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Part of a series of studies on advances in educational policy, this title is divided into sections which examine: equal opportunities in developing countries; economic gap, racial change and social challenge; and, programme intervention and evaluation.

The 8th volumes of Research in Asian Economic Studies focuses on topics such as "The new Industrial revolution in Asian economies"

This volume concentrates upon the theme of policy analysis concepts and methods, viewing it from an institutional and implementation focus. The text is international in its scope with case studies taken from Nepal, the Philippines, China and Africa.

Ideas of Concord and Discord in Selected World Religions

The geographical shift in contemporary history towards a more global world is not only significant in its own right, but also interrelates closely with other principal social changes concurrently unfolding, for example, in respect of economy, governance, identity and knowledge. This book is about globalization in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

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.

Illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics. This volume gives a genealogical account of various different kinds of feminisms. It offers various dimensions on the relationships across time and place among activisms and scholarships.

Examines the theoretical presuppositions of the entrepreneurship research within organizational sociology. This volume includes topics such as: entry into entrepreneurship, immigrant entrepreneurship and enclaves, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurialism related to organizational forms.

Affective phenomena permeate group life. This title examines how groups influence individual members emotional experiences; in turn, how a groups success depends on the emotions and emotional capabilities of its members; and, how moods and emotions mediate the effects of demographic diversity in groups.

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 intends to bridge the gap between what researchers know and what they need to know about methodology.

Deals with economic and political issues and the unity between them. This book focuses on Latin America.

Intends to ponder the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. This title focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. It deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to produce a nuclear context.

Contains papers which address the effects of institutions of governance, including new forms of workplace governance, a traditional form and financial participation schemes. This book also includes a paper which presents an analysis of the impact of international trade in a globalized economy.

Contains papers that offer regional diversity: two papers with principal focus on England, one on Germany, one on Australia, and three on the United States.

This sixth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.

This first volume in the series examines such topics as improving public policy toward and within developing nations, economic development and decentralized government, policy evaluation methods for developing country energy issues, and the law of developing nations and super-optimum solutions.

Part of a "New Series", this work focuses on topics related to competition policy and antitrust, such as the economic impact of airline alliances (both international and domestic), predation, and incumbent responses to low cost entry.

This book offers a sound basis for the design and management of information services to: provide decision-makers with help for the management of change; make corporate decision-makers aware of information as an asset and a strategy for improved, innovative decisions; and make information service providers potential sources of innovation.

Examines the developments in labour contracts and relates them to the content of such contracts, and to differences in labour contracts which depend on the specifics of the institutional environment in which they are negotiated. This volume also compares differences in labour contracts in European countries and between Europe, Japan and the US.

Using a variety of research methods, this book analyzes the effects and challenges of European integration. Topics covered include macroeconometric and applied general equilibrium modelling, international trade and applied econometric analysis.

Includes several papers on equilibrium search models (a relatively new field), and job matching, both seen from a theoretical and from an applied point of view. This volume discusses methods on and empirical analyses of unemployment durations. It is intended to contribute to further development in the use of panel data in economic analyses.

Innovations in Bond Portfolio Management

An indispensable tool for online system designers who are grappling with developing new systems or refining existing ones, this ready reference describes subject analysis and subject searching in online catalogs, including the limitations of retrieval, and demonstrates how such limitations can be overcome through system design and programming.

Provides information on the role of international finance - and its relationship to strategy, economics, political science and public policy - in examining value creation in multinational enterprise. This book contains papers that present various methodologies, including theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and case study approaches.

Returning to its roots in activism and economic justice, this issue exposes accounting practice as a contested terrain by examining its role as a social force encompassing issues of value, governance, ethics, politics, and class. It illuminates the detrimental social consequences of failing to recognize accountings role in the social environment.

Presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. This work covers political science, policy studies, and law. Divided into two parts - conflict, violence, and legal processes; and deciding cases, charting progress - it focuses on the sources of conflict and violence as well as law's response to both.

Showcases scholarship by historical, political, and economic sociologists grouped around three broad subjects with historical relevance. The subjects in this volume are: the relationship between race, class, and urban politics, and how racial identities interact with each other; and more.

A collection of papers which engage issues in the crossroads where biology, psychology, and economics meet. It considers altruism, selfishness, group selection, methodological individualism, dominance hierarchies, and other issues relating evolutionary psychology to economics.

Focusing on the role of the state in capitalist society, by showing the welfare state as an historical product of the class structure of English agrarian capitalism, this volume addresses price and technical choice in capitalism, and economic democracy within socialism, defending direct democracy and economic calculation in terms of labor time.

A collection of papers which examine the impact of the minimum wage. It applies experimental methods to study respondent's attitudes toward inequality and risk. It also investigates the properties of "intermediate" measures of inequality.