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This volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. It includes a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory.

Hardbound. Research on Accounting Ethics is devoted exclusively to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. Its threefold mission is to: advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting related disciplines on a global basis; improve ethics education in and throughout the professional accounting and management curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels; provide a source of information for the professional accounting and auditing community for integrating ethics and good business practices in public firms, business corporations, and governmental organizations. This series features articles on a broad range of important and timely topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, individual morality, accountability, good business practices in public accounting and the litigation crisis. Papers will be empirical or theoretical in nature, and will draw upon paradigm

This is the revised versions of presentations made at the international conference on "A macroeconomic core of an open Economy for progressive industrialization and development of Asian economies in the new millennium," jointly organized by the Faculty on Asian Economic Studies on December 16-18, 1998 in Bangkok.

Focuses on problems in banking that have the potential not only for disrupting the smooth provision of banking and other financial services, but also for adversely affecting domestic and even international macroeconomic activity. This work talks about fragility and regulation in different countries.

This volume focuses on Pacific Rim cities and analyzes successful policies and programmes in urban development, explaining why they have worked. It identify themes of change that are taking place in the context of globalization, economic restructuring, and social change.

The process of globalization, communication/information technology, multinational corporation-based economy, have tended to transform and restructure contemporary communities in a variety of ways. We need to know the emerging structure, and the dynamics of communities facing complex problems in a changing world. This work deals with this area.

Presents two papers on methodological issues facing the study of social movements. This work includes four papers on specific social movements or social movement organizations, two papers on aspects of social change and inequality, and one study critically analyzing the conflict resolution prospects in a situation of protracted violence.

Presents research on technology as either a tool or context for groups and teams. This volume covers management issues from two critical perspectives: groups and teams in evolving high-tech contexts; and leading edge research on technology for communication and knowledge management within groups and teams.

This archival collection has two parts. The first presents correspondence between the economists Alfred S. Eichner and Joan Robinson, and the second presents documents pertaining to the nature, rise and limits of quantitative methodology in economics.

Part of the "Advances in Group Processes" series, this volume covers a broad section of theory and research. It includes chapters with themes such as:: theoretical issues concerning status in task groups; aspects of power in bargaining and exchange; conflict in familial relations; the spread or transition of social phenomena; among others.

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory

Provides a a forum for research articles of interest to library managers that are longer than the typical journal article but shorter than most books in library administration. This series includes contributions to the literature of library administration and organization. It is of interest to library and information science graduate students.

Thomas A. Fetherston explores the financial markets in the 6th volume of Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets.

Features 11 papers covering: Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; Resistance to Economic Development for Canada, Mexico and the US; Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya and more.

Part of a series which focuses on advances in futures and options research, this title discusses a variety of topics in the field.

DESCRIPTION: This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on the relationship of law and values and race and the law. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors; Law and Values: Interpretive freedom and divine law: early rabbinic renderings of divine justice (C. Halberstam); Rawls' law of peoples: an expansion of the prioritization of political over religious values (E. Carpenter); Post modernity and the fading of individual responsibility (J. Krapp); Race in Law; Passing phantasms/sanctioning perfomativities: (re)reading white masculinity in Rhinelander v. Rhine lander (N. Hers); Tortious race, race torts: hate speech, intentional infliction, and the problem of harm (P.L. Rivers); Before or against the law? Citizens' legal beliefs and experiences as death penalty jurors (B. Steiner).

Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology.

This is the 17th volume in a series examining research in finance.

Considers policy implications of gender research placing an emphasis on its relevance for children-particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings in the United States.

Focuses on debates and developments in methodology and the ways in which ethnographic work interacts with education. Particular chapters in this volume are concerned with access to research sites, critical ethnography, text construction, dilemmas of researching different ethnic groups and or researching children, and more.

Immigration, Citizenship and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States

As organizations and leadership become more global, there are pressing needs for better developed conceptual models and definitions of what is meant by global leadership. This work is divided into three parts: theory, research and practice. It addresses definitional issues, as well as the philosophical problems of universality among cultures.

Includes the 'contemporary' and 'alternative' approaches to leadership. This volume covers the nature of charisma, transformational leadership and leader-member exchange.

Includes the 'classical' and the 'new wave' approaches to leadership. The classical approaches should be instantly recognizable by any student of leadership because of their resilience and longevity. The new wave approaches offer different perspectives on aspects of leadership that can be analyzed from a multiple-levels perspective.

These two volumes make up the 24th part in a series of monographs whose main topic of concern is that of organizational behaviour and industrial relations. The volumes deal with the multiple levels approach to leadership.

An analysis of immigration, citizenship and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States. It addresses: immigrant incorporation; incorporation into education and school; labour market integration and attainment; and the allocation of fiscal benefits and contributions.

A study of urban problems and policy. It addresses the socio-economic context of the Metropolitan region. It also discusses: fragmentation, divisiveness and governmental organization; divisiveness and law enforcement; divisiveness and the social services; and, divisiveness and regional development.

Discusses the global applicability of managerial theory and experience. This book examines issues in organizational behavior, human resource management, and managing across cultures.

This is the 22nd volume in a series of monographs whose main topic of concern is that of organizational behaviour and industrial relations. This volume deals with managing changes.

This study in economic and financial analysis looks at industrial entrepreneurs during India's liberalization. Topics addressed include: the founding entrepreneurs - origins, education and capital; and social mobility, human capital, liberalization and entrepreneurship.