When high expectations do not always match the resources at your disposal, how can small Internal Audit teams make a significant impact? This book is your essential guide to transforming the way you approach internal auditing. Professionals who lead or work in small teams in Risk, Compliance, Information Security and Quality across all sectors will also find this book especially relevant.

This book provides tools, techniques and inspiration, starting from establishing a solid foundation to leveraging technology, building strong governance, utilizing third-party support and systemising your processes for consistency, quality and efficiency.

Packed with strategies, hacks and insights from thought leaders from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, this is a relatable and empowering volume that will help you discover how to become a trusted advisor to your C-suite and Audit Committee and how to delight your stakeholders with innovative outputs and effective communication.

With fresh perspectives and real-world examples, Audit Alchemy aims to give you the confidence to innovate and the courage to lead.

Obstetric Violence and the Birthing Body: A Reading from Feminist Philosophy examines the phenomenon of violence against women and birthing subjects during medicalized birth from the viewpoint of diverse fields within feminist philosophy.

The phenomenon of obstetric violence-violence and the dehumanizing treatment of laboring women at the hands of medical staff-affects women and birthing persons all over the world, with dreadful consequences. This book argues that obstetric violence is a distinct form of violence against women that cannot be adequately understood simply by labeling it as "gender violence." It demonstrates how violent obstetric practices have been normalized and provides practical guidance for those seeking to influence social policies and create structural change within women's healthcare.

Obstetric Violence and the Birthing Body will be of use to women everywhere, health providers, policy makers, and students and researchers in many branches of feminist philosophy as well as other academic disciplines including public health, human rights, welfare, sociology, midwifery, medical anthropology, medical ethics, and law.

This book looks at the destination marketing and risk management strategies of 18 Asian countries, showcasing how they deliver their unique products and services.

With its diverse cultures, stunning landscapes and historical sites, Asia draws tourists from all across the world. This book looks at the development of the countries' tourism branding and strategies over the decades. It also discusses the common challenges they face, including climate change, overtourism, natural disasters and geopolitical unrest. Particular attention is given to how Asian countries have incorporated resilience and recovery strategies into their marketing plans after the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by leading tourism scholars and industry leaders, this book showcases how Asian destinations are entering a new normal - creating and marketing experiences that surprise and delight, while proactively managing the risks of a complex operating environment.

A book of vital interest to students and scholars of tourism marketing, as well as policy makers, government agencies and tourism industry professionals.

This book offers a critical and justice-oriented examination of tourism's complex impacts, revealing how it shapes and is shaped by economic, social, gender, environmental, animal, and racial (in)justices. It explores pathways toward more equitable and transformative practices for communities and environments.

The book examines a mosaic of international research on issues of justice and power in tourism. Offering a critical and justice-oriented perspective, it seeks to develop a deep and critical understanding of not only how tourism interacts with injustices but also how it perpetuates various forms of (in)justice, beyond the purely economic- and marketing-driven view of tourism. Anchored in the critical tourism studies, the book is building on a diversity of perspectives and a rich array of theoretical and disciplinary frameworks to challenge conventional point of view on power dynamics and subsequent (in)justice issues associated with tourism. With illustrative case studies from different parts of the world, it leads the readers to build reflexivity and critical engagement for thoughtful research, theories, and practices in tourism.

This book is aimed at graduate studies students and professors interested in a critically oriented, justice-based understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon. It will also offer a varied perspective on the complexity of tourism and its multidisciplinary weaving with geographies, societies, and philosophies to all tourism scholars.

This book argues that qualia do not exist, and there is no phenomenal consciousness. Furthermore, it articulates and defends holistic behaviorism.

"Qualia" or "phenomenal consciousness" refers to mental states that are supposedly ineffable, intrinsic, private, and directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness. In order to have experience, there must be qualia. This book argues that everyone is a philosophical zombie, or an individual without phenomenal consciousness. The author critically engages philosophers who believe in qualia-such as Ned Block, Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers, John Searle, and Galen Strawson-demonstrating how the intuitions that would support the belief in the existence of qualia are mutually inconsistent and self-contradictory. He proceeds to claim that the physical cannot be demarcated from the nonphysical, and so the hard problem of consciousness can be dissolved or dismissed. In the second part of the book, the author offers a defense of holistic behaviorism by drawing on Hegel's philosophy of mind.

Against Qualia, For Behaviorism will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and cognitive science.

This book explores the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts.

Part I contrasts the dualistic metaphysics of Platonism, Cartesianism, and materialisms, with the process metaphysics of William James, John Dewey, C.S. Peirce, and A.N. Whitehead with an eye toward illustrating how education should be treated as a transactive and interactive process whose objects of knowledge evolve through time. In Part II, the authors go on to investigate conceptions of the value of a liberal arts education, considering reactionary, conservative, pragmatist, and radical approaches.. Finally, in Part III, the authors explore connections between metaphysics and conservative, radical, and pragmatist conceptions of art, and demonstrate how process metaphysics can be extended to highlight the role of aesthetic experience both in understanding and appreciating art and in liberal arts education.

A timely and unique exploration of the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and faculty with interests in several branches of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of education, and aesthetics.

Published shortly after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet regime, Specters of Marx is one of Derrida's most interesting and prophetic books. Whilst many in the West heralded the triumph of liberal democracy and "the end of history", Derrida takes several steps back to argue that whilst Communism may have disappeared in much of the world, the questions posed by Marx continue to haunt us.

