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Safer Healthcare : Strategies for the Real World

The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day ...

School Decentralization in the Context of Globalizing Governance

This book extensively reviews outcomes of educational decentralization using research findings from different parts of the ...

Science and Technologies for Smart Cities

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Smart City 360° Summit, held in Braga, Portugal, in December ...

Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China

The first chapter introduces the topic, offering a global perspective on embedding ethics in science and technology policy. ...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

Self-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management

The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural ...

Self-Service Data Analytics and Governance for Managers / Nathan E. Myers, Gregory Kogan

Motivated by the promise of control and efficiency benefits, the widespread adoption of data analytics tools has created ...

Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2006

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service- Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2006), which ...

Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era

This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar ...

Social Innovations in the Urban Context

This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches ...

Society - Water - Technology : A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects

This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg ...

Socioeconomics of Agriculture

This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely ...

Space, Place and Educational Settings

This book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that ...

Speaking Management : How to Spot Language Traps and Resolve Contested Management Terms / Stephen Keith McGrath

The terms include governance, power, ethics, leadership and their associated groups of terms. The book explores how disagreement ...

Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?

This book fills this gap, and addresses the question of the consequences of the "external force" of European enlargement ...

Statistical Methods for Human Rights

Human rights issues are shaping the modern world. They define the expectations by which nations are judged and affect the ...

Strategic Leadership for Business Value Creation : Principles and Case Studies / Don Argus

Focuses on leadership and strategy, corporate governance, operational excellence, and corporate social responsibility. In ...

Strategy and Governance of Networks

The book emphasizes research in economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field by offering new theoretical ...

Struggles for Survival

This book takes a comprehensive look at the question by integrating the fields of institutional economics and corporate strategy, ...

Sustainability Standards and Global Governance Experiences of Emerging Economies

This book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and ...

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