Book Publishing Company Research Articles

Szilvia Horvath, Magdolna Kiss: Pannoniai furdokalauz. Rippl Ronai Muzeum – Genianet, 2019. Printed ISBN 978-615-5687-02-0

The book review presents the Roman baths in the province of Pannonia. The book was written by Szilvia Horváth, who is an archaeologist in the museum of Rippl-Rónai in Kaposvár and Magdolna Kiss, who is also an archaeologist and the manager of GeniaNet Book Publishing Company. Hungary is rich in thermal water. The book presents the use and typology of Roman baths.

Flexible Work Arrangements and Productivity of Sales Representatives of Book Publishing Companies in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of flexible work arrangements on productivity of sales representatives of book publishing companies in Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were; to examine the relationship between flexi-time, job sharing, part time and telecommuting and employee effectiveness and employee efficiency of sales representatives of top 10 book publishing companies in Nigeria. Cross-sectional survey involving collecting data across top 10 book publishing companies in Nigeria was employed. Twenty (20) sales representatives from each company were surveyed using convenience sampling technique. Out of the 200 questionnaires administered, 162 copies of questionnaire were filled correctly and returned. constructs of flexible work arrangements as well as measures of employee productivity were measured on four point Likert scale ranging from 4= Strongly agree; 3 = Agree; 2= Disagree; 1 = Strongly disagree. Cronbach Alpha was employed to ascertain the internal consistency of the instruments and they fall within 0.70 -.080 threshold. Validity of instrument was determined using face and content validity. Views of respondents were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) with the aid of statistical package for social sciences version 22.0. Statistical instrument employed to analyze the hypotheses was Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (rs). Findings revealed that flexi-time, job sharing, part time and telecommuting all have significant positive relationship with both employee effectiveness and employee efficiency. Based on the findings, the study concludes that making time and location flexible for employees, the book publishing sector organizations in Nigeria could significantly enhance productivity of their sales representatives. The study therefore recommended among others that since flexi-time is found to have the potential to affect employee productivity, management of companies in the book publishing sector in Nigeria should avail all categories of staff the opportunity to choose start and close time where necessary. It is also suggested that more options of FWAs like compressed week work and self-roistering could be added to the survey instrument in addition to the ones identified in this study which could lead to new findings.

The importance of shepherd leadership practices on easing the text book burden on South African university students

Herein the argument advanced is that excellent shepherd leadership practices serve as a condition necessary for affording South African university students easy access to the required book chapters instead of enduring the burden of having to buy the full books. In order to embellish this viewpoint, relevant data were collected through focus group interview discussion sessions (FGIDs) with a sample of 40 purposefully sampled participants from a target population of university students, lecturers and local text books sales personnel. These participants were first categorised into 4 focus groups of 10 members each and were interviewed for a duration of between 40 minutes and one hour per focus group. By adopting an interpretivist paradigm, utilising a qualitative research approach and descriptive phenomenology as strategy of enquiry (design genre) the study was able to explore the lived experiences of the participants. The two key research questions guiding the study were; how can the key university lecturers as curriculum leaders and shepherd leaders easy the text book burden on South African university students? And what role can text book publishing companies play towards easing the text book burdens on university students? Deploying shepherd leadership as the theoretical framework or lenses for viewing and analysing the data through inductive and or thematic approach, the study’s main finding was that since the biggest cost that university students have is books and given that most of the books are only used for one semester, their exorbitant prices more often than not, lead students to resort to photocopying while publishers lose out. The study concluded that using such new platforms as E-llumin 8, can help students alleviate their text book burden since it allows them access to specifically prescribed book chapters at a time instead of buying the full books. The chief recommendation from the study was that university lecturers need to work in liaison with the key book publishing companies to embrace any new and innovative ways to ease the text book burden on students whilst also ensuring that publishers do not lose out.

"The Right-to-Education Responsibilities of Book Publishing Companies"

The responsibilities of copyright owners, specifically book publishers, should be construed from a human rights perspective. Building on the work of John Ruggie and his ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,’ this paper contends that book publishers have a responsibility to respect human rights including the right to education. As it relates to copyright law, respecting the right to education entails respecting the measures that countries have incorporated into their national copyright laws to facilitate access to learning materials. Furthermore, corporate actors that own copyright in learning materials should not use litigation or the threat of litigation to try to prevent teachers and students from relying on limitations and exceptions to copyright to gain access to learning materials.

