The AI Strategy Playbook tackles the biggest paradox of our time: while AI grows exponentially more powerful and affordable, most organizations remain stuck in pilots that never scale. The result is frustration, "AI fatigue," and missed opportunities. This book delivers a practical, structured roadmap that has already guided thousands of executives on how to embed AI into strategy, operations, and business models.

Combining academic rigor with hands-on frameworks, global strategy expert Rene Bohnsack introduces four AI Stacks that every leader needs: the Skill Stack, the Transformation Stack, the Strategy Stack, and the Governance and Control Stack. Together, they help executives move step by step from isolated experimentation to full integration of AI into organizations. The playbook is practical and tested.

• The Skill Stack teaches prompting, responsible use, tools use, co-intelligence, and AI mastery.
• The Transformation Stack provides tools and tactics to move from experimentation with AI to acceleration of use cases and full integration.
• The Strategy Stack adapts the Play-to-Win model for the AI era, guiding leaders through aspiration, opportunity mapping, the construction of AI moats, the design of an AI business model, and and the creation of a roadmap that includes data readiness.
• The Governance and Control Stack ensures governance across five dimensions - operational, ethical, legal, environmental, and strategic - and measures progress through the AI Balanced Scorecard.

This book provides the tools, language, and confidence for leaders to act decisively. Readers will not only understand AI's strategic implications but also gain a practical playbook to lead transformation. The AI Strategy Playbook: From Zero to 100 is the essential guide for leaders determined to move past hype, avoid paralysis, and create lasting advantage in the age of AI.

Chapters evaluate the first reflections from the 19th century by great figures (such as Saint-Simon, Comte, Fourier, Proudhon, Courcelle-Seneuil & Leplay), tracing how they shaped the classics of the early 20th century such as Le Chatelier, the introducer of Taylorism in France and Henri Fayol, the 'father' of administrative theory. Chanlat then analyses French industrialists, such as Andre Citroen and Louis Renault, the French Fords, Charles Gide, the father of social economy thinking, Simone Weil, the philosopher of work, and the main currents that emerged after the Second World War, contextualising the nature and influence of contemporary French research. He also assesses the emergence of contemporary French language studies across the disciplines of sociology, psycho-sociology, economics and technology. The book seeks to develop a broad culture in the social sciences and encourage a multilingualism scholarship.

This important and unique book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of business and management, organization studies and sociology. It will also benefit researchers and business consultants looking to globalise their knowledge of administrative sciences and to discover or rediscover the richness of the French speaking tradition in organization and administrative sciences.

This unique volume delves into the intricate world of teaching learning resources (TLRs) across India's diverse educational landscape. Exploring a broad spectrum - from time-tested Montessori materials to cutting-edge digital tools - it examines the profound impact of TLRs on student engagement and learning outcomes across various subjects and levels in school and teacher education. It illuminates the challenges of textbook development and highlights innovative approaches, such as the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme, that empower both teachers and learners.

Through rich case studies and expert perspectives, this book reveals how TLRs can be harnessed to foster critical thinking, creativity and a deeper understanding of the world. From the role of images in social studies textbooks to the use of everyday objects in science experiments, this book showcases the power of TLRs to inspire curiosity and make learning a joyful experience. Whether you're a teacher seeking practical classroom strategies or a researcher exploring the theoretical foundations of TLRs, this book offers valuable insights into the dynamic and evolving landscape of education in India.

This book would be useful to the students, researchers and teachers working in the fields of education, psychology, development studies, social work and sociology. It will also be an invaluable companion to in-service teachers, policy
makers and educational administrators, curriculum developers and NGOs.

Leading experts investigate how contemporary forces such as digitalisation, sustainability and innovation are reshaping the dynamics between buyers and suppliers, leading to more strategic, resilient and value-driven partnerships. Chapters assess core concepts including collaboration, governance, performance measurement and risk management in differing global contexts. Through empirical insights, conceptual frameworks and practical recommendations, this book provides an understanding of cultural, regulatory and structural variations in buyer-supplier relationships.

The Research Handbook on Buyer-Supplier Relationships is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, public administration and organisational behaviour. It is also prime reading for practitioners in business, organisation management and sales navigating the strategic challenges of modern purchasing and supply management.

This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.

Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work, reproduce, create value and support livelihoods. Yet business and management theory still largely treats organisations as purely human domains. Animals and Business challenges this view. By introducing an interspecies approach to responsible management, the book explores how animals are not just resources or external ethical concerns, but key actors within organisations and industries. It examines how business practices shape animals' lives and how, in turn, animals influence how value is created and sustained. Each chapter takes an animal-centred approach to a familiar idea such as work, consumption and innovation. Case studies range from broiler chickens in global supply chains to bees in forest honey economies and medical scent-detection dogs in Nordic healthcare. Developed in dialogue with international scholars, the book's central claim is simple: Business is better understood, and better practised, when we recognise the animals whose lives and labour are intertwined with it.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers working at the intersection of business studies, animal studies and sustainability.

