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Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership teams and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations. Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapidly pivot in response to shifting strategic demands. Chapters summarize the current state of knowledge examine past research and theory define research and theoretical gaps and consider how to address these gaps. In so doing they offer an understanding of how senior leadership teams drive and enable organizational activity. The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals looking to understand the intersection of leadership team dynamics organizational psychology organizational psychology and strategic management particularly in relation to organizational agility and the senior leadership team.

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Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

This book takes a unique approach to linear optimization by focusing on the underlying principles and business applications of a topic more often taught from a mathematical and computational perspective. By shifting the perspective away from heavy math students learn how optimization can be used to drive decision making in real world business settings. The book does not shy away from the theory underlying linear optimization but rather focuses on ensuring students understand the logic without getting caught up in proving theorems. Plenty of examples applications and case studies are included to help bridge the gap between the theory and the way it plays out in practice. The author has also included several Excel spreadsheets showing worked-out models of linear optimization that have been used to drive decisions ranging from configuring a police force to purchasing crude oil and media planning. How can the routes and pricing structures of airlines be optimized? How much should be invested in the prevention and punishment of crimes? These are everyday problems that can be solved using linear optimization and this book shows students just how to do that. It will prove a useful math-free resource for all students of management science and operations research. | Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

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Technology and American Society A History

Technology and American Society A History

Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations authors Gary Cross and Rick Szostak analyze the cause-and-effect relationship of technological change and its role in the constant drive for improvement and modernization. This fully-updated 3rd edition extends coverage of industry home office agriculture transport constructions and services into the twenty-first century concluding with a new chapter on recent electronic and technological advances. Technology and American Society remains the ideal introduction to the myriad interactions of technological advancement with social economic cultural and military change throughout the course of American history. | Technology and American Society A History

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Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice allowing prospective teachers to assume the dual role of both teacher and student as they enter the discipline of Writing Studies and become familiar with some of its critical conversations. Now in its third edition the volume offers up-to-date scholarship and a deeper focus on diversity both in the classroom and in relation to Writing Studies and literacy more broadly. This text continues to offer a wealth of practical assignments classroom activities and readings in each chapter. It is the ideal resource for the undergraduate or graduate student looking to pursue a career in writing instruction. | Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

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Art Markets in Europe 1400–1800

Art Markets in Europe 1400–1800

The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed produced perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art including the range of art objects purchased by various social groups; the conditions of artistic creativity and communication between different production centres and artistic millieux; and the emergence of art markets which served to link the first two phenomena. The work draws on new research by art historians and economic and social historians from Europe and the United States and covers the period from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. | Art Markets in Europe 1400–1800

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Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Originally published in 1976 this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It draws attention to the connexion between these topics as dual aspects of international relations and refers to those parts of West African indigenous diplomacy showing how these resembled and diverged from practice elsewhere. The causes and consequences of West African wars are analysed and the wide range of weaponry armour and transport used by armies is also discussed. Strategy and tactics of the wars in relation to defensive operations are also examined. Throughout the book a considerable body of evidence from many sources is deployed to justify both the factual content and the conclusions which are drawn. | Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

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Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt considers why the Christian tradition as a whole has rarely managed more than an uneasy truce between the physical and the spiritual aspects of the human person. Why is it that the 'Church' has energetically argued through centuries of ecumenical councils for the dual nature of Christ but seems still unwilling to accept the full integration of physical and spiritual within humanity despite Gregory of Nazianzus's comment that 'what has not been assumed has not been redeemed'? | Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

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US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

Robert J. Pauly Jr examines the history of US foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East in general and focuses specifically on the fundamental economic military and political causes of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis. He investigates to what extent these causes were internal and external in origin looks at the principal actors in the crisis and determines whether and how these actors have continued to drive unfolding events in the Persian Gulf ever since. The volume explores in detail the role of American leaders since 1989 including how far the US should collaborate with Europe to pursue both American and collective Western economic military and political interests in the Gulf. It also considers the prospects for the future of American-led nation-building operations in Iraq and the outlook for the eventual liberal democratization of the Greater Middle East. | US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

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Highly Effective Therapy Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Highly Effective Therapy Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Trainees and practitioners need a trusted resource for mastering the essential skills and competencies necessary for effecting deep lasting change in their clients. This second edition of Highly Effective Therapy: Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy is that resource. It updates the 20 essential skill sets and clinical competencies needed for a highly effective and successful clinical practice. It illustrates them in action with evidence-based treatment protocols and clinical simulations to foster learning and competency. Sperry emphasizes the process of easily learning these research-based clinical competencies with added case examples and session transcriptions. New to this edition is trauma assessment protective factors and ultra-brief cognitive behavioral interventions. This second edition is written in an accessible format and is essential for practitioners trainees and instructors working in this field. | Highly Effective Therapy Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy

