Böcker utgivna av IGI Global

Examines the argumentation practices and appraisal forms realised in parliamentary discourse on various topics. While highlighting topics that include legislative immunity, political rivalry, and language evolution, the book features crucial discourse-pragmatic research on parliamentary proceedings from various parliamentary settings.

Focuses on the use of narrative and writing to communicate political ideologies. This publication explores literature spurring from politics, the disadvantages of political or highly ideological writing, writers' awareness of the outside world during the composition process, and how they take advantage of political writing.

Presents research focusing on the challenges, issues, and importance of human factors in global software engineering organizations in order to help these organisations better manage their manpower and provide an appropriate culture and technology in order to make their software development projects successful.

Presents detailed research on the creation and implementation of social justice strategies in educational settings. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as gender equality, academic standards, and special education, this book is ideal for educators, sociologists, academics, researchers, and curriculum designers.

Discusses cooling and heating technologies, processes, and systems for food preservation, as well as improvements for control and monitoring systems that aim to foster energy efficiency, equipment safety, and performance. The book also looks at concepts useful for the development of new policies and legislation concerning food preservation.

Provides innovative insights on entrepreneurship opportunities in Dubai, the influence of foreigner start-ups and their strategy for development, and models of entrepreneurship and how they compare to other cities. The book highlights a range of topics, including global business, quality management, and cluster branding.

Focuses on the history and theories relating to case study methodology including techniques for writing case studies and utilizing them in university settings to prepare students for real-life career-related scenarios. This publication features a wide range of topics, including educational leadership, case writing, and teacher education.

Provides both empirical and theoretical research focused on ways that business professionals and organisations are breaking down cultural and language barriers, integrating cultural sensitivity, and implementing cross-cultural management practices into their daily business practices.

Focuses on current social media research and provides insight into the benefits and detriments of social media through the lens of psychological theories. The book enhances the understanding of current research regarding the antecedents to social media use, effects of use for identity formation, mental and physical health, and relationships.

Presents research on the planning, implementing, and evaluating of strategies for the new industry standards. While highlighting topics such as artificial intelligence, digital leadership, and management science, this book theorizes about tomorrow's business and communication environments based on the past and present of the concepts.

Uses cases, qualitative studies, empirical results, and analyses of legal frameworks to focus on ethics and sustainability as they relate to the management of global supply chains. The book features research on a range of topics, including production planning, consumer awareness, and labour laws.

Investigates the interactions between politics and managed historical memory and the discourse of ethnicity in European regions. Featuring topics such as anthropology, memory politics, and national identity, this book is designed for scholars, practitioners, specialists, and politicians.

Explores the specific challenges, issues, strategies, and solutions that are associated with using participatory social media, virtual communication, and other Web 2.0 innovations in higher education, and its particular implications for Generation Z.

Examines the impacts of self-directed learning methods and strategies on adult learning in various formal and informal learning situations and educational encounters. Topics covered include andragogy, learning analytics, and educational technologies.

Explores the idea of intergenerational equity in the corporate world as an alternative means to coordinating the common good and imbuing economic stability beyond a purely governmental approach. The book features research on a range of topics, including financial development, organisational culture, and behavioural economics.

Analyses traditional and contemporary methods of cheating, the prevention and detection of academic misconduct, and the cross-cultural implications of academic dishonesty. The book highlights related topics including diagnostic testing, mobile technologies, and electronic plagiarism detection.

Explores the latest approaches of document summarization, including update, multi-lingual, and domain-oriented summarization tasks, and examines their current real-world applications in multiple fields. The book features coverage on a wide range of topics, including parallel construction, social network integration, and evaluation metrics.

Examines the role of young peoples' involvement in governance processes in Africa and demonstrates how they are engaging in active citizenship. The book focuses on topics such as good citizenship, youth empowerment, democratic awareness, political climate, and socio-economic development.

Assesses the significance of robust information systems in characterizing events of varying nature and dimensions. The book also includes studies on the development and application of decision-making and prediction modeling frameworks using different approaches such as agent-based modeling, spatial decision support systems, and spatial data mining.

Examines the latest empirical findings for designing cyber-physical systems for social applications and aims at forwarding the symbolic human-robot perspective in areas that include education, social communication, entertainment, and artistic performance. Topics covered include evolinguistics, human-robot interaction, and neuroinformatics.

Explores and improves the understanding of the strategic role of sustainable cognitive cities in residents' routine life styles. Such benefits to residents and businesses include having access to world-class training while sitting at home, having their wellbeing observed consistently, and having their medical issues identified before occurrence.

Covers cyberwarfare and terrorism globally through a wide range of security-related areas. Featuring topics such as crisis management, information security, and governance, this book is geared toward practitioners, academics, government officials, military professionals, and industry professionals.

Provides insights into improving the understanding of complex retail environments and consumer shopping behaviours in order to predict trends and develop strategies for retailers in times of economic crisis. The book explores qualitative and quantitative methods of interest and the multidisciplinary approaches revolving around the industry.

Investigates the status of current strategic practice in the Arab world as well as the need to promote awareness of effective development strategies. Featuring research on topics such as social justice, practical entrepreneurship, and crisis management, this book is for strategists, academic scholars, and postgraduate research students.

Explores the conceptualizations and belief systems that drive culturally relevant teachers to teach and learn in ways that produce favourable outcomes for all children. The book highlights a range of topics, including learning outcomes, pedagogy, and teacher preparation.

Provides a glimpse into an initiative specifically designed to transform how university faculty design their courses for maximum and directed technology-relevant impact. The book features coverage of a range of topics, including course transformation, digital retooling, technology trial and error, student engagement, and pedagogy.

Presents research exploring how non-American media covers and represents the USA through a critical review that demonstrates how foreign media representations of the country have varied according to periods in history, political leadership, and current ideological and socio-cultural affinities.

Reflects on pedagogical strategies and programs that support student success at primary, secondary, and higher education institutions. The book covers the current debates pertaining to student support academically, emotionally, financially, and administratively, along with new kinds of strategies to support the learner through digital technologies.

Examines stories and experiences from members of an international science education project that delivered learning resources based around guided inquiry for students to a wide range of schools in 12 different countries in order to identify key themes that can provide useful insights for student learning, teacher support, and policy formulation.

Examines the proper selection of financial instruments in a financial portfolio management scenario in terms of metaheuristic approaches. The book explores measures used for the evaluation of risks/returns of portfolios in real-life situations, and features research on topics such as closed-end funds, asset allocation, and the risk-return paradigm.