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The writings in this volume address various issues related to worker well-being, including employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation and macroeconomic labour policy.

Focusing on organizational politics, this title is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational sociology. It emphasizes micro and macro sociological approaches.

Addresses key issues regarding the nexus of work and family in society. This work provides policy recommendations that aim to help achieve better work-family balance, changes in work-family attitudes, conditions leading to firms' adopting policies to support work-family balance, and studies of child outcomes in dual earner families.

A study of the network approach to social structures. It deals with individual behaviour and with community ties. It examines relationships within and between organizations, explores the growth of the Internet, and contrasts structural analysis with other social scientific approaches.

A study of the network approach to social structures. It deals with individual behaviour and with community ties. It examines relationships within and between organizations, explores the growth of the Internet, and contrasts structural analysis with other social scientific approaches.

Part of a series on advances in the economics of energy and resources.

Part of a series which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the latest research and practice in services. Topics discussed include the calculus of service quality and customer satisfaction and environmental and positional antecedents of management commitment to service quality.

Contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. This work presents a global perspective with data from the UK, France, Asia, Canada, and the US.

Brings together ten papers by researchers who tackle economic issues surrounding school accountability reforms. The papers in this volume employ relevant microeconomic analysis and econometric techniques to provide an understanding of the vital economic and public policy issues. It is aimed at researchers in business, economics, and other fields.

Part of the "Research on Economic Inequality" series. This book presents papers form the inaugural meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). It provides an international forum for various researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields. It brings together a diversity of perspectives.

Contains contributions on a range of issues in financial research. This volume includes topics such as - the performance of fixed income mutual funds in different economic states, the determinants of long-term excess performance of the ADRs on the NYSE, the fragmentation in day and night markets, the determinants of private debt source, and more.

The contributors to this book cover theoretical aspects of leadership, current legal topics and issues, and best practices related to special education administration. They draw heavily from the current literature research base and best practices.

Offers twelve chapters of discussion surrounding various tools and methods utilized by scholars and academics. This title covers a range of approaches for strategists, managers, and researchers.

Presents papers that discuss policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. This book addresses operations and design issues for government organizations.

Contains papers from the annual conference of the European International Business Academy, which was held in Oslo in December 2005, with the theme Landscapes and Mindscapes in a Globalizing World, and from the European Business Academy conference held in Oslo, Norway, December 2005. This work addresses the many facets of international business.

Contains three sections that cover, Human Rights, Public Safety, and Public Policy; Practitioner Responsibilities During Times of Epidemics; and Global Dimensions of Epidemics.

Unveils the complex dynamics of key contemporary and historical dilemmas that motivate citizens and scholars alike to struggle for a better future. This volume addresses some of the questions such as, from the origins and meaning of the war in Iraq to the transnational politics of immigration to the impact of race on labor organization, and more.

The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) held in March 2002 in Nancy, France, focused on "Innovation and Sustainable Development". This book represents a selection of the best contributions presented in Nancy.

Covers demand methods, data issues, valuation, cost and performance, and traffic models. THis book contains supplementary case studies that illustrate how modelling can be applied to the study of the different transport modes and the infrastructures that support them.

Aims to provide the basic concepts and tools for the economic analysis of transport systems, with emphasis on the behaviour of users and operators. This book focuses on the behavior of users and operators outside of traditional economic behavior theory. It includes time and space as a distinctive feature of transport economics.

An International Compilation of Awards Prizes and Recipients

Urbanization in the World Economy

Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary measures. This book provides the means to handle distributions and compositional data without forfeiting the information from which they derive. It features illustrations, a summary and bibliography.

Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978

To imagine a nation, nationalists must construct a national story about their history and culture that defines them as a people, and counters the negative story circulated by their enemies. This book examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity.

Part of a series of original articles on research in social movements, conflicts and change, this work consists of papers that are broad in scope and methodologically diverse.

The yearbook Comparative Social Research aims at furthering the international orientation in the social sciences.

Presents essays that consist of research and theory within the general sociological perspective known as Symbolic Interactionism. This series draws upon the work of interpretive students of cultural studies, ethnographers, phenomenologists, and others. It attempts to bridge links to an emergent critical theory of self, language, race, and others.

Covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change through organizational levels.

Focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this book looks at wide-ranging and diverse topics of interest, from dictatorships, civil wars, terrorism and water shortages, to more economic problems arising from volatile oil prices, barriers to trade and foreign investment, dominance of public enterprises, and low skill work forces.