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Contains a compendium of some of the papers presented at a workshop on Performance Measurement and Management Control: Improving Organizations and Society in September, 2005 in Nice, France. This book discusses how superior organizational performance affects employees and society.

Based on the premise that in an era of rapid globalization, while there is a great deal of convergence on many aspects of group processes and interactions across national cultures, it is the understanding and appreciation of the divergence among people of different national cultural backgrounds that make all the difference.

Presents the class notes of Taylor Ostrander at Williams College, 1929-32. This title covers courses on principles of economics, money and banking, public finance, the senior seminar and the review of political theory. It also includes two memoranda on Franklin Roosevelt, and a memoir on the founding of the Williams College Liberal Club.

Provides a survey of the critical aspects of developmental entrepreneurship discussed in the fields of entrepreneurship, sociology, and economics. This volume contains fifteen articles. It focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and small business development within a global environment, especially under conditions of adversity.

Presents an empirical research in accounting theory. This book includes content that crosses into the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics.

Consists of papers related to the theme of the dynamics of inequality and poverty that are subdivided into four separate parts. This volume examines inequality and poverty over time, the intergenerational transfer of poverty, inequality over time, and measurement issues. The chapters discuss inequality and poverty in developed countries.

Addresses such management accounting issues as: budgeting and investment decisions, compensation and performance, and research paradigms. This book includes both theoretical and practical discussions. It is suitable for both academics and practitioners.

Presents seven papers in quantitative economic history, including "New National Bank Loan Rate Estimates, 1887-1975", "Growth in a Protected Environment, Portugal, 1850-1950", "Wages, Rents, and Interest Rates in Southern Korea, 1700 to 1900", "Net Effect of Railroads on Stature in the Post Bellum Economy", and more.

Includes chapters by new breed of European entrepreneurship researchers that offer a lesson that those values and world-views which have traditionally been the hallmark of the European approach, remain evident as the underpinnings of the new breed approach. This book highlights 'new breed' thinking and focuses on European entrepreneurship.

Part of the "Advances in Group Processes", which publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. This volume includes papers that address fundamental issues relating to the Social Psychology of the Workplace.

This volume highlights the value of sociological theorizing in various strands of criminological research and reveals the breadth and depth of criminological sociology in its explicit and informed reliance on insights from sociological theory. It offers a range of perspectives, and theories of criminal behavior and perspectives of social control.

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is designed to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and disadvantaged children through its Title I program. This book explores models to achieve equity in Title I schools; and defines what is required of states in Title I schools. It examines how each state implements NCLB accountability standards.

Features studies of organizations that deliver professional services, including accounting, law, and management consulting firms that: underpin the modern economy, enabling economic exchange; constitute the 'intellect industry', developing and disseminating new ideas; and, are exemplars of knowledge-intensive organizations.

Contains contributions on important topics in finance research. This volume includes topics such as the impact of reform in corporate governance, the stock price reactions to the joint venture announcements, the temperature, and the financial signals, the incentive effects in project finance with government financial guarantees, and more.

Features insights of a host of scientific studies pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism, while providing a forum to stimulate discussions on contemporary issues and trends essential to theory advancement, as well as professional practices from a global perspective. This work focuses on divulging the innovative methods of inquiry.

Talks about the time varying betas of the capital asset pricing model, analysis of predictive densities of nonlinear models of stock returns, modelling multivariate dynamic correlations, flexible seasonal time series models, estimation of long-memory time series models, application of the technique of boosting in volatility forecasting, and more.

Covers the basic themes such as - time varying betas of the capital asset pricing model, analysis of predictive densities of nonlinear models of stock returns, modelling multivariate dynamic correlations, flexible seasonal time series models, estimation of long-memory time series models, and more.

Presents a systematic approach to the topic of motivation and religion through the lens of theories of motivation as expectancy-value, self-determination, and achievement goal theory. This book features scholars offering views about how such theories help to understand religiosity and its impact on human experiences and behavior.

Explores the interplay between science, economics, politics, and ethics in understanding the challenge that climate change poses to the international community.

Provides some background on the various financial market segments of the Asian Pacific region. This book offers an understanding of institutional detail (size and scope) of the relevant markets and affords a view that lends or detracts from the credibility of intermarket comparisons.

A collection of essays, this volume is subdivided into sections posing research, policy, and strategic questions regarding social change. It introduces conceptual innovations regarding the spatial boundaries of development, sovereignty and the politics of globalization, food regime analysis, recompositions of rural activity, and more.

In the study of learning and behavioral disabilities, effective practice and public policy enacted to implement this practice are closely intertwined. This book contains topics that include educational equity, imputations of malice in social policy, and analytical discussions of Response to Intervention and No Child Left Behind legislation.

Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance.

Part of a series which focuses on health economics and health services research, this book discusses a variety of topics in the field.

Highlights the pressing human factor issues that are associated with remotely operated vehicles. This book showcases some of the human-oriented research and design that speaks to these issues. It discusses the human components of the 'unmanned' system.

Features the research being undertaken into higher education systems and issues outside of North America. This book sets out to convey a diversity of ideas and approaches. It includes examples of quantitative and qualitative strategies for data collection and analysis; and approaches ranging from historical and policy analysis to self reflection.

Documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving, and transforming, early childhood practice in these changed and changing times. This book provides readers with possibilities for enacting pedagogies that are responsive to the contemporary circumstances shaping the lives of young children.

Offers insights on the development of authentic leadership. This volume considers the dynamics whereby such factors as humor, political skill, emotions, resiliency, and moral and spiritual leadership interact with authenticity to foster authentic leader-follower relationships at dyadic, group, and organizational levels.

Offers cases with wide ranging policy implications regarding structural and functional changes institutions and organizations might consider, given the confines of context and resources, to improve the conditions of mentally ill offenders.

Examines international health care management. This work consists of 12 papers, and explores the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20 countries in their comparisons.