Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaig…

Digital media have come to play an important role in the work of political parties and campaign organizations all over the world. Examples for the use of digital media in the United States (US) like Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump’s campaign of 2016 dominate the public imagination.

New nonprofit organization governance: driving impact by adopting a holistic …

Many governance scholars have drawn on the foundations of one or several organizational theories from which they have developed their research and suggested respective findings. Consecutively, several scholars have inventoried and categorized mainstream research along the organizational theories

Chapter 1 BETTER THEORY, METHODS, AND PRACTICE THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

This chapter is designed help motivate the current readers’ interest in computational modeling as the authors provide a description of the myriad of values computational modeling can bring to our science. Readers are also given a brief history of computational modeling as it relates to the field of I-O psychology. This is followed by a more complete description of the goals for the book, as t…

Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource Management

Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.

(Un)Equal Pathways to Higher Education: Social Origins and Destinations of Co…

Inequality of educational opportunities (IEO) is a recurring topic in both public debate and academic research. This book contributes to the contemporary discussion on IEO with a focus on individual trajectories over the life course. It provides empirical evidence on the magnitude and the mechanisms of IEO in Colombia, a country with extreme, persistent levels of social inequality. Using nation…

A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action

Values, attitudes, and behaviors constitute an organization's culture and employees both share and use them on a daily basis in their work. This book aims to briefly portray a new interpretation of organizational culture varying from the profusion of literature in the following ways: it attempts to include how cultures are created organically or through consistent planning and action in differe…

Diversity nutzen und annehmen : Praxisimplikationen für das Diversity Manage…

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Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles = Towards a New Development Paradigm

This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across five facets namely ethics and value system; sustainable consumption and production; modalities of systemic transformation; financing for resilient infrastructure, cities and s…

Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges

This open access book assesses UNCLOS' resilience and vitality as a legal framework for addressing emerging global maritime challenges. Against the backdrop of a number of emerging global maritime challenges, including the rise of sea levels and the maintenance of maritime safety and connectivity, the preservation of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the promotion o…

The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…

This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…