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Emerging markets offer a unique financial setting, contrasting with developed markets: for example, in the significant contribution of small family-owned businesses to the economy, and the considerable social and economic transformations that profoundly affect businesses. In Indonesia, the authors find family firms are more likely to be involved in real earnings management than non-family firms by reducing operating cash flow to report higher income than non-family firms. Further findings demonstrate institutional ownership significantly reduces firm risk in emerging economies. The authors also consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on systemic risk in the frame of a dual banking system where Islamic and conventional banks coexist. ISETE-33A gives fresh insight into financial and economic issues in Indonesia and ASEAN countries, written by authors from diverse backgrounds. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the financial evolution of these fast-moving economies.

The battle to preserve the environment is only just beginning - organisations and governments cannot underestimate the public outcry for cleaner environments and an end to increases in global warming. The Circular Economy has been able to tap into the current zeitgeist and is being coveted by many academic disciplines. Offering a detailed overview of what is required to move towards a circular economy by providing a series of cases alongside each chapter that illustrate practice in relation to theory, Maguire and Robson deliver a lens through which academics and students can explore what is emerging as state of the art. The chapters contain a critical and balanced treatment of theory and practice on the subjects of sustainable development and the circular economy, setting out and evaluating the theoretical landscape alongside a grand narrative drawn from systems thinking and the environmental, social, and governance paradigms. For students, academics and practitioners, Sustainable Development Through Global Circular Economy Practices is a go-to book with original insights from a theoretical perspective about how the global economy integrates, and how this integration can be leveraged to move practice toward sustainable practice.

The field of prison studies has been dominated by an androcentric outlook, with little attention paid to women. Offering a unique theoretical fusion of the sociology of imprisonment, carceral geography, feminism and cultural criminology, Women's Imprisonment in Eastern Europe: 'Sitting out Time' examines how social, political, and cultural factors have shaped the development of gendered penal regimes in Eastern Europe and created an institutional battleground for opposing ideologies. Expanding from Latvia as a focal point, Arta Jalili Idrissi provides a current snapshot of women's imprisonment across the Global East. Understanding the situated and complex nature of the prison as an institution, she captures the interplay between the Soviet legacy and a neoliberal agenda within three distinct realms of punishment: spatial, procedural and relational. Revealing clashes within the prison environment, as well as their broader socio-political and ideological contexts, Jalili Idrissi also exposes the specific nuances of gender implications. The first qualitative study based on an ethnographic approach to women's carceral experiences in Latvia, Women's Imprisonment in Eastern Europe: 'Sitting out Time' draws parallels across Eastern Europe and throughout the neoliberal West to provide a refreshing and timely addition to the study of criminology and the sociology of imprisonment.

Public sector organizations play a crucial role in addressing the challenge of sustainability and sustainable development. They adopt policies and strategies, provide public services, mobilize and distribute financial resources, and are responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting strategy implementation and goal achievement. The non-profit sector also supports sustainable development alone or through partnerships with the public sector. Including sustainability goals and practices in the strategy and management of public and non-profit organizations considering their characteristics is a nodal point. To this aim designing effective performance management systems integrating sustainability aspects is crucial. Reshaping Performance Management for Sustainable Development explores how sustainability can be integrated into the management of public and non-profit organizations through performance management systems. The Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance (SPNPG) series focuses on the "micro" level of governance in public and non-profit sector, investigating governance systems, mechanisms and roles at an organizational level.

In a time of ongoing global instability and the emergence of new fault lines of social inequality generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of children and young people have been thrown into sharp relief. From uncertain futures arising from the climate crisis to concerns about regressive and reactionary politics to widespread experiences of harassment, abuse and violence, young people and their advocates are mobilising for social change and making their voices heard. Across a variety of topics that engage diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates offers a rich exploration of the dynamics between children, youth, activism, and advocacy. The chapters investigate the forms of agency expressed by young people themselves, the hope embodied in social movements, and the centrality of activism and advocacy for creating more hopeful and just futures. Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.

This book is a unique ethnographic study of a racially exclusive Malay Muslim gang, Omega, which has its roots in Singapore's prisons. In demonstrating that gang involvement can be an adaptive strategy for marginalized groups, this book promotes a more inclusive and restorative justice model for people with repeat convictions.

Blood Ties: Kinning and killing on Australian heritage breed farms -- Demystifying the promise of sustainability through the China-Pakistan donkey trade -- Of People and Peccaries: Perception and politics in the Texas Hill Country -- Mongolia's Biocultural Landscape: The importance of domestic and wild multispecies diversity -- Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on desolate life and oyster restoration in Hiroshima -- Entangled (after)lives: Naturalcultural matricides and reproduction in northeastern DR Congo -- Threatened Maize, Threatened Language: Indigenous engagements with biocultural conservation in Yucatan, Mexico -- Ecotones in the Emerald Triangle: Zones of multispecies co-occupation, coexistence, and conflict in the California redwoods -- "Cheese" and "Cheez"? On the relation between plant-based and dairy-based cheeses -- Microbes and Biocultural Diversity in the Ganges: Antibiotic modernity and the revival of phage therapy -- Afterward: Rethinking "Green" energy futures through avian landscapes.

In Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the historic' past and a vertiginous present. He does so by offering detailed analyses of diverse theoretical approaches, from the ancient world to the modern day, in order to reassess the relation between nostalgia and politics. Quill proposes nostalgia as an organizing concept, silently (and not so silently) influencing theorists as they construct critiques of the present or visions of the political future. Nostalgia and Political Theory surveys key contributions to nostalgic and antinostalgic thinking from across the political spectrum. Assessing the influence of photography, radio, television, and personal computing on changing conceptions of the past, Quill also considers the relation between populism, nationalism, and nostalgia. By challenging those who would dismiss nostalgia as irrational or a symptom of cultural malaise, Quill concludes by advancing the case for a liberal theory of nostalgia. Nostalgia and Political Theory will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of political theory, social theory, sociology, philosophy, political science, memory studies, and nostalgia studies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: law and the pluriverse -- Part I Law and its ontological itineraries: a legal herbarium -- 1 Yoco (Paullinia Yoco): cooling down the mind and learning law where the law is not named as such -- Intertext 1 The elder and the seed -- 2 Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): moving words across worlds and entangled temporalities in Amazonia -- Intertext 2 Tobacco as people -- 3 Coca leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): territories in motion and learning law with the Amazonian "mambe" -- Intertext 3 On entanglements and encounters: an attempt at controlled speculation -- 4 The making of an ethnobotanical research agreement in Southern Colombia: Yagé, invisible people and the law of the place -- Part II On the rights of nature: limits, possibilities and challenges in neo-extractivist worlds -- 5 Sowing concepts: towards a post-humanist understanding of the encounter of beings -- 6 Plants and the law: vegetal ontologies and the rights of nature -- 7 Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies -- 8 Forest on trial: towards a relational theory of legal personhood -- 9 Concluding, opening -- Index.

Drawing on the first comprehensive study in England and Wales to review the police custody process from the perspective of children, Bevan traces the child's journey from arrest, through detention and interview, to release or remand. A rights-based approach is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the protection under the present legal framework.

Part 1: Background -- Humanism and Enlightenment -- Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism -- Evolution of Computing -- The Digital Revolution in a Historical Perspective -- The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Technologists in the Digital Age -- "Digital transformation through the lens of intersectional gender research Challenges and needs for action -- No Digital Citizens Without Digital Humanisms -- Digital Transformation, Digital Humanism - What Needs to Be Done -- Part 2: Digital Humanism– a System's View -- A Short Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Methods, Success Stories, and Current Limitations -- Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Comprehensible, Transparent, Correctable -- ARE WE IN CONTROL? -- The Re-Enchanted Universe of AI: the Place for Human Agency -- Aesthetic Aspects of Digital Humanism: An Aesthetic-Philosophical Analysis of Whether AI Can Create Art -- Approaches to Ethical AI[1] -- Promises and Perils in Moralizing Technologies -- The Road Less Taken: Pathways to Ethical and Responsible Technologies -- Bridging the Digital Divide -- Responsible Software Engineering: Requirements and Goals -- Bridging the Digital Divide -- Responsible Software Engineering: Requirements and Goals -- Governance for Digital Humanism: The role of regulation, standardization, and certification -- Value-Sensitive Software Design: Ethical Deliberation in Agile Development Processes -- Humans in the loop: people at the heart of systems development -- Resilience: the Key to Planetary and Societal Sustainability -- How blockchain technology can help to arrive at fair ecosystems and platforms -- Introduction to Security and Privacy -- Part 3: Critical and Societal Issues of Digital Systems -- Recommender Systems: Techniques, Effects, and Measures Towards Pluralism and Fairness -- Bias and the Web -- Copyright enforcement on social media platforms: On Algorithmic Content Moderation -- DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL ERA -- Are Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance Democratic? -- Platforms: Their Structure, Benefits, and Challenges -- Work in a New World -- Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI -- Sovereignty in the Digital Age -- The Threat of Surveillance and the Need for Privacy Protections -- Human Rights Alignment: The Challenge Ahead for AI Lawmakers -- European Approaches to the Regulation of Digital Technologies.

1. Introduction -- 2. Drugs in historical and contemporary contexts: Legal, cultural, scientific, and geographical -- Drugs and medications -- 4. Meeting points -- 5. Possessing drugs -- 6. Avoiding The Junkie -- 7. Staying appropriate -- 8. Behaving with children -- 8. Behaving with children -- 10. Appropriate drugs -- 11. Negotiating addiction -- 12. Happy using drugs? -- 13. Conclusion.