Books published by IGI Global

A comprehensive reference book that enables readers to comprehend the trends in technological changes and the need to orient business education and technology management in workplaces. The book serves to support with the formation and implementation of appropriate policies for technology management.

Presents a number of methodological innovations in research as well as applied examples of these methodologies in practice. The chapters focus on the application of methodological approaches and descriptions of the epistemological foundations of the given methodologies so that researchers can fully articulate their methodological choices.

Analyses the realities of higher education today, strategies that ensure the success of academic institutions, and factors that lead to student success. In particular, the book addresses essentials of online learning, strategies to ensure the success of online courses, effective course development practices, and key support mechanisms for students.

Highlights the best practices of various countries in public administration and policy education to contribute to the development of the public administration and policy education/training field. The book focuses on comparative studies and innovative teaching techniques and how they affect public administration education methods and curriculum.

A reference source that educates mental health practitioners in a range of trauma-informed approaches and resources that promote stabilization, provides a guide for the practical application of stabilization-based therapy, and offers insights into stabilization as it is applied across a variety of therapeutic approaches.

Summarises and assembles the published data on COVID-19 and provides an answer to the reader for the mystery of SARS-Cov2's impact on human health through a deep analysis of the current data available in the literature.

Identifies what makes companies that work well in organisational chaos and in chaotic economic environments perform better than companies that are well organised. The book covers a range of topics, including strategic management, multidimensional chaos approach, and the global unstable market.

Offers a current overview of modern practices regarding the teaching of autistic children. The book updates the current practices for professionals working with autistic children, offers practical information regarding interventions, and provides tools for managing autistic children in critical situations.

Provides knowledge, skills, and dispositions for teaching multicultural, multilingual, and immigrant deaf and hard of hearing students globally, and identifies the challenges facing the inclusion needs of this population. Topics covered include universal design for learning, inclusion, literacy, and language acquisition.

Presents state-of-the-art innovations, research, and designs while implementing methodological and algorithmic solutions to data processing problems and designing and analyzing evolving trends in health informatics and computer-aided diagnosis in deep learning techniques in context with cyber physical systems.

Provides insights on blockchain technology and its applications in digital marketing. The book offers a comprehensive understanding of how this technology is functioning within modern marketing and how it can influence the future of the digital marketing industry.

Synthesizes the trends, best practices, methodologies, languages, and tools that are used to implement gamification. The book also discusses how to put gamification in action by linking academic and informatics researchers with professionals who use gamification in their daily work.

Provides interdisciplinary research in information retrieval and sentiment analysis, including studies on extracting sentiments from textual data, sentiment visualization-based dimensionality reduction for multiple features, and deep learning-based multi-domain sentiment extraction.

Evaluates the concepts in global health and the application of essential information management in healthcare organisational strategic contexts. The book promotes understanding in how evaluation health and information management are decisive for health planning, management, and implementation of the One Health concept.

Explroes recent theoretical advances of fuzzy sets and numbers, fuzzy systems, fuzzy logic and their generalizations, extensions, and more. This book also explores the applications of fuzzy sets and logic applied to science, technology, and everyday life to further provide research on the subject.

Focuses on the transformations that AI-powered CRM can bring to organisations in order to build better services that create more productive relationships. The book uses the experience of past decisions and historical patterns to discuss the ways in which AI and CRM lead to better analytics and better decisions.

Focuses on the transformations that AI-powered CRM can bring to organisations in order to build better services that create more productive relationships. The book uses the experience of past decisions and historical patterns to discuss the ways in which AI and CRM lead to better analytics and better decisions.

Explains and summarizes the processes and the reference frame necessary for the implementation of the Maintenance Management Model (MMM). The book acts as an overview of the current state of the art in asset management, providing innovative tools and practices from the fourth industrial revolution.

Focuses on the tactical sciences needed to succeed in the biosecurity objectives of preventing plant and animal pathogens from entering or leaving the United States. The book explores a divergence of tactics between plant and animal exotic disease response. Topics covered include animal pests and pathogens, tactical management, and early detection.

Explains and summarizes the processes and the reference frame necessary for the implementation of the Maintenance Management Model (MMM). The book acts as an overview of the current state of the art in asset management, providing innovative tools and practices from the fourth industrial revolution.

Addresses how law enforcement is critically assessed in the 21st century when implementing the rule of law and order. The book covers a range of topics, including counterterrorism, cybersecurity, biological and chemical weapons, and scientific inquiry.

Reexamines the purpose of higher education during rapidly changing times, offers practical advice and best practices to reclaim higher education's most fundamental mission, and argues that if higher education is called to prepare students to serve a government by the people, the people must be prepared to govern effectively.

Presents research on the latest findings, ideas, and applications in fields of interest that fall under the scope of NLP, including computational linguistics, deep NLP, web analysis, sentiments analysis for business, and industry perspective. The range of topics covered includes deep learning, deepfakes, text mining, and blockchain technology.

Evaluates motivational obstacles in online distance education both theoretically and practically, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the online education environments regarding motivation, and provides actionable motivational and volitional strategies for online educators.

Focuses on future business changes and prospective models, structural or not, for guiding the survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), multinationals, family firms, entrepreneurs, and NGOs in the post-COVID-19 era. Topics covered include business model creation, global sustainable logistics 4.0, and social and solidarity economy.

Discusses the international track records in the implementation of SEZs, the interplay of SEZ models and local institutional infrastructure and stakeholders, and the SEZ models that can best fit certain development states and/or settings. Topics covered include the Belt and Road Initiative, local and national economies, and regional integration.

A comprehensive reference book offering an holistic perspective of the platform economy by connecting the e-commerce and collaborative economy streams into a common framework. This integrated perspective offers a clearer understanding of the key trends in research and in managerial action, as well as an agenda for future studies and practice.

Focusing on key concepts such as tools of indigenous knowledge management and African indigenous symbols, the book preserves and promotes indigenous knowledge through research and fills the void staff and students within the field of indigenous knowledge systems face with the current lack of research and resources.

Covers the modeling, control theorems, and optimization techniques that solve many scientific problems for researchers in the field of power converter control for renewable energy hybrid storage, placing particular emphasis on the modeling and control of static converters for hybrid storage systems.

Highlights the importance of integrating robotics in educational practice and presents various ways for how it can be achieved. The book further explains how 21st century skills and life skills can be developed through the hands-on experience of educational robotics.