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Identifies various challenges to the world community of transport survey specialists as well as the larger constituency of practitioners, planners, and decision-makers that it serves and provides potential solutions and recommendations for addressing them.

Considers the potential of autopoiesis theory to provide an alternate unifying framework for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational phenomena as emergent phenomena. This title includes papers that integrate open systems theory with the pioneering work of Maturana and Varela (1980, 1992) on autopoiesis in biological systems.

Divided into four parts, this title examines commodity racism: representation, racialization and resistance. It presents the interpretive works in the interactionist tradition. It features the essays which interrogate the intersections between biography, media, history, politics and culture.

Includes the papers that present the research and policy evaluations which represent an evolving record of policy and research on high technology small firms through many changes in economic conditions and government policy approaches over the years.

How does the disintegration of the Soviet system help us to understand the character of library and information institutions and practices within post-soviet space? This title brings together diverse reflective essays, reports and empirical analyses of the changing character of the post-soviet library world to address the question.

Helps scholars think about mergers and acquisitions in fresh ways, building our knowledge base on this critical topic.

Contains summaries of the knowledge regarding the effects of 128 road safety measures. This title covers various areas of road safety including: traffic control; vehicle inspection; driver training; publicity campaigns; police enforcement; and, general policy instruments. It also covers topics such as post-accident care, and speed cameras.

The process of globalisation has its own dynamics and several serious flaws that have resulted in significant economic, political and social imbalances in the global political economy. This book examines the implications of these imbalances for achieving lasting global peace.

Contains an overview of the common medical and psychiatric disorders that follow road traffic accidents (RTAs). This book addresses the major psychological disorders of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder. It also reviews how the medical and psychiatric disorders interact with the role of the lawyers and insurers.

Targeted at educators and researchers wishing to use virtual environments in their teaching practice, this work provides practical advice specifically for educators in higher education. It focuses on the use of Second Life - a free, readily-accessible virtual world which is increasingly being used for both formal and informal learning.

Despite the promise for international development, and despite the proven track record of exceptional loan repayment rates, little research has explored the impact this expansion has had on global poverty and economic and social development in general. This title outlines a multidisciplinary research agenda for the field.

An annual publication featuring studies and theoretical work dealing with the topic of change in organizational settings. Showcasing the approaches to organizational research, whether they be quantitative or qualitative in nature, it includes papers that bring fresh perspectives to classic issues in the field such as resistance and communication.

Contains topics that include the design of a country's financial safety nets, the effective policies of acquiring failed banks in reducing moral hazard problems, the voluntary disclosure of real options by corporate managers, and the interrelationship between the housing and general economic activities.

Divided into five parts, this title covers such topics as - information theory and segregation measurement; the Gini index and the measurement of segregation; measuring segregation with ordered categories; exploring changes in segregation; and, wage inequality and segregation.

Addresses the subject of the disproportional decline of Black American Males in higher education. This book provides critical historical overviews and analyses pertaining to Black American males in higher education and Black Americans of both genders.

Focuses on Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services. This book discusses Program Security, Data Security and Authentication, Internet Scourges, Web Security, Usable Security, Human-Centric Aspects, Security, Privacy and Access Control, Economic Aspects of Security, Threat Modeling, Intrusion and Response.

Includes an article that compares the strengths and weaknesses of using a single type of research method to investigate accounting phenomenon and explains why using multiple methods provides a richer understanding of particular issues. This book includes articles, which are useful in facilitating behavioral research.

Emphasizes critical approaches to the study of race, identity and self, as well as developments in interactionist theory, ethics and dramaturical studies.

Examines the nature and seriousness of fieldworkers' problems of failure to gain access, achieve comprehension, and avoid intrusion. This volume speaks of access to human subjects data, dealing with methods and concerns about intrusion.

Creativity is being recognized as an important source of competitive advantage because a single creative idea that is both novel and useful may take an organization in a profitable new direction. This work aims to promote the burgeoning interest in group creativity by identifying new questions that will drive future research in this area.

This is the first volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English.

Part of a series which serves as a research annual for the publication of academic tax research, this title covers topics that include an empirical study of the objectivity of CPAS's tax work and the impact of education on perceptions of tax fairness.

This volume focuses very sharply on emerging economies, specifically on Croatia, Poland, Romania, India, China and Vietnam. Consumer-purchase behaviour is examined in terms of radical social change and complete transformation, and specific attitudes of female consumers are examined.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.

Aims to illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. This title shows the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural process and how these processes are changed by individuals' emotional experience.

Discusses a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction.

With an annual output, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology. Addressing issues such as rural development and growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, and social and personal implications of rural and agricultural change, this series provides in-depth and up to date research on the local and global systems affecting rural dynamics.

With an annual output, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology. Addressing issues such as rural development and growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, and social and personal implications of rural and agricultural change, this series provides in-depth and up to date research on the local and global systems affecting rural dynamics.

Includes sections devoted to financial applications of forecasting, as well as demand forecasting. This publication also includes a section on general business applications of forecasting, as well as one on forecasting methodologies.

Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.