• Illustrates all the steps in preparing qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.• Emphasizes topic selection, locating literature, and avoiding major pitfalls in evaluating and synthesizing literature.• Shows how to improve literature reviews through the judicious inclusion of statistical results found in the literature.• Provides easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid misrepresenting the results of ...

Preparing Literature Reviews is an accessible guide that provides easy to follow step-by-step advice on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews. The 6th edition of this bestselling book retains its original lauded features of clear style and organization while bringing new chapters into the fold to address mixed-methods and theoretical frameworks in conducting reviews of literature.The text walks the reader through both the conceptualization ...

This collection of papers from the Digital Enablement Conference 2016 aims to illustrate various aspects of the digital enablement phenomenon. Over the last two decades, advances in digital technology have fundamentally transformed the way we do business, work, and live. As new technologies emerge, they offer new possibilities for addressing increasingly complex economic and social problems.Digital enablement refers to the consumerizational and transformational roles of digital technology ...

The casebook aims at providing the latest case materials for researchers and students who are keen to learn about the consumerization and transformation effects of digital technology.It is one of the first books covering the best practices of digital enablement in China, which has been the focus many observers among the practitioners as well as academics.The 22 projects analyzed include Zhongguancun InnoWay, OFO Bicycle, Esheke, Taobao, and more.

Managing Organizational Complexities with Digital Enablement in China aims to provide insights into the use of information technologies in organizations and government agencies in China. Edited by Shan-Ling Pan with contributions from academics across the world, this casebook contains 17 case studies which document experiences of utilizing enterprise systems and e-government initiatives in organizations and government agencies from China. These case studies feature companies such as Alibab...

Found family, forbidden love, and a heroine who refuses to kneel— from Cosmopolitan's book imprint comes REIGN, a fierce feminist romantasy about choosing freedom over fear and setting fire to the throne.The Kingdom of Lyonesse is absent of magic but not of rain.In the rain-soaked Kingdom of Lyonesse, magic is outlawed—punishable by death.So when Niamh's forbidden witchcraft is exposed, she flees her rainy village disguised as a ma...

In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love?With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service.Hammer was one of those children. Now, she's a jaded soldier waging Ashvi's perpetual war, thinking only of her own survival. But when she accidentally r...

By a process of investigations into origin, development and theoretic foundations of the tort liability based on fairness, this book analyzes the myriads of practical cases to offer deep insights into application rules, grounds for defense, compensation scope and the supplementary role of application, and elucidates theoretic restrictions upon its judicial application, aiming to preclude the tort liability based on fairness from being abused judicially, and establishing China's indigenous ...

**"A dark dream of a book.” —Victoria Aveyard, #1 N*ew York Times-*bestselling author of the Red Queen series and the Realm Breaker trilogy“A riveting, magical read that is impossible to put down.” —Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Divine RivalsSet in a world of insatiable immortals, their eternal rivalries, and the humans trapped between them, Mortal Things is a cinematic and sweeping new fa...

This book is one of the first to systematically explore cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe, with a focus on the formation process of the Xiongnu Confederation and the Silk Road. Combining partition and staging analyses, the authors adopt a broad perspective, viewing the Northern Zone as part of the Eurasian Steppe and combining history with culture by investigating the spread of bronze artifacts. In addition, with more than three hundred figure...

**From the author of New York Times bestseller Real Americans, a brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else“Surreal and mind-bending, My Dear You proves Khong to be just as much a master of the short form as she is with the novel.” —Harper’s Bazaar“I couldn’t stop reading these sly, poignant, very funny stories about intimacy and friendship, work an...

The concept of teacher leadership has gained attention from educational scholars and practitioners across the globe due to its success in improving outcomes for teachers and students. The Challenges and Possibilities of Teacher Leadership explores the theory and practice of teacher leadership through a variety of international scholarly and practitioner perspectives, surveying the field of teacher leadership conceptually and practically.Each chapter in this edited collecti...