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Digitization and Culture in Vietnam (Routledge Focus on the Global Creative Economy)
by Emma DuesterThe accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences. This shortform book investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture, illuminating how cultural professionals are empowered through the process of digitization. The author shows how digitization is not an entirely comprehensive, ethical, or sustainable solution for the cultural sector in Vietnam, as cultural professionals working at nonprofit art spaces and artists experience both opportunities and challenges in digitizing art and culture. Drawing on new interviews with cultural professionals working in the cultural sector in Vietnam, the book will be of interest to scholars and reflective practitioners involved with the cultural and creative industries in South East Asia and globally.
The Digitization of Business in China: Exploring the Transformation from Manufacturing to a Digital Service Hub (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
by Young-Chan Kim Pi-Chi ChenOne of the first of its kind, this book examines the digitalization of Chinese businesses both theoretically and practically. Taking a fresh and unique approach, the authors seek to adopt individual theories for each empirical case explored and investigate the dramatic digital transformation that Chinese firms have undergone in recent years. With a particular focus on social networks, the authors observe and analyze the way that digitized applications can interlink with financial systems, developing new capabilities that help to yield competitive advantage. Covering both small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and globally orientated multinational enterprises (MNEs), this book is a valuable resource for those researching Asian business, or international business more generally, as well as innovation and technology management.
Digitization of the Management Accounting Function: A Case Study Analysis on Manufacturing Companies (Controlling und Rechnungslegung - Managerial and Financial Accounting)
by Oliver HoltkemperThis book analyzes the impact of digitization on management accounting in five manufacturing companies. It is one of the first in-depth empirical studies on the intersection of management accounting and digitization. The study suggests that there are two archetypes of digitization of the management accounting function. The first archetype emphasizes top-down-driven changes that aim to enhance efficiency, such as conducting tasks with a higher degree of automation in a leaner structure with fewer resources. The second archetype is strongly driven and initiated by employees in the management accounting function (bottom-up). The focus is on improving the use of data by applying innovative analytics methods, integrating additional sources of data, and benefiting from new technologies like artificial intelligence. The results of the study also indicate that digitization of the management accounting function is mostly in line with the overall company strategy.
Digitization, Trust and SMEs (Routledge Open Business and Economics)
by Anna Wziątek-Staśko Karolina PobiedzińskaThis book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are instruments with an increasingly significant impact on the shape of the management process of modern organizations, including the way people are managed. Trust is a subtle concept, with a very different interpretation, influencing the behaviour of employees in a multifaceted way. A superficial look at the combination of both categories seems to see them as irrational. Upon closer examination, however, it exposes many interesting fields of scientific exploration. Trust, as a research category, has been included in three significant dimensions: in relation to co-workers, superiors and information technology, dominated by digitization. Each draws attention to different problems of priority importance for the organization. Asserting the idea that trust in the conditions of digitization becomes a category of timeless importance in the interdisciplinary dimension, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and advanced students in the fields of management of technology and innovation, organizational studies and leadership.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Digitize Your Brand Name: Der Erfolgsfaktor Markenname in den digitalen Medien (essentials)
by Sybille KircherSybille Kircher stellt in diesem essential die Grundlagen professionellen Namings vor - sie zeigt, wie Markennamen online und offline f#65533;r Aufmerksamkeit sorgen k#65533;nnen, und belegt mit zahlreichen Praxis-Beispielen, wie ein erfolgreicher Markenname konzipiert, aufgebaut und langfristig im Bewusstsein der Zielgruppen verankert werden kann. Die Autorin gibt einen #65533;berblick #65533;ber die Positionierungsstrategien web-tauglicher Namen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Suchmaschinenrankings. Au#65533;erdem stellt sie dar, wie Marken mit dem richtigen Wording aufgewertet werden und eine zus#65533;tzliche Erlebnisdimension erhalten.
