Thoroughly revised and updated, International Entrepreneurship explains the opportunities and challenges facing internationalising entrepreneurial ventures. With a new section on international sustainable entrepreneurship and new cases and examples throughout, this second edition of a successful textbook will be indispensable for students of international entrepreneurship. Key Features: Theory and practice go hand in hand so there are real-world gains for future born globals Flexibility of use for instructors to fit their own context and needs, particularly for integrating into current entrepreneurship or business courses Accessible and highly-relevant case studies provide insight into how real companies handle current issues, preparing students for future entrepreneurial ventures Further reading references and supplementary example boxes allow students to extend their knowledge outside the lecture hall and inspire a passion for the subject A dedicated overview illustrating the state-of-the-art solely from the point of view of international entrepreneurship allowing students to build in-depth knowledge on the topic from a single resource International Entrepreneurship provides the foundation for all international entrepreneurship courses, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.

This volume plays on the double meaning of network in German and European Studies: configurations of people, objects, and texts as well as network analysis, the dominant Digital Humanities (DH) method featured in the book. Contributions from art history, history of the book, history, literary studies, and musicology contemplate the strengths and weakness of treating the period 1789-1810 as either continuous with or a departure from the centuries before and after by examining different facets of the longer period 1760-1830. While many chapters investigate German material, nearly all expand into other European cultures and cover important regions, protagonists, objects and constellations of bi-and multilingual life. They intersect Italian, French, and English networks and reach across the Atlantic into New England. The period’s bookends indicate a threshold or terminus for traditions, institutions, and national identities in Europe: marking the French Revolution (and its effects across the continent culminating on the Wars again Napoleon) and at times reactionary responses with delineation of national, regional, or group identities, respectively, and perhaps most pronounced in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15). Overall, the collection of eleven chapters, introduction, and an epilogue explores European cultural histories at the turn of the nineteenth century in a nonlinear manner, that is, by accumulating critical perspectives on people, objects, and texts that test the boundaries of narratives of transmission, organization, and cohesion that often mark scholarly evaluations of this period in European history.

Prompted by recent events in the EU’s international environmental cooperation, this thought-provoking book explores the establishment and use of multilateral environmental compliance mechanisms as part of the EU’s external environmental action. Expanding upon current discussions in external relations law, this timely book uses a doctrinal approach to analyse EU engagement with a key instrument of international environmental governance. The author examines the role of compliance mechanisms in EU environmental action, from establishing these treaty-based mechanisms within EU legal boundaries, to utilising non-compliance decisions at EU level. The book concludes with an evaluation of the extent to which EU law enables the EU to preserve, protect, and improve the global environment with the aid of compliance mechanisms, as required by its own Treaties. Multilateral Compliance Mechanisms in EU Environmental Law will be an essential resource for scholars in environmental law, European law, international relations, and public international law. It will also be beneficial for EU officials and policymakers, and environmental advocates and campaigners.

Mit der Neuauflage des erfolgreichen Werkes wird die Geschichte der vierten industriellen Revolution fortgeschrieben und der Dynamik Rechnung getragen, mit der die Vision in den vergangenen zwei bis drei Jahren weiterentwickelt und verwirklicht wurde. Experten aus Wissenschaft und Technik beleuchten verschiedene Facetten der Industrie 4.0 sowohl aus akademischer als auch aus praktischer Sicht und schaffen gleichermaßen einen Überblick über den Stand der Technik und die Vision selbst. Dies gelingt nicht zuletzt dank einer  ausgewogenen Mischung aus wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, Praxisbeispielen und Übersichtsbeiträgen. Die Themen der Beiträge reichen von Basistechnologien (bspw. cyber-physische Systeme) über Integrations- und Migrationsansätze bis hin zu Geschäftsmodellen und Dienstleitungen für die Industrie 4.0. Zudem werden die Datensicherheit und auch rechtliche Aspekte behandelt. In der 3. Auflage werden die Themenfelder um Künstliche Intelligenz, aktuelle Mobilfunkstandards und den daraus resultierenden Potentialen für eine zukünftige Plattformökonomie erweitert. Die dritte Auflage wurde bearbeitet und erweitert, erscheint nun in 3 Bänden. Dieser zweite Band beinhaltet neue und bearbeitet Beiträge zur Automatisierung.  Online ist dieses Nachschlagewerk auch über Springer Reference verfügbar.