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The Experimental City

The Experimental City

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience climate change governance and socio-technical transitions. With contributions from leading scholars and case studies from the Global North and South from small- to large-scale cities this book suggests that urban experiments offer novel modes of engagement governance and politics that both challenge and complement conventional strategies. The book is organized around three cross-cutting themes. Part I explores the logics of urban experimentation different approaches and how and why they are deployed. Part II considers how experiments are being staged within cities by whom and with what effects. Part III examines how entire cities or groups of cities are constructed as experiments. This book develops a deeper and more socially and politically nuanced understanding of how urban experiments shape cities and drive wider changes in society providing a framework to examine the phenomenon of urban experimentation in conceptual and empirical detail. | The Experimental City

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The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states guilt the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique. Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique. | The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

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Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies processes and practices across the home nations (England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom. Drawing upon in-depth analysis by internationally recognised experts within the sport policy and management field and applying a novel analytical framework this book offers the first comprehensive intra-country comparison of the most significant features of the sporting infrastructure across the home nations. With chapters focusing on each of the four nations in detail followed by a comparative chapter that identifies themes regarding the evolution of sport policy across the UK the book examines the differences and similarities across elite community and school sport policy. It provides an important insight into how sport policy interacts with national and devolved political structures and with sociocultural factors to drive both elite sporting success and community sport development. This book is essential reading for any student researcher policymaker or sport practitioner with an interest in sport policy sport development sport management public policy or politics. | Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

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Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

Originally published in 1991 this volume discusses the urban working class international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience and struggles. The dual theme of the book is the control which the state and employers seek to impose and maintain over labouring people and the resistance put up by workers to these often new and unacceptable disciplines. With case studies – both historical and contemporary – drawn from North America Britain and various parts of Africa the author develops an interlocking theory of habituation and resistance. Against the background of profound changes in the global economy Robin Cohen explores ways in which labouring people respond to the structural and managerial constrains on the development of their class consciousness and self-organisation. This will be of interest to urban and industrial sociologists as well as those concerned with comparative social theory and the relationship between developing world and industrialised societies. | Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

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Gangs and Organized Crime

Gangs and Organized Crime

In Gangs and Organized Crime George W. Knox Gregg W. Etter and Carter F. Smith offer an informed and carefully investigated examination of gangs and organized crime groups covering street gangs prison gangs outlaw motorcycle gangs and organized crime groups from every continent. The authors have spent decades investigating gangs as well as researching their history and activities and this dual professional-academic perspective informs their analysis of gangs and crime groups. They take a multidisciplinary approach that combines criminal justice public policy and administration law organizational behavior sociology psychology and urban planning perspectives to provide insight into the actions and interactions of a variety of groups and their members. This textbook is ideal for criminal justice and sociology courses on gangs as well as related course topics like gang behavior gang crime and the inner city organized crime families and transnational criminal groups. Gangs and Organized Crime is also an excellent addition to the professional’s reference library or primer for the general reader. More information is available at the supporting website – www. gangsandorganizedcrime. com

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Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism Consumerism Conflict and Concern

Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism Consumerism Conflict and Concern

Travel journalism about natural attractions is environmental communication at the cusp of consumerism and concern. Countries and regions that market forests rivers and wildlife to international tourists drive place-of-origin brand recognition that benefits exporters in other sectors. Place-branding in such destinations is not just PR for environmentally sustainable development and consumption but also a political enterprise. Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism considers tourism public relations as elite reputation management and applies models of political conflict and source-media relations to the analysis of the ‘soft’ genre of travel journalism. The book seeks to understand how in whose interests and against what odds discourses of cosmopolitanism and place-branding influence the way travel journalists represent vulnerable and contested environments. Informed by interviews with journalists and their sources Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism identifies and theorises networks cultures discursive strategies and multiple loyalties that can assist or interrupt flows of environmental concern in the cosmopolitan public sphere. The book should be of interest to scholars of environmental communication environmental politics journalism tourism marketing and public relations. | Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism Consumerism Conflict and Concern

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Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

