This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings.

In een wereld van block-chain, internationalisering en privatisering van bepaalde sectoren, komt het faillissementsrecht steeds vaker in aanraking met nieuwe wetgeving en dilemma's. In Dilemma’s van nu komen dergelijke dilemma’s, die bijvoorbeeld te maken hebben met digitalisering en internationalisering aan het licht. Dilemma’s van nu beoogt een inkijk te geven in enkele dilemma's en ervaringen van curatoren met de afwikkeling van niet-alledaagse faillissementen en een bijdrage te leve...

With globalisation, digitisation, more cross-border movement of persons and multinational businesses, events and cases have increasingly become transnational. Conversely, with the current geopolitical climate, the increase of migration and the recent pandemics, borders have regained importance. These developments raise questions about the territorial scope of legislation. In this book, 28 mechanisms have been identified which influence the territorial scope of EU law. With those mechanisms, t...

This thesis examines the potential of small, low-carbon, (near) zero-energy dwellings as a solution that would both address sustainability challenges and answer to the growing housing shortage in North-West Europe. It adopts a multidimensional outlook that encompasses institutional, social and technical aspects surrounding the dwellings. The institutional aspect is addressed through an investigation of financial, legislative, technical and cultural barriers to the implementation and uptake of...

A core, comprehensive textbook for the Award and/or Certificate in Education and Training.

Compensation: A Balanced Approach covers compensation systems and practices through theory and application. Each chapter looks at compensation from both the employer and employee perspective, giving students a more holistic understanding of the role total rewards play in an organization.

Explore the controversies and debates, leading thinkers and enduring challenges in brand management with this accessible introduction.

Approaches to Mixed Methods Research focuses on the choices social scientists make when designing a study that mixes quantitative and qualitative data. Authors Lisa D. Pearce and Jessica Halliday Hardie explore ways to weave together strands of research using qualitative and quantitative data to speak to and enhance each other; a strand being a series of steps involved in collecting and analyzing a single type of data.

The result, they show, is a more holistic body of evidence that emerges, a...