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.

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.

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.

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.

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 second volume focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of entrepreneurial education programs and strategies. It presents a wide range of pedagogical models, curriculum innovations, and differentiated approaches tailored to diverse educational levels and learner profiles. Topics include program development from preschool to higher education, social entrepreneurship, financial literacy, distance learning, and the integration of AI and storytelling in teaching. Each chapter offers practical tools, reflective questions, and research-based insights to support educators and institutions in fostering entrepreneurial mindsets. This volume is a practical and forward-looking resource for those committed to transforming education through innovation and entrepreneurship.

This book explores the incorporation of sustainability, logistic management, quality management and manufacturing management frameworks in private companies and governmental institutions. The circular economy, recycling, alternative energies and green mobility strategies are currently the most advanced and sophisticated ways to promote sustainability. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Quality, Innovation, and Sustainability (ICQIS) in Lisbon, Portugal, this book suggests improving the approach by implementing zero waste management in all business sectors, promoting reusable initiatives, and incorporating green building and mobility practices. The results establish a basis for making well-informed decisions, bringing academic institutions in line with the worldwide need for management and business responsibility. Featuring content from academics and researchers, this book is useful for scholars, researchers, academics, and students in innovation and quality management.

"Green Ventures: Uniting Sustainability, Finance, and Entrepreneurship" serves as a comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs seeking to build financially sustainable businesses while addressing climate action. This book is an essential resource for entrepreneurs and finance professionals looking to drive meaningful change through sustainable practices. Readers will gain insights into identifying and developing sustainable business opportunities that tackle environmental and social challenges while directly contributing to SDG 13. The book highlights innovative business models such as the circular economy and shared value creation, showcasing how these approaches not only drive climate action but also unlock new growth potential.

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.

Expert international scholars analyse both traditional approaches and innovative methods, exploring research strategies, data collection approaches and data analysis. Chapters demonstrate the how and why of each method and allow readers to either follow the full journey of research or focus on individual techniques. Example case studies include examining career compensation of National Basketball Association players, fan surveys in the National Women's Soccer League and surveying member satisfaction of a health-fitness club service. Empirical approaches to research such as the Delphi method, secondary data, athlete interviews, predictive modelling and surveys provide important practical analyses that can be applied in real-world scenarios.

This Research Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and graduate students of sports management and marketing, as well as industry researchers in business and management more broadly. Its practical insights are invaluable for researchers in sport marketing and practitioners in the sport industry, such as administrators, marketers and consultants.

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.

• 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.

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.

The two-volume contributed work provides a comprehensive exploration of how organizations can navigate the intricate landscape of knowledge management and innovation by making people the focal point of their strategies. By examining strategies that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and creativity, enabling bottom-up innovation, creating human-centric workplaces, and tapping into the full potential of human capital, this collection of research aims to equip organizations with the knowledge and insights necessary to empower their workforce and thrive in the ever-evolving business world.

This first volume focuses on human-centric workspaces and bottom-up innovation strategies. It includes studies on diversity and inclusion, virtual and hybrid workspaces, green innovation and the role of the individual. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of organisation, knowledge management and innovation.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

This book explores the ambitious policies and strategies implemented by Yunnan's provincial government to establish transnational linkages with neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia. Traditionally viewed as a landlocked and economically backward region, Yunnan has long been considered a "periphery" in Chinese development discourse. However, the introduction of the "Bridgehead" strategy in 2009 and subsequent national-level support have redefined Yunnan's role as a vital economic corridor connecting China to its Asian neighbors.

It examines how provincial leadership has leveraged Yunnan's geographical positioning and cultural diversity to foster growth. By focusing on infrastructure development, the cultivation of pillar industries, and cross-border collaboration, Yunnan has transformed into a hub for talent, capital, technology, and trade. Initiatives like developing border cities, promoting tourism, and creating urban economic zones have revitalized its historical role along the Southern Silk Road while integrating the region into the global economy.

Unlike existing literature that predominantly addresses issues of ethnicity, folklore, and identity in Yunnan, this book analyzes its developmental strategies through the lens of economic restructuring and global integration. It highlights how local spaces near border areas have shifted from inward-focused stagnation to outward-oriented growth.

This volume is essential for scholars in Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, Provincial Politics, and Regional Studies. By bringing together perspectives from Yunnan-based and Indian scholars, it offers a nuanced understanding of how provincial leadership reimagines border regions as engines of growth and integration in the global economy.

The book features a lively and diverse range of perspectives on critical food pedagogy from field-leading senior academics through to emerging researchers. Each chapter focuses on an essential concept within food studies - from food agency and de-meatification, to food politics and food justice, among many others. The chapters offer guidance on teaching by providing a summary of the concept, highlighting its importance to food studies, outlining the key scholarly debates and including further reading suggestions.

