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2024 | Book

Value Co-Creation Processes in Circular Firms

Beyond Organizational Boundaries

This book investigates value co-creation processes within the context of circular entrepreneurship. By rooting the book in value co-creation theory, the author addresses the following research questions: How do value co-creation processes impact …

Author:
Beatrice Re

2024 | Book

Mastering Corporate Communication

A Modern Guidebook for Future-fit Strategies, Tools and Skills

"Mastering Corporate Communication" is a comprehensive guide designed to assist communication professionals in navigating the new world of stakeholder capitalism. With the rise of new media, corporate responsibility demands and the constant battle …

Authors:
Anne Katrine Lund, Mette Refshauge

2024 | Book

Pandemic Play

Community in Performance, Gaming, and the Arts

When the arts, culture, and entertainment industries came to a halt in late winter 2020, many claimed this was the end of art as we knew it. Theatre managers, museum directors, performers, artists, and everyday folks had to figure out new …

Editors:
Carolyn Ownbey, Catherine Quirk

Open Access 2023 | Open Access | Book

When Music Takes Over in Film

This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship …

Editors:
Anna K. Windisch, Claus Tieber, Phil Powrie

2024 | Book

Successful Social Activism and Unintended Market Emergence

The Fight Over Foot Health and Fashion in Japan

This book demonstrates why and how social activism targeting companies can produce unintended consequences. While it is challenging for social movement organizations (SMOs) to successfully change corporate behavior, it is even more difficult or …

Author:
Sayako Miura

2024 | Book

Library and Information Sciences in Arctic and Northern Studies

The role of library and information sciences (LIS) in, for, and about Arctic and Northern studies is underexplored. This book examines the intersection of LIS and Arctic/Northern scholarship, research, and study by considering the Arctic and North …

Editor:
Spencer Acadia

2024 | Book

Artificial Intelligence and the Law

This textbook offers a starting point for the education of attorneys and other legal professionals about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the law, as well as a forum for discussing artificial intelligence's legal and ethical …

Authors:
Tshilidzi Marwala, Letlhokwa George Mpedi

2024 | Book

Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought

From the Republican era until the ‘Chinese School of International Relations’

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912. The argument posited demonstrates …

Author:
Ferran Perez Mena

2024 | Book

European Radio Documentary

A History of the Format and Its Festivals

This book studies the history and significance of radio documentaries in Europe, and the institutions that are specialized on this genre. Focused on the 50-year history of the International Feature Conference (an annual gathering of radio …

Author:
Tereza Reková

Open Access 2021 | Open Access | Book

Writing Manuals for the Masses

The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued …

Editors:
Anneleen Masschelein, Dirk de Geest

Open Access 2016 | Open Access | Book

Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and coherent interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem by combining knowledge and approaches from natural and social sciences.

Editors:
Michael Gilek, Mikael Karlsson, Sebastian Linke, Katarzyna Smolarz

2024 | Book

The Groupuscular Far-Right in Portugal

Nationalism and The Reach of Digital Communication

This book analyzes two types of nationalisms that are represented by the Portuguese groupuscular right, that is, the extra-party right. One faction is guided by ethnonationalism and nativism, looking at Portugal through an ethnically European …

Author:
Gabriel Fernandes Rocha Guimarães

2024 | Book

Implementation of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

A Legal and Policy Scan

This book provides a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries’ legal and policy frameworks vis-à-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted …

Editors:
Julia Nakamura, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Svein Jentoft

2024 | Book

Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen

Bosnian Literature on Stage and Screen aims to reconcile theoretical approaches with theatrical and cinematic practices by examining two adaptations based on works by the Bosnian author Meša Selimović. The book is informed by scholarship in film …

Author:
Sanja Garić-Komnenić

2024 | Book

A Comparative Analysis of Political and Media Discourses about Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

​This book explores the discursive dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It analyzes how political leaders, mass media, social media, and ordinary people in Ukraine, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France discuss the war.

Author:
Anton Oleinik

Open Access 2016 | Open Access | Book

Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure

Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the …

Author:
Susanne Valerie

Open Access 2023 | Open Access | Book

The Political Economy of Education in Central Asia

Evidence from the Field

This open access book is intended as an original contribution to the conversation on the role and challenges of education in Central Asia to promote social cohesion by looking at Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Examining education …

Editors:
Naureen Durrani, Hélène Thibault

Open Access 2023 | Open Access | Book

Political Reform Reconsidered

The Trajectory of a Transformed Japanese State

This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes.

For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic …

Author:
Satoshi Machidori

Open Access 2023 | Open Access | Book

East-West Dialogue

This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” “Hot Issues,” “About …

Editors:
Lujun Chen, Karl-Heinz Pohl

Open Access 2023 | Open Access | Book

Sustainable Qatar

Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives

This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas …

Editors:
Logan Cochrane, Reem Al-Hababi