This book addresses the urgent issue of nations being 'left behind' in an era defined by AI, advanced manufacturing, and knowledge-intensive industries.

Through incisive analysis, the book examines industrialization dynamics across Africa and Asia, using advanced econometric techniques like the ARIMA model to uncover the determinants of deindustrialization. Key chapters include comparative case studies of leading manufacturing firms in China and India, highlighting their strategies for innovation and global competitiveness. The book also delves into the role of infrastructure, education, R&D, and industrial policy in fostering or hindering economic growth, offering a unique perspective on why some nations succeed while others stagnate.

The Economics of Left Behind Regions is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, investors, and development practitioners seeking to understand and address global inequality. It provides actionable insights and a blueprint for nations striving to rebuild their productive systems and achieve sustainable growth in an increasingly knowledge-driven world.

Organised into four parts, the Handbook moves from the conceptual and historical foundations of the corporate form through the legal mechanics of core money-raising transactions. These include IPOs, private placements, takeovers, and rescue finance, as well as emerging challenges in sustainable finance, digital innovation, and alternative capital structures such as dual-class stock and sovereign wealth funds. A final comparative section situates these insights across diverse jurisdictions, including Canada, the United States, the European Union, and Latin America.

This Research Handbook will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in corporate and financial law. It will also be invaluable for practitioners, regulators, and policymakers seeking a deeper understanding of the legal architecture underpinning modern capital markets.

More than three decades after the fall of state socialism, certain legal institutions forged during the socialist period continue to shape private law across Central and Eastern Europe. This volume identifies and analyses case studies of 'legal survivals' - legal forms which, though created under state socialism, endured the political, socio-economic, and cultural upheaval of the 1989 transformation and remain operative within contemporary capitalist legal orders.

Building on the insights of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Karl Renner into the persistence of legal forms beyond the conditions that produced them, the book develops and applies a theory of 'nomostasis' - a term coined from the Greek nomos (law) and stasis (persistence) - to denote the endurance of old legal forms after revolution, transition, or other profound societal change. Although legal survivals are familiar in legal cultures founded on long traditions, such as the common law or Roman-law-based civil law, the vestiges of twentieth-century state socialism have received only scattered scholarly attention. Bringing together sociologists of law, legal historians, and comparative lawyers, the volume reveals remarkable continuities in institutions of property, family, and contract law across the region, and raises fresh questions about the wider relationship between law, society, and the economy.

This book will appeal to sociologists of law, comparative lawyers, and legal theorists, as well as to political scientists and area studies specialists working on Central and Eastern Europe.

Cultural management education continues to evolve to meet the needs of the arts industry. Highlighting examples of innovative pedagogical practices, this book brings together an array of academic and practical expertise into cutting-edge teaching methods, emerging trends, and best practices from around the world.

The volume begins with a conceptual framework for understanding the cultural enterprise. Subsequently, the chapters examine the disconnect between academic programs and professional practice; research on teaching foundational courses; creativity as a leadership imperative; interdisciplinary curriculum development; Universal Design for Learning; critical access as fundamental practice; emotional intelligence; essential competencies for cultural leaders; cultural diplomacy; arts marketing reconceptualized through audience engagement; fundraising instruction via case study methodology; arts emergency preparedness; the preservation of popular music as intangible heritage; and a reimagined approach to data literacy in arts administration. The chapters may be read sequentially, as they chart a discipline discovering its contemporary form, or selectively.

Replete with practical strategies for curriculum development, assessment techniques, and experiential learning opportunities, this book is value reading for researchers and faculty engaged with arts administration, creative and cultural industries and higher education more broadly.

This Research Agenda examines the dynamic interdisciplinary topic of water policy research, exploring how the field is continually adapting to challenges and innovations which foster integration, cooperation and innovation. It provides a critical analysis of the evolution of water policy research since the mid-20th century, framing it through three interlinked dimensions - process, sectoral interaction and learning - that bridge theory, practice and policy across scales.

Engaging with the entire policy process from agenda setting to evaluation, chapters identify themes of integrated water management, public participation and transboundary water governance. They highlight emerging research frontiers, including those relating to climate adaptation, urban water resilience and gender equity, shedding light on the interconnected nature of water challenges. The Research Agenda adopts a forward-looking and reflective tone, emphasising how ideas, institutions and governance models are transferred and enforced globally, and shaping learning-based and collaborative approaches to management.

This book will be valuable to students and scholars of public policy and politics, environmental governance and law. Policymakers and practitioners managing natural resources and conservation will benefit from the practical governance insights proposed.

A Frequency Dictionary of Polish is an invaluable tool for all learners of Polish, providing an index of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

This dictionary is based on a 100-million-word corpus of Polish, which includes written texts and spoken material from a wide range of genres and registers, including conversation, fiction, newspapers, and e-language. It provides the user with detailed information for each of the top 5,000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence and its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the entries either through the main frequency listing or through the alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes. Thematically organised lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, clothing, and family are presented throughout the frequency listing.

An engaging, accessible, and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Polish will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their language study.

Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists, the full text is provided in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work at resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781041260639.

This book is for organizational leaders who recognize the growing impact of stress and trauma on workforce performance and employee capacity. It provides a clear understanding of trauma, the extent of it in the workforce, and how to address it in the context of work, without needing anyone to share stories or past trauma. It enables leaders to confidently approach this topic without worrying about making things worse or taking on the role of therapist. The book explains how to create workplaces where people can perform at their best rather than manage around what they are carrying. Leaders who apply the principles not only lead better but can build more resilient, productive, and high-performing organizations.

Unresolved trauma can present as reduced voice, absenteeism, disengagement, conflict avoidance, overwork and over-accommodation, underperformance, and other observable workplace behaviors that most leaders currently misattribute to motivation or character. Grounded in the latest organizational research and evidence-based trauma-informed practice, the book is actionable, practical, and encouraging. It incorporates real-world examples, practical exercises, and case studies specific to leadership contexts. It guides leaders through a reflective and sometimes challenging process, helping them apply the framework's principles to support their teams without clinical training or therapeutic expertise. Mini-cases, tips, steps, and examples are part of each chapter. The book also addresses the connection between values-driven leadership, organizational culture, and the conditions that allow people to do their best work.

This book is written for business leaders and a management audience and is also highly relevant to those from executive coaching, leadership development, and the therapy and counseling fields.

Culture is critical to individuals and organizations. This book offers an in-depth exploration of how Indian managers work, examining their inner struggles and the forces that influence their behaviour in contemporary corporate environments.

The book presents an original framework developed by the author - the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM) - a pluralistic and non-reductionist model of management that employs a novel psychometric instrument to map individual and organizational identity. The model restrains from placing any phenomenon into frozen categories and enables an understanding of their interplay. It highlights India's ambivalent relationship with modernity and the resulting challenges Indian managers face in embracing corporate imperatives largely rooted in Anglo-Saxon frameworks.

This revised second edition - which incorporates contemporary data and links it to significant developments in the world - will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in business management, human resource management, leadership studies, corporate governance, psychology, and sociology. It offers valuable insights for educators, consultants, management practitioners, and corporate leaders navigating the complexities of organizational culture in the Indian context.

Through the theoretical lens of law and science and technology studies (STS), this book investigates the 'ethification' of the EU regulatory framework on AI.

Discourses on ethics have been proliferating in recent policy, legislative and industry-led AI regulatory initiatives in the European Union (EU). In parallel, Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics has become institutionalized at different levels. Focusing on three EU-based case studies - research ethics committees, advisory expert groups and standardization bodies - this book critically evaluates the legitimacy of AI ethics, through the 'good governance' principles of accountability, transparency, and participation. Despite the EU's aspiration to promote a distinctive ethical approach centred on trustworthiness and human-centric AI, the book shows how ethical considerations often assume a technocratic form, lacking the robust checks and balances and democratic credentials typical of traditional forms of technology regulation. In response, the book argues for a recalibration-a deflation or re-politicization-of the role of ethics in the governance of AI.

