Most research has analyzed and discussed supply chain phenomena at the macro-organizational level so far. However, this book addresses these phenomena at the micro-individual level. The reason is that, given the diversifying challenges in supply chain management (SCM), relying only on a few SCM leaders such as SCM professionals and top executives is risky, and it is essential to encourage the behaviors of SCM followers belonging to various departments (e.g., production, logistics, purchasing, sales, and product development) and trading partners (e.g., suppliers and customers).

Through this book, the authors insist that all individuals participating in supply chain integration (SCI) activities need to contribute to achieving a challenging, common purpose through interactions among individuals. First, this book organizes a multilevel model of SCI, encompassing both organizational and individual levels. After that, this book provides a detailed explanation of the relationships among variables at the individual level. The individual-level model consists of four variables: antecedents, mediating/moderating factors, work behaviors, and individual outcomes. These variables are established based on insights from organizational behavior theory. The authors then demonstrate the validity of the aforementioned model through empirical study and apply the followership theory to individual-level supply chain behaviors.

This book offers a holistic approach to understanding the "Why," "What," and "How" of tokenized money, examining its necessity, functionality, and implementation strategies. It covers a wide range of topics, from Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) to private stablecoins, decentralized finance (DeFi), and regulatory frameworks. Global perspectives are analyzed through case studies, pilot projects, and early adoption trends worldwide, evaluating the role of tokenized money in financial inclusion, cross-border payments, and the future of global trade. Critical insights are provided, including opposing views, risks, and the broader impact of digital money on financial stability, sovereignty, and innovation.

The book is tailored for financial professionals and industry leaders, highlighting practical use cases, adoption trends, and strategies for leveraging tokenized money. Policy makers and regulators will gain insights into governance, legal frameworks, and global regulatory practices. Academics and students will find a structured framework for courses on fintech, monetary policy, and digital finance.

This book captures Zimbabwe's economic and social history with a focus on the various colonial categories as they interacted and unfolded. It analyses the complex histories of colonialism by illustrating the points of intersection in and interaction of the various aspects of colonialism. Chapters within the book demonstrate how various aspects of colonial society - environmental, ideological, and economic - related to each other.

This book departs from earlier similar publications in how various themes or elements in society were interwoven. Existing titles in this area tend to isolate a single theme, such as environmental or women's history, from other categories. In reality, colonial spaces, however, did not exist in isolation. The social, economic, political, ideological and environmental factors, for instance, were intricately interconnected. The book includes topics such as health infrastructure and urbanization in Southern Rhodesia, encounters between plastic manufacturing industries and the Customs Union, the development and maintenance of Rhodesia's road infrastructure, livestock diseases, the conversion of indigenous lands into wildlife sanctuaries, and the brutalization of workers.

This edited volume addresses the development of young language learners' oracy which strengthens their abilities to speak and listen and use spoken language to deepen thinking and engagement with their world. It offers theoretical and pedagogical perspectives on oracy development and proposes ideas for teaching listening, speaking and thinking in contexts. The book consists of four parts: (1) Research and pedagogical overviews, (2) Classroom practices for the teaching of oracy, (3) Technology for the teaching of oracy, and (4) Developing thinking through oracy. Collectively, the authors address the teaching and learning of oracy in classroom settings as well as teacher-scaffolded informal learning beyond the classroom. With concise chapters written by international scholars and practitioners, this book is a valuable reference for teacher educators, teachers, graduate students and language education researchers interested in oracy. It is both empirically- and practice- driven, informed by theories of oracy development and the authors' own research and teaching experience. Although the discussions are mainly based on the teaching and learning of English, language educators and researchers of other languages may also find the theoretical and pedagogical perspectives in the book relevant. With its diverse global perspectives on developing oracy, this edited volume will contribute to current understanding of language development of young learners in a variety of second / foreign language and bilingual education contexts.

This monograph is a comprehensive meta-review and empirically grounded exploration of the economic value of sport in Germany. In a policy environment increasingly driven by demands for evidence-based decision-making, the work responds to the growing need to quantify and substantiate the contributions of the sport sector to the economy and society. Using a rich body of data, including sport satellite accounts, national statistics, sport development reports, and academic studies, this work builds on and extends previous research by systematically integrating diverse thematic and methodological perspectives, updating empirical findings, and expanding existing discussions on the economic and societal value of sport. It offers a coherent and multidimensional framework that not only takes a closer look at the tangible effects of the sport sector, such as contributions to GDP, infrastructure investments, consumption effects, labor market effects, and fiscal revenues, but also examines intangible effects such as health, education, volunteering, and social cohesion.

