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Managing Tourism in a Changing World provides an overview of state-of-the-art research surrounding today's tourism management. Recognising the relevance of tourism activities as major economic drivers, this book offers a significant contribution to the advancement of managerial practice in the tourism field.

This book examines the complex regulation and deregulation of energy, communications, transportation and water utilities across Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Brazil, China and India by drawing attention to the changing roles of the state, the market and firms in the regulation, organization and delivery of utility services.

This book brings together a sample of real-world cases and of conceptual proposals bridging between practitioners and researchers in the field of futures research.

The case study, whether a simple scenario about choices in decision-making or a multi-dimensional narrative of conflicts and dilemmas, is a rich source of knowledge, ideas, and insights. Using case studies as a method to document and learn the experiences of nations and their institutions reveal the perspectives, rationale, trade-offs and actions of governments and people. This book is a collection of case studies on the development of Singapore institutions. Here, a total of five case studies encompassing the areas of urban governance, education, social security and industrial relations are presented, each carefully selected to profile a particular sector. These case studies describe the importance of culture, leadership, and systems in building institutions, and how interactions between people - leaders and employees - and the organizations they belong to can influence institutional culture. This publication seeks to deepen global understanding of the Singapore government and its form of governance, as well as to advance theories and concepts of sustainable development on a global stage.

In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "go by the book" for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true solution to a problem, safety and loss prevention professionals must think outside of the box of conventional solutions and develop new and creative

In this edited collection, the new science of complexity is explained and illustrated through the journeys of 9 leading scholars who have applied it in fields such as psychology, social change, Buddhism, creativity, and future studies.This book was originally published as a special issue of World Futures.

The ability to manage government departments and operations has become less important than the ability to navigate the complex world of interconnected policy implementation processes. Public sector reform policies and programmes, as a consequence, are a study in the complexities of the institutional and environmental context in which these reforms

Based on the author's extensive experience in the medical device, aerospace, and manufacturing engineering industries, this book presents a detailed structure for systems thinking that can help to prevent costly device recalls. Based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge, this structure can help medical device designers and man

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