor in all its dimensions, both personal and professional, and…
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- 9789535137863
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- 120 p.; 22 cm.
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- 658.8 HUM h
Advancing insights on brand management
This book is an original, high-quality collection of chapters about highly topical and important brand management issues, and it shows both theoretical and empiric analysis. The 10 selected chapters are referred, with original contents and rigorous research methodologies, to some important challenges the brand management has to face in the current competitive contexts, characterized by the domi…
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- 9789535135975
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- 210 p.; 22 cm.
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- 658.8 ADV a
Financial management from an emerging market perspective
One of the main reasons to name this book as Financial Management from an Emerging Market Perspective is to show the main differences of financial theory and practice in emerging markets other than the developed ones. Our many years of learning, teaching, and consulting experience have taught us that the theory of finance differs in developed and emerging markets. It is a well-known fact that e…
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- 9789535137368
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- 332 p.; 22 cm.
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- 658.8 FIn f
Sound change, priming, salience
This volume investigates the realisation and perception of four phonological variables in Liverpool English (Scouse), with a special focus on their sociolinguistic salience. Younger speakers’ speech is found to be more local, but only for the two salient variables in the sample (NURSE-SQUARE and /k/ lenition), which appear to carry considerable amounts of covert prestige. Local variants of no…
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- 9783961101207
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- 323 p.; 22 cm.
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- 414 JUS s
Perceptual linguistic salience: modeling causes and consequences
Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the notion of salience in linguistics and related disciplines. While in top-down salience, perceivers endogenously direct their attention to a certain stimulus, in the bottom-up salience, it is the stimulus itself which attracts attention. In prototypical cases of bottom-up salience, the stimulus stands out because it is incongruous with a given …
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- 9782889451777
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- 134 p.; 23 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 410 PER p
Young children’s play practices with digital tablets : playful literacy
This book focuses on how young children play and have fun while indulging in digital worlds, discovering and problem-solving with a variety of narratives and interfaces encountered on these digital playgrounds. These playful encounters are richer experiences than one might expect. Through engaging with digital interfaces, children expand their visual and verbal vocabulary, plus develop an embod…
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- 9781787567061
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- XIX, 133 p.
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- 004.083 FRO y
Cities full of symbols : a theory of urban space and culture
This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. Cities Full of Symbols develops urban symbolic ecology …
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- 9789087281250
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- 303 p.
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- 307.76 NAS c
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