DigiTwin: An Approach for Production Process Optimization in a Built Environment (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)
by Josip Stjepandić Markus Sommer Berend DenkenaThe focus of this book is an application of Digital Twin as a concept and an approach, based on the most accurate view on a physical production system and its digital representation of complex engineering products and systems. It describes a methodology to create and use Digital Twin in a built environment for the improvement and optimization of factory processes such as factory planning, investment planning, bottleneck analysis, and in-house material transport. The book provides a practical response based on achievements of engineering informatics in solving challenges related to the optimization of factory layout and corresponding processes. This book introduces the topic, providing a foundation of knowledge on process planning, before discussing the acquisition of objects in a factory and the methods for object recognition. It presents process simulation techniques, explores challenges in process planning, and concludes by looking at future areas of progression. By providing a holistic, trans-disciplinary perspective, this book will showcase Digital Twin technology as state-of-the-art both in research and practice.
Dignity and the Organization
by Monika Kostera Michael PirsonThis important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a practitioner perspective. Dignity and the Organization is the first book to explicitly deal with the topic of human dignity and management. The chapters address various aspects and problems from a humanistically-oriented perspective, taking up issues relevant for the contemporary management theorists and practitioners, and are concerned with organization, management and the social and cultural context. The book develops the notion of human dignity in conceptual and theoretical terms in its practical application, within the context of organizations.
Dignity and the Organization (Humanism in Business Series)
by Monika Kostera and Michael PirsonThis important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a practitioner perspective. Dignity and the Organization is the first book to explicitly deal with the topic of human dignity and management. The chapters address various aspects and problems from a humanistically-oriented perspective, taking up issues relevant for the contemporary management theorists and practitioners, and are concerned with organization, management and the social and cultural context. The book develops the notion of human dignity in conceptual and theoretical terms in its practical application, within the context of organizations.
Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create and a Positive Working Environment
by Pauline Rennie PeytonBullying in the workplace is now a recognised problem, and a cause for major concern. Victims stand to lose their self-esteem, their health and even their careers. Organisations that do not endeavour to put an end to this behaviour lose productivity, profits and their good reputations.Dignity at Work is derived from the author's many years of experience working with organisations of all sizes and at all levels. This book outlines practical guidelines essential to organisations that want to combat bullying in the workplace, and psychologists and professional counsellors working with those organisations. It provides:* the tools to identify bullying behaviour* expertise to create new policies and integrate them into corporate culture* confidence to know when and how to intervene practically and therapeutically* the skills required to know when to seek external help from professional counsellors* psychologists and counsellors with advice on how to transfer their skills to organisations as independent contractorsBullying will no longer be tolerated, and organisations must create environments that do not support mistreatment. This book provides managers, Human Resources staff and professional counsellors with the skills required to be able to recognise when a problem exists, and deal with it effectively.
Dignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism
by Robert W Fuller Pamela A GerloffIn his books Somebodies and Nobodies and All Rise, Robert Fuller exposed rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. In Dignity for All, Fuller and Pamela Gerloff offer a concise, action-oriented guide to the concrete steps we can take to eradicate it. They focus on us as individuals—how we can recognize rankism in our own experiences, even in ourselves, and how, on a day-to-day basis, we can help others to see its insidious influence and work with them to create a better world. Fuller and Gerloff offer advice on the best ways to forcefully but compassionately bring rankist behavior to light. They include examples of rankism in action as well as the often surprisingly simple things people have done to counteract it. Perhaps most importantly, they show how we can prevent rankism from taking root in the first place. Dignity for All will help you map out your own personal strategy for creating a society in which every human being feels truly valued and respected.
Dignity, Freedom and Justice
by Reiko GotohThis is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to transform this phenomenal fact into a hopeful norm. As a clue, the book examines the concept of dignity and looks forward to a new definition. So far, the concept of dignity has been peripheral to the concerns of liberal social sciences. This book uses the concept of dignity as a source of light to illuminate the fundamental critique of liberal social sciences and philosophy. Can the theory of justice or discourse ethics truly realize the well-defined society it envisions in a fundamentally contingent, uncertain, and ambiguous situation? Can societies be inclusive of minorities relegated to the periphery with their dignity undermined? Can we resist the temptation to construct huge hierarchical stairs, forcing individuals to place themselves on one of its steps, and thus lining up different and diverse entities in along sequence, and eventually bringing about totalitarianism? This book has a three-level telescopic structure. At the very front, there is a scope of reexaming the political liberalism in the light of dignity. Behind it is a scope of reconstructing a theory of justice in modern society. Further behind it, there is a scope encompassing reflection on the methodology of liberal social sciences and philosophy. We leave it to the reader's imagination as to which scope to read this book through, and what image will emerge from the three scopes taken together. It is our hope that this book helps readers envision as a "realistic utopia" a society in which "no one is left behind," including wounded little birds.
