An expert guide to contemporary research in the field of emergency services management, this short-form book will help academics, scholars, and practitioners to appreciate the important role and contribution of these services.
This book provides frameworks, use cases, and examples that illustrate the role of big data and analytics in modern health care, including how public health information can inform health delivery.
Companies increasingly play a meaningful role in civil society and the philanthropic sector through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Philanthropy (CP).
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems.
The modern healthcare landscape is rife with an array of potential emergencies, from natural disasters to public health crises, cybersecurity threats to mass casualty incidents.
This book provides a platform for presenting machine learning (ML)-enabled healthcare techniques and offers a mathematical and conceptual background of the latest technology.
Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement formiert sich innerhalb der Zivilgesellschaft in diversen Organisationsformen, von denen einige als sektortypisch, wie beispielsweise der Verein oder die Stiftung, gelten.
Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit online program managers (OPMs).
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions!
Winner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2015 Book of the Year AwardGiven the on-going changes and challenges faced by today's health care organizations, Organizational and Process Reengineering Approaches for Health Care Transformation provides a practical, leader-led and team-based approach for reengineering o
Forges a path away from polarization toward ethical problem solving and a more humane, equitable, and healthy societyFrom tackling injustice to protecting the environment to ending animal cruelty to improving the strength of our communities, deep divisions in our society often prevent us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face.
With unparalleled access to some of the world's most reflective and thoughtful philanthropists, this book explores the philanthropic journeys of 48 high net worth individuals (HNWIs) and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) to uncover the person behind the giving.
In 2015, Explorys was a healthcare intelligence cloud company that had built one of the largest clinical data sets in the world, representing more than 50 million lives.
This book provides the synthesis and integration of the intellectual and experiential thinking around organisational leadership and development, focusing on three organisations as case studies: Plan International, Mater Foundation, and Oxfam, with the aim of informing For-Purpose, Not-For-Profit organisations about fundraising leadership.
This edited volume develops an understanding of the strategies, processes, issues and concerns involved when small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) go international with their local products/services and vice versa.
Esta obra analiza el daño indemnizable a favor del paciente frente al incumplimiento de las obligaciones derivadas del consentimiento informado, ya sea que se concreten o no los riesgos previsibles que no se informaron.
La presente publicación se ha elaborado dentro del contexto del proyecto de investigación denominado "Diseño de estrategias de auditoría administrativa, con énfasis en innovación y creatividad para el desarrollo empresarial" desarrollado en la categoría de Investigación Aplicada, de tipo formativo, en la Facultad de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá, Colombia, entre los años 2012, 2013 y 2014.
Las instituciones sin fines de lucro en Chile y el mundo son cada día más importantes y numerosas, representando una parte muy relevante de la economía, siendo un gran aporte para el desarrollo de múltiples proyectos de diferente naturaleza y constituyendo una expresión muy concreta del derecho de asociación que la Constitución asegura a todas las personas.
While new directors learn how to manage and lead museums as part of their professional training and career development, the skills and knowledge required to work with boards-which are instrumental to a museum director's work-must somehow be acquired on the job as one's career progresses.
While new directors learn how to manage and lead museums as part of their professional training and career development, the skills and knowledge required to work with boards-which are instrumental to a museum director's work-must somehow be acquired on the job as one's career progresses.
Many that pursue a career in public service do so because they have a passion for their communities and want to pursue solutions to vexing challenges in society.
Desde hace décadas, las organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro desarrollan de manera profesional acciones de fundraising o captación de fondos para obtener los recursos que necesitan.
The hidden dangers of randomized controlled trialsThe need to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonprofit social programs has led to a rapid rise in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), for evaluation.
This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North America's Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US.
Cuando nos acercamos al mundo de las organizaciones, en Mexico y otros paises de America Latina, es inevitable constatar la existencia de una conviccion generalizada acerca de que un talon de Aquiles de muchas organizaciones no gubernamentales y paragubernamentales es la limitada capacidad para gobernarse internamente de manera que su forma de operar cumpla a cabalidad y de manera efectiva con los fines para los que fueron creadas.
This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the annual International Scientific Conference "e;Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies,"e; held by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg, Russia) on October 25-27, 2023.
