This book explores how HR technologies may mitigate the negative impacts of work-family conflicts on work engagement, a topic of increasing relevance in the digital era.

Acknowledging the changes in gender stereotypes and its impact on work engagement, this book undertakes systematic literature reviews on gender stereotypes, work-family conflicts, work engagement, and disruptive HR technologies to identify gaps in existing Human Resource Management research. Grounding on the theories such as social role theory, role-conflict theory, and the job-demand resource mode, Priyashantha surveys over 600 Sri Lankan private sector executives and shows that changing gender stereotypes both enhance work engagement and intensify work-family conflict; while the perceived desirability of disruptive HR technologies raises engagement, it can amplify the negative impact of work-family conflict on work engagement when not matched by credible implementation. Practical implications of the research for organizations and HR practitioners are also discussed.

This book is of interest to scholars of human resource management and organizational behaviour.

Jingwen Liu explores key areas and concepts in FRAND cases, including the legal nature and consequences of a FRAND commitment, the transnational and procedural problems surrounding FRAND litigations and economic perspectives of standard setting and FRAND licensing activities. Liu proposes a three-step analytical framework to assess SEP-based injunctions, including a timely examination of the 'willing licensor' and 'willing licensee' tests. The book concludes that the only way to properly address injunction issues is through adopting an expansive interpretation of FRAND, which converts it from a one-off, rate-based requirement to an ongoing, conduct-based principle.

Adopting both a chronological and a jurisdictional approach, The Availability of Standard-Essential Patent-Based Injunctions is a vital resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law and antitrust law. Legal practitioners and policymakers will similarly benefit from its timely recommendations for refining SEP-based injunction assessments.

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first incisive collaborative intervention to ongoing debates about law and politics under capitalism from an explicitly socialist constitutionalist perspective.

Heterodox literature on constitutional studies, to a large extent and with a few notable exceptions, shares a rejection of Marxist analytical principles. Moving beyond the formalism and instrumentalism, this volume will engage with the question: what differentiates a Marxist conception of socialist constitutionalism and the role of institutional forms in building socialism, from republican and post-Marxist conceptions? Drawing inspiration from socialist thinkers and historical attempts to build socialism, the contributors explain the relevance of socialist conceptions of democracy and rights for contemporary struggles for social emancipation. They combine historical and theoretical analyses to review socialist constitutional theory and practice, while thinking about the future of democracy and rights in a communist polity. The contributions deal with a variety of topical issues, including the relationship between state, law, and society; the relationship between constitutional law and revolutionary social change; right as legal superstructure and right as a form of social consciousness; the ethical grounds of communism; socialist conceptions of right; and principles for a socialist constitutionalism.

Consolidating Marxist approaches to public law and constitutional theory, Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity offers both a rigorous contribution to the elaboration of Marxist theory and a re-examination of foundational constitutional concepts, questions, and debates that will help to orient non-specialist readers

Leading academics provide novel conceptual tools and empirical insights that expand how entrepreneurship can be studied, understood and taught. Proposing a reorientation of entrepreneurial scholarship, chapters analyse key themes, including class elements of immigrant entrepreneurship, online harassment, public policy priorities and instances where entrepreneurship becomes a transgressive practice. Exploring decolonialism, marginalisation, organisation creation and alternative futures, the Research Handbook invites readers to question, rethink, and rediscover entrepreneurship in all its complexity.

The Research Handbook of Critical Entrepreneurship Studies is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of business, management, organisation and entrepreneurial studies. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from its critical proposals and in-depth scope.

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.

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 book introduces the study and reform of curricular structures, an often-overlooked dimension of undergraduate student success.

While student success is influenced by a complex array of factors, many of which lie beyond the control of universities, new research underscores that curricular structures (e.g., blocked courses, extended chains of required courses, pre- and corequisites) can be a significant barrier to success - one that unit-level faculty are uniquely positioned to address. By bringing together national research findings, change management experiments, and expert insights into the transformative potential of rethinking curricular structures, this volume opens an exciting new frontier in educational theory and practice, advancing the pursuit of equitable undergraduate success.

Written in an accessible style for faculty, administrators, and higher education scholars, this book will resonate with leaders committed to building truly student-centered universities.

