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Reflecting the move away from the team to the organization, the papers that make up this volume explain how most team failures seem to be caused by problems in the teams' larger environments, especially the lack of support systems when considering team needs.

This book focuses on the growing Latino demand for higher education in the United States, examines the means of getting Latinos over the gap between high school and college, and treats routes to careers as faculty and administrators in its three main sections: Demographics and Demand, The Crossover to College, and Rising in Academia.

The debate over the proper definition of "religion" has occupied the attention of social scientists for many years without shedding much light on the nature of religion. This volume aims to inspire a re-orientation in the way students of religion think about the task of defining religion.

The use of the Internet to post information on teaching children with exceptionalities has led to problems for professionals who prefer such knowledge to be screened for accuracy. This volume includes useful, validated information to help those who teach children with exceptionalities.

Criminal offenders with serious mental health problems pose a difficult problem for courts and the law enforcement industry. The contributors to this collection explore the key issues of the problem and discuss radical solutions like new community-based approaches for serving offenders.

Written by academics and personnel working in prominent financial institutions and firms, this volume provides an analysis of financial and accounting practices ranging from risk-based insurance premiums tax to the current and long-term components of CEO compensation.

With chapters on topics as wide as gender, ethnicity and demographic factors influencing promotions to managers for auditors, and auditors' compliance with employment eligibility verification, this collection features papers by leading academics from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

Explores the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously.

Over the past decade much sociological research has examined some of the links between social status and health status. The results show how higher childhood status predicts better health and lower mortality rates throughout adulthood.

Each of the articles in this volume, authored by researchers from around the world, focuses on new and emerging issues in business and organizational ethics. In every case, the authors offer creative insights and new perspectives.

This volume brings together some of the recent work of rural sociologists on democracy, in an effort to bring into sharper focus this work's distinctive contributions to understanding the question of what is and should be globalized, with particular emphasis on rural concerns and rural people.

This fifth volume of "Research on Managing Groups and Teams" focuses on the relationship between identity issues and individual and group functioning. It looks at a range of phenomena involving the individual identities people bring to the groups they join and collective identities.

Athens's work on violence is applied, assessed, and extended in this title by scholars from a variety of fields, including clinical psychology, criminology, history, psychiatry, and sociology. Violence is examined from contexts of child abuse, corrections, soldiers in wartime, and the Holocaust.

Ethnography has become a major method of researching educational settings. Its key strength is its emphasis on understanding the perceptions and cultures of the people and organizations under scrutiny. This volume addresses the task of undertaking a doctorate in educational ethnography.

In society in general, in organizations and businesses and in military circles, it is generally accepted that dialogue is a useful means to maintaining social cohesion. These essays explore the transformative power of such dialogue.

The articles that comprise this volume concern topics derived from the organization sciences, including, but not limited to, the areas of: organizational behaviour, organization theory, strategic management, human resource management and organizational development.

The valuation of Internet companies, effects of firm size in takeover studies, and long-run performance of mergers in the telecommunications industry are all seen as riddles for the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. This volume focuses on pricing puzzles in investments. It also features studies describing innovations in corporate finance.

Volume 6 of this series draws together chapters presenting diverse views on developments in ethnographic methodology. It covers topics such as validity in ethnographic work, feminist research, comparison within research, public identification of research sites and research involving children.

This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of original papers that address critical themes in health-related social network research and disease prevention.

The last years of the 20th Century may well have reflected a brief "golden age" for human resource management. In an economy where ideas and capital were plentiful, the critical facet for success increasingly became human resources. This volume debates issues arising from this phenomenon.

This volume is a sympathetic but analytical and critical view of social constructivist teaching, considering both its affordances and its constraints.

The contents of this book represent a collection of leading research in performance measurement and management control and provide a significant contribution to the growing literature in the area.

Examines the burden of poverty that children and young adults disproportionately share throughout the world. This book contains contributions from international researchers that examine some of the issues that serve to inhibit the chances of children and young adults to education and social mobility in an international context.

This volume considers African-American education in the 21st century through the lens of the Chicago School Tradition, at the University of Chicago.

This work is concerned with the study of children and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The book provides theoretical, educational and clinical perspectives related to this disorder.

Presents a collection of cross-country analysis of innovation, showing that the effects of innovation upon firms vary from one country to another. Drawing upon studies of semiconductors, disk drives and biotechnology, and examining institutions such as patent systems and venture capital, this title takes issue with predictions of convergence.

Part of a series that aims to present scholarly work on multiple levels of analysis, multi-level theory, research, and methods, this title focuses on 'critical essays', theoretical work, empirical studies, methodological developments, analytical techniques, and philosophical treatments.

Presents a study of social movement decision making through seven case studies. This book focuses on Northern Ireland, where frustration with inter-community conflict resolution spawned a movement promoting intra-community or 'single tradition' programs.

Richard T Ely was both a reformer of economics and a leading economist between the 1880's and 1930's. This work presents his study of the history of American economic thought. It tells the story with Ely's own interpretation.

Contains nine papers, which are logically divided into three parts. This title illustrates research thrusts on a variety of financial economics issues that are germane to working capital management. It also explores dividend payouts and tax environment changes as a source of concern to treasury (and financial) managers.