Authors interrogate the definition of poverty and examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, geography and migration status. Chapters explore the rights to housing, health, work, education, protest and access to justice, highlighting the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies. This second edition provides new research, expands on previous material and raises probing questions about how the status quo of poverty and human rights is defined and perpetuated.

This Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of law and development, comparative law and human rights looking for future research avenues. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners working to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.

This insightful Concise Introduction explores the key lessons that can be drawn from the US healthcare ecosystem and examines how they apply to healthcare management. Lawton Robert Burns identifies the complex conundrums that face healthcare management, providing insight into the factors causing these problems and highlighting potential solutions.

• Applies practical experience alongside rigorous literature analysis
• Assesses the healthcare system through physiology and behaviours
• Proposes core skills to develop in order to aid management of problems, change, processes, cost, and quality
• Investigates the central relationships in healthcare that impact patient outcome and firm success, such as doctor-patient dynamics
• Critiques preconceived notions that new technology and AI are the solution to healthcare's problems, instead underscoring the importance of integration

The Concise Introduction to Healthcare Management is a valuable resource for scholars and students of healthcare administration, human resource management, and business and management. It will also benefit practitioners in healthcare management and public health looking to promote efficiency and effectiveness in their workplaces.

Chapters explore China's policymaking process, the welfare relationship between central and local governments and changes in key welfare policies, from social security and housing to health and education. Contributors also discuss measures implemented for special welfare issues, including poverty, migrant workers, left-behind children, mental health measures and digital technology in health services. The Handbook demonstrates how China has reduced poverty and increased opportunities for the general public to access medical services, while also highlighting demand for greater reduction in regional inequalities.

The Handbook on Social Policy in China is a crucial resource for scholars and students in social policy, health and social care. Its valuable insights into socio-economic conditions in China and government measures to tackle inequalities, will also appeal to policymakers and welfare practitioners.

This insightful Research Agenda examines sexual and gender diversity among older people. Expert authors explore how social attitudes, laws, activism and social policies contribute both directly and indirectly to ageist prejudice, particularly against the LGBTQI+ population.

Adopting interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approaches, with a focus on lived experiences and the voices of older people across the globe, the book engages with key topics including access to healthcare, activism, community-building, politics and sex. Throughout embodied memories, the daily management of intimate life and avenues for further research are highlighted. Chapters demonstrate a wide range of needs, but also outstanding strategies of resistance, survival, joy and pride across the life course. They stir the reader's scholarly, political and social imagination, fostering innovative ways to rethink ageing in the foreseeable future.

A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing is a valuable resource for scholars and students of gender and queer studies, ageing, gerontology, psychology, human geography, sociology, anthropology and social work. It is also beneficial to policymakers interested in improving their understanding and inclusion of LGBTQI+ people.

This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research.

The book brings together contributions from active scholars working in the area, integrating perspectives and methods from economics, history, and the digital humanities. It shows how Chinese economic history has become an increasingly interdisciplinary field over the past two decades, one that has increasingly adopted economic concepts and methodologies while maintaining a strong qualitative research tradition. The book sheds light on new data sources, methodologies and debates in Chinese economic history research while spanning core topics including taxation, land property, rural economy, population, gross domestic product, wage, lineage, and urbanisation. Chapters survey with unprecedented depth and breadth in current literature how economic data in Chinese history were generated, processed, and utilized byboth the state and the private sector. This volume is expected to help students better identify emerging types of historical data, how to make meaningful use of them, and gain deeper insights into the early modern and modern economic history of China.

The book covers the entire process of case writing, from planning and preparation, to writing the case itself, through to using your work and publication. Chapters present key insights into finding and interacting with decision-makers to create better cases, improving the case 'hook' and narrative, as well as aligning theory, learning objectives, and analysis to create consistency. The book also includes a 120-point checklist for authors to ensure that the finished case manuscript incorporates everything already discussed.

How To Make Your Great Cases Even Better is an essential resource for scholars and educators in business and management, education, research and teaching methods, especially those involved in case writing. It is also a valuable read for administrators and leaders in higher education and research centres.

This book explores how culture quietly shapes our lives, influencing everything from the way we speak and lead to the way we grieve and resolve conflicts. Culture is often overlooked because it's invisible, yet it influences everything we do. This book reveals that hidden force, demonstrating how cultural codes affect behavior, emotion, and decision-making in various settings.

