1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457084103321

Autore

Elliott Dominic <1963-, >

Titolo

Business continuity management : a crisis management approach / / Dominic Elliott, Ethne Swartz, and Brahim Herbane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-134-19687-3

1-134-19688-1

1-282-57637-2

9786612576379

0-203-86633-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HerbaneBrahim <1969->

SwartzEthne <1961->

Disciplina

658.4/056

658.4056

Soggetti

Crisis management

Emergency management

Business planning

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Continuity Management in Historical Context; 2 Legal Drivers and Business Continuity Management Standards; 3 Digital Resilience and Business Continuity Management; 4 Initiating, Redefining and Planning for Business Continuity Management: The Scope of Business Continuity Management; 5 Continuity Analysis and Planning; 6 Embedding Business Continuity Management; 7 Operational Management: Testing, Exercising and Incident Management; 8 Reflections on Past and Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, interest in crisis management has been fuelled by a number of events, including 9/11. The first edition of this text was praised for its rigorous yet logical approach, and this is continued in the second edition, which provides a



well-researched, theoretically robust approach to the topic combined with empirical research in continuity management. New chapters are included on digital resilience and principles of risk management for business continuity. All chapters are revised and updated with particular attention being paid to the i

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453151703321

Titolo

Africans to Spanish America [[electronic resource] ] : expanding the diaspora / / edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Ben Vinson, III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2012

ISBN

0-252-09371-2

1-283-99452-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

New Black studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

BryantSherwin K

O'TooleRachel Sarah

VinsonBen, III.

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Black people - Latin America - History

Black people - Race identity - Latin America - History

Slavery - Latin America - History

Slavery and the church - Catholic Church

Slavery and the church - Latin America

African diaspora

Electronic books.

Latin America History To 1830

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Shape of a Diaspora : The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America / Leo Garofalo -- African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 / Frank "Trey" Proctor -- To Be Free and Lucumí : Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru / Rachel



Sarah O'Toole -- Between the Cross and the Sword : Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Finding Saints in an Alley : Afro-Mexicans in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Joan Cameron   Bristol -- The Religious Servants of Lima, 1600-1700 / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Whitening Revisited : Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints / Karen Y. Morrison -- Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba / Michele B. Reid --The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective : The Current Question of the Debate / Herbert S. Klein.

Sommario/riassunto

"Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Therefore, it is critically important to expand the lens of the Diaspora framework that has come to shape so much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas. Comprised of nine original essays, this volume is organized into three sections. Starting with voluntary and forced migrations across the Atlantic, Part I explores four distinct cases of identity construction that intersect with ongoing debates in African Diaspora scholarship regarding the models of continuity and creolization in the Americas. Part II interrogates how enslaved and free people employed their rights as Catholics to present themselves as civilized subjects, loyal Christians, and resisters to slavery. Part III asks how free people of color claimed categories of inclusion based on a identities of professional medical practitioners of "white" in transformative moments of the late colonial period"--