In his customary provocative style, he asks some uncomfortable questions: after the fall of Communism, can we preserve Marx's legacy of radicalism? How do we continue his philosophy of responsibility? Uncannily anticipating many of the challenges facing us today, Derrida argues that the capitalist system is plagued by a multitude of ills, including aggression, trade wars, debt, the exploitation of migrant labour and ethnic conflict.

This Routledge Classics edition is a translation of the revised French edition and includes a debate between Derrida and Etienne Balibar on Marx and Marxism, published here in English for the first time. It also includes new corrections and additions to the text and footnotes made by Derrida after the book's initial publication in French.

Translated by Peggy Kamuf and with a new Foreword by Peter Salmon, this Routledge Classics edition retains the original Editors' Introduction by Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg.

This book explores the relationship between management, marketing, innovation, and sustainability within the service industries. Based on conceptual and empirical research, it examines how these elements can be integrated to enhance experiences.

Contributions from leading researchers explore both the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability as well as social sustainability and the co-creation of services with residents and societies in a variety of contexts and regions. The book provides multidisciplinary insights from marketing, management, economics, geography, strategy, and social anthropology, adopting a system approach of sustainability. This approach is reflected upon in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, providing insights on research initiatives associated with the responsible planning and management of services and experiences that promote sustainable behaviour.

Services, Experiences, and Sustainability will inspire and encourage its readers to make a difference for the people, planet, and profit. The book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of service management, service marketing, innovation in services, tourism and event experiences, and sustainable management. The book will also prove helpful for policymakers, industry practitioners, government agencies (local, regional, national, and international), NGOs, and volunteers.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Globally and across industries, professions are being reshaped by rapid advancements in digital technologies. From AI-powered diagnostic tools in healthcare to automated legal research systems and predictive financial platforms, the very foundations of professional expertise, value, and trust are evolving. Amid this change, one truth remains: professions that fail to adapt risk irrelevance.

The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trustes, Relevant, and Future-Ready offers a timely and essential roadmap for understanding and navigating the profound shifts underway in how professional work is organized, delivered, and governed. While digital disruption has challenged long-standing roles and business models, digital transformation represents a deeper opportunity: to reimagine how professionals create value, maintain public trust, and build new futures. This book explores how digital transformation manifests across every layer of professional life, from day-to-day professional roles, workflows and career pathways to governance structures, public confidence, and inter-professional boundaries. The book:

• Explains how advancements in digital technologies drive digital disruption of the professions and how digital transformation offers a deeper opportunity to reimagine professional roles, services, and value
• Unpacks how digital profession transformation manifests across all levels of a profession, from individual roles and workflows to governance structures, public trust, and institutional identity
• Discusses the new digital and/or digitally enhanced professional services, roles, workflows, and competencies that professionals must adopt to remain relevant and impactful
• Examines how professional bodies, educators, firms, and policymakers can support professionals in co-creating digitally capable and ethically grounded professions
• Identifies strategies and real-world examples of how professionals are adapting their identities, practices, and relationships in response to accelerating technological change

Drawing on cutting-edge research and global examples, the book unpacks how professionals, firms, professional bodies, educators, and policymakers can co-create digitally capable, ethically grounded, and future-ready professions. Whether an educator, student, practitioner, professional leader, or policy adviser, any professional benefits from this book's in-depth look at what's changing, what's at stake, what must be done, and viable strategies that can be and are being used to ensure professions continue to serve society in a digitally transformed world.

This book is about the future of leadership and organisations with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the business ecosystem. The book, from the perspective of academic inquiries, suggests that the emergence of AI as a transformative force in business calls for redefining traditional competitive and leadership theories and frameworks. The manuscript puts forward the alternative versions of classic business, technological and economic models like Porter's Five Forces model, NASA's technology maturity model of Technology Readiness Level and the classic economic theory of division of labour. The work discusses the developing norms and contours of human-AI workforce integration and the challenges that leadership will encounter to realign the corporate strategies with AI to emerge it as a critical cog that will drive innovation, growth and stakeholder value. The book, while revealing the critical role of AI in driving business growth, will also put forward the new set of competencies necessary for next-generation leadership to manage AI-driven corporate functions. With the integration of AI in organisational hierarchy, leadership needs to deliberate on what to delegate and how much to delegate to AI for the decision-making process and what kind of firewalls would be required to have oversight on AI and move towards developing and deploying 'Responsible AI'.

Project Stakeholder Engagement provides concepts and frameworks that can help the reader gain insights into a project's stakeholders, and how to engage them. It also gives suggestions for how to identify and understand stakeholders, and how to create an engagement plan with communication and other activities.

Readers will gain essential skills to drive project success by learning to systematically analyse stakeholders and develop targeted engagement strategies. The book delivers these benefits through research-based frameworks illustrated with real-world examples, mini-cases highlighting key concepts, and comprehensive case studies bridging theory and practice. Written primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students in project management and business administration, this book is equally valuable for practising project managers, consultants, and executives seeking to enhance their stakeholder engagement skills. It's particularly relevant for courses in project management, project stakeholder engagement, and value creation.

Supporting materials include PowerPoint slides summarizing key frameworks and an instructor's manual with teaching notes for case studies, facilitating effective classroom discussion and application of the book's principles.