Through real-world examples ranging from refugee camps to boardrooms, the book argues that understanding culture is no longer optional. It's essential. With a focus on application, this book equips scholars, researchers, practitioners, and leaders to engage with culture thoughtfully and effectively. Whether they are studying psychology, managing teams, or working in global contexts, readers will find the tools they need to navigate cultural complexity with clarity and respect.

Bringing together diverse perspectives and empirical insights, it examines how responsible innovation can be applied for sustainable industry development. Leading experts in the field discuss key themes at the intersection of technology, society and responsibility, examining how responsible innovation can be applied for sustainable industry development. Adopting a global perspective, authors link conceptual discussions with sector-specific cases including healthcare, hospitality, food-sharing and gig work, to demonstrate how technological progress can align with ethical, environmental and societal values. This Research Agenda emphasizes the transformational power of innovation, showing how it reshapes industries, enhances societal well-being and influences the global landscape across borders and generations.

A Research Agenda for Responsible Innovation is an essential resource for students and scholars of business, corporate social responsibility entrepreneurship, organisational innovation and technology. It will also highly benefit entrepreneurs seeking to apply ethical innovation to their business, as well as those interested in the Sustainable Development Goals.

• show how ecological thinking offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurial ecosystems.
• demonstrate how this approach differs from traditional entrepreneurship research.
• provide practical guidelines for researchers and policymakers working in regional entrepreneurship.

It concludes that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach-similar to how ecologists study natural environments-is essential to grasp the dynamic entrepreneurial relationships between people, institutions, organizations, natural resources and attributes in regional economies. The book introduces a new paradigm for studying entrepreneurship that emphasizes interconnectedness and system-level change.

Advancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, economic geography and entrepreneurship. Policymakers, practitioners and consultants in entrepreneurship and organizational systems seeking evidence-based techniques to inform their work will also greatly benefit from the insights in this book.

The book presents practical insights on causal identification, dataset usage and novel methodological approaches from lab experiments to EEG analysis. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it incorporates perspectives from finance, entrepreneurship, management, public policy, psychology, data science and neuroscience, facilitating a well-rounded and multi-dimensional mapping of the full landscape of entrepreneurial finance.

With its broad scope and hands-on orientation, this book is an essential companion for economics and business students seeking to understand or study how entrepreneurs are financed in today's economy. It is a crucial reference point for policymakers and analysts in innovation and SME policy, alongside data scientists and methodologists interested in finance applications.

Combining theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of destination image from formation to management. Chapters explore image dissonances and challenges perception and representation. Camprubi addresses the cognitive, emotional, and sensory dimensions of tourist image, alongside the application of image strategies and market competition, highlighting a new conceptual analysis that advances this field of research.

Understanding Destination Image is a valuable resource for scholars and students of tourism. Practitioners in tourism and destination management and marketing will benefit from the insights into the strategy behind destination marketing.

Sustainable Marketing: A Value-Based Approach presents a comprehensive, strategically grounded framework for understanding and implementing sustainable marketing. Centered on the process of creating, communicating, and delivering sustainable customer value, it positions sustainability as a core driver of long-term competitive advantage. Dr. Dobromir Kirilov Stoyanov develops a value-based perspective that connects businesses, policymakers, and society in a shared effort to generate positive social and environmental impact.

The book addresses digital-age misinformation and skepticism, equipping readers with critical thinking tools to evaluate evidence and identify credible environmental information. It introduces the concept of five sustainability gaps in consumer behavior and examines sustainability across the marketing mix, including sustainable design, innovation, life-cycle assessment, ethical pricing models, transparent communication strategies, and trust-building frameworks for long-term customer relationships.

Practical tools, conceptual models, and teaching case studies make the material accessible and actionable for diverse audiences. This textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in marketing, business, or sustainability; professionals seeking to transition toward sustainable practices; educators in search of a contemporary sustainability text; and policymakers or NGO leaders exploring market-based sustainability solutions.

This book provides a timely examination of the role that consumer credit has played in maintaining inequality, at a time when the gap between the rich and the rest is increasing in the political west. It does so through the prism of the Australian department store, using archival material from across the twentieth century to trace how large retailers used class and status hierarchies, technological innovation, and loyalty programs to embroil the Australian masses in credit culture. Increasing numbers of Australians enthusiastically embraced retail credit, but their experiences of the 'democratisation' of credit varied greatly. Hierarchies of credit are as strong in Australia today as they have ever been and, despite the growing use of debit cards and BNPL, most of us still carry a credit card and the threat of indebtedness that entails.