The concept of the "common concern of humankind" (CCH) has gradually been incorporated into international law. Following the 2025 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on climate change, its international legal status is beyond doubt. International law attributes significant consequences to the CCH qualification, which essentially fall within the sphere of State responsibility. Ulti-mately, States have taken on board the responsibility of fulfilling the obligations they have undertaken for the benefit of humanity and the international community as a whole, and not merely to pursue their own individual and collective inter-ests. Today, the concept of CCH is associated with two global challenges: climate change and biodiversity loss.

This book explores the possibility of extending the CCH designation to include the "intentional destruction of the cultural heritage of humankind" (IDCHH). A comprehensive definition of IDCHH is provided. The arguments in favour of such inclusion are based on a systematic comparison of the qualifying features of the two legal concepts: CCH and IDCHH. These arguments also consider a modern, integrated approach to solving major global problems internationally, which recog-nises the destruction of cultural heritage, climate change and the loss of biodiver-sity as interconnected phenomena requiring consistent and uniform political and legal responses.

Drawing on global case studies, expert contributors demonstrate AI's capacity to enhance efficiency, reduce resource consumption, minimize bias, and strengthen employee well-being. They also combine environmental HR policy and digital transformations into one holistic framework, going beyond the traditional scholarly approach of treating them as separate entities. Chapters provide a practical guide for AI integration, addressing critical concerns over algorithmic transparency, data privacy, unequal access, and environmental costs. Adhering to specialized ethical guidelines, the contributing authors argue that successful AI integration will come from human-centered designs which prioritize participatory implementation and align with social and environmental values.

This is an essential resource for scholars and students of business, employment relations, knowledge management, and disruptive technologies. HR practitioners and organizational managers will also benefit from its actionable guidance for leveraging AI tools.

Contributing authors analyse the application of metaverse technologies across a broad spectrum of industries, including retail, tourism, higher education and hospitality. They propose forward-thinking perspectives based on international case studies to uncover the practical implications and opportunities of the metaverse's unique marketing spaces. By integrating theoretical understanding with empirical evidence, chapters provide actionable insights for navigating the complex future of metaverse marketing.

Metaverse Marketing is an essential future-oriented tool for scholars and students of business and management, innovation and disruptive technologies. Marketers, policymakers and business leaders will also benefit from its practical suggestions for navigating the metaverse.

This is a comprehensive edited volume that explores the global workplace through the lens of cross-cultural management. It serves as both a theoretical foundation and a practical guide for students, preparing them to operate effectively in a multicultural world.

Organised into six parts, the book introduces the fundamental concept of culture and its impact on management; explores cultural dimensions like individualism versus collectivism, and power distance; develops cultural intelligence with strategies for enhancing awareness, understanding, and respect for cultural differences; delves into common challenges such as managing cross-cultural conflicts and leading virtual teams; and prepares readers for global leadership roles by fostering skills to create inclusive, productive work environments. Each chapter features case studies and best practices from global companies to illustrate successful management strategies and is structured with features such as learning objectives and discussion questions.

An in-depth approach that combines theory with practice, this text is suitable as recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of human resource management, international business, global leadership and management, and organisational behaviour.

Online resources for this book include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides to aid teaching.

The Transnationalisation of Turkish Islam builds on current academic debates pertaining to the use of religion in global politics. By examining how and why religion is used as a tool for foreign policy aims, as well as for perpetuating a state's identity and institutional capacity at home and abroad, the book presents a theory-informed discussion on contemporary Turkey's transnational politics of religion from a comparative perspective. The country's use of religion as a political tool outside of its borders has been studied in Continental Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Balkans thanks to extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2016 and 2020.
The book investigates how and why Turkey has implemented similar tools with different aims in different geographic territories and the underlying material and normative motivations for this pursuit. The main argument presented in the study is that Turkey, under the rule of the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) (Justice and Development Party), employs religion for three fundamental reasons: to bolster its regional and global influence, to access regions or groups that are difficult to reach through traditional foreign policy tools, and to alter domestic political balances or amass power.
The Transnationalisation of Turkish Islam will appeal to students and scholars of political science, international relations, and public policy.

This volume examines the evolution of criminal policy, focusing on penal policy in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries from the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present and analysing the policy decisions, regulations, and specific conditions that have influenced these developments.