Leadership, Art, and Responsibility begins where strategies and tools fall silent: when leaders are drawn into a demanding encounter with poetry and music, where vulnerability, tragedy and moral ambiguity unsettle how responsibility is felt and power is exercised. Building on insights from neuroscience, philosophy and psychology, Julia Romanowska reveals how the shock and beauty of art can unsettle leaders' judgement - and their very sense of who they are.

At the centre of the book is the Shibboleth leadership programme, evaluated in a randomised study showing measurable changes in leaders, with effects extending to stress-related hormone levels among their employees.

Uniting aesthetics, emotion and ethics, the book argues for leadership grounded in exposure rather than control, and in responsibility rather than technique. Romanowska terms this integration aestemethics and challenges reductive models of leadership training, opening another horizon for leadership.

The book will interest scholars and students of leadership, management, organisational health psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, as well as practitioners concerned with ethically serious leadership and the human consequences of organisational life. It insists on responsibility when the dignity of human life is at stake - and consequences cannot be undone.

Why did some of Europe's most urbanized pre-industrial societies industrialize relatively late? Conventional theories link urbanization to economic growth. Yet European history presents a paradox: early industrializers were not the most urbanized, while highly urbanized regions often stagnated. This book argues that urbanization levels alone are misleading. What matters is the structure of urbanization-the spatial concentration of cities and the organization of urban networks-inherited from earlier historical processes.

Italy, the demographic and infrastructural core of the Roman world, inherited exceptionally high urbanization within a markedly decentralized urban system. Through comparative analysis and detailed case studies-including the Republic of Genoa and Early Modern Tuscany-the book shows how this legacy fostered the emergence and persistence of regional states, constrained political unification, and encouraged extractive institutional arrangements, producing urbanization without growth and contributing to delayed industrialization. The Roman Empire constituted the foundational origin of Western Europe's urban landscape. Its urban system generated enduring and uneven spatial configurations across Europe, whose effects persisted long after the Empire's collapse. These inherited patterns shaped trajectories of political fragmentation and processes of state formation.

By reconnecting urbanization to its deep historical foundations, this study offers a new perspective on Italy's long-run development and clarifies the longstanding urbanization puzzle.

Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.

This book tracks the development of neoclassical growth theory through four distinct stages: exploration, extension, elaboration, and exploitation. It argues that scientific change in growth research is a processual development driven by diaphoric learning, where a community of researchers creatively uses existing conceptual tools to grasp previously unrecognized causal dependencies in data. This book further evaluates the conceptions of scientific progress, identifying the limitations of conventional criteria in distinguishing genuine advancement in economics from analytical "game-playing." Pawel Kawalec proposes an ontic criterion of intensive progress, which validates an emergent research routine based on its isolation of ontologically novel causal structures. By distinguishing between derivational and ontological unification, and drawing on Robert Solow's criteria of model choice, this book defends progressive pluralism and piecemeal realism. It concludes that the coexistence of diverse models is not a sign of relativism but a mature response to the world's ontic complexity, providing a robust "library of models" essential for contextualized economic applications.

This book will be of interest to experts and graduate students specializing in economic growth models, the history of twentieth-century economics, the history and philosophy of science, and science and technology studies.

This forward-thinking Research Agenda provides actionable solutions for maintaining the domestic and worldwide commercial relevance of English contract law. It divides barriers faced by the law into three key areas of concern: risk, sustainability and vulnerability.

Leading experts highlight the crucial role English contract law plays in governing international transactions and emphasise the need for adaptability in order to preserve societal values while enacting commercially efficient strategies. They reframe global challenges to break down traditional categorisations and siloed thinking to establish new ways of finding effective solutions. The chapters examine the links between insurance contracts, responsibilities and risk, digital transformations and the shift from economic efficiency to eco-efficiency, proposing innovative solutions for future-proofing English contract law.

A Research Agenda for Contract Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of commercial law and contract law. Legal practitioners will also benefit from its novel insights and recommendations for future practice.

In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in all its forms: tender and erotic, destructive and restorative, ancient and digital.

Moving effortlessly between the works of Freud, Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, Balint, Bion, and contemporary neuropsychoanalysis, Kinet reveals how love shapes the psyche from infancy to adulthood, from the consulting room to the wider culture. Across a series of vivid chapters, ranging from early trauma to desire, perversion, seduction, idealisation, digital intimacy, and the healing potential of the analytic setting, this book offers a panoramic portrait of the human need for connection. Kinet combines rigorous clinical thinking with literary and philosophical depth, while offering a clear and compassionate account of why love matters and why it so often goes awry. A compelling exploration of the human heart and the forces that bind us to one another, this is psychoanalysis written with depth, clarity and warmth.