Thoroughly revised and updated, International Entrepreneurship explains the opportunities and challenges facing internationalising entrepreneurial ventures. With a new section on international sustainable entrepreneurship and new cases and examples throughout, this second edition of a successful textbook will be indispensable for students of international entrepreneurship. Key Features: Theory and practice go hand in hand so there are real-world gains for future born globals Flexibility of use for instructors to fit their own context and needs, particularly for integrating into current entrepreneurship or business courses Accessible and highly-relevant case studies provide insight into how real companies handle current issues, preparing students for future entrepreneurial ventures Further reading references and supplementary example boxes allow students to extend their knowledge outside the lecture hall and inspire a passion for the subject A dedicated overview illustrating the state-of-the-art solely from the point of view of international entrepreneurship allowing students to build in-depth knowledge on the topic from a single resource International Entrepreneurship provides the foundation for all international entrepreneurship courses, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.

This Handbook brings together experts in the field of leadership to provide insights into methods for leadership research. It serves to motivate them to use new research methods to further our knowledge of the leadership field. Illustrating novel approaches to research with sample questions and applications to the field of leadership, this comprehensive and accessible Handbook covers key methodologies in leadership research today, as well as introducing methods that will be invaluable in the future. With chapters written by established leadership scholars, the Handbook of Methods in Leadership Research is arranged to cover three core areas of research: measurement and design, quantitative analytic approaches, and qualitative analytic approaches. The book provides an accessible overview and starting point to discover new methods. All chapters are well researched and provide references for those who want to delve deeper into the topics covered. The volume ends with a summary of tips for each method presented. This book will be an indispensable resource for leadership students, scholars, and practitioners alike, to inspire their future research but also to support their understanding of the quality of research carried out by others. Contributors: C.-H. Chang, S.H. Chong, A.R. Cook, A.J. Dixon, E. Djurdjevic, R.J. Foti, V. Gochmann, J. Gooty, R.J. Hall, R. Ilies, R.E. Johnson, M. Jokisaari, R.B. Kline, M. Lewis, W.-D. Li, R.G. Lord, M.E. McCusker, B. Meyer, P. Neves, S. Ohly, M. Pina e Cunha, A. Rego, E.F. Rietzschel, D. Rus, J. Schilling, B. Schyns, W.K. Smith, S. Trichas, W. Wang, J.M. Webb, B. Wisse, F.J. Yammarino

Hierdie keer beland Lillie in die Wilde Weste – plek van stofstrate, saloons en skietgevegte! Sal Lillie en haar Colt die inwoners van Bourbontown kan help om drie geslepe rampokkers ore aan te sit?

"The Numinous Protocol" is the first in a series of fact-based books entitled "The Alphabet Games." The series traces the exploits of a contemporary intelligence operative living a double life in the clandestine service of the United States while pursuing using a professional career as cover. Seemingly possessing nine lives, or more, his passionate and enduring love for a young woman is what fuels his uncanny ability to persevere through one dangerous mission after another to return home to her alive and well.

As businesses undergo digital transformation, technologies will lead to greater efficiencies and change how we interact in traditional relationships among suppliers, producers, and customers, as well as between human and machine. One such technology is the introduction of management information systems (MIS) that provide a company with the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information by collecting from various digital environments. In today's digital age, information needs to be managed, and MIS have the ability to transfer the information obtained by computer systems to the business operations within the business models, business processes, and management functions. Advanced MIS and Digital Transformation for Increased Creativity and Innovation in Business is an essential reference source that discusses the impact of digital technologies in enterprises and their competitive environment on management information systems and examines the application of new technologies to support strategic decisions and realize exciting visions. Featuring research on topics such as machine learning, resource planning, and e-commerce, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, IT specialists, analysts, business professionals, training officers, software engineers, business administrators, scholars, researchers, and practitioners seeking coverage on future trends, issues, and challenges in relation to management information systems.

Vandat sy 'n geheime towerboek onder haar bed ontdek het, is niks vir Lillie lekkerder as om heksespronge na interessante plekke te doen nie. Maar soms word haar towery ’n bangmaakspulletjie – byvoorbeeld toe sy haar skielik in ’n Egiptiese farao se grafkelder bevind. Meteens is haar flits se batterye pap, en verloor sy boonop nog die muisteddie waarmee sy haar na die werklikheid moet terugtoor. Deksels! En het sy nie juis voetstappe agter haar gehoor nie?

