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Part of a series on international comparative management, this title addresses: the status of applied public management - applied and theoretical considerations; public management in selected nations; and, public management implementation challenges.

Contains papers, which grew out of the eighth biannual Conference on Negotiation in Organizations.

Designed as a forum for the presentation of conceptual and methodological issues in the field of personnel and human resources management, this title covers such topics as the role of domain specific measures, and emotionality and job performance.

A collection of contributions to theory, research and policy concerning crime, law and deviance. It deals with the core sociological concept of control, and aims to emphasize the breadth and diversity in theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.

Intended to be a corrective to the literature on marginality. In addition to theoretical and methodological concerns a major theme for this volume is the combination of both theory and method towards an investigation of issues and problems that emanate from the social structure, and are closely linked to power and domination.

Part of a series of research articles in social movements, conflicts and change, this title contains papers that are broad in scope and methodologically diverse.

Focuses on the policy implementation process in developing nations. This work attempts to better understand how political and administrative institutions of particular countries effect their domestic policy implementation process.

Focuses on the patterns and processes connected with leaving religion. This volume contains papers that range from theoretical analyses of the dynamics underlying religious exiting to case studies examining specific instances of distancing from and departing from a religious lifestyle.

Part of a series which examines advances in Pacific Basin financial markets, this title discusses issues such as time-varying volatility estimates in option pricing, the risk behaviour of Hong Kong firms approaching bankruptcy, and the time value of futures options in Australia.

This volume presents examinations, recommendations and future predictions in the fields of social science information and policy-making in both a contemporary and historical framework.

Covers a variety of topics in financial planning and forecasting.

Covers such topics as financial distress and capital structure choice; optimal capital structure and valuation of the firm in multiperiod context; regression tests of the present value model of stock prices; and, intra-industry information transfers and stock repurchases.

Includes papers that cover organizational shifts, interlibrary lending and borrowing, preservation, and budgeting for administrators, educators and students.

Suitable for librarians and library managers in academic institutions, this title covers advances in library administration and organization. It collects articles that draw upon practical situations to illustrate administrative principles.

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and important policy issues of the day. This title addresses the global financial crisis debates.

Contains nine papers that address the challenges in organizational change, report the results of change-related research, and advocate methodological advances in the field.

Emotions have widespread effects in organizations and underlie a broad range of dynamics in organizations. This volume explores the role that emotion plays in such diverse organizational phenomena as entrepreneurship, change, service failure, and creativity.

Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. This book presents a variety of lessons learned from case studies from Asian countries (India, Japan and Thailand).

Aspects of technology policy which managers have to cope with are covered in this volume, including: research and development management, technological developments as related to corporate strategy; procedures conducive to innovation; and matching technological development trends.

A general dictionary within the areas of company, business and financial law, where the selection of terms is based primarily on established and emerging usages within Community legal terminology. It provides definitions and general explanations in English, supplemented with specific explanations in Danish and/or German as required.

Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous economist Carl Menger. When he was professor of geometry at the University of Vienna from 1927 to 1938, he joined the Vienna Circle and founded his Mathematical Colloquium. This title offers the transcription of those parts of Menger's notes.

Deals with the methodologies of financial risk management of pension plans, mostly defined benefit plans. This book outlines basic actuarial valuation concepts and also presents valuation methods for defined benefit plans, and discusses their relationship to other types of pension plans. It also analyzes measurement of rate of return of a fund.

Provides a synopsis of the various accounting sub-fields and an analysis of the controversies. This book shows how, often, critique authors and their discussants express divergent opinions, and how such disagreement offers an encouraging signal that there remain interesting, open research questions and that our scholars find these issues exciting.

Represents a holistic approach to convergence, bringing to bear a number of critical perspectives: economics, engineering, business, organization theory, psychology, and policy analysis. This book is useful for schools of communication, centers for telecommunications studies, business schools, policy departments, and telecommunication operators.

Strategic management relies on an array of complex methods drawn from various allied disciplines to examine how managers attempt to lead their firms toward success. This book discusses about key methodology issues in the strategic management field.

Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies, died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her book "Industrial Organization".

Addresses the issue of product market integration within the European Union (EU) from a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from economics to political science and sociology. This book assesses the functioning of the EU Internal Market and evaluates the need for differentiated integration in an enlarged and heterogeneous EU.

This volume brings together various emerging perspectives in strategy research for further interaction and debate. Contributions address a range of issues related to the globalization of strategy research and chapters examine strategy theory, methods and research as well as strategy as practice, discourse and reflexive design.

If an organization has reached a high level of project management maturity, the organization should regard that as a reason for extreme pride among competitors. This book describes the attributes, procedures, and policies that reflect sophisticated organizations.

Delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on literature, contemporary issues and various trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective.