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"Corporate Governance" has become a manifestation, creating interplays of political, private, academic, cultural, and economic consequences. This work offers provocations challenging the views of Corporate Governance, illuminating the controversies and ethical outcomes of using it as a prescription for public action.

Contains five essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of creativity and innovation. This title offers literature reviews, model developments, methodological advancements, and some data for the study of creativity and social influence, innovation and planning, and creativity and cognitive processes.

Discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts and addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians as well as the importance of character.

Aims to provide a forum for researchers concerned with appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. This title recognizes and examines the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities.

Explores the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of "flow time." This book examines the issue of excessive change in organizations, which are defined as the simultaneous pursuit of multiple unrelated changes.

Features articles on various topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This volume contains articles on innovation strategy and the use of performance measures, performance effects of financial incentives, and evaluating product mix and capital budgeting decisions.

Complex collaboration refers to situations where working together effectively across boundaries is critical for complex projects and problems. This volume addresses such issues as unit of analysis, critical relationships, resource development, virtual teaming, and improvement processes.

Featuring articles covering areas of accounting, this volume examines the behavioral implications of alternative going concern reporting formats. It explains how forensic experts at professional service firms assess the factors that indicate financial statement fraud. It reports three research studies examining performance in a managerial setting.

Contains papers which consider the basic role of market discipline, how it may be applied to banking and more broadly to large financial institutions of various types.

A collection of eleven papers which present research in finance. It shows that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. It also shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment.

The whole quality of auditing and financial reporting has been called into question since Enron, World Com and other crimes became public knowledge. These papers expose the hypocrisy of paying lip service to the reporting of environmental disasters and the need for improvement.

Do amenities, entertainment and cultural centres promote growth in cities? This, and other questions surrounding gender, technology, consumers and consumption, form the subject matter of this study into the urban landscape as an entertainment machine.

No question is more pertinent to worker welfare than explaining changes in overall income inequality. The papers presented in this volume explore this important issue and evaluate government programmes and their impact upon welfare.

This volume presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law, and examines law and culture, the complex intersections of law and policy, and the place of religious values in legal life.

Scholars have sought to understand the mystique surrounding Booker T Washington. He is an enigma and continues to be lauded by those who offer him and his ideas as a model for Black Progress. This volume aims to provide the reader with a wide inter-disciplinary landscape with which to assess Washington.

Ethnographic methodology can be used to identify how educational policy is formulated and implemented through a process of enculturation. The object of these papers is to show how such a task can be carried out and to reveal the benefits it can yield.

Beginning with a set of theoretical and empirical perspectives on the governance of relations in businesses, markets and organizations this multi-authored volume addresses a range of topics concerned with labour, jobs and contractual agreements within a range of organizations.

Part of a series that explains and discusses the unsatisfactory outcomes that result from many poorly conceived mergers, and bringing together academics from various disciplines, this title presents papers that integrate the disparate but growing body of literature on mergers and acquisitions.

An international cast of scholars and writers explore a range of issues related to contracts and corporate entrepreneurship. They cover the characteristics and country differences that describe how entrepreneurs succeed in a number of sectors and locations worldwide.

In December 1991, the US Congress enacted and President George Bush signed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). This title provides knowledge on improving the performance of banking systems. It is useful to researchers and policy-makers both in evaluating regulatory structures and in designing modified structures.

The information society and associated technologies have become a key component of modern life. They touch almost every aspect of the working environment. These essays explore how everything, from personnel management to virtual work teams, is affected by information technology.

With an overview by the editors, this 21st volume begins by describing personality research in the organizational sciences followed by chapters that discuss issues as diverse as IT and human resource management and cross-cultural differences in responses to feedback.

The Internet has revolutionized the way consumers and firms interact in the marketplace, and it has dramatically changed the information enjoyed by market participants at various points in the value chain. Discussing the Internet and e-commerce, this title provides academics and practitioners with research to hold the new economy together.

The eighth volume of "Research on Accounting Ethics" addresses a wide range of issues including faculty perceptions on the inclusion of business ethics in the curriculum and the importance of context in investigating auditors' moral abilities.

Produced annually, these essays and papers are published to increase the level of interest in the specific problems of accounting in emerging economies. The aim is to raise awareness of the real issues for emerging countries and not just to copy what is done in the industrialized nations

A commentary on the practice of knowledge and technology transfer and the practice of observation and intervention, this title documents the various ways in which knowledge and technology transfer happen in practice and how they result in new socio-technical arrangements.

The papers included in this volume identify some of the problems and some of the solutions to the kinds of problems that arise through working as virtual teams. They provide a framework for thinking about such problems and ideas that can form a foundation for advancing practice in the field.

The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the failure of public schools. This volume has a far more positive perspective on the achievements and value of teacher unions and our public education system.

Advances in Management Accounting publishes well-developed articles that are relevant to both practitioners and academicians. Covering the impact of teaming on productivity, quality, and employee satisfaction that was measured using research design methods not commonly found in field study research

The theory of social capital asserts that social actors gain resources through relationships with other actors. While social capital research has largely focused on individuals as the unit of analysis, this volume looks at social capital of organizations, or Corporate Social Capital (CSC).