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Hipsterism: A Paradigm for Modernity
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens of Modernity, Consumerism, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, it draws on qualitative research from two subsequent field stays in Berlin and is complemented by self-reflexion …
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- 978-3-658-39536-0
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- Kultur und gesellschaftliche Praxis
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- XI, 192
Data for Social Good: Non-profit Sector Data Project
This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in d…
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- 978-981-19-5554-9
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- XV, 127
Innovation in Bayern
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit der Einstellung der bayerischen Militärführung in Hinblick auf die Rezeption als auch Adaption technischer Innovation bzw. deren ersten praktischen Anwendung im Krieg von 1866. Das 19. Jahrhundert stellte das bayerische Königreich vor mehrere Herausforderungen. Die militärische Partizipation an den Napoleonischen Kriegen endete zwar erfolgreich…
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- 978-3-658-39561-2
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- VI, 311
Advanced Digital Auditing
This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and covers the latest findings on theory and practice in this rapidly developing field. Especially for those who want to learn more about novel approaches to testing complex informati…
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- 978-3-031-11089-4
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- Progress in IS
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- XIV, 256
Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship
This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship – the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous an…
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- 978-3-031-11371-0
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- FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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- VI, 264
Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals
This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who cr…
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- 978-3-031-05182-1
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XXIII, 382
Holding down the Fort
This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical associ…
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- 978-3-658-39773-9
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- X, 418
AI in Learning: Designing the Future
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational institutions and companies need to take the changing technology into account. Moving towards AI supported by digital tools requires a dramatic shift in the concept of learn…
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- 978-3-031-09687-7
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- XXV, 344
Niederlassungen führen
Niederlassungen müssen ganzheitlich geführt und gesteuert werden - andernfalls sind Umsetzungslücken oder Governance-Gaps unvermeidlich. Diese äußern sich in mangelnder Strategieumsetzung, Kommunikationsproblemen bis hin zu Skandalen wie Kartellklagen oder Korruptionsfällen. Ganzheitliche Steuerung von Niederlassungen ist eine Governance-Aufgabe, die nicht nur im Pflichtenheft des Boards …
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- 978-3-662-66203-8
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- XIV, 113
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
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- 978-3-031-08608-3
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
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