This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the governance framework for credit institutions and certain investment firms introduced by the Capital Requirements Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD IV) in response to the global financial crisis and progressively refined most recently by Directive (EU) 2024/1619 (CRD VI). It systematically and comprehensively analyzes the provisions of the current version of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) dealing with internal governance, ESG risk management, AI risk governance, directors' duties, suitability requirements, board committees and remuneration. Individual chapters also focus on specific governance requirements related to banking groups, third country branches, the bank resolution framework and public enforcement.
This edited collection brings together the leading European scholars in the field of bank governance and regulation. The chapters examine relevant delegated and implementing legal acts as well as guidelines from the European Central Bank, the European Banking Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority. Organized in a logical and accessible manner, the book will allow readers to navigate complex topics and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of corporate governance, banking law, financial services law, and company law.

This book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact across diverse sectors, from logistics and agriculture to architecture, social media, management, law, and ethics. Through selected papers from the ICAIS'24 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Studies under the theme of "Future Trends in AI: Academy Meeting with Industry", the book examines real-world applications and theoretical implications of AI technologies, offering insights into GPU-accelerated object detection, precision agriculture, interior design, digital HR practices, and equitable anti-money laundering solutions. The selected papers also address pressing ethical concerns and legal frameworks surrounding AI, including prohibited systems and jurisdictional differences in case prediction. Designed for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, this collection fosters a deeper understanding of AI's evolving role in shaping sustainable, inclusive, and technologically advanced societies.

This book introduces the research perspective and development of urban social geography, the main schools, and their research methods in foreign countries. The book is divided into three parts.

The first part is a general introduction to the teaching and research methods of urban social geography. This book focuses on how to carry out social surveys on the phenomena and problems of urban social geography in China, as well as the key points to pay attention to in completing an urban social geography research independently, especially the specific writing points of the paper, including the structure and logical relationship of the paper, the specific writing, paragraph arrangement, abstract writing, the selection of keywords, the writing of literature review, the use of scientific language, the writing of discussions and conclusions, literature query and reference annotation, etc.

The second and third parts are on the teaching and research practice of urban social geography. It is divided into two parts: macro perspective and micro perspective. In addition to a few papers written by the editor-in-chief of this book, most of the papers are carefully selected from the works of Peking University students, aiming to provide excellent model essays for undergraduate or graduate students in related majors, which can be compared with the previous general thesis, serve as a reference, and are also convenient for students to understand intuitively.

This book presents an up-to-date Persian edition and English translation of Ma'athiru'l-umara, a biographical dictionary of the officers of the Mughal Empire from Babur's reign at the beginning of the sixteenth century until almost the end of the eighteenth century compiled by Shahnawaz Khan Aurangabadi and completed by his son Abdul-Hayy. Insofar as possible the sources from which the authors derived their information have been identified, and explanatory notes are given for technical terms in Persian and native Indian terminology. Almost all places mentioned in the text have been identified. It is an essential reference work for scholars of Indo-Persian studies and Indian history.

Inner Worlds examines the emergence and operation of representations of interiority-consciousness, "folk mind," "spirit"-in Japan from its industrial revolution to the rise of fascism during the interwar period. These representations functioned to reproduce the capitalist system by containing its excesses. Thus, poverty in the 1880s was ostensibly the result of defects in one's innate mental character. A degenerate "crowd mind" explained the strikes and riots of the early twentieth century. State subversion during the 1930s supposedly reflected an attenuated "folk spirit." By locating the roots of capitalism's excesses not within the socioeconomic order itself but within a defective interiority, ideologies of interiority operated to contain disruptions to Japan's socioeconomic order, conceal its defects, and sustain the capitalist system. Inner Worlds reveals how interiority was constituted in ways consistent with both the demands of the emerging capitalist order of the late nineteenth century and the conditions that coalesced to form a fascist conjecture in the 1930s.

Pakistan's Punjab Irrigation Department manages one of the world's largest irrigation networks. Such bureaucracies are typically considered paradigmatic sites of corruption, inefficiency, and depoliticization, particularly in post-colonial settings. The Work of Water turns this assumption on its head, arguing that the postcolonial promise of welfare and development hinges not on elite policy or expertise but everyday bureaucratic labor.