Written in Kinet's signature engaging and accessible style, this is a vital book for clinicians, readers of mind and culture, and anyone fascinated by the fragile and untidy beauty of love.

Competence and Self-Care in Counselling and Psychotherapy explores care and replenishment of the self as an essential requirement for maintaining competence in practice and offers a framework for understanding what being competent means for practitioners, both generally and in work with clients.

The book proposes a culture of care for practitioners that begins with the individual, influences the quality of personal and therapeutic relationships created both inside and outside the professional environment, and extends into the frameworks that support and validate professional practice. It goes further, discussing the role of therapy in caring for society and the contribution it can make as humankind faces extraordinary challenges. As well as exploring relevant concepts, the book is fully updated with practical suggestions for addressing the core training requirements of maintaining professional competence, of practising reflectively, ethically and sustainably and of considering the wider social environment, including issues of culture, identity and social justice.

This book is an ideal choice for counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors and trainers who wish to maintain a robust standard of practice, and for those employing them.

The basic principle of social work underscores the profession's commitment to establishing and sustaining a society with peace, prosperity, and equality. This volume outlines the ways we can educate the new generation of social workers with skills, training, and knowledge that can work towards bringing about meaningful change in the world.

With contributions from Canada, Georgia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Australia, Norway, and Italy, the authors address the following questions:

* How can social work education instil trust, inclusivity, and respect for diversity among graduates?
* How can social work teach graduates to celebrate differences and to generate a powerful sense of togetherness among different population groups?

The book will be indispensable to teachers, researchers, and students of social work, education, sociology, diversity, exclusion studies, and social welfare. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers working within social
development.

Revolutionizing Education, Revitalized is a critical exploration into the evolution of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) through the lens of creative resistance, emphasizing the role of art-based approaches in inquiry and activism for youth.

YPAR transforms pedagogy and fosters student-centered approaches to address social inequities in education. Coming over 15 years after the groundbreaking publication Revolutionizing Education, this new book collates the voices of prominent and emerging YPAR scholars, practitioners, and youth leaders to explore student-centered arts-based approaches across literacy, music, theater, environmental justice, and more. This volume highlights innovative strategies and creative endeavors to mobilize knowledge for educational change and liberation.

Combining conceptual notions with practical guidance, this interdisciplinary exploration of YPAR is important reading for practitioner-scholars and graduate students engaged in PAR or YPAR, as well as graduate students and practitioners in social justice education or community-based programs.

This Research Handbook presents the various sides of the debate surrounding the replication crisis, providing detailed insight into the current state of research and suggesting future avenues for approaching the issue of replication in science, impacting not only psychology but a multitude of disciplines. Chapters assess whether the prevalence of empirical findings that fail to replicate studies constitute a crisis. Contributors explore topics such as improving the quality of replication science, preregistration in psychology and replication in marketing.

The Research Handbook on the Replication Crisis is a key resource for students and scholars of meta-science, psychology, research methods, and the wider social and behavioural sciences. It will also benefit researchers, practitioners and methodologists seeking a better understanding of this subject and how it might affect their field.

Social Work Practice and Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good is the first university-level textbook to address how artifical intelligence (AI) can be leveraged for the common good without reproducing systemic inequities, whilst also addressing how social workers can develop the digital literacy necessary to evaluate, design, and ethically use AI tools.

Drawing on global case studies, practice-based examples, and a range of pedagogical tools, this book:

• Introduces AI concepts in plain language for non-technical learners.
• Explores ethical dilemmas, bias, and the implications of automation in human services.
• Connects AI use cases to micro, mezzo, and macro practice levels.
• Provides tools for advocacy, policy engagement, and community-based technology design.
• Positions social workers as active shapers of emerging technologies rather than passive adopters.
• Embeds equity, human rights, and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics into AI discussions.

Offering chapter-critical thinking questions, empowerment-focused activities, reflection prompts, interviews with experts, and support materials, this textbook will be relevant to all students of social work, public policy, and human services. This book will also be of interest to practitioners in nonprofit and public service sectors, and faculty members looking to advance their understanding and infuse AI literacy in their courses.

This book critically examines the effectiveness of the United Kingdom's child and family social work structures and proposes the integration of a trauma-informed approach to improve current social work practice.

The authors argue that current government policies, theoretical frameworks, and practices contribute to structural inefficiencies leaving vulnerable children and families without the support they so desperately need. Drawing on evidence-based research, this book advocates for a trauma-focused, family-centred approach, focusing on interventions that are framed around national and international guidelines to emphasise prevention and healing over crisis management.