Dignity in the Workplace
by Matthijs BalIntroducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic. The author addresses and analyses the causes and consequences of the dominant political-economic paradigm within management studies. Further, it presents a theoretical alternative which can constitute a foundation for a new way of thinking about organisations, management, and leadership. Dignity in the Workplace offers scholars ideas for how research in the field of management studies may be enriched by a dignity-paradigm, and goes further to explore the role of a dignity-paradigm in the function of HR-managers and organisational leaders. Thus, the book aims to contribute to the need for alternative conceptualisations of how contemporary organisations can be managed.
Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice
by Chrystin OndersmaAn earth-shaking reimagining of household debt that opens up a new path to financial security for all Americans. American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US debt policies have no basis in reality. Weaving together the histories and trends of US debt policy with her own family story, Chrystin Ondersma debunks the myths that have long governed debt policy, like the belief that debt leads to prosperity or the claim that bad debt is the result of bad choices, both of which nest in the overarching myth of a free market unhindered by government interference and accessible to all. In place of these stale narratives, Ondersma offers a compelling, flexible, and reality-based taxonomy rooted in the internationally recognized principle of human dignity. Ondersma’s new categories of debt—grounded in abolitionist principles—revolutionize how policymakers are able to think about debt, which will in turn revolutionize the American debt landscape itself.
The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
by Nathan B. OmanWhy should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transaction in the way that both parties expect. But this overlooks a broader understanding of the moral possibilities of the market. Just as Shakespeare’s Shylock can stand on his contract with Antonio not because Antonio is bound by honor but because the enforcement of contracts is seen as important to maintaining a kind of social arrangement, today’s contracts serve a fundamental role in the functioning of society. With The Dignity of Commerce, Nathan B. Oman argues persuasively that well-functioning markets are morally desirable in and of themselves and thus a fit object of protection through contract law. Markets, Oman shows, are about more than simple economic efficiency. To do business with others, we must demonstrate understanding of and satisfy their needs. This ability to see the world from another’s point of view inculcates key virtues that support a liberal society. Markets also provide a context in which people can peacefully cooperate in the absence of political, religious, or ideological agreement. Finally, the material prosperity generated by commerce has an ameliorative effect on a host of social ills, from racial discrimination to environmental destruction. The first book to place the moral status of the market at the center of the justification for contract law, The Dignity of Commerce is sure to elicit serious discussion about this central area of legal studies.
The Dignity of Labour
by Jon CruddasDoes work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and agency of the labour interest. This timely book is a brilliant intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
by Michele LamontThis study examines the way that working-class men both define themselves and the rest of society. The book analyzes the importance placed on moral standards and the rigid racial and class boundaries drawn by the men in their construction of their own definition of success.
DIIS Theory and Methodology in Think Tanks
by Jiaofeng PanThis book provides the readers with the overall latest research on think tanks, summarizing the characteristics of think tanks, revealing the general laws and internal logic of think tank research, applying systems, dialectical views and operations research, system theory, and cybernetics to the problems existing in the research work of think tanks at home and abroad. Based on problem-oriented, evidence-oriented and scientific orientation, this book systematically considers the methodology of think tank research, proposes the DIIS theoretical method system of think tank research, defines the standardization process of think tank research and the quality standard of think tank DIIS, and gives corresponding DIIS to the actual think tank research problem. The method aims to improve the scientificity, effectiveness, and reliability of the research results of think tanks, provide systematic theoretical analysis for think tank research, promote the professional development of think tanks, and better serve the modernization of national governance systems and governance capabilities. This book presents new theoretical and research method support and reference that contribute to macro decision-making departments, management departments, scientific research institutes, universities, and enterprises think tank research related departments, strategic decision makers, think tank managers, think tank researchers, and readers interested in think tanks reading and using. Finally yet importantly, this book embodies the research of think tank as the object of investigation, jumping out of specific social conditions, using systemic thoughts, thinking about the more general role and characteristics of think tanks from the theoretical level, important theoretical issues such as principles and logic systems that think tank research should follow.
