Books published by Woodhead Publishing Ltd

A significant barrier that companies have difficulty to overcome is the effective communication with their Chinese counter parts. This major impediment is caused by no understanding of the cultural differences between the Chinese and western business cultures. This book offers the solution to this problem - the bi-cultural personnel.

This review of human resources management (HRM) in Asia, draws attention to issues which are substantially different from those which a western trained manager or student would expect. Intra-regional issues are examined and in an unusual approach, topics are organised thematically, rather than by the more typical country-by-country approach.

Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs in Australia from the Early 1990s adds new theoretical considerations and empirical evidence to a growing interest in entrepreneurship, and presents an account of a group of new Chinese migrant entrepreneurs who have succeeded in their business ventures, significantly contributing to both Australia and China.

Multilingual Information Management draws on previous empirical research to explore how information and technologies are used within the community of practice of translators as information facilitators among different languages and cultures to deliver such quality and time requirements and become more productive and competitive in today's market.

Marketing the 21st Century Library systematically and concisely teaches students and practitioners how to and why they should market and promote academic libraries

Customer Service in Academic Libraries draws on practical experience to explore the concept, nature, and benefits of an organizational culture based upon the principles and practices of customer service, in its fullest sense.

What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Online Arab Spring responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples.

Library 3.0 explores the ongoing debates on the "point oh" phenomenon and its impact on service delivery in libraries. This title analyses Library 3.0 and its potential in creating intelligent libraries capable of meeting contemporary needs, and the growing role of librarians as apomediators.

Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical guide to developing a comprehensive plan for any library.

There is a great need to explore the overall strategic framework for better strategy formulation in the context of India. Doing Business in India discusses the cultural and consumer profile of the people of India and examines how these fit into the macroeconomic context.

Service science is a new trans-disciplinary field that touches on subjects such as computer science, engineering, management, business, and the social and cognitive sciences. This book demonstrates to information professionals in all sectors that this new discipline exists and why it is relevant to them.

A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web is geared toward library and information science professionals, including librarians, software developers and information systems architects who want to understand the fundamentals of graph theory, how it is used to represent and explore data, and how it relates to the semantic web.

Business process management (BPM) can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries. As an application, BPM for ERM leads to effective organizational changes. Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries takes this novel perspective by applying BPM principles and theories to ERM.

Working With Text collects a subset of the best contributions from the 'Working with text: Tools, techniques and approaches for text mining' workshop, alongside contributions from experts in the area.

Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership advice and tips on making the library more nimble, lean, and responsive to technological change.

Strategic Human Resources Planning for Academic Libraries explores the impact of human resources practices in an academic library setting and how the human resources function is an important and strategic part of the library as an organization.

This book reviews employment conditions in Asian countries. This is the hub of the strongest growth area in the world economy and while attention has focussed on job growth and industrial transformation, there has been very little attention on employment characteristics and employment conditions.