Each chapter applies a consistent analytical format, including a functional framing of sport's role, a synthesis of empirical findings, a discussion of methodological approaches, and an identification of current research gaps. By linking empirical evidence with theoretical frameworks, methodological considerations, and policy debates, the work offers concrete implications for students and scholars of sport economics, sport management, public economics, and policy studies, as well as for decision-makers in government, sport organizations, and the private sector.

This book shows how U.S. courts have failed to protect the human rights of America's children. The Supreme Court has constructed a constitutional identity rooted in American exceptionalism and libertarianism. It has used this identity to disregard human rights law, claiming it is foreign to uniquely American constitutional values and that the very nature of the Constitution is restrictive. Children in the United States suffer as a result. Compared to other democracies, the United States has the highest or nearly the highest rates of under-five mortality, child poverty, juvenile incarceration, and child deaths by homicide. Through interviews with advocates, case studies, and a comparative analysis of other democracies, the book shows how the Court has marginalized the rights of children and it contrasts this to the human rights-centered approach taken by other national and regional courts. Chapter by chapter it demonstrates how U.S. courts consistently fail to protect children's rights to life and safety, their rights in the criminal justice system, and their rights to an education, health, and housing. Human rights are completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution, and the book sets out a plan to incorporate human rights into U.S. law.

This book contains the latest cutting-edge research, compiling the most interesting contents of reports by researchers from 42 countries around the world at the International Studies Association Asia Pacific international conference held in Tokyo in 2023. Topics such as the Anthropocene, Covid-19, security, regional collaboration, democracy and autocracy, gender, and the Global South are included. Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan, along with emerging powers, China, India, and ASEAN nations, have conducted multifaceted analyses of topics involving climate change, Covid-19, the achievements and challenges of the growth of Asia, China and India, regional cooperation such as the Belt and Road Initiative, SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN, RCEP, IPEF, and ASEAN, security issues, democracy and autocracy, and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza. The book also includes lectures by leading figures in international politics such as Joseph Nye, Amitav Acharya, and T.V. Paul; a panel of distinguished professors, with Mike Mochizuki, Mikel Swaine, Steven Rosefielde, Sang Chul Park, and Hundah Su among them; as well as papers by young, up-and-coming researchers, making it a collection of trailblazing research on the world order in the twenty-first century, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and changing democracy. It is a must-read book on raising issues and solving problems from Asia, a world leader.

What if the next global crisis is already here-and we're still tackling it with yesterday's tools?
This book confronts this question head-on, offering a bold, multidimensional rethinking of how humanity can navigate overlapping emergencies-pandemics, climate collapse, deepening inequality-without sacrificing sovereignty or dignity.
Drawing on original contributions from leading scholars and activists across five continents, this book delivers an in-depth, comparative analysis of real-world legal, political, and community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the worsening global crisis. The chapters trace how crises magnify structural vulnerabilities, expose failures in governance, and simultaneously reveal unexpected spaces for resistance and innovation-from Indigenous legal activism in Brazil and civic water-protection initiatives in India and Costa Rica, to evolving greenhouse-gas regulation in the United States and Brazil, and the still-unrealised potential of cooperation within the BRICS countries.
The approach used is deliberately multidimensional: no single discipline's or nation-state's perspective dominates. Instead, the authors weave together legal theory, political philosophy, environmental justice, and on-the-ground empirical insights to challenge unidimensional thinking and propose practical pathways toward coordinated pluralism.
Particular attention is given to the tension between sovereignty and shared responsibility, the relational nature of dignity in times of triage and scarcity, and the urgent need for multiscalar governance that learns across borders rather than replicating national silos.
This book will be of considerable interest to researchers and scholars of international law, climate justice, human rights, global governance, and political theory-and to activists, policymakers, and practitioners seeking intellectually rigorous yet actionable responses to the polycrisis we already find ourselves in.
Perspectives on Crises does not offer easy answers. Rather, it equips readers with more precise questions-and more honest tools-to help them face what comes next.

This edited book is a rich and diverse collection of chapters examining the educational transitions of marginalized and multilingual migrant youth across six countries in Northern Europe. Contributions analyze and discuss the transitions from intersectional perspectives such as religion, nationality, socio-economic condition, gender, and language. This intersection of background, personal, societal, cultural, and educational variables emphasize the need to remove barriers and adapt educational spaces to be more inclusive and socially just. The book will be of interest to students and academics in education, child and youth studies, migration studies, sociology and sociolinguistics.

This book examines how political discourse on immigration is constructed across Italian social media, focusing on the ways "otherness" is reshaped within digital platforms. Drawing on Social-Media Critical Discourse Studies, it introduces the concept of alternative otherness to explain how migrants are symbolically repositioned in a polarized and mediatized communicative environment. The book is structured in three main parts. The first reconstructs and connects key socio-technical processes that shape the conditions under which political discourse on immigration emerges. The second part outlines the theoretical and methodological framework, grounded in the critical tradition of Critical Discourse Studies and its extension to social media environments. The third part presents four empirical case studies examining emblematic episodes related to immigration in the Italian context between 2017 and 2025, showing how political actors construct and circulate recurring discursive patterns that progressively shift attention away from migrants themselves toward new forms of antagonism.

