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Presents a range of consumer behavior research using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This book addresses such topics as self-gifts, souvenirs, grocery coupon proneness, socialization, acculturation, tattooing, possession attachment, consumer decision making, information acquisition, and meaning making through consumption.

Consists of nine papers that use experimental and theoretical tools to examine issues pertaining to charitable auctions and fundraising. This volume explores themes such as the structure of charity auctions, charity lotteries, fund drives, and more. It explores the structure of different fundraising and charitable programs.

The mid nineteenth century founders of the foundation of institutionalised public accountancy in the English-speaking world were public accountants practicing in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Their historical legacy is a respected profession world-wide. This book aims to celebrate this legacy in biographies of 138 accountants.

Focuses on the forces that perpetuate or mitigate unethical behavior in groups. This volume reflects on these forces and their role in unethical behavior. It contains articles that underscore the importance of considering the role that groups play in unethical behavior.

Aimed at helping administrators meet the challenges of running organizations, this work addresses theoretical and practical issues administrators face in ambiguous environments and presents a collection of papers that reflect the myriad challenges library administrators face everyday.

Presents an examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book offers a critical assessment of issues in occupational stress and well being.

Analyses different aspects of relations between exporters and their middlemen: selection and governance, information exchange and learning, cultural aspects and finally the dynamics of such relations. This title is suitable for students both at the graduate and doctoral levels, and for researchers in this particular field.

Aims to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing, and strategic decision making. The topics in this title include: sales and marketing, forecasting, new product forecasting, judgmentally based forecasting, the application of surveys to forecasting, and more.

Presents a collection of articles on developments in the field of litigation economics, also called forensic economics. This book spans the popular areas of litigation economics - personal-injury economic loss analysis, commercial damages analysis securities litigation, punitive damages, employment litigation, and intellectual property litigation.

Part of "The Research in Labor Economics" series, this volume is a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of the late Tikva Lecker. Professor Lecker's many interests included topics in labor economics, women and the economy, the economics of Judaism, the economics of migration and the economic experience of immigrants and their descendants.

Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research annual whose purpose is to meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. Contributions include empirical and non-empirical articles and emphasize pedagogy, explaining how teaching methods or curricula/programmes can be improved.

Contains 10 papers dealing with HR versus finance in the control of corporate health care decisions; a theory of workplace conflict grounded in US municipal bargaining; creative compliance in, or union defiance of, labor regulation in Australia; and more. This title is for industrial relations and human resource scholars and practitioners.

Talks about the problems associated with financial market development in the European economies and their relationships with the EU in the post-EU enlargement environment. This book focuses on the important implications for fiscal policy, deals with monetary policy and banking, explores issues on financial innovation and liberalization, and more.

Presents a study of the early years of the telegraph industry in the United States, estimates of the growth of the Spanish infrastructure between 1844 and 1935, and more. This book contains papers based on microeconomic data, on an investigation of late nineteenth century saving among working class families in the United States, and more.

Analyzes tactical and strategic innovations in social movement organizing. This book addresses mobilization concerns that are associated with political protest in high-risk settings.

In almost every profession, a conflict of interest exists between the push of the organization's goals on the one hand, and the pull of professional standards and values on the other hand. This book aims to identify, describe, and understand these conflicts of interests in a variety of professional fields.

What counts as ethnography and what counts as good ethnography are both highly contested. This volume presents a diversity of views on the issues and practices in ethnographic methodology. It does not try to present a single coherent view but, through its heterogeneity, illustrates the strengths and impact of the debate.

Leadership programs are an intriguing, important, half-concealed force in higher education today. This is the first book to address leadership programs directly and reveal them to the wider public, highlighting their histories and achievements. Directors of major programs in the USA describe their focus, curriculum and participants' reactions.

Discusses the overall issue of health care disparities and undeserved populations. This book focuses on issues that relate to gender and provides papers on some other specific examples of undeserved populations: those with mental health concerns, those with concerns related to emotional well being, the elderly population and sex workers.

Presents an issue devoted to exploring humanistic perspectives on the subject of punishment. This book explores the way deviant subjects are constructed and made available for punishment, the philosophical context within which decisions about punishment are made, and the inner workings of the penal apparatus.

Provides articles on a variety of topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This book features articles on such topics as quality-based incentives in measuring non-financial performance of healthcare industry; revenue drivers in the accounting literature; and many others.

Discusses, and manifests, interrelated perspectives in social theory. This volume includes: scientific knowledge, which is theoretical, political, and social.

Examines the effects of status on individuals and groups. This volume considers both the role of status within groups and how the status of groups within their context affects members and group effectiveness. It is useful to individuals interested in understanding the effects of status on individuals and the groups in which they are embedded.

Part of the series "Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth", this volume focuses on international entrepreneurship. It covers topics such as: international social capital, technology sharing and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms; the export intensity of venture capital backed companies; and more.

Includes papers that reflect a range of theoretical approaches to social identity and contributions by scholars that work in the general area of group processes. This work examines how group identities can have beneficial and detrimental effects on workplace commitment.

Focuses on market systems and market liberalization in local communities. Divided into 4 parts, this book addresses topics which include the oil industry and the gulf coast, negotiating values in the market, and more.

Includes a synthesis of advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise, with a focus on internalization and international diversification issues. This research volume proposes important extensions of multinational enterprise theory, especially as regards the importance of geography to multinational strategy.

Focuses on the ways in which corporations exercise political power, and how changes in the political-legal arrangements in which corporations are embedded affect their organizational behavior. This volume examines the historical and dialectical relationship between the corporation and the state.

Presents papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. This book contains seven papers on critical issues in the field of human resources management, aimed at developing a more informed understanding of the field.

Focusing on "Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification", this volume addresses key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. It includes papers which explore the importance of entrepreneurial motivation in changing markets, and more.