'Discourse Power Address' identifies the existence of 'directive' address a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of dominant practices including Advertising Politics Public Relations and Corporate representation. Stuart Price argues that the simulation of intimacy in authoritarian address masks a drive to power in which the creation of propositions by powerful social actors is based on the 'timeliness' of utterance rather than any real adherence to truth or genuine explanation. Election broadcasts political speeches TV commercials and corporate advertisements are all scrutinised in order to evaluate competing perspectives on the creation and circulation of meaning; particular reference is made to theories of discourse ideology and address. In the course of his argument the author proposes an original method for determining how authoritarian address attempts to make an impact on audiences. Providing a cross-disciplinary contribution to the fields of Communication Language Media and Political Studies this book provides an original clear-sighted contribution to the debate on language and power and will provide an essential resource for lecturers researchers students activists and policy-makers. | Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

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Contemporary Issues in Quantitative Finance

Contemporary Issues in Quantitative Finance

Contemporary quantitative finance connects the abstract theory and the practical use of financial innovations such as ultra-high-frequency trading and cryptocurrencies. It teaches students how to use cutting-edge computational techniques mathematical tools and statistical methodologies with a focus on real-life applications. The textbook opens with chapters on financial markets global finance and financial crises setting the subject in its historical and international context. It then examines key topics in modern quantitative finance including asset pricing exchange-traded funds Monte Carlo simulations options alternative investments artificial intelligence and big data analytics in finance. Complex theory is condensed to intuition with appendices presenting advanced mathematical or statistical techniques. Each chapter offers Excel-based implementations conceptual questions quantitative problems and a research project giving students ample opportunity to develop their skills. Clear chapter objectives summaries and key terms also support student learning. Digital supplements including code and PowerPoint slides are available for instructors. Assuming some prior financial education this textbook is suited to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in quantitative finance financial engineering and derivatives. | Contemporary Issues in Quantitative Finance

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Innovation and Planning

Innovation and Planning

This practical book introduces readers to the essential business aspects of innovation and new product planning. The product planning process is discussed across two broad themes: product development and product management. Importantly the book emphasizes the 21st-century strategic and creative mindset necessary to drive business innovation activities in a concise yet comprehensive manner. The book delves into the front end of innovation and formal product development activities examining the topics of opportunity identification concept generation and evaluation technical development product design testing launch strategies product management life cycle management brand management and vital elements for international success. There are stand-alone notes that serve to apprise readers on related topics such as the use of agile product development methodologies the formation of business entities and recommended best practices for new product development. The book excels at providing relevant examples and applied tools that augment the concepts to offer valuable connections to real-world product planning efforts. This book is particularly useful as a guide to learning the fundamental concepts and strategies associated with innovation and new product planning. Among student audiences upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students are likely to benefit as the book embraces its position to serve as a primer on product development and management. | Innovation and Planning

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Nationalism and Conflict Management

Nationalism and Conflict Management

Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics. Despite the emergence of approaches to managing it from nation-building to territorial autonomy in recent years the application of these approaches has been uneven. Old conflicts persist and new ones continually emerge. The authors of this book contend that what is needed to drive forward the theory and practice of ethno-national conflict management is a more nuanced understanding of ethnicity and nationalism. The book addresses this issue by linking theories of ethnicity and nationalism to theories of conflict management. Its contributors share a common goal of demonstrating that a nuanced understanding of ethnicity and nationalism can beneficially inform conflict management in theory and practice. To do so they analyse both hot and cold conflict zones as well as cases that have been important in the development of the most widely-used conflict management models. The book is aimed at those interested in the theory and practice of ethno-national conflict management as well as the study of ethnicity and nationalism. It is well-suited for undergraduate and advanced research students experts and policy-makers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. | Nationalism and Conflict Management

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An Introduction to the Geography of Health

An Introduction to the Geography of Health

In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the modern era. In this edition the authors have restructured the book to emphasize the theoretical significance of ecological and social approaches to health. Spatial methods are now reinforced throughout the book and other qualitative and quantitative methods are discussed in greater depth. Data and examples are used extensively to illustrate key points and have been updated throughout including several new extended case studies such as water contamination in Flint Michigan; microplastics pollution; West Africa’s Ebola crisis; and the Zika epidemic. The book contains more than one hundred figures including new and updated maps data graphics and photos. The book is designed to be used as the core text for a health geography course for undergraduate and lower-level graduate students and is relevant to students of biology medicine entomology social science urban planning and public health.

