Books published by IGI Global

Examines cases from developing countries in order to derive an adapted model of knowledge economy that could be applied to developing country conditions. The book contributes to the change of paradigm on how to help developing countries in advancing to better conditions by using ICT-related technology.

Provides a platform for researchers to present state-of-the-art technologies within forensic science and criminal investigation. The book covers a wide range of topics, including financial fraud, machine learning, and source camera identification.

Presents a variety of highly relevant themes, concepts, and applications in blockchain, discussing topics such as cyber security, digital currencies, and intelligent networks, fueling awareness and interest. The book offers insight into various platforms, techniques, and tools.

Presents relevant theoretical frameworks and current empirical research findings in the field of international strategic management. The book covers a wide range of topics, including digital competencies, socio-economic injustice, and tourism.

Presents a variety of highly relevant themes, concepts, and applications in blockchain, discussing topics such as cyber security, digital currencies, and intelligent networks, fueling awareness and interest. The book offers insight into various platforms, techniques, and tools.

Focuses on pedagogical creativity and culture as related to various aspects of social justice and identity. The book presents experience-based content and showcases the necessity for pedagogical creativity to give students agency and the connections between cultural sensitivity and creativity.

Focuses on information manipulation in different areas, including finance and economy, health, society, and more. The book considers the effects of misinformation and disinformation on organisations, human resources, citizens, and governments, and describes detection models and approaches of misinformation and disinformation.

Discussing teaching and learning cases from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, the research presented in this volume creates scholarship and documentation of various innovative practices in education, covering crisis contexts, green education, and education technologies.

Focuses on the challenges that higher education institutions have faced during the pandemic and the associated projected socio-economic impact yet to be felt. The book also considers how different universities have addressed the challenges so as to learn what has and has not worked and speculates on future implications.

Highlights the modern struggles that face businesses and leaders as they work to implement agile project management within their processes and try to gain a competitive edge through cross-functional team collaboration. The book covers under represented topics related to areas such as critical success factors, data science, and project leadership.

Highlights the modern struggles that face businesses and leaders as they work to implement agile project management within their processes and try to gain a competitive edge through cross-functional team collaboration. The book covers under represented topics related to areas such as critical success factors, data science, and project leadership.

Discusses the emerging topics of digital transformation, new knowledge innovation, sustainability, and personalized products and services, and provides a theoretical infrastructure to share the latest empirical research findings within management, knowledge creation, sustainability practices, artificial intelligence, and digital business functions.

Describes the development of the high-performance finance function (HPFF) framework and explores the experiences, lessons learned, and results achieved by finance functions that have transformed themselves into 'HPFFs', or high-performance finance functions, using the HPFF framework.

Assesses the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the macroeconomic and microeconomic, and uses various statistical methods and real-world data to predict and establish specific trends within the economy.

Presents implications, best practices, and approaches for countries to improve their economic systems using entrepreneurship and increasing entrepreneurial education. The book discusses entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education as a potential solution and critical concept.

Explores the lived experiences of Black women diversity practitioners at historically white higher education, healthcare, and corporate institutions before, during, and after the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and the racial reckoning of 2020.

Fast moving ad-hoc networks are the future technology that can solve many issues the world is needing now like E Commerce delivery through drones, agriculture, vaccine delivery, human rescue system, and more. Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs), vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), and the internet of vehicles (ioV) will achieve these applications.

Telemedicine has already demonstrated its relevance in academia, industry, and other domains of business through its key characteristics, though there is a scarcity of research that explores different concepts related to telemedicine. This book targets researchers, academics, practitioners, and learners who wish to delve into telemedicine systems.

Workplace trends show that the flexibility and adaptability demonstrated during this pandemic may prove to offer organizations new insights into employee recruitment, retention, and production. The strategies in best practices shared in this book are universal in making employees feel valued; a key factor in both employee recruitment and retention.

Presents stories from various groups of people, such as those who identify as mothers, fathers, people of colour, LGBTQIA scholars, first-generation college students, retired educators, those new to academia, and those with established academic careers, to create a book where scholars can see themselves reflected in the stories of others.

A key reference in the study of storytelling in tourism, this book covers a broad range of topics in this stream of research. It provides an updated review of research, as well as of the theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches adopted so far to study storytelling applied to the context of tourism, at the organization and destination levels.

Describes the current research status of extended reality usage and discusses the foreseen advances in the design and development of various types of immersive learning environments, as well as the emerging pedagogical innovations in the field.

Focuses on the post-pandemic changes in the functions of social policy and public administration as well as cyber developments, cyber threats, and the effects of cyberwar on public administration. In addition, the book discusses changes in social policy functions and practices in the cyber cosmos.

Offers a one-stop approach to the study of school discipline, its theories, methods, practices, policy recommendations for reducing its use. The book also provides an accessible authoritative resource on school discipline.

In an innovative and unique synthesis of concepts with industry, this book serves as a gateway to future success for organizations within the beleaguered hospitality, restaurant and tourism industries.

Provides valuable insight into important changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of defining, characterizing, presenting and understanding the meaning, challenges and implications of responsible and sustainable business.

Provides insights and understanding on how companies and organisations are using advances in IT to adapt to global pandemics such as COVID-19. The book explores how everything from data mining to cloud computing is used for strategic purposes, including competitive advantage and decision making relating to global pandemics.

Explores various antenna design concepts to meet the NB-IoT requirements and to integrate with small IoT devices. The book also covers antenna test and measurement techniques and case studies to understand the real time applications of antenna in NB-IoT applications.

Expands current and existing understanding and knowledge about regulating other's emotions. The book creates new tools, knowledge, and perspectives, while also offering intervention strategies.

Reviews the fundamentals of local climatic phenomenon as a gateway to solving the challenging problems of rapid urbanization in the face of climate change. The book uses the dimensions and principles of urban planning and design, and landscape architecture in conjunction with environmental design.