This book will appeal to scholars, EU officials, civil society actors and private-sector practitioners, working at the interface of law, ethics and technology, and especially those with interests in the regulation of AI.

Drawing directly on primary documentary evidence of the Holocaust, this book returns to the raw archival foundations of genocide understanding to interrogate the systems, logistics, and procedural mechanisms that transformed ideological hatred into industrialized murder.

Rather than focusing on daily camp life, it examines death itself as an organized, bureaucratic, and technological process. With unflinching clarity, it reexamines overlooked elements of the killing process-most strikingly the trains themselves, reconceived not as transports but as integral components of the machinery of death, as death chambers. Emotionally intense and methodologically rigorous, this work challenges readers to confront the Holocaust as moral catastrophe and as a meticulously engineered process whose details reshape how we understand destruction itself.

Written for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars of genocide and Holocaust studies, and informed non-specialist readers, The Mechanics of Death exposes the chilling logic embedded within modern administrative systems and provides an epistemological reconstruction of how that logic can lead to mass violence in modern states. It is essential reading for students, researchers, librarians, and educators alike.

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• Offers insight into the development of international standards through an innovative bottom-up process
• Addresses key debates in the legal literature surrounding UNDROP and what these signify for the ongoing discourse on the Declaration
• Evaluates UNDROP's introduction of elements such as land and seed rights and how these can be interpreted, including by peasants and rural workers themselves and their advocates
• Examines the limitations of general international law in the context of the ongoing debate surrounding UNDROP's legal status and whether the Declaration's provisions are legally binding

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas is an essential resource for legal practitioners and academics in human rights in both domestic and international fields. Members of civil society and government agents will also benefit from its comprehensive approach.

This timely book explores how social stress is reshaping higher education today. By placing the polarizing MAGA-DEI conflict in historical and contemporary perspective, Higher Education and Social Stress encourages discussion and social action within campus organizations amid dismantled social and public health programs. Drawing on higher education, political science, sociology, and mental health, this interdisciplinary work examines cultural conflicts across social classes and faith traditions to unpack political and social tensions within families, communities, and campuses. Written for scholars, educators, and researchers, it provides opportunities for reflection and dialogue in universities and communities affected by the loss of federal funding for social support, medical services, and educational opportunities.

Organized around three core objectives, the book explains why gender matters in economics; offers expanded course content featuring diverse authors, topics, and methods; and provides suggestions to strengthen gender-responsive teaching to support critical discussion and ethical engagement. Chapters cover everything from principles of micro and macroeconomics to emerging trends such as methodological plurality and generative AI, taking a forward-thinking approach that moves beyond 'add women and stir' by challenging narrow definitions of production, value, and expertise. The book examines the impact of power and hierarchy on what is taught, whose work is centered, and how students experience the economics classroom. Recommendations include classroom activities, research-backed pedagogical strategies, and larger curricular changes.

Instructors and educators of economics at all levels will benefit from these timely, practical strategies and content modules to make their classrooms more inclusive. This guide is also an invaluable read for educators across the social sciences interested in incorporating gender into their teaching.

Meet Matt! Matt is the Mathematical and Analytical Thinker as well as the narrator of Anti-Analytics: How Not to and How to Use Data Analytics in Business. Matt explains how managers can successfully apply data analytics to business problems.