Dilapidation of the Rural: Development, Politics, and Farmer Suicides in India
by Sudhir Kumar SutharThis book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor. By bringing in politics as a variable the research presented in the book reveals that there are non-farm factors playing critical role in prompting behavioral change amongst the peasantry but haven’t received much academic attention. The book argues that the changing nature of public spaces has significantly altered the perception of self in the rural society of India. It presents indicators of this rural change and how the state policy and political parties led political mobilization that changed the character of community relations in the rural areas. The book shows that other possible manifestations of the large-scale behavioral change in the rural areas and increasing rural distress, those are equally serious but haven’t received much attention, are rising cases of drug-addiction, agrarian riots, or other forms of collective violence. The increasing number of farmers protests also need to be understood in this context.
Dilemas con los que nos enfrentamos en el mundo de los negocios
by Maria J. Manzano Dr Rosie KuhnDescripción del libro: Realmente todos nosotros somos personas extraordinarias. Todos nosotros poseemos la capacidad para ir más allá de nuestra actual forma de pensar si nos sumergimos en los dilemas del día a día donde un gran potencial de nuestro YO permanece oculto a la espera de que lo descubramos y de que utilicemos los dones que no explotamos. Usted tiene esta capacidad. Le está esperando. Si usted está preparado para este viaje este libro le puede interesar. Dilemas con los que nos enfrentamos en el mundo de los negocios habla sobre personas extraordinarias que se enfrentan a desafíos que les ponen obstáculos en el camino tal y como nos ocurre a nosotros, "la gente normal y corriente". La diferencia es que cuando las personas que aparecen en estos relatos se encuentran con obstáculos, traspasan y exploran de forma voluntaria los límites de la razón de su paradigma actual. Cada vez que surge un dilema deciden enfrentarse cara a cara con los demonios personales que aparecen y que les permiten ver las cosas de forma diferente. Hacen esto para realizar sus proyectos de forma plena. Esto no significa que no tengan miedo y que sean tremendamente valientes, significa que están comprometidos y que tienen fe en sí mismos y que las expectativas en la vida que ellos imaginan superan sus miedos. Las personas extraordinarias tienen una tremenda curiosidad por saber lo que hay más allá del letrero: "¡PELIGRO: NO TRASPASAR!". Voluntariamente amplían su repertorio y su capacidad para tomar decisiones de forma diferente cuando se enfrentan con CALLEJONES SIN SALIDA y TERRITORIOS DESCONOCIDOS. Comprenden plenamente que hay una sabiduría más allá de su propio conocimiento que les guía y aconseja para alcanzar un estilo de liderazgo más expansivo y eficiente. Puede que estén asustados, tal como nos ocurre a nosotros, sin embargo, actúan ignorando esos miedos. Realmente todos nosotros somos personas extraordinarias
Dilemas de Estar nos Negócios
by Dr Rosie KuhnA verdade é que cada um de nós é extraordinário. Cada um de nós possui a capacidade de se expandir para além do nosso pensamento atual, mergulhando em dilemas diários onde um vasto recurso do Eu está adormecido, à espera de ser descoberto e de utilizar plenamente o brilhantismo inexplorado. Você tem essa capacidade. Está à espera da sua chegada. Se você está pronto para tal expedição, este livro é para si. Dilemas de Estar no Mundo dos Negócios tem a ver com pessoas extraordinárias a enfrentarem desafios comuns, a serem atropeladas e impedidas por eles, tal como nós, "gente comum". A diferença é que, quando as pessoas nestas histórias são confrontadas ou impedidas, elas penetram e exploram de bom grado o limite da razão do seu paradigma atual. Em cada dilema que surge, elas escolhem ficar frente a frente com demônios pessoais que surgem, e permitem-se ver as coisas de maneira diferente. Elas fazem isso para que as suas intenções se realizem plenamente. Não é que elas sejam destemidas e corajosas além da medida; é que o seu compromisso e crença em si mesmas e na sua visão de vida supera o seu medo. As pessoas extraordinárias estão profundamente curiosas sobre o que está para além da sinalização - as que leem: “PERIGO: NÃO ENTRAR!” Expandem voluntariamente o seu repertório e a sua capacidade de escolha de forma diferente quando confrontados com BECOS SEM SAÍDA e TERRITÓRIOS DESCONHECIDOS. Compreendem perfeitamente que existe uma sabedoria para além dos seus próprios conhecimentos que os orienta e os auxilia numa liderança mais expansiva e eficaz. Podem estar assustados, tal como nós; no entanto, são movidos a agir, independentemente dos seus receios.