Drawing on a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Maira Hayat offers a historical ethnography of irrigation infrastructure and its administration in the Indus basin, showing that bureaucracy is a key site where the political and ethical are navigated. Moving from irrigation offices and outlets to courtrooms, archives, village council gatherings, and international treaty arbitrations, the book traces how the materiality of water is produced through disputes, ethical conundrums, rules, calculations, files and development projects. Attending to law, religion, gender, authority and corruption as they are navigated every day, the book reveals how the flows and stoppages of water might enable or frustrate human designs. The Work of Water offers a powerful rethinking of environmental governance at a moment of intensifying climate strain. At stake, Hayat demonstrates, is not only the governance of nature, but the nature of governance itself.

This book presents one of the two collections of papers from the 12th International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality (ICT 2023), hosted by Jinan University, China, from November 3 to 5, 2023. Delving into the subject with a blend of scholarly rigor and practical insight, it provides a fresh outlook on how digital intelligence is reshaping the tourism landscape. Through the lens of interdisciplinary exploration, this book showcases pioneering strategies and real-world case studies, bridging the gap between demand and supply, and illuminating the path toward a more interconnected and intelligent future for the tourism sector. Its contents introduce emerging topics such as virtual reality tourism, cyber pilgrimage, smart tourism city construction, and large language models, tailored to cater to the needs of researchers, practitioners, and students alike.

This textbook on business ethics explores the central question of the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces in the economy. By drawing on a wide range of ethical approaches and clarifications of key concepts, it conveys a comprehensive understanding of business ethics. In doing so, it deliberately refrains from adopting normative approaches.

In order to demonstrate how ethical and unethical human behavior affects economic outcomes, the work integrates current research findings from the field of economics as well as from interdisciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology. The insights gained provide new perspectives for the practical application of business ethics.

The knowledge relevant for students is first developed on a scientific basis and then presented in a structured and concise teaching format. It integrates insights from the behavioral sciences (psychology, social psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics) to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on business ethics.

While global urban discourse remains dominated by the spectacular, high-rise gentrification of central city areas, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the quiet, mundane redevelopments that transform the inner-city neighborhoods of the Global East. Exploring this "shadow of gentrification," it provides a rich empirical analysis of Osaka, Japan-a primary example of emerging neoliberalism playing out across an inner-city shaped by the developmental state. Despite departing from conventional gentrification, the analysis focuses on social change and capital reinvestment. Through evidence from extensive field research and interviews, it traces three distinct trajectories of neighborhood change: retro renovation driven by small businesses in Nakazaki; art-led renovation facilitated by a local landlord in Kitakagaya; and welfare-led renovation triggered by livelihood protection amendments in Northwest Nishinari. The analysis reveals a nascent "precarious city," in which the working class is replaced by populations marked by precarity and fragmentation, standing outside the societal project of the developmental state. Ultimately, this book argues for embracing the trajectories of neighborhood change in the Global East, while treating gentrification as a conceptual vanishing point to guide analyses that sometimes lead into the spotlight, and sometimes into the shadow of gentrification.

Understanding the world of art - particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts - requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displaced by conflict or economic hardship, and ultimately reappear in the international art market. The odyssey of an artifact from its excavation site to an auction house, a private collection, or a museum display case raises a host of pressing concerns about the fragility of cultural heritage but also the global mechanisms that sustain its circulation. In recent years, growing awareness of a possible link between the illegal antiquities trade and terrorist financing has brought new scrutiny to regions marked by war and instability, particularly in the Middle East. In such places, archaeological sites are especially vulnerable to looting and illicit excavation, with the profits from these "blood antiquities" sometimes flowing back to fund further violence.

Art for War examines how this transformation in perception - from an archaeological concern to a matter of international security - reshaped the global response to antiquities trafficking. Viewing the trade through a security lens, the book offers scholars, policymakers, and students of international affairs a new way to understand how the protection of cultural heritage became entangled with the politics of counterterrorism and global security sparking new debates over art, heritage, and security.

From Risk to Resilience challenges how decisions are made in an era defined not only by climate disruption, but by systemic uncertainty. Traditional risk models rely on historical data and stable assumptions. Yet across infrastructure, financial markets, and national systems, these foundations are breaking down, creating a widening gap between modeled risk and real-world uncertainty.

Sharron L. McPherson introduces The Resilience Method (TM), a decision-grade framework that enables governments, investors, and infrastructure leaders to assess whether systems, assets, and communities will remain viable over time. Moving beyond risk mitigation, she reframes resilience as a strategic discipline for operating under uncertainty.Drawing on three decades of experience across finance, law, and policy, and fieldwork across five continents, she connects complex risk signals to real-world decisions. This is a practical framework for navigating volatility, allocating capital with greater confidence, and building systems that endure.

Sideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowers-from colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising China-Cheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047.