Environmental Crisis as The Ultimate Life Issue

Environmental Crisis as The Ultimate Life Issue

DETERMINANTS OF BOOK PIRACY IN NAIROBI COUNTY

Purpose: This study aimed to find the determinants of book piracy in Nairobi County.Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive research design. This study was conducted in Nairobi County. The target population of the study consisted of local book publishing companies, book law enforcing agencies/book trade organizations and book users. The research consisted of twelve publishing companies, fourteen law enforcing organizations in which Senior Investigating Officers, Investigating Officers and Prosecutors were involved in the research, and one hundred and twenty four text book users as sets of units in my data analysis. A simple random sampling approach was used in the study to come up with the sample. This is because the researcher wanted to get information from large groups of people. The study used primary data which was collected using structured and unstructured questionnaires from the field. The questionnaires were administered through drop and pick method. The questionnaires format were standardized with a balanced mixture of both open ended and close ended questions and were guided where necessary.Results: The research findings showed that demand side, supply side and legal/legislation side have positive and significant effects on book piracy in Nairobi County. The study concluded that parental purchase books and course books are in large demand in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions of education but their high prices make them unaffordable for poor students. This situation provides room for book piracy. Book pirates are free to fulfill market needs.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that the law enforcement authorities like police needs to be imparted with proper training in copyright fields and copyright industry associations/copyright societies should launch an extensive campaign through print and electronic media highlighting the adversities associated with the piracy.

Create a home for your students and community through strong leadership

Bruce Willis Ferguson's path to higher education leadership was a nontraditional one. The president of the Otis College of Art and Design moved into his role in 2015 after years as the vice chairman of Louise Blouin Media, an art magazine and book publishing company based out of New York.

Future creation in the strategising practice of a Hungarian company

The core research question that is discussed in this paper is: “How is the future constructed in corporate strategy-making practice?” The answer is provided through the analysis of a single case study that was conducted in the context of a Hungarian children’s book publishing company. The results show that apart from consciously and deliberately applied future anticipation and/or foresight tools and techniques in strategising practices, other managerial activities may also lead to foresightful actions, specifically, everyday strategy-making practices, e.g., future-oriented product design, employee selection and cooperation with supply chain partners. In summary, moderate growth, risk management, trust and fair stakeholder management practices are the key factors that comprise an active future-creating strategy. With a few examples that are taken from the everyday life of the subject company, the paper describes these characteristics and examines their roles in shaping the corporate future in the strategising practices of the present.

Information Processing Needs and Capabilities of B2B Systems in Book Publishing Industry

This research applied the framework of information processing theory to investigate whether the information processing capabilities and the uncertainties from information processing needs can affect the B2B system performance of the book publishing companies. According to the findings of our empirical study, reduction of the demand uncertainty generally can improve the B2B system performances of cost saving, operational efficiency, satisfaction, and new business opportunity. Meanwhile, we also found that companies with low uncertainty on the factor of supply have better B2B system performances of turnover and market share than the ones with high uncertainty. However, the uncertainty factors of best-selling books, firm investment, and partner investment may not have significant impacts on the B2B system performances. From the perspective of information processing capabilities, enhancement of purchasing/sales/reconciliation functions is critical to the B2B systems if the performances of cost saving, turnover, and satisfaction are the most serious concerns of book publishing companies. On the other hand, the information processing capabilities of procurement/ distribution and enquiries have no significant effects on the B2B system performances. Our results can help book publishing industry not only to evaluate where to start the reduction of uncertainties based on the needs of B2B information processing but also to but also to prioritize the investments of B2B system capabilities in a performance-driven environment.

Disruptive Innovations in Book Publishing - Threat or Opportunity?

From the perspective of disruptive innovations it discusses the arrival of digital reading devices (like Amazon's Kindle, Sony e-reader etc.) and the challenges they bring to book publishing companies. Empirical data source comes from qualitative expert interviews with European publishers, which indicate that most managers are not seeing risks associated with digital formats by assuming that the market of devices and book readers themselves are not ready for switching to digital formats - like it was the case in the music industry.

Improvised Classroom Drama in a Fictional Book Company: Urban Fifth Graders Learn about Colonial America by Reading, Sketching, and Writing in Role

Fifth-grade students take on the identities of adults in a fictional book publishing company, then research and write their own book about Colonial America. The improvised classroom drama of the publishing company brought a new dimension to student inquiry, and the pictures the students created to illustrate their book helped to reveal their comprehension of the information they were researching.

On the World Market Trajectory of 21 Major Book Publishing Companies in Globalization and European Studies in 100 Countries - From 'Amsterdam University Press' via 'Palgrave' and 'Nova Science Publishers' to 'Transaction Publishers' by International, 19 Indicator Comparison

Ever since the path-breaking empirical studies by Schott (1998) world systems scholars start from the well-established assumption that world science is a single gigantic center-periphery relationship. The strategic and tactical practical conclusions for individual scholars and their agenda in the scientific periphery and the semi-periphery, to which Europe increasingly belongs, are much harder to draw than the general diagnosis. Where can scholars from outside the US attractively publish their manuscripts for the world market‘ How does the European make its point in the global scientific arena in the field of the debates about social policies and globalization‘ Is there a way, especially for scholars from the new member countries of the European Union, and from the newly formed Union for the Mediterranean, to effectively publish their works on the world market‘ This article tries to answer tentatively such a difficult and strategic question, and quantitatively compares the performance of Amsterdam University Press (EU); Ashgate (EU); Blackwell (EU); Cambridge UP (EU); Campus (Frankfurt/Ann Arbor) (EU); Cornell UP (USA); Edward Elgar (EU); Houghton/Mifflin (US); IOS Press (EU); Lexington (US); Monthly Review Press (US); Nova Science Publishers (US); Oxford University Press (EU); Palgrave Macmillan (EU); Praeger Publishers (EU); Routledge (EU); Rowman/Littlefield (US); Sage Publications (US); Springer-Verlag (US); St. Martin's Press (US); and Transaction Publishers (US), which in between them control a sizeable share of the social science academic book publishing market in such fields of political science as globalization or European studies, with up to nineteen quantitative performance criteria, ranging from market success rates on global markets both in North America as well as mainly in the Asia-Pacific and European region, comparative library presence rates at international organizations libraries, such as the European and the United Nations, and the quantitative impact of published titles on combined indices of peer reviewed journals and the international daily and weekly press. In addition, our study evaluates the impact of the companies' books and journals on the literature, contained in Google book search and Google scholar, all per total company book and serials output. In terms of their ability to place books on the markets of now 100 countries well in comparison to total production, the American companies in our sample hold an unparalleled power. The relative market leaders, which get a large percentage of their total book output to more than 50 global libraries each, are: * Lexington (US) * St. Martin's Press (US) * Rowman/Littlefield (US) * Monthly Review Press (US) * Praeger Publishers (US) * Cornell UP (US) * Ashgate (UK) * Transaction Publishers (US) * Edward Elgar (UK) * Nova Science Publishers (US) Our results, based on simple combined ranks and more sophisticated non-parametric and parametric, multivariate SPSS XV factor analytical evaluations of indicator performance are a further sign of the fact that Europe would do well to further learn from the culture of major US Universities.

An object-oriented development method for Customer Knowledge Management Information Systems

For the advances of Internet technologies in recent years, electronic commerce (EC) has gained many attentions as a major theme for enterprises to keep their competitiveness. Among all possible endeavors for the EC, research has shown that effective management of customer relationships by taking advantage of customer knowledges is a major source for keeping competitive differentiation. Therefore, it is commonly recognized as an important goal for an enterprise to promote its managerial effectiveness on customer relationships through a prospective customer knowledge-based information system to achieve the so-called Customer-Oriented EC. In this paper, we present an object-oriented method for the development of such a Customer Knowledge Management Information System (CKMIS). The method starts from the identification of customers and their desired knowledge-accessed behaviors, through the recognition of a system architecture that supports the identification and realization of these behaviors, and finally ends with the analysis and design of the architectural classes/objects that collaborate to identify and realize these behaviors. The method is use case driven with UML notations utilized and extended as its modeling tool. To illustrate, the method is applied to an exemplified CKMIS for a book publishing company.

Publishing as Mission

Jewish Lights may look like a book-publishing company, but it really is an outreach programme. It grew out of my discovery as an adult of a Judaism rich in relevance to my life that was beyond anything I had imagined. Memories of childhood attending an Orthodox Yeshiva in the Bronx, and the synagogue led by the rabbi who wrote just a few years ago that the Reform and Conservative movements are not legitimate expressions of Judaism, were not inspiring. It grew out of my wife and co-publisher Antoinette's discovery of Judaism as the faith she had been looking for her entire life, one that appealed equally to her heart and her mind.

