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Buildings have a long lifetime, and so they are a major target for any structural changes in consumption patterns. Conversely, long lifetimes come with associated strong inertia. This book examines the opportunities to influence energy consumption in housing and buildings, and provides options for implementation at a macro, meso and micro level.

Enterprising Initiatives expands the definition of entrepreneurship beyond a profit-seeking phenomenon to a broader understanding of enterprising behaviour based on an individual-opportunity nexus. Exploring a broad range of individual, collective and cooperative citizen initiatives, it shows how cultural changes and enterprising behavi

This book sets out in search of what we call 'Confucian HRM' in Greater China and beyond, vis-a-vis people-management as implemented in an Asian context.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

In the last few decades we have witnessed an expansion in the amount of news coverage focusing on organizations and their activities and similarly, organizations have increased their investment in their own PR and media oriented forms of communication. This book explores how organizations and organizing can be understood as a part of a mediatize

Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery explores employment issues in NPOs in the era of contracting. In the UK this includes changing workforce patterns, recruitment, HR policies and practices, unionisation, pay and conditions and psychological contracts in voluntary organisations. It also provides international comparisons

This book takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use.

In Health Communication and Mass Media, contributing authors engage and expand upon significant theories informing efforts at mediated health communication; demonstrate the practical utility of these theories; and consider how to balance the ethical and efficacy demands of mediated health communication efforts. The book addresses both traditional m

Consumption is the primary economic activity in a post-industrial society. This volume shows how consumer behavior analysis fits within a larger-scale approach to marketing, consumer psychology, behavior analysis and organizational behavior management. It comprises articles originally published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Manage

W. Edwards Deming once stated that the job of management is not supervision but leadership. He also concluded that capable leaders were those who understood and applied the System of Profound Knowledge. This book examines this system and describes competencies that set the stage for its application. Illustrating the power relationship bet

A Few First Words. Ergonomics Applied to Offices. Relating with People in the Office. Office Design. Chairs and other Furniture. Keyboarding and other Manual Tasks. Feeling Good at Work. Seeing and Lighting. Hearing and Sound. Office Climate. Just a Few Last Words.

This book presents a new model for education that makes more effective use of technology. The book first looks at the evolution of the U.S. public education system. It introduces the dilemma of whether emphasis should be on ensuring that all students reach a defined level of expertise or on encouraging individual students to develop their full p

Focuses on providing answers to the question of how food production and consumption systems can stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of our natural environment. This work also considers the challenges of food security and nutrition in the context of sustainability and a growing world population.

The first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, this book establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA level. There are three levels of knowledge that those who work with business analytics need to understand: encoding, solution design, and analytics: post-solution analysis. This boo

Explaining how to identify and manage the many risks associated with conducting business abroad, this book provides the real-world insight needed to anticipate the impact of change on business operations. It presents case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how these concepts apply to every day operations. Considering

This book explores risk communication research with a focus on new theoretical perspectives, research findings, and applied goals. It reflects on a broad range of innovative theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical areas. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.

This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning. It outlines simple yet powerful visual Lean tools that can enhance idea generation and product development. It discusses customer value in the form of the benefits customers desire and walks readers through the processes of using Lean techniques t

Governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across government ministries and departments, across jurisdictions and sectors in order to solve policy problems or enable more efficient and effective policy development. Using the most international research, this book examines the promise, barriers and tensions wh

This text is designed for a one-semester course in optimization taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the mathematical sciences and engineering. It teaches students the basics of continuous optimization and helps them better understand the mathematics from previous courses. The book focuses on general problems and th

This book addresses the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability (EIS), presenting high-quality research illuminating the relationship between the three fields.