Chapter Risk Management to Enhance Performance in the Construction SME Sector…

Dynamic changes and increasing competition in global markets have caused changes in the management of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Due to this fact, many SME companies try to implement different methods for strategy and operation management, quality and improvement management, risk management, etc. But the problem is the efficiency and implementation of these methods in the SME company

Chapter Product Life Cycle Risk Management

Every new product coming to the market usually brings with a certain amount of doubt concerning the likelihood of its success. In particular, hidden problems and risks which might appear later in the product’s service life could cause producers’ difficulties, costing them a lot of money. This might even result in product phaseout and a consequent loss of the company’s reputation

Chapter Population ageing and sustainability in South Tyrol: measuring the ec…

Meeting the challenge of population ageing requires a better understanding of frailty and disability, and appropriate strategies to ensure the resilience of the health and social care system, without destabilising public finances or over-burdening the economy. An increasing life expectancy will primarily affect the health care and the long-term care spending

Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues. Medicine, Magic and Divina…

The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medica…

Time in Education Policy Transfer = The Seven Temporalities of Global School …

This open access book investigates a topic underexplored in policy transfer: time. Drawing on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology, but written in an easy-to-understand language, the author discusses seven temporalities of policy transfer: historical period, future, sequence, timing, lifespan, age, and tempo. The temporal dimens…

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within exi…

Health Information Systems: Technological and Management Perspectives

Edisi akses terbuka yang telah direvisi secara mendalam ini memberikan gambaran menyeluruh tentang teknologi yang tersedia untuk mengumpulkan, mengelola, dan menilai kualitas sistem informasi kesehatan. Ini merinci berbagai skenario dalam konteks kesehatan dan perawatan kesehatan, termasuk di mana pencegahan dan kesehatan terkait, seperti pengobatan baik penyakit akut maupun kronis. Persyaratan…

Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

Te idea of applying comparative methods of inquiry to understand reforms that travel, which is presented in this volume, was conceived in 2017 within the context of the Policy Transfer Project (POLTRANS). In this project Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, was appointed as a part-time adjunct visiting professor at the Department of Education, University of…

Pathways and Consequences of Legal Irregularity

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Responsible Procurement

This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…