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Intersectionality and Crisis Management A Path to Social Equity

Intersectionality and Crisis Management A Path to Social Equity

Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders and managers navigate a complex and networked environment of policy-making and action frequently occurring in real time under constant media exposure. The pervasive availability of this news on all platforms and devices produces a lingering anxiety about the inevitability of danger. Consequently crisis affords a time-sensitive exploration of management practices and sheds a critical spotlight on deficiencies that may yield novel approaches to doing business. As the book engages contributing authors who are foremost in their field it also includes practitioners students and junior scholars in a creative new discourse about equity. Bringing these diverse voices together in one volume presents a unique opportunity to generate new insights. Intersectionality provides a framework for understanding how categorizations of people drive social constructs of discrimination and oppression. Each chapter covers a different subject – exploring intersectionality in healthcare nonprofit management and human resources – and is accompanied by discussion questions. The book provides something for the classroom for practitioners and for scholars who want to include more intersectional thinking into their work. | Intersectionality and Crisis Management A Path to Social Equity

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Money and Schools

Money and Schools

Money and Schools explains and demonstrates the relationship between money and equality of educational opportunity in a way that is clear precise and engaging. Grounded in research and best practices this book provides a broad overview of school finance budgeting and resource allocation an understanding of the underlying economic social legal and political principles that drive how schools are funded as well as a detailed examination of day-to-day funding operations. Rich pedagogical features include chapter drivers point/counterpoint discussions case studies portfolio exercises and web and recommended resources. This accessible and engaging book offers strong connections to real-world experiences and detailed information on preK–12 funding history concepts and current operations for both aspiring and experienced education leaders in school budgeting finance and resource management courses. New to this edition: Coverage of new concepts and trends such as the political economy and culture of public education. Inclusion of cutting-edge research on the impacts of money on student learning outcomes. Expanded chapter-by-chapter annotations and recommended resources that point readers to other resources and explain key concepts in greater detail. New online supplemental downloads including updated PowerPoints for Instructors and chapter-based interactive figures for download.

GBP 74.99
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Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

Supervision is currently a hot topic in social work. The editors of this volume both social work educators and researchers believe that good supervision is fundamental to the development and maintenance of effective practice in social work. Supervision is seen as a key vehicle for continuing development of professional skills the safeguarding of competent and ethical practice and oversight of the wellbeing of the practitioner. As a consequence the demand for trained and competent supervisors has increased and a perceived gap in availability can create a call for innovation and development in supervision. This book offers a collection of chapters which contribute new insights to the field. Authors from Australia and New Zealand where supervision inquiry is strong offer research-informed ideas and critical commentary with a dual focus on supervision of practitioners and students. Topics include external and interprofessional supervision retention of practitioners practitioner resilience and innovation in student supervision. This book will be of interest to supervisors of both practitioners and students and highly relevant to social work academics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Social Work. | Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

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Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security military training culture and the challenges of bureaucracy law and violence in democracies. The articles cover an impressive geographic range from Europe to Africa and to the Middle East. Two essays address threats to democratic polities by corrupt governmental and legal institutions and by electoral violence and intimidation. The first argues that a culture of dualism in Greece helps produce problems. The second analyzes the power of military student fraternities in Nigeria arguing that democracy is threatened by these organizations. Two contributors then address the security and military challenges in Iraq. The first argues that successful military advisors must play dual roles as both peacekeeper-diplomats and warriors. The second poses that Iraqi government policies privileging the Shia population have alienated other groups and helped support for groups such as ISIS. The final essay analyzes the acculturation of new soldiers to Zimbabwean military life through the training experiences of recruits. The volume also includes reviews of recent books on military and security matters. | Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

GBP 84.99
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New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations Community Development and Engagement

New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations Community Development and Engagement

This book investigates the political social and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local national and global levels. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) play an increasingly important role in the political economic and social dynamics that shape daily lives across the world. Encompassing a diverse range of organisations objectives and activities the CSO sector is an expansive terrain characterised by dynamic relationships between leaders agents of action the communities and the global challenges that drive their agenda which span from poverty to climate emergency to injustice to inequalities. Drawing on case studies from Brazil India Yemen Syria Iran and Turkey this book explores the distinct challenges faced by CSO leaders their current operational practices and their strategies for future development. The book highlights the roles contributions and challenges of young CSO leaders in particular at a time when they are taking an increasingly active role as agents for change and development. Overall the book emphasises the ways in which CSO leaders are not only shaped by profound challenges such as Covid-19 but also proactively react and respond. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of global development business studies peacebuilding international relations and civil society. | New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations Community Development and Engagement

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