Ontsteltenis in Bourbontown: as die Drie Tornado's agter slot en grendel is, kan dit tog net die Rooihuide wees wat die dorpenaars so rot en kaal steel? Sal Lillie en Milla Tortilla agter die kap van die byl kom – of self hul kopvelle verloor?

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality, and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities, refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders, whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious matters gathered from various cultures and traditions of faith. The first section presents 'concepts of religion'. Chapters have to do with considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of 'religious practices' from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents major theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, sixty-one authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Contemporary Scenography investigates scenographic concepts, practices and aesthetics in Germany from 1989 to the present. Facing the end of the political divide, the advent of the digital age and the challenges of globalization, German-based designers and scenographers have reacted in a variety of ways to these shifts in the cultural landscape. The edited volume, a compilation of 12 original chapters written in collaboration with acclaimed scenographers, stage designers and distinguished scholars, offers fresh insights and in-depth analyses of current artistic concepts, discourse and innovation in this multifaceted, dynamic field. The book covers a broad spectrum of scenography, including theatre works by Katrin Brack, Bert Neumann, Aleksandar Denic, Klaus Grunberg, Vinge/Muller and Rimini Protokoll, in addition to scenography in museums, exhibitions, social spaces and in various urban contexts. Presenting a range of perspectives, the volume explores the interdisciplinarity of contemporary scenography and its ongoing diversification, raising questions relating to cultural heritage, genre and media specificity, knowledge transfer, local versus global practices, internationalization and cultural exchange. Combined with a set of stimulating examples of scenographic design in action - presented through interviews, artists' statements and case studies - the contributors develop a theoretical framework for understanding scenography as an art practice and discourse.

Lillie is al vir ’n geruime tyd ’n geheime heksie, maar niks kan haar voorberei op haar verrassende nuwe status nie: geheime ekspert-heksie! Skielik het sy toegang tot die wonderbaarlike Orfeustrap, waarmee sy na plekke kan reis wat sy gedink het net in fantasiee bestaan – soos die geheime stad Atlantis.

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term 'world literature' from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world literature. This is also where the handbook's conceptualisation of 'Anglophone world literatures' - in the plural - is developed and interrogated in juxtaposition with proximate fields of inquiry such as postcolonialism, translation studies, memory studies and environmental humanities. Part III charts sociological approaches to Anglophone world literatures, considering their commodification, distribution, translation and canonisation on the international book market. Part IV, finally, is dedicated to the geographies of Anglophone world literatures and provides sample interpretations of literary texts written in English.

Lillie beland in die skatkamer van ’n beleerde kasteel en soos die noodlot dit wil he, het die inwoners dringend haar hulp nodig. Maar die magtige Swart Ridder laat hom deur niemand keer nie. Sal Lillie hom met ’n towerswaard kan oorwin? En wat van die draak wat die swaard oppas?

This book will take you on an adventure that begins in Hamburg during WW II. As a child Birgit Quam journeyed to Amrum, a distant island in the North Sea where she spent her childhood, and then continues as she crossed the storm-tossed Atlantic to New York City. In her transition from child to woman you are privy to the abuses and heart aches that torment her. Interweaving her story is an incredible sense of humor as we finally meet a SURVIVOR, who learns to forgive and who lives life to its fullest.

It is 1979 just outside a remote Zambian village when seventeen-year-old Chimuka meets Sara, a white woman near his school. The thirty-three-year-old mother of two and the young, naive man begin a relationship that will transform both their lives in ways they never could have imagined. As Chimuka shuns conventional African living for the dream of higher education and a liberated life, he decides to follow Sara. In the midst of a struggle for dignity and pride, he soon finds himself immersed in a maelstrom of cultural clashes, social opprobrium, and personal upheaval. Torn between the roles of lover, friend, breadwinner, and mother, Sara is also lost in her own tumultuous battles. After five years together in Zambia and Kenya, the two finally part, but loyally write hundreds of letters to each other that maintains their emotional connection despite the distance between them. Thirty years later, Chimuka convinces Sara to meet him under the shade of a fig tree and awaits the conclusion of his unforgettable odyssey from the heart of Africa into the soul of the woman he has always loved as his mother.