Teaching Food Studies is an essential resource for students and academics in food studies across disciplines. It is also a key read for educators in higher education institutions as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in food insecurity, food justice, food policy and food sovereignty work.

Drawing on real-world case studies investigating online misinformation and political communication, the authors demonstrate how Wikibase bridges the qualitative-quantitative divide, allowing teams to store unstructured content whilst building structured relationships through their data. Accessible to diverse skill sets with guidance ranging from conceptual frameworks for qualitative researchers to technical implementation for computational specialists, it fosters genuine interdisciplinary integration. Solutions to interdisciplinary collaboration challenges are presented, including shared conceptual frameworks (ontologies), common terminology development and workflows that accommodate diverse methodological expertise.

How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research is a crucial resource for scholars and students adopting mixed methods across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the social sciences, digital humanities and computational fields. Researchers working on collaborative projects in education, health sciences, public policy and digital communication studies will benefit from this book's guidance on maximising the capabilities and resources of Wikibase.

International scholars and practitioners explore the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on research from a variety of sectors and career stages. Chapters evaluate core areas including psychoanalysis, the psychology of workplace inequality, engaging with marginalized research methods and using critical psychology to assess workplace digitization. Adopting a forward-facing approach, this Handbook stimulates wider research, discussion and debate on the future of work and organizational psychology.

The Handbook of Critical Work and Organizational Psychology is a crucial resource for scholars and students of psychology, sociology, organization studies and business and management. Its analysis of current trends and new ideas also makes this a valuable reference point for practitioners in psychology, business and organizational development.

Contributing authors discuss a range of concepts and provocative ideas, and offer guided career practice and interventions. The chapters demonstrate how individuals, organizations, and other stakeholders, including family and friends, can shape vocational behavior and foster or endanger individual career sustainability. Drawing on diverse epistemologies and methodologies, they investigate contemporary challenges, such as work precarity and global migration, through socio-economic, political, and decolonial lenses. The Handbook proposes new research directions that embrace global disruption and a social justice agenda, acting as a reference point for theoretically diverse, relevant, and socially responsible approaches to vocational behavior.

This Research Handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars across the social sciences, particularly those seeking multi- and trans-disciplinary perspectives on vocational behavior. It is a must-have for vocational and career psychologists and counselors, HR professionals, and policymakers who want to increase their knowledge of today's challenges in the world of work and careers.

By analysing diverse global case studies, from Europe's smart specialisation strategies to grassroots experiments in Latin America, state led initiatives in Asia and civic partnerships in North America, contributing authors outline the successes and obstacles in aligning innovation with societal needs. Chapters integrate theory and practice, combining cutting-edge conceptual advances with concrete policy experiences of implementing regional TIP. While paths to progress differ widely, this Research Handbook emphasises the universal importance of inclusive governance, long-term commitment and the willingness to experiment.

The Research Handbook on Regions and Transformative Innovation Policy is highly beneficial for scholars and students of economic geography, innovation studies, regional policy and development economics. It is equally relevant to policymakers and administrators in regional development agencies, international organisations and NGOs seeking practical insights into governance, inclusiveness and policy experimentation.

Expert authors explore labour mobility across the globe, including perspectives from workers, firms and regions in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. They provide insights into how knowledge embodied in labour travels across space as well as the social drivers of labour, highlighting how these trends can inform political action and identifying the consequences of mobility for different groups of workers. This comprehensive overview covers experiences at regional, national and global levels, analysing how technological advances will impact the future of labour mobility.

The Handbook of Labour Mobility is a crucial resource for scholars and students of labour studies, human geography, sociology and economics and finance. Its focus on the social and economic impacts of labour mobility makes this an essential reference for employers and policymakers in regional development.

Identifying recurring themes, concepts and perspectives across disciplines, the book highlights best practice and provides actionable advice on how sustainable resource management can be more fully realised. Chapters on the commons, political ecology and governance illustrate how they have been informed by political science, public administration and geography and those on economics and mathematical modelling set out concepts and assumptions that have guided their analyses. Reflections on contributions from international development, anthropology and social psychology illuminate the relevance of local context and value orientation on the management of renewable natural resources. Finally, chapters on ecology and sustainability science reflect the need for holistic, integrated approaches.

Sustainable Natural Resource Management is an essential resource for scholars and students of ecology, environmental economics, sustainability science, anthropology, geography and international development. It is also beneficial for researchers in natural resource management looking to understand how other disciplines and fields of study can inform new research collaborations and projects.