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Strategic Human Resource Management: A Research OverviewThe field of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has burgeoned over the past thirty years. Over this time there has been a shift towards a strategic conception which posited workers as 'assets' rather than 'costs'. These 'human resources' were reconceptualised as a key source...
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Food Tourism and Regional Development: Networks, Products and TrajectoriesFood tourism is a topic of increasing importance for many destinations. Seen as a means to potentially attract tourists and differentiate destinations and attractions by means of the association with particular products and cuisines, food is also regarded as an opportunity to generate added...
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Visible Knowledge for Flawless Designs: The Secret Behind Lean Product DevelopmentVisible knowledge is a tool nearly lost in the West, but it has been used to great effect by Toyota in its 50-year march from noncompetitiveness to its current status as the second largest automobile company in the world. It is key for the...
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Analyzing Us Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in RCensus data are widely used by practitioners to understand demographic change, allocate resources, address inequalities, and make sound business decisions. Until recently, projects using US Census data have required proficiency with multiple web interfaces and software platforms to prepare, map, and present data products....
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Employee Retention and Turnover: Why Employees Stay or LeaveThis exploration of what employee turnover is, why it happens, and what it means for companies and employees draws together contemporary and classic theories and research to present a well-rounded perspective on employee retention and turnover. The book uses models such as job embeddedness...
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Hands-On Machine Learning with RHands-on Machine Learning with R provides a practical and applied approach to learning and developing intuition into today's most popular machine learning methods. This book serves as a practitioner's guide to the machine learning process and is meant to help the reader learn to...
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Excellence Beyond Compliance: Establishing a Medical Device Quality SystemMany companies limp along from day-to-day treating the quality side of the business as a necessary evil, and doing only what is minimally necessary for compliance to regulations. This kind of approach to compliance almost always results in inefficiencies and sometimes can result in...
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Human Rights Issues in TourismThis book uniquely focuses on human rights issues associated with tourism development and tourism businesses. Tourism is a manifestation of globalization and it intersects with human rights on so many levels. These implications are increasingly relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent...
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Marketing Channel StrategyFor advanced undergraduate and/or graduate-level courses in Distribution Channels, Marketing Channels or Marketing Systems. Marketing Channel Strategy shows students how to design, develop, maintain and manage effective relationships among worldwide marketing channels to achieve sustainable competitive advantage by using strategic and managerial frames of...
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They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. I: 1971-1982They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides an in-depth analysis of the creation and evolution of the video game industry. Beginning with the advent...
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Probability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + DataProbability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + Data covers "math stat"--distributions, expected value, estimation etc.--but takes the phrase "Data Science" in the title quite seriously: * Real datasets are used extensively. * All data analysis is supported by R coding. *...
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Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from AttackThe US government spends billions of dollars to secure strategic and tactical assets at home and abroad against enemy attack. However, as hard targets such as military installations and government buildings are further strengthened, vulnerable soft targets are increasingly in the crosshairs of terrorists...
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Fashion Marketing and Communication: Theory and Practice Across the Fashion IndustrySome of the usual obstacles to modern teachings of marketing are ethnocentricity, the limitation of creative thought by conformity to existing theories, lack of questioning of ethics, and a disconnection from historic events or sociological discourse. This book, in contrast, draws together interdisciplinary approaches...
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Creative Problem Solving for Managers: Developing Skills for Decision Making and InnovationStimulating and developing the creative potential of all members of an organisation is widely seen as contributing to performance and results. This prestigious textbook provides a complete overview of the creative problem-solving process and its relevance to modern managers in the private and public...
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Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good ApproachCan business activities and decisions be virtuous? This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves...
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Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to ApplicationsIntroduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications uniquely merges the institutional and technical aspects of the aviation industry with their theoretical economic underpinnings. Its integrative approach offers a fresh point of view that will find favor with many students of aviation. This...
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International Trade Negotiations and Domestic Politics: The Intermestic Politics of Trade LiberalizationIn spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, given that the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs. This volume argues that in order to...
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Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist EconomicsEconomics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written...
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Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law: Normative Incompatibility, System Integration and Governance ImplicationsThe current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development. To better address sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements should be made more compatible with sustainable development.Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law presents an important systematic...
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Social Sustainability for BusinessSocial Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard, accepted business model, with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable...
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