A growing number of scholars and pundits have declared that the twenty-first century will be the era of Islam. Such predictions, whether intended in a positive or negative light, err in failing to appreciate the spread and influence of Islam during the past millennium and a half, especially on the continents of Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, events during the first decade of the new millennium h…

Some may wonder why public relations is a deserving topic for the extensive analysis it receives in this encyclopedia. After all, many might think, it is ?just PR.? In the view of some or even many, public relations is the art of sham, spin, buzz, sandbagging, and ?being nice.? Others fear it as deep-pockets lobbying that gives privilege to powerful companies and special interests. Having said …

Both, academics and practitioners alike have spent considerable efforts during the last years to establish ICT support for the handling of knowledge, an idea that is almost as old as the field of computer science. Not surprisingly, the solution is still not there and many businesses trying to implement these technologies have been frustrated by the fact that the technologies certainly could not…

Enterprise Resource Planning systems are key to optimizing organizational performance: however, choosing which system to implement, when to perform the implementation, and how to minimize costs while maximizing system acceptance are all important issues to businesses considering an ERP implementation. As the business world focuses more upon e-business and incorporates the Internet into daily bu…

Business process outsourcing (BPO) has emerged as one of the leading business and economic issues of our time.A natural extension of the free-trade movement that has been a dominant force in global economics over the past two decades, BPO has been met with mixed reactions.Workers whose lives have been disrupted because their jobs have been outsourced to lower-wage workers overseas have understa…

Social work practice is built upon the linkage between the objectives and goals of clients, programs, and agencies, and the evaluation process is critical for making sure those links are strong. Building on its earlier editions with seven new chapters and complete revisions of the others, as well as a strong online companion website presence, this text is more relevant and user-friendly than ev…

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's equal treatment of equals was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distributi…

Book Description The Fast Forward MBA in Business Communication brings you the information youneed when you need it most- now! This practical, easy-to-use guide gives you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of two of today's leading experts on business communication. In short, lively segments using real-world examples, it delivers the information you need to navigate co…

Historically, financial and insurance risks were separate subjects most often analyzed using qualitative methods. The development of quantitative methods based on stochastic analysis is an important achievement of modern financial mathematics, one that can naturally be extended and applied in actuarial mathematics. Risk Analysis in Finance and Insurance offers the first comprehensive and access…

this book is in a sense a communication manual for non-financial managers. I believe there is a great need for better communication between financial and non-financial professionals, for a better tool to help the non-financial manager understand the language of finance, and for the financial professional to learn the terminology that has meaning for the non-financial manager. I believe this boo…