The rise of the Internet, social media, mobile technology, IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and Web3 has fundamentally transformed how brands engage with consumers-enabling smarter marketing capabilities, personalized user interactions, and exponential growth in revenue, influence, and data value. This book introduces the concept of Brand Digital Intelligence, a two-step framework that helps brands thrive in the digital age through digital transformation and intelligent marketing. Structured around a digital transformation roadmap, the book explores how organizations can build robust digital infrastructure, foster active user participation, and turn consumers into long-term value contributors.

Key topics include marketing innovation, platform business models, consumer journey design, online communities, smart stores, mobile applications, AI-powered marketing, and decentralized brand strategies enabled by Web3. The book calls for a paradigm shift from traditional campaign-based marketing to intelligent, data-driven ecosystems, where private domains, users, and data become core strategic assets-powered by algorithmic decision-making and compounding flywheel effects that drive sustained growth and engagement. Extending this evolution, the book illustrates how AI-driven brand ecosystems in the Web2 era naturally progress toward autonomous, community-driven organizations in the Web3 world, enabled by tokenized incentives, digital ownership, and co-created value.

Combining strategic frameworks, real-world case studies, and actionable insights, this book is an essential guide for marketing professionals, technology leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors seeking to master the next frontier of AI and Web3-powered brand transformation.

Research in sustainable entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in addressing the economic, social, and environmental challenges of the 21st century. It promotes the development of business models and practices that are sustainable in the long term, fostering a better future for society and the environment.

This special volume presents current academic research and practical findings, comprehensively covering the field of sustainable entrepreneurship. Topics encompass the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship in the context of sustainability, the role of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in incumbent firms during sustainability transformations, the processes and management of sustainable entrepreneurship, as well as the tools and instruments employed in sustainable entrepreneurship. Additionally, the volume includes comparative analyses of sustainable entrepreneurship across different organizational contexts.

Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identities

The North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Amelie Allard examines the Great Lakes region as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives with the common purpose of trade and establishing relationships. Allard portrays the interactions between these groups as community politics and community building, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Drawing on archaeological evidence including trading posts and wrecked canoes and historical documents such as traders' journals and memoirs, Allard unravels the social complexities of this world. She demonstrates how processes of place-making-through foodways, the built environment, and place-naming-as well as both waterborne and overland mobility shaped the identities and relationships of Euro-Canadian, metis, and Indigenous peoples. Community Politics of the Fur Trade challenges traditional narratives of colonialism by suggesting that for many Indigenous peoples such as the Anishinaabeg and Dakota, the fur trade era represented a moment of possibility rather than an inevitable path to subjugation.

This book focuses on divergent discussions on entrepreneurial challenges in context to the adaptation to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and robotics to enhance entrepreneurial practices and scope of decision-making. Discussions in this book analyze the chronological growth in technology and the nexus between AI and entrepreneurship to harness the power of technology. This book helps readers to explore new concepts like the synergy between AI and human factors, AI-led business modelling, and working with the real-time entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Chapters demonstrate how companies apply the principles of Quality 4.0 by merging technological advances and quality management with social responsibility and sustainable agendas. Drawing on a rich array of case studies, the authors illustrate that quality not only functions as a basis for competitive advancement but facilitates trust, transparency and inclusion between people and technology. Ultimately, the authors introduce their own model, 'Quality 4.0: A Modern Approach', incorporating technological, organizational and human aspects to design quality systems that embody efficiency, morality, sustainability and social inclusiveness.

Quality 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence is a crucial resource for students and scholars of business and management and industrial engineering. It is also an invigorating read for academics across the social sciences, particularly in economics and finance, and innovation and technology studies.

Chapters analyze various tools for teaching marketing analytics, including eye-tracking software, simulations, certifications, and laboratory space. The book assesses the development of innovative approaches utilized, such as customer relationship management (CRM), search and website metrics, and social media content creation and management. It also emphasizes the importance of teaching AI and its relationship to other intangible assets, as well as incorporating AI ethics into marketing analytics courses.

