Cracking Facebook

This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as “part digital natives” to easily acquire and use new media technologies, whil…

Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling

Collaborative Storytelling is a theory of social and cultural change. The theory itself advocates for space and time to refect on social identities and embodied lived experiences through stories. In this chapter, we introduce how metaphors, narratives and stories powerfully impact organisational change in exclusive or inclusive ways.

Formalization of Banking Supervision

This book has been many, many years in the making. Eiji Hotori and Mikael Wendschlag presented a crude first draft, including the conceptualization of the formalization process, at the 17th World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan in August 2015 (WEHC 2015). At a session organized by Hotori entitled “Banking supervision in comparative perspective: Europe, America and East Asia,”…

Score Reporting Research and Applications

ABSTRACT Score reporting research is no longer limited to the psychometric properties of scores and subscores. Today, it encompasses design and evaluation for particular audiences, appropriate use of assessment outcomes, the utility and cognitive affordances of graphical representations, interactive report systems, and more. By studying how audiences understand the intended messages conveyed b…

A history of intelligence and "intellectual disability" : the shaping of psyc…

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The Hoarding Vikings

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Bornholm: a treasure island -- 2 The multi-causal hoards -- 3 Identifying Bornholm's hoards: content, character, and chronology -- 4 Classification of production, circulation, and distribution data -- 5 Silver flows: analysis of production data -- 6 Stab, bend, and cut: analysi…

Discursive thinking through of education: learning from those who transform t…

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Managing sustainable luxury and digitalization :technology trends and ethical…

Defining luxury in the watch industry: exploring the gestalt of Swiss luxury watches -- Trends and challenges in the Swiss luxury watch industry: insights from an expert survey -- Luxury watches and ethical hubris: a comparative overview of illustrative cases -- Gestalt-switch of luxury products: exploring pitfalls of inconsistent value expressions in conspicuous consumption -- "Some of my cust…

The Governance of Insurance Undertakings

This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…

Cognitive choice modeling

"This book presents a comprehensive review of the emerging theories from cognitive science that integrate both decision processes and choice behavior"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.