This book explores the critical role of performance criteria (PC) in research and interventions for autistic individuals, emphasizing its function as a moderator between independent and dependent variables by establishing higher durability of behavioral change. In the field of autism research, it is common to target a dependent variable that focuses on either increasing adaptive skills (such as social skills, verbal language, academic, health skills, and daily living skills) or reducing destructive/problem behaviors (such as hitting, biting, wounding, screaming, and engaging in off-task behavior). While PC is commonly used to evaluate intervention effectiveness, recent studies suggest that PC levels are associated with improved maintenance and generalization of trained behaviors. Additionally, emerging research highlights the potential of PC in calculating intervention effect sizes, offering a new perspective on assessing clinical significance.

Given the importance of PC in establishing evidence-based practices, this book aims to provide a comprehensive discussion on how to determine optimal PC levels for various skill domains in autistic individuals. By synthesizing existing research and offering practical guidance, the book equips researchers and practitioners with the necessary tools in terms of assigning PC levels to evaluate interventions with greater accuracy and ensure socially meaningful behavioral change.

In today's post-Roe world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute.

Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the social landscape around reproduction through the life course. Chapters by cutting-edge reproductive scholars, practitioners, and advocates address the social control of fertility and pregnancy, the promises and perils of assisted reproductive technologies, experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth, and how individuals make sense of and respond to the cultural, social, and political forces that condition their reproductive lives. The book takes an intersectional approach and considers how gender, sexuality, fatness, disability, class, race, and immigration status impact both an individual's health and the healthcare they receive. The inclusion of timely topics such as increased legal limitations on abortion, transpeople and reproduction, and new developments in assisted reproduction and family formation, speaks to the current generation of students.

An essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses on families, gender, public health, reproduction, and sexuality.

This book examines the complex entanglement of religion, nationalism, and identity in modern Iran, tracing the historical and sociopolitical forces that have shaped the country's tumultuous modernity. Beginning with the introduction of nationalist thought in the nineteenth century, it explores how the fusion of nationalism with a fragmented social fabric gave rise to a potent form of Shiite political Islam, one that would come to define Iran's political structure and its ideological boundaries. Through an incisive analysis of Iran's political evolution, this book argues that the rigidity of a state grounded in Shiite political jurisprudence has simultaneously marginalized ethnic and religious minorities and eroded the unifying power of religion itself. As the country becomes increasingly secularized, identity politics have intensified, giving rise to centrifugal ethnic movements and deepening social fragmentation.

Drawing on political theory, sociology of religion, and contemporary Iranian studies, Fragmented Faith, Fractured Nation offers a compelling account of how the interplay of nationalism and political Shiism continues to shape Iran's domestic tensions and regional dynamics. It presents a bold hypothesis: that the sustained integration of political Shiism and nationalism has not only weakened Iran's collective religious identity but has also fueled ethnic radicalism, reshaping both the nation's internal cohesion and its place in the wider Middle East.

This book provides unique insight into the influential and impactful working life of Barbara Bergmann. It charts her life and career to contextualize her early work on racial and gender discrimination within the labour market, as well as her analysis of the traditional gendered division of labor within the household. Her significant contributions to economic methodology, her critique of mainstream economics, and her role in the establishment of feminist economics during the 1980s and 1990s are scrutinized, with particular attention to her definition of feminism and conceptualization of commodification. The book also examines her efforts to promote gender equality in public policy, along with her public engagement in advancing a progressive agenda on social security and welfare reform to an audience beyond academia.

This book highlights the lasting impact Barbara Bergmann had at the intersection of economics, race, feminism, and social justice. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and the origin and development of feminist economics.

The "nudge" revolution has changed public policy. Despite its success, many critics worry about its effectiveness, ethics, and legitimacy. Behavioural public policy needs to be based on a more mature dialogue between citizens and the state. Time is now pressing as societies suffer from intractable global problems, such as climate change, which require an empowered citizenry to work in partnership with policy-makers. To address these challenges, this book proposes a radical modification of behavioural public policy called nudge+.

Unlike nudge, which tells citizens how to act, nudge+ invites people to think about nudge and decide if it works best for them. It also encourages policy-makers to think more carefully before prescribing behavioural insights, producing our mantra: Think, before you nudge.

The book outlines merits of a reflective approach that celebrates agency. It explains how nudge+ encourages people to re-evaluate their beliefs and craft life choices. It invites practitioners to join researchers in this new age of behavioural science in which citizens are at the heart of public policy.