This is an essential resource for educators teaching marketing courses, as well as students and scholars in business and management, marketing research, analytics, and digital marketing.

Contributing authors trace the evolution of positive psychology from individual happiness toward systemic, ethical and inclusive approaches to organizational thriving. Chapters introduce new models and tools that bridge science and application, including the Donaldson Flourishing Index, the 5Cs Model and Job Crafting for Inclusion. The book also addresses emerging challenges such as artificial intelligence, constructive dialogue across differences and the ethics of workplace design.

Advances in Positive Psychology Research in the Workplace is an essential resource for students and academics in positive psychology, social psychology, organizational psychology, positive organizational scholarship, and human resource management. It is also a useful tool for practitioners seeking evidence-informed strategies for thriving workplaces.

Key Features:

• Global overviews and key examples of jurisdiction-specific legal requirements
• Guidance on governance and accountability mechanisms
• Roadmap on how to identify, prioritize, and address risks and compliance obligations
• Checklists with new requirements in AI-specific laws and regulations, including the Colorado AI Act and EU AI Act, as well as existing laws, including data protection, privacy, publicity, copyrights, trade secrets, and tort laws

This timely Field Guide will benefit legal practitioners, compliance officers, programmers, data scientists, and other professionals who must address AI and related legal compliance issues.

Drawing on his extensive research experience as a leader in the field, Conrad Lashley defines the nature of the sector, the varying levels of service delivered and the performance required of frontline workers. He rethinks the relationship between hospitality organisations and their workforce, evaluating employer-employee conflict as a dimension of organisational conflict that involves all stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and local communities. The book also looks to the future of the hospitality industry, empowering educators and management to confront the challenges that inequality creates in the sector.

Rethinking Hospitality Management is a crucial resource for scholars and students of hospitality management, tourism, leisure studies and business. Its practical insights and focus on organisational structures makes this prime reading for practitioners in the hospitality and tourism industries seeking to reduce inequality in their workforce.

Key Features:

• Explores Asia-centric models of entrepreneurship
• Presents case studies that span a range of countries, sectors and socio-economic contexts
• Showcases the impact of individual passion, community networks and institutional support on creating unique business models
• Links personal entrepreneurial journeys to broader institutional, cultural and market dynamics, highlighting practical strategies for overcoming common hurdles including market entry and funding gaps

With structured teaching notes and accessible case studies that demonstrate entrepreneurial concepts in action, this book is an essential resource for scholars, students and educators in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, business and Asia-Pacific studies. Policymakers and practitioners in development agencies will also benefit from the book's insights into structural enablers and barriers across different economies.

Wine tourism stands at a decisive crossroads. Confronted with climatic constraints, digital transformation, evolving visitor expectations, and heightened social responsibility, the sector occupies a strategic position within broader sustainability and resilience agendas.

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of these transitions. Drawing on recent theoretical advances and empirical studies from diverse wine regions worldwide, it highlights pathways shaping the future of wine tourism. Addressing environmental adaptation, business model innovation, entrepreneurship, digital and phygital experience design, accessibility, destination governance, and cultural mediation, the chapters reveal a shift from product-oriented logics to the co-creation of meaningful, inclusive, and transformative experiences. Wine tourism emerges as a dynamic ecosystem that generates sustainable value.

Intended for professionals and scholars in wine, tourism, marketing, communication, management, information technology, and education, this volume combines analytical depth with strategic insight. It invites readers to reimagine wine tourism as both a laboratory for innovation and a lever for sustainable territorial development-capable of addressing the ecological, economic, and societal challenges of the twenty-first century.

This edited book centres the experiences of groups and individuals who have historically received little attention in the broader framing of victimology, victims movements and wider society. With a mainstream political discourse underpinned by conceptions of deservingness and idealised constructions of victimhood, many groups and individuals- including sex workers, non-human animals, sexual minorities, families of the convicted, and people from working-class communities are marginalised from important debates. This book provides an intersectional examination of victimisation with a discussion of new and existing forms of victimisation linking to theories. It has four themed sections on: hidden violence and abuse, co-victims and retraumatization, recognizing and restoring hidden and unrecognized victims and non-human victims. It supports the need for greater recognition and understanding of these groups, the ethical implications of current and future policy and practice, and innovations in theory and conceptual debates. It speaks to the disciplines of Sociology, Criminology, and Social Work, and for anyone who works with victims in practice.