In this moment of multiple crises, Sideways Developments offers a timely hermeneutic and theory of solidarity and sustainability. The book tracks how sideways aesthetics have evolved from a feature of LGBTQ+ plots, performance, and nonlinear approaches to space-time to a form of togetherness that links postcolonial Hong Kong with struggles worldwide. Using what Cheang terms intersectional formalism as an analytical tool, the book provides a multilayered examination of the alternative pathways exemplified by queer and trans resilience and regeneration.

This volume explains how literacies, particularly digital and STEM literacies, have become essential tools for developing skills in organizations. It explores the need for human adaptability in the context of Industry 5.0, analyzes the intersection of literacies and AI, and highlights the role of universities and companies in the development of literacies in relation to various occupations.

Divided into four parts, the first section explores the intersection between education, workforce readiness, and digital transformation within unique regional and national contexts. Part 2 examines the impact of digital literacy on the tourism industry while Part 3 takes a micro perspective, focusing on how groups, individuals, and professions engage with and adapt to digital tools and environments. The final section employs macro-level analyses to understand the societal, technological, and ethical implications.

Replete with cases studies, this book highlights how to ensure that the workforce has the necessary skills to collaborate effectively with emerging technologies, develop innovative products, and adapt flexibly to changes in the work environment. It will appeal to scholars interested in the employability and education of the labor market.

European finance now operates under a dense web of intersecting rules. While these safeguards have reduced formal weaknesses, they often undercut strategic capacity, immobilize capital, and promote a tick-box mindset. This book argues that the problem is not the volume of regulations, but rather the absence of a shared language of risk. Treating risk as an external constraint renders institutions compliant yet fragile.

Drawing on the author's background in banking, payments, and fintech-including CTO/CIO and board-level roles with responsibility for technology strategy, operational resilience, payment systems, and supervisory engagement-and research on risk-based performance indicators, the book blends practice and research. It offers a governance-centered framework that translates regulatory duties into risk-based decision-making and metrics, differentiates banks from nonbanks, and integrates technology and third-party exposure.

Reframing supervision as a relational process built on proportionality, trust, and risk ownership, this book will appeal to readers interested in how financial risk governance shapes institutions, supervision, and society.

This book reconstructs and examines the complex history of Studia Logica, one of the world's leading journals in symbolic logic. While its origins can be traced to 1934, the journal has appeared as a continuous periodical since 1954. Its story is neither simple nor linear, shaped by shifting political contexts, intellectual alliances, and evolving research agendas, and in many ways more intricate than that of comparable journals beyond the Iron Curtain. This book recounts this history through the perspectives of those who shaped the journal-its editors, authors, reviewers, and readers highlighting how political change and academic networks influenced its development. The first part offers a chronological narrative of the journal's history, while the second turns to specific periods, from its early beginnings to its consolidation in the mid-twentieth century and its subsequent international expansion. This book provides both historians of logic and contemporary researchers with a deeper understanding of the role Studia Logica has played in the advancement of modern logic.

For many companies, marketing is an area with high levels of investment, which is why the question of measurability is highly relevant. Managers see themselves under increasing internal accountability to prove the value contribution of marketing. Marketing management control is therefore ascribed an ever-increasing role with the aim of ensuring, proving and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing management. Without clear evidence of success, it will be difficult to defend budgets in the future.

This publication deals with the basic principles and key instruments of effective marketing management control in the context of advancing technologization and digitalization in marketing. It discusses their possible applications in a practice-oriented manner and emphasizes aspects that have proven to be particularly relevant for companies in executive education at the University of St.Gallen (HSG).

With a keen attention to how culture and elite conflict shape politics, The Great Separation upends deterministic understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed. This ambitious posthumous volume by sociologist Xiaohong Xu turns the existing scholarship on China's "neoliberalism" on its head by demonstrating that the effort to separate mass politics from economic policy had its origins well before the Reform and Opening-up era.

Over the course of the Cultural Revolution, unfolding factional dynamics and interpretive struggles enabled Chairman Mao and his radical colleagues to mobilize workers to advance their own political goals while neutralizing the masses' economic demands, symbolically separating the political from the economic. This set the stage for a more thoroughgoing depoliticization of the economy after 1989, when China faced challenges from students and workers whose economic grievances had rapidly morphed into political demands for democracy. The result was what Xu calls ordoeconomism: an ideology that valorizes economic development, rejects mass politics, and views the state as the apolitical guardian of the economy. As Xu demonstrates, while ordoeconomism may share some affinities with neoliberalism, it is a distinctively Chinese approach that must be understood on its own terms.