This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics, organization theory, history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions' prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as:

• the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990s
• the way in which unions' own structures inhibit their revitalization
• the apparent failure of unions to thrive in the benign times since 1997
• the extent to which use of the...

The editors of the HIMSS Books' best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (603) have returned to deliver an expansive survey of the initiatives, innovators, and technologies driving the patient-centered mobile healthcare revolution. mHealth Innovation: Best Practices from the Mobile Frontier explores the promise of mHealth as a balance between emerging technologies and process innovations leading to improved outcomes-with the ultimate aim of creating a patient-centered and consumer-driven healthcare ecosystem. Examining the rapidly changing mobile healthcare environment from...