This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually exists, or whether it exists because we believe it does? Both answers are true. The author argues that the duality of the essence of strategic leadership is clear. It ma…
ABSTRACT This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in which French poetry and theatre address this turn. Poetry in space and theatricality of poe…
This volume brings together leading scholars in their fields who offer much needed and wide-ranging perspectives on the intersections of genders, cultures, and literacies. As incidents of racial and gender aggression grow in number and in global attention, it is essential to understand how racial and gender identities and their expressions interplay and influence literacy development and practi…
In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world.
This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration …
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Erfahrungen zur Zusammenarbeit und zum Wissensmanagement verschiedenster staatlicher, gemeinnütziger und privater Akteure in der Flüchtlingslage 2015/16 aufbereitet, mit praxisnahen Beispielen angereichert und um Übungen zur Vorbereitung auf zukünftige Lagen ergänzt. Die damalige Lage stellte die Beteiligten vor große Herausforderungen, sowohl im Hinblick…
This book explores the role of agriculture in long-term economic growth. With a particular focus on Ethiopia, the role of the state in igniting agricultural growth and in sustaining economic growth is highlighted as essential for low-income countries. Taking ideas from both economic history and development economics, the ability of Ethiopia and the rest of Africa to sustain recent rapid growth …
Volume ini mengkaji dampak globalisasi terhadap hukum lingkungan internasional dan penerapan pembangunan berkelanjutan di Negara-negara Berkembang. Terdiri dari kontribusi dari para pengacara dari Negara-negara Berkembang atau yang memiliki pengalaman di Negara-negara Berkembang, volume ini disusun menjadi tiga bagian, dengan penyelidikan tematik yang dijalin melalui setiap bab untuk menanyakan…
Kumpulan yang disunting ini menyelidiki linguistik globalisasi, geopolitik, dan gender dalam budaya tempat kerja dalam berbagai latar internasional kontemporer yang berbeda. Bab-babnya meneliti bagaimana isu globalisasi, gender, dan geopolitik memengaruhi para profesional dalam berbagai konteks tempat kerja, termasuk pekerja rumah tangga; profesional TI; guru, staf universitas; insinyur; pengus…