Matt shares insight into developing a business analytics mindset that fosters the conditions under which organizations can develop business intelligence, create value, and build sustainable competitive advantage. The book introduces the concept of Anti-Analytics, which are the practices and processes preventing the proper adoption and adaptation of analytics-based approaches. The book explains how to:

• Enhance the sustainability of data analytics projects to achieve higher levels of strategic intelligence
• Determine the best of the mix of managers and technology to create organizational value
• Reduce errors in the analysis and design of data analytics systems

Anti-analytics and the business analytics mind set can also help organizations manage the uncertainty surrounding AI's application and integration into broader organizational and societal systems. Because generative AI models and basic AI solutions are widely accessible, organizations can easily adopt this technology. The real advantage from AI as well as data analytics comes from users with an analytical mindset who can manage and operate organizations in ways that solve increasingly complex problems. This book shows how to develop this analytical mindset that can create business solutions delivering value and competitive advantage now and in the future.

This collection, including chapters by an outstanding roster of contributors, creates a dialogue among two philosophers rarely discussed together - Benedict Spinoza and David Hume - and one who until recently was hardly discussed at all - Mary Shepherd.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd confronts the traditional history of Modern philosophy that pitches "Continental Rationalists" against "British Empiricists", with Benedict Spinoza on one side, David Hume on the other, and women philosophers - including Mary Shepherd - nowhere to be seen. This volume explores an alternative approach to the period, through the lens of "naturalisms", which brings into focus the commonalities among these three philosophers. The contributors examine various naturalistic themes in their philosophies - particularly, in their methodologies, their ontologies, and their views about the human being and God. The specific topics explored include minds and bodies; mathematics and natural science; human beings and other animals; miracles; the passions and motivation; and the artificial virtues. A helpful introduction by the editors distinguishes the various naturalisms explored in the volume and explains the appeal of this approach to the history of Modern philosophy.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd will be of great interest to students and researchers of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century philosophy, and to those interested in the history of metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history and philosophy of science.

This practical guide provides structured knowledge on selected contemporary online research techniques essential for conducting scientific research utilizing modern digital tools and artificial intelligence technologies. Organized into four thematically interrelated chapters, the work systematically guides readers from fundamental methodological issues to practical applications of online research.

First, it explains the methodology and techniques of online research, covering both classical tools, such as online surveys and virtual interviews, and more advanced methods, including digital ethnography, web-scraping and online discussion monitoring, while also addressing the adaptation of traditional research methods to the specific conditions of digital settings. Second, it presents the practical aspects of applying artificial intelligence and data management in online research, highlighting ethical considerations, responsible data collection and analysis practices and the potential for optimising research processes through modern digital tools. This dual focus enables thorough understanding of theoretical foundations while supporting effective and reliable application in scientific practice.

Fundamentals of Online Research Methods serves researchers and scholars focusing on online research methods and techniques across diverse disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication studies and cultural studies. It provides valuable insights for both novice and experienced researchers seeking to navigate the evolving landscape of digital research methodologies, offering practical frameworks for conducting rigorous, ethical and innovative online research in contemporary academic contexts.

The author examines how the foundations of the discipline have shifted as climate change, sustainability, global food supply and resource allocation gain increasing prominence on political and economic agendas. Demonstrating the profound influence this will have on the theoretical and empirical basis of food economics, he explores the agri-food value chain and specific examples of food industry transformation. Investigating prices, market structures, demand patterns and globalisation trends, chapters are grounded in statistical evidence and illustrated with data that reflects real-world developments. The book provides an updated and renewed description of food economics in light of ongoing changes.

Understanding Food Economics is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of agricultural, food and applied economics. Practitioners and political officials in food ministries and agencies will also benefit from this guide to the challenges and balances currently affecting the industry.

Leading experts in the field evaluate the transformative potential of festivals in promoting sustainable development by discussing real-world examples from across the world. They argue that festivals, when planned with community involvement and innovative tools, can create lasting economic and social benefits while conserving cultural heritage. The Handbook calls for collaboration to ensure festivals remain authentic and sustainable for both locals and visitors.

Academic rigour and practical cases makes this Handbook an essential resource for researchers in tourism and hospitality and cultural heritage. As the book deeply engages with community empowerment, it will also be of interest to community development practitioners and policy planners.

Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn's bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

This fourth edition includes:

• New chapters on 'Southern criminology' reflecting the changing focus on contemporary scholarship and the general trend toward decolonising criminology
• New and updated crime data and analysis of trends, plus new content on recent events such as the changing political landscape, the influence of new social media on events such as the Southport riot and claims of 'two-tier policing', together with scandals such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the Lucy Letby case.
• A fully revised and updated companion website, including exam, review and multiple choice questions.

Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and extensively illustrated, this authoritative text, written by a leading criminologist and experienced lecturer, is essential reading for all students of Criminology and related fields.

This textbook is supported by an extensive collection of free digital resources at www.routledgelearning.com/criminology. Students can enhance their learning with interactive quizzes, review questions, flashcards, and curated videos and web resources, while instructors can access a comprehensive instructor manual, test bank and PowerPoint slides designed to streamline course preparation.

Bridging international and business law, contributors explore how gaps in accountability are enabled through fragmented corporate groups, transnational value chains and territorially bounded legal doctrines. Encompassing a range of jurisdictions from around the world, the Research Handbook provides novel insights on corporate power in globalized business, the role of finance and accounting and the use of contracts for sustainability in global value chains. Chapters move beyond the disruptive use of courts to consider a number of regulatory possibilities, highlighting the potential for change despite deeply entrenched unethical practices.

Proposing regulatory interventions to enable, promote or mandate corporate accountability, the Research Handbook on Sustainability and Corporate Accountability is essential reading for scholars and students of law, political science, economics and business management. Industry practitioners will also benefit from its guidance on rapidly evolving regulatory developments in changing times.

The Blueprint of Leadership promotes a way to move from automatic reaction to conscious leadership in the moments that matter most. While most leadership development focuses on skills, this book works at the level beneath, where patterns are formed and decisions are made.

Drawing on over two decades of leadership coaching and the Biographical Dimensions of Meaning Making (BDMM (c)) framework, this book introduces the author's own Origins Map (TM), a practical model for understanding how early experiences shape how leaders interpret authority, trust, identity, belonging, emotion, and the world itself. Combining research, conceptual insight, and rich case composites; chapters reveal how leaders continue to repeat familiar patterns under pressure, even if they know better. By working with the patterns beneath behaviour, leaders gain the ability to interrupt default responses, expand their range, and lead with greater clarity, adaptability, and impact in a complex world.

This book will be a perfect guide for learning professionals and coaches who are looking to implement a unique and evidence-based leadership model into their practice.

This book examines how states and corporations across the Global South acquire land, identifying distinct patterns of expropriation and resistance. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, economic growth in sectors such as mining, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and real estate is driving far-reaching land-use change. Yet the processes of dispossession that underpin these transformations vary considerably. It introduces a comparative framework to explain how legal mechanisms, coercion, and state-business alliances combine in different ways to shape land conflicts.

Drawing on detailed case studies-including India's solar parks, Indonesia's palm oil plantations, Cambodia's real estate developments, East Timor's oil and gas projects, and Brazil's land mafias-the contributors highlight three distinct regimes of dispossession: state-led expropriation, curtailed land rights, and decentralised coercion. By comparing these patterns across contexts, the book deepens understanding of how dispossession is organised and resisted, while offering insight into the broader political economy of land-use change.

This book is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students in development studies, political economy, agrarian studies, geography, and sociology. It will also appeal to policymakers, civil society organizations, and activists engaged with land rights, resource governance, and social justice issues in the Global South.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Chapters reframe the narrative of the word 'resistance', treating it as a constructive element of the common good. They dissect the myth of technological determinism to advocate for more socially responsible engagements. Proposing imagination as a pathway of resistance, the book examines themes of leadership, technology, property, and management to redefine resistance. It moves beyond binary choices to place faith in the nurture of complex human connections and solidarity, and stresses the importance of belonging as an essential resource for organizers.

Resistance and the Neoliberal Organization is a valuable resource for students and academics of business management, ethics, and trust. Researchers and policymakers interested in sociology and organizational behaviour will also benefit from the insights provided.