The chapters analyse penal policy across ten countries, highlighting the principal characteristics of each nation's approach and examining their differences, with particular attention to criminal law, criminalization, sentencing practices, and criminal justice. Focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bulgaria, the Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, the book demonstrates how state responses to crime and penal policy have evolved and provides insight into the underlying processes and significant events that have driven these changes.

Employing a comparative methodology and incorporating two cross-cutting chapters on penal policy, sentencing practices, and the rise of penal populism, Development of Criminal Policy in Central and Eastern European Countries is intended for students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, and political science.

The Puzzle of Paul in Acts explores the long-standing historical challenge of Luke's story of Paul through a fresh analysis of its major issues based in contemporary linguistic and historiographical theory.

Luke's story of Paul has long been subject to debate in New Testament criticism; it is surprisingly similar to, yet unavoidably different from, Paul's autobiography in his letters. This book provides a new model of historical interpretation built on "linguistic description" and "historical explanation" to reanalyze the central issues in the criticism of Paul in Acts, including the genre and historical content of Luke-Acts, the relation of Acts and Galatians, the "we" material in Acts, and Paul's fabled Athenian address. It advances a new argument that Luke constructed an independent and reliable account of Paul and that he collaborated with plausibly identifiable eyewitness sources in his narrative.

The Puzzle of Paul in Acts is suitable for students and scholars of Paul and Luke-Acts, as well as those working in early Christianity, early Christian historiography, and ancient Greek language and linguistics.

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs, including congestion and pollution, which affect the local environment and population. In certain places, living near the port -together with related industrial and logistical activities -is a synonym of adverse health outcomes, resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues, since deep-water facilities, even outside urban cores, impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic, like cruise, keeps operating within dense urban environments.

This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters, with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary, covering geography, history, economics, management sciences, regional science, sociology, public and comparative law, physics, energy and industrial engineering, urban and spatial planning, epidemiology, architecture, biology, and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next, it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally, it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies.

This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership, including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport, port management, and sustainability, as well as those in public management, planning, and governance.

China's rapid (re)ascendance as a global power, fuelled by its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has arguably become the most significant challenge to the United States' dominance, reshaping international relations and sparking debates over the future of the global order.

This book examines how the US has received and strategically constructed narratives around China's BRI to counter its influence. Offering a thorough analysis of US narratives and policies, it explores economic, security, technological, and political dimensions. By integrating critical constructivist and poststructuralist theories with thematic and narrative analysis, the author traces the evolution of these narratives, revealing how the US foreign policy elites selectively (re)constructs BRI narratives to delegitimise the initiative, justify countermeasures, undermine China's global influence, and sustain its waning supremacy in the global order. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including official documents, key speeches, and think tank publications, the author uncovers how US strategic narratives of the BRI are collaboratively shaped through a network of inter-narratives involving policy elites, allies, middle powers, and critics, rather than being solely driven by the US government.

This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of international relations, public diplomacy, US foreign policy, China studies, as well as practitioners and observers involved in BRI projects around the world.

Now in its second edition, Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics offers a modern and accessible introduction to spatial data analysis using R. Emphasising reproducibility, real-world datasets, and practical workflows, this comprehensive guide introduces spatial thinking from a critical analytical perspective, highlighting the importance of location, distance, and neighbourhood effects in shaping social and economic phenomena.

Readers are guided through foundational concepts, including spatial data structures (areal, point, and grid data), visualisation techniques, and spatial econometric models such as spatial lag, spatial error, and spatial Durbin specifications. Updates reflect the substantial evolution of spatial models and R packages, such as the transition to sf and terra, enhancements to spatstat, new tools for spatial sampling and bootstrap, and fully reproducible analyses with complete R code. Topics include geographically weighted regression, spatial point pattern analysis, DEGURBA classification and spatial principal component analysis.

Accompanied by datasets and complete R code on GitHub and RPubs, the book enables readers to replicate analyses and adapt methods to their own research. It is an essential resource for advanced students of econometrics, spatial planning, and regional science, as well as researchers and data scientists seeking to harness the power of spatial analysis for evidence-based insights and policy recommendations.

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.

Mobility Revolution captures the sweeping transformation redefining how people and goods move. Drawing on decades of experience across Paris, Detroit, and Silicon Valley, Marc Amblard unpacks the forces driving this historic shift, namely the push for clean mobility, volatile regulations, ambitious startups, geopolitics, and the global power shift toward China. He dissects the central role played by technology as electrification, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, the software defined vehicle, and new modes reshape the entire ecosystem.

