Books published by Business Science Reference

Presents innovative research on the methods and applications of various elements that influence sales peak performance including personal, organisational, and symbiotic determinants. The book highlights topics including emotional intelligence, personal branding, and customer relationship management.

Presents research that builds a futuristic view of evolving business ecosystems and a deeper understanding of business transformation processes in the new digital business era. The book features research on topics such as cultural hybridization, Industry 4.0, and cybersecurity.

Examines treatment and rehabilitation options for those who have intellectual disabilities and examines educational, vocational, and psychosocial needs that can improve quality of life for these individuals. Coverage includes comorbidities, epidemiology, and stigma.

Provides multidisciplinary examinations of theoretical innovations and methods in information retrieval technologies, including search and storage applications for data, text, image, sound, document, and video retrieval.

Examines communication strategies in the context of social media and new digital media platforms and explores the effects of visual communication on social networks, visual identity, television, magazines, newspapers, and more. The book highlights a range of topics, including consumer behaviour, visual identity, and digital pollution.

Presents research exploring the theoretical aspects of quality management policies and applications within the educational field. The book features coverage on a broad range of topics, including faculty involvement, administration practices, and critical success factors.

Explores successful executive behaviour and business operations striving toward a more inclusive economy. Featuring research on topics such as employee welfare, brand orientation, and entrepreneurship, this publication is aimed at HR developers, policymakers, IT specialists, professionals, corporate directors, and academics.

Presents emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the fundamental issues related to ethical consumerism and applications within business, science, engineering, and technology and examines the impact Arab and global cultures have on consumerism.

Presents research on the architectural complications of fog processing, focusing on security and privacy issues in intelligent fog applications. Highlighting topics such as machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and security applications, this publication explores the architecture of intelligent fog applications enabled with machine learning.

Discusses the challenges and solutions of food security and consumption control. This publication highlights topics such as rural agriculture, capitalism, and food chain management, and is aimed at policymakers, sustainable developers, politicians, ecologists, environmentalists, corporate executives, farmers, and academics.

Provides a greater understanding of sustainable development and fosters a culture of sustainability through learning and education. The book highlights a range of topics such as ethics, game-based learning, and knowledge management.

Explores data mining and management techniques that promote the improvement and optimization of educational data systems. The book provides new models, platforms, tools, and protocols in data science for educational data analysis, and introduces innovative hybrid system models dedicated to data science.

Examines the economic, political, social, and environmental objectives essential to the planning and support of future communities. The publication highlights a range of topics such as environmental sustainability, waste management, and green cities.

Features relevant and evaluative information on research methodology for best outcomes. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as educational policy, scientific realism, and teaching strategies, this book is ideal for instructors, deans, academics, administrators, researchers, students, and educational policymakers.

Examines pivotal issues surrounding generational differences and management in the workplace, including challenges in employee engagement, project management, and training. The publication highlights a range of topics, such as generation gap, workforce diversity, and senior workers.

Discusses growth in healthcare applications driven by the adoption of new technologies, as well as the expansion of machine learning algorithms for clinical decision making. The book focuses on combining vision, motion, data acquisition, and automated control to accelerate the development of affordable and portable medical devices.

Explores the current impact of mobile technologies and the use of video capture via mobile devices on the learning and assessment of students in higher education, particularly where practical performance examples of their work are required as evidence of attaining competence.

Examines social gender representations in mass media with respect to cultural variety and is indicative of expectations and stereotypes of specific genders or gender identities within a specific culture. The book features a wide range of topics, including gender politics, transmedia, and masculinity.

Presents research on the methods and applications of knowledge in both theoretical and practical skills of intelligent robotics and mechatronics. Highlighting topics including green technology, machine learning, and virtual manufacturing, this book is designed for researchers, students, engineers, and computer practitioners.

Presents research on the methods and applications of tourism crisis management that takes an anthropological approach to tourism safety and security. The book highlights a range of topics, including disaster potential, political instability, and virtual terrorism.

Provides a collection of cases that demonstrate how principles of learning design and human performance technology have been employed within organisations in a variety of industries to address business problems, quality improvement initiatives, and business opportunities.

Focuses on helping professionals in areas such as social work, human resources, counselling, nursing, and other related areas to understand pertinent issues that may impact their success when working with Muslim clients.

Explores creative healing approaches used by counsellors working with diverse clients in a variety of geographical locations, developmental levels, and complex and varied identities. Each case study applies the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies to the counselling relationship.

Explores diverse teaching strategies and their applications to enhance and improve the design of curricula, the development of materials, and the assessment of students' knowledge and skills. The book features a wide range of topics, including distance learning, social media, and management education.

Provides pedagogical resources for understanding digital learners, and effectively teaching and learning with today's generation of digital natives. This book creates a much-needed resource that moves beyond traditional disciplinary and geographical boundaries, bridges theories and practice, and addresses emerging issues in technology and pedagogy.

Focuses on various trust issues that emerge from deployment of various e-commerce technologies in inter-organisational relationships. The objective of this book is to examine technology-related trust issues relating to security, privacy, authentication, non-repudiation, quality of web interface, system performance and infrastructure, environmental factors.

A multidisciplinary framework for analyzing the new forms of sociability enabled by digital media and networks. This book focuses on a variety of social media and computer-mediated communication environments with the aim of identifying and understanding different types of social behavior and identity expression.

Economic globalization and the application of information and communication technologies have offered firms the opportunity to develop and distribute new knowledge. Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation analyzes open innovation in a global context and proposes business models and institutional actors that promote the development of open innovation in firms, institutions, and public administrations worldwide. This book provides insights and supports executives concerned with the management of open innovation and organizational development in different types of open innovation communities and environments.

Provides an interdisciplinary look at the possible relationships which exist between energy and the environment. Relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on the impacts of regulation policies, market-facilitation policies, and communication models and policies are reviewed with the aim of improving understanding and strategy.

As a result of the means and opportunities created by ICTs, parliaments have had a chance to simplify and integrate their administrative processes and involve citizens in legislative processes. This book presents a conceptual framework regarding e-parliament and analyzes the impacts of ICTs on the structure of parliament, its functions, relations with other actors and the legislative process.