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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/231279</id>
  <updated>2026-04-30T04:04:11Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-30T04:04:11Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Destination Conscience: Seeking Meaning and Purpose in the Travel Experience</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302582" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302582</id>
    <updated>2024-09-17T01:20:02Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Destination Conscience: Seeking Meaning and Purpose in the Travel Experience
Editors: Pechlaner, Harald; Olbrich, Natalie; Isetti , Giulia
Abstract: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In a fast paced and increasingly digital world, a higher degree of sensitivity, humaneness and care in dealing with each other and in addressing feelings of isolation, alienation and fear is necessary. Within this context, the realm of tourism stands as no exception. This edited collection defines the new concept of Destination Conscience within the domain of tourism. It sheds light on the growing need for authenticity, meaning and a ""human path"" on the visitors' side, and the ability to develop such sensitivity on the destinations' side in creating meaning and responsibility. Whether through spirituality, religion, nature, history, or the subtleties of daily life, this novel paradigm fosters destinations' capacities to create meaning-driven experiences for their guests. In addition to outlining and defining the new concept of destination conscience, the inter-disciplinary approach and selected case studies and illustrative examples make Destination Conscience attractive to a variety of readers including researchers, practitioners, and postgraduate students in the fields of tourism management, spiritual and religious tourism, social sustainability, human and urban geography.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?: Coping with Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302581" />
    <author>
      <name>Alexius, Susanna</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Vähämäki, Janet</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302581</id>
    <updated>2024-09-17T01:18:13Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?: Coping with Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations
Authors: Alexius, Susanna; Vähämäki, Janet
Abstract: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Complex coordination across time, space, and cultures involves a great deal of uncertainty. This uncertainty may be accepted and handled with judgment and pragmatism, but more often in contemporary modern society, it is treated as a technical problem to be 'solved'. This is a book about the paradoxical implications of the quest for certainty in interorganizational relations in the complex field of development aid. Authors Alexius and Vähämäki scrutinize questions related to the concept Obsessive Measurement Disorder, i.e. what causes an increase in control mechanisms, and how and when can this prove counterproductive? They further investigate the question on why performance management - and measurement requirements seem in some instances to hinder, and in others to support the implementation of aid projects and programs. Drawing on 80 original interviews with aid bureaucrats working at different levels and in different organizations, including public agencies, companies, non-government organisations, and universities all involved in development aid projects financed fully, or in part, by the Swedish taxpayer, they identify coping mechanisms and responses that may help to prevent the extremes of obsessive measurement disorder, and foster instead pragmatic, constructive organizing and learning that benefits not only aid organizations and their employees, but also - and more fundamentally - the societies in need.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281258" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281258</id>
    <updated>2024-01-26T02:36:23Z</updated>
    <published>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production
Editors: Birdthistle, Naomi; Hales, Rob
Abstract: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number twelve (SDG#12): escaping the trap of excessive output and overconsumption. Examining family businesses in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, each case study presents a unique perspective from their respective country, analysing how SDG#12 reconsiders the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production that threaten both human and planetary wellbeing. The case studies presented generate insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in sustaining the livelihoods of current and future generations. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Goals pledged by 193 nations in 2015 that would help engender an improved, fairer, and more sustainable world – one in which 'no one is left behind'. The SDGs are a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to the most complex, societal, and environmental global challenges. In Family Businesses on a Mission, series editors Naomi Birdthistle and Rob Hales bring together international case studies to illustrate how family businesses can attain the UN 2030 SDGs. Accessible to those working in the field beyond academia – such as family business practitioners, family business owners, government and policymakers, members of NGOs, business associations, and philanthropic centres – this book series appeals equally to those with a general interest in entrepreneurship and business.</summary>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Working Women in the Sandwich Generation: Theories, Tools and Recommendations for Supporting Women's Working Lives</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281257" />
    <author>
      <name>Rajahonka, Mervi</name>
    </author>
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      <name>Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha, Dorota</name>
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    <author>
      <name>Timmers, Miet</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Załuska, Urszula</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Villman, Kaija</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Lengeler, Veerle</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Gielens, Tim</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281257</id>
    <updated>2024-01-26T02:03:05Z</updated>
    <published>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Working Women in the Sandwich Generation: Theories, Tools and Recommendations for Supporting Women's Working Lives
Authors: Rajahonka, Mervi; Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha, Dorota; Timmers, Miet; Załuska, Urszula; Villman, Kaija; Lengeler, Veerle; Gielens, Tim
Abstract: Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives together with their own children or grandchildren. These Sandwich Generation (SG) women constitute an expanding vulnerable group on the labour market at higher risk of discrimination, work-family conflict, burnout, and withdrawal from the labour market and unemployment. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation helps present a clearer view of how to support this group both now and in the future. Beginning with a presentation of quantitative and qualitative research that sheds light on the SG situation in Poland, Finland and Flanders, this volume provides insights into various components from the SG life domains such as personal development and learning, connection to the labour market, coping strategies, resources, and energy drainers. In the second part the book provides tools for SG women, their supervisors, educators, and coaches to help manage challenging situations and improving wellbeing at work. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation then introduces the results of international comparative research the purpose of which was to identify and characterise the SG in five European countries before concluding with recommendations for supervisors and policy makers in supporting SG women.</summary>
    <dc:date>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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