Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

An exploration of machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and representations.

The topic of women's advances in leading within the global context is barely covered in the existing leadership literature. This volume provides current conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programmes, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role.

The topic of women's advances in leading within the global context is barely covered in the existing leadership literature. This volume provides current conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programmes, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role.

This is a groundbreaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools. It is the first major book on racial integration and immigrant children in South African schools. The overall aim of this study is to investigate how immigrant students negotiate and mediate their identity within the South African schooling context.This study set out to explain this complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives: One, to describe how immigrant student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos of these schools has been transformed towards integration in the truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this in practice? Three, to explore the 'transnational social fields' in terms of social networks and crossborder linkages of immigrant students and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to determine if there are any new forms of immigrant student selfidentities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine the extent to which racial desegregation has been accompanied by social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to determine the impact of the South African social/schooling context on immigrant student identity formation. And seven, to identify critical lessons and 'good practice' that could be learnt and used to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of immigrant students in South African schools.

All organisations operate in an environment that is rapidly changing. To be successful, the organisation must also change. The question is what to change and how. This book describes in some detail a number of management programmes, many of which are known by their three-letter acronyms, such as Justin-Time (JIT) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

All organisations operate in an environment that is rapidly changing. To be successful, the organisation must also change. The question is what to change and how. This book describes in some detail a number of management programmes, many of which are known by their three-letter acronyms, such as Justin-Time (JIT) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades. This volume explores three broad areas of service-learning research and practice that reflect broader discussions of the role of pedagogy in today's educational reform efforts: TeacherEducation, Crossing Boundaries and New Paradigms/Conceptual Frameworks.

Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades. This volume explores three broad areas of service-learning research and practice that reflect broader discussions of the role of pedagogy in today's educational reform efforts: TeacherEducation, Crossing Boundaries and New Paradigms/Conceptual Frameworks.

Much of our life is consumed looking for quantitative relationships. But these quantitative questions are preceded, and depend on, qualitative questions. We are, then, in search of a kind of intelligence that includes numbers but is also above and beyond them. We call it "supernumerary" intelligence.

Examines pedagogy and management as it relates to the primary e-learning delivery mechanism, the course management system (CMS). Specifically, the research presented in this collection deals with a range of themes relevant to the selection, implementation, use and evaluation of course management systems in higher education.

Examines pedagogy and management as it relates to the primary e-learning delivery mechanism, the course management system (CMS). Specifically, the research presented in this collection deals with a range of themes relevant to the selection, implementation, use and evaluation of course management systems in higher education.