Dilemmas: Coping with Environmental Problems (Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy #3)
by Graham BennettFirst published in 1992. Why are environmental problems, problems? Usually, says Graham Bennett. because the interests of the polluter are incompatible with the preservation of the environment. A hunter of whales, no matter how concerned about their decline, will always need to kill again, and a government, no matter how worried about the effects of its polluting industry, will still fight to keep it going. In this fascinating book the author takes six examples as far apart as the Rhine and the Arctic, as Tennessee and the Gulf of Genoa, to illustrate his point. In doing so he shows up the dilemmas facing those who are fighting to improve matters. He demonstrates the degree of duplicity exercised by those in power in order to preserve their interests, but he also shows how often environmental problems emerge simply because of muddle. These riveting stories describe not just the well-known effects of pollution or environmental destruction, but the ways in which the problems arise and the circumstances and complexity of the questions to be resolved. Whatever the concern - the preservation of the Bowhead Whale, or dumping salt in the Rhine - this book is a must for every environmentalist.
Dilemmas and Challenges in Islamic Finance: Looking at Equity and Microfinance (Islamic Business and Finance Series)
by Yasushi Suzuki Mohammad Dulal MiahThe phenomenal growth of Islamic finance in the last few decades has been accompanied by a host of interesting questions and challenges. One of the critical challenges is how Islamic financial institutions can be motivated to participate in the 'equity-like' profit-and-loss sharing (PLS) contracts. It is observed that Islamic banks are reluctant to participate in the pure PLS scheme which is manifested by the rising concentration of investment on murabaha or mark-up financing. This phenomenon has been the hotbed of academic criticism on the contemporary practice of Islamic banking. This book explains the 'murabaha syndrome' in light of the incentive provided by the current institutional framework and what are the changes required in the governance structure to mend this anomaly.
Dilemmas and Decision Making in Policing
by Emma Spooner Bob CooperExplores how policing students and police officers might apply theory to tackle dilemmas demonstrated through true to life scenarios.Relevant for those undertaking the Professional Policing degree, Apprenticeships or the Degree Holder Entry Programme, as well as their academic and work-based educators, it examines the complexities faced on a daily basis by frontline officers. A range of fictional realistic case studies are presented in order to highlight contemporary challenges in the modern policing landscape. These are unpicked through discussion and reflective questions, exploring how decisions are made based on theoretical understanding and practical considerations in context. Key themes within these scenarios include procedural justice, legitimacy, organisational culture, prioritisation of workload, objectivity and neutrality, human rights and values. The book provides students and their educators with the opportunities to discuss policing dilemmas and decision-making in a safe space.
Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action
by Caroline Abu-SadaWhat are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Médecins Sans Frontières sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization's principles and medical practices. While the quality of its medical action is renowned and praised, MSF struggles with the ability to respond to crises, the safety of its teams, and the development of effective interactions with diverse populations and authorities. Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action is a series of reflections on the Perception Project that presents the insights and analyses of authors from a diverse array of fields including communications, ethics, medicine, humanitarian studies, and political science. At a time when humanitarian aid is under increasing scrutiny, this book provides insiders' perspectives on how one of largest and most influential non-governmental medical organizations can better serve those in need. Contributors include Caroline Abu-Sada (MSF Switzerland), Naomi Adelson (York University) Donald C. Cole (University of Toronto), François Cooren (Université de Montréal), Sonya De Laat (McMaster University), Laurie Elit (McMaster University), Larissa Fast (University of Notre-Dame), Matthew Hunt ( McGill University), Kirsten Johnson (McGill University), Khurshida Mambetova (Former MSF Canada), Frédéric Matte (Université de Montréal), John D. Pringle (University of Toronto), Lynda Redwood-Campbell (McMaster University), Lisa Schwartz (University of McMaster), Chris Sinding (McMaster), Jennifer Ranford (University of Waterloo), Peter Walker (Feinstein International Center, Tufts University).