Blending insightful technology perspectives with rigorous strategic analyses, this book explores the new products and services, innovative business models and collaborations, and complex supply chains, that will determine the next era in automotive and mobility. Organized around key domains - clean mobility, autonomy, digital transformation, and changing mobility paradigms - the book offers professionals and policymakers a panoramic yet practical view of where mobility is headed.

Mobility Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and anticipate the future of transportation.

This volume explores how E.J. Lowe's metaphysics relates to various issues in philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion.

Lowe's views on ontological issues have direct implications for issues in philosophical theology as well as philosophy of religion. Lowe's work is systematic in nature, and he built an extremely sophisticated ontological system in The Four-Category Ontology. The chapters in this volume are concerned with the centrality of having a proper ontology for our understanding of the core issues in philosophical theology. This means that we need to engage in ground-level debates about the ontology of theological issues. The chapters explore topics such as the existence of God, divine causality, divine presence, divine action, divine temporality, dualism, and Christology.

E.J. Lowe's Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophical theology.

Drawing on predominant theories of legality from Aristotle and Plato to John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin, Papadaki engages with classic debates, including the content of democratic governance and the relationship between law and morality. She argues that substantive pluralism, the foundational element of democratic legality, underlies the entire legal system from private to public law and political theory. The book explores this concept within diverse areas of law, including negligence and affirmative action, while analyzing the potential for artificial intelligence to empower democratic legality in the future.

Democratic Legality is a valuable resource for scholars and students of legal philosophy, legal and political theory, and law and technology. It is also highly beneficial to policy-makers and law-makers seeking to understand how democratic legality contributes to the principles of freedom and equal citizenship.

At its core, the book explores whether virtual meetings can enable the creation of common ground. By focusing on practices of coordination, collaboration and coorientation, the book demonstrates the importance of common memories, common matters of concern and common experiences in producing common ground. It does not assume that virtual meetings are deficient compared to co-located meetings, but rather considers meeting virtually to be an interesting phenomenon to study on its own terms. Chapters use empirical evidence to investigate virtual meetings and how they differ from in-person events.

How Virtual Meetings Matter for Community at Work is an essential read for academics and scholars of organisation theory, human resource management, working life studies, sociology, science and technology studies, and communication. Its focus on inclusive working practices will also prove beneficial for managers and HRM practitioners.

Leading experts illustrate that Africa's energy landscape is defined by a paradox of abundant renewable resources alongside severe energy poverty, requiring a transition rooted in justice, inclusivity and strategic industrial policy. They argue that, if the continent adopts context-specific policies, attracts equitable financing and strengthens regional cooperation, it could become a potential leader in global energy transition. Assessing diverse case studies, authors advocate for an integrated approach to enable Africa to build a resilient low-carbon future on its own terms, bridging the gap between high-level policy analysis and on-the-ground technical implementation.

Enlightening and incisive, this Handbook is an invaluable tool for academics and students in energy studies, African studies, development economics and environmental policy. Policymakers and government advisors will likewise benefit from its innovative and pragmatic recommendations for the future.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are redefining the educational landscape across schools, universities, and training institutions worldwide. This book explores how these technologies are reshaping teaching, learning, assessment, governance, and institutional strategy in the evolving EduTech era.

Bringing together international scholars and practitioners, this volume examines the integration of AI and IoT from multiple perspectives: pedagogical, institutional, strategic, ethical, and environmental. It addresses resistance to technological change, the development of smart classrooms, prompt literacy for educators, AI-ready school models, and policy-to-practice transitions in higher education. The book also explores teacher identity transformation through AI co-teaching tools, equity challenges in global EdTech ecosystems, and empirical insights such as evidence from British universities. Furthermore, it analyzes smart diagnostics, personalized learning systems, sustainability concerns related to AI and IoT infrastructures, and the broader connection between digital transformation and education. Through conceptual frameworks, case studies, and policy analysis, the book provides a comprehensive roadmap for responsible and effective AI-driven educational innovation.

This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, school leaders, higher education administrators, EdTech professionals, and graduate students in education, digital transformation, and innovation management. It will also benefit practitioners seeking strategic guidance for implementing AI and IoT solutions in educational environments.