This call-to-action book provides social workers, policymakers, caregivers, and legal professionals with a roadmap towards reform and bridges the gap between public perception and professional practice to foster a trauma-informed approach.

The History of Education as History of Knowledge brings together international scholars to explore how the emerging field of the history of knowledge can enrich the well-established history of education. While recent research in the history of knowledge has examined actors, practices, and institutions of knowledge, this volume is the first to focus systematically on sources and methodologies within the context of education.

Covering the modern period, the chapters investigate a wide range of case studies-from kindergartens and teachers' associations to philosophical societies and transnational transfers of solidified knowledge. Together they demonstrate how shifting perspectives on sources and methods allow historians to examine knowledge in its plural forms: produced, mediated, contested, and circulated within and beyond educational institutions.

Emphasising how knowledge is bound up with power relations, this book shows how hierarchies of gender, class, race, and ethnicity have shaped what counts as educational knowledge and how it is transmitted. In addition to empirical studies, contributors critically reflect on methodological approaches drawn from intellectual history, sociology of knowledge, praxeology, discourse analysis, and science and technology studies.

This book will appeal to scholars, students, and teachers in educational history, the history of knowledge, and related fields and will serve as an orientation for early-career researchers.

Leading experts emphasise the importance of recognising children's agency, stressing how vital it is to treat young people as human beings in their own right. They highlight the challenging power dynamics between the researcher and child, exploring how researchers can create conditions which cede power to young people across a project's continuum and practice reciprocity in engagement and reflectivity. The Handbook advocates for creative research methods and the development of specific research competency in establishing sensitive and reflexive research relationships.

International in scope, this Handbook is an essential guide for scholars and students broadly in the social sciences and especially in the disciplines of social work, sociology, social policy and development studies. Social workers, psychologists and policymakers will likewise benefit from its detailed approach to establishing ethical working relationships with children and young people.

Presenting a sociological perspective on globalisation and COVID-19 impacts, this book examines the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the structure of work and unpaid domestic labour.

Labour patterns have influenced political, social, and economic spheres that affect organisational practices. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, this book showcases these effects upon household labour, care work, unpaid domestic work, and organisational practices, with attention to systemic inequalities by gender and age, net zero, privacy, and digitisation transitions. It examines the exponential post-pandemic growth of digitisation and what this has meant in encouraging remote, home-working or hybrid work health, and wellbeing. Taking a sociology of work approach with a critical eye for neoliberalism influences, this book explores the first years of the pandemic's aftermath, analysing both its short-term and potential long-term effects on paid work and unpaid domestic labour.

This book will be of interest to academics, students, and practitioners in the areas of sociology, global studies, occupational health, and international relations. In particular, those engaged with the sociology of work and the sociology of family will find this a valuable resource for understanding work in the post-pandemic world.

New social risks, ranging from profound transformations in labor markets to rising inequality and the climate crisis, are reshaping contemporary societies and demanding innovative forms of social policy. This book argues that the critical expansion of public social services is central to addressing these challenges. Securing and investing in public services, particularly the social provision of education and health care, not only fosters well-being but also contributes to building equitable, low-carbon economies and generating quality employment.

The book draws on a wide range of theoretical traditions, including the capability approach, development studies, welfare state scholarship, and the UK's Universal Basic Services perspective. It also advances a novel conceptual framework: the "constitutive welfare state." This framework reconceptualizes public social services as an economic sector in their own right, with far-reaching structural consequences.

Blurring the often overdrawn boundary between Global North and Global South experiences, the ensuing empirical analysis turns to Brazil as a Global South case that serves both as a concrete illustration and as a broader laboratory for the policies advanced in this book. The Brazilian case provides estimates of the macroeconomic, social, and ecological effects of expanding these services, including their potential to generate low-carbon, equitable employment and to narrow gender and racial wage differentials. It also addresses the main constraints such an agenda would confront.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of development, welfare state studies, social investment, well-being, labor markets, economic inequality-including gender and racial inequality-and distributional macroeconomics.

This incisive Research Agenda examines the opportunities and constraints facing young people as they transition from education to work. Leading scholars detail how scientific understandings of school-to-work transitions have evolved and identify the multiple conditions which affect and influence them.

Chapters discuss the increasing uncertainties and challenges faced by young adults trying to enter the workforce. They outline how a variety of factors such as personal attributes, individual resources, artificial intelligence and the green economy, are leading to new realities which will further influence access to quality jobs. A Research Agenda for School-to-Work Transitions advocates for stronger attention to place-based research, greater cross-sector coordination and improved balance between broad and targeted policies, emphasising the positive impact of including young people in governance co-design.

A Research Agenda for School-to-Work Transitions is an essential resource for scholars and students in sociology, social policy, education, work and employment. Policymakers and practitioners will equally benefit from insights into strategic planning, training, lobbying activities and sustainable development goals.