Comic Book Masculinity and the New Black Superhero

Following in the footsteps of feminist scholarship there have, in recent years, been a number of studies which have begun to consider masculinity, particularly heterosexual masculinity, as a social construction. Masculinity, always regarded as a natural, stable gender identity, is in the process of being deconstructed on a variety of levels from social politics to pop psychology. Moreover, the masculinity of our media-generated heroes is increasingly recognized in much the same way that femininity has been understood, not as a real and unified subject position, but as a carefully orchestrated performance - or, in other words, as a masquerade. But if the heterosexual male is the site of gender and sexual privilege in North American culture, as he is perceived to be, then we might ask just what the masculine masquerade disguises? And how might black masculinity fit into the equation? It is feasible that a clue to these questions lies in the very notion of the masquerade and the implication of an underlying, unstable level of gender identity. Indeed, the split personality implied by the concept of a masquerade seems to be one of the most archetypal metaphors for the masculine condition in Western culture. Whether in Jungian psychology or low-budget horror films, great literary works or modern comic books, masculinity has often explored its own duality. The male identity in the twentieth century is perceived in extremes: man or mouse, He-man or 98-pound weakling. At the one end is the hyper-masculine ideal with muscles, sex appeal, and social competence; at the other is the skinny, socially inept failure. But these two male extremes are not so far removed as they might seem. Warrior and wimp exist side by side, each defining the other in mutual opposition. On the following pages I want to explore this concept of duality in masculinity - and more specifically black masculinity - as it is currently presented in one of Western culture's most rudimentary and instructional forms, the superhero comic book. At its most obvious and symbolic level, comic book masculinity characterizes for young readers a model of gender behavior that has traditionally struggled to incorporate both sides of the masquerade, yet has recently slipped into the domain of the almost exclusively hypermasculine. My particular interest in the comic book depiction of masculinity has developed in relation to an ongoing ethnographic project dealing with the emergence of Milestone Media Inc., a black-owned and controlled comic book publishing company launched in 1993, and the readers of its comics. An innovative twist on the almost uniformly white-bread universe of comic book characters, the Milestone line of comics offers a small variety of well-defined African American superheroes. Milestone is the brainchild and the legal property of three young black men who are experienced comic book and publishing veterans: Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, and Derek T. Dingle. As a creator-owned publishing company with a multicultural approach to comic book characters, Milestone occupies a unique position within the comic book industry. Other African American comics publishers exist, but as true independents the quality and distribution of their books are often limited by financial restrictions. Milestone, on the other hand, was able to strike a groundbreaking deal with industry giant DC Comics whereby DC would print and distribute the Milestone titles without interfering with content or ownership rights. This unique relationship allows Milestone to reach a much larger audience than any other African American comic book publisher has ever been able to(1). Currently Milestone publishes three core series: Icon [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED], featuring a super-powered brother from another planet who is also a staunch republican and fights injustice alongside his partner Rocket, a single, teenaged mother and Toni Morrison fan from the projects; Hardware, starring the character of Curtis Metcalf, a scientific super-genius who builds an incredible suit of armor to confront his racist employer and to fight crime; and Static, which tells the story of the slightly geeky but fun-loving teenager Virgil Hawkins, who battles supervillains and school yard bullies after he accidentally gains the power to control electricity. …

Structural changes in human resource management and redefinitions of the roles of white collar workers

The purpose of this article is to articulate the ongoing structural changes of Human Resource Management (HRM) in Japanese companies and to redefine the role of white collar workers from both a critical and clinical point of view.Through a case study of Human Resource Management in a book publishing company, it was found that;(1) White collar workers should be dealt with as specialists rather than general managers.(2) Career development programs for training white collar wokers to be specialists are necessary, and(3) Roles should not be restricted to managerial but diversified to staff and specialist roles.

The Soviet Cultural Scene 1956–1957

The Soviet Cultural Scene 1956–1957 The Soviet Cultural Scene 1956–1957. Ed. by Walter Z. Laqueur and George Lichtheim. New York, Praeger; London, Atlantic Book Publishing Company, 1958. Distributed in Great Britain by Stevens, viii+300 pp. Index. 27s. 6d. T. S. T. S. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 1959, Pages 105–106, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607071 Published: 01 January 1959

Reviews and Notes

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