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Aims to stimulate thinking on quality-related issues and to facilitate bringing quality into the mainstream of organizational effectiveness. This volume spans a range of topics from the transference of quality practices across multinational boundaries to the role of performance feedback systems in achieving quality-based objectives.

Gives an annual examination of the major research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines of small business, family business and population ecology, plus firm growth and emergence research.

Traditionally, legal problems arising in connection with international business transactions had to be solved by a national law. This view was challenged in post war scholarly writing and transnational practice.

The economics of art markets is an area open to econometricians, theorists, economic and art historians, labour economists, and students interested in the economic analysis of legal problems. This volume covers a number of issues including auction anomalies, the management of museums, the excess supply of labour in the performing arts, and more.

This book contains state-of-the-art cumulative research and results on functional structure, approximation and estimation for: individual economic agents; aggregation over those agents; and equilibrium solution stochastic processes. Contributions to time series modeling and inference in the time domain and the frequency domain are also covered.

Covers various areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries. This is a useful reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. The articles featured have won national prizes.

Presents a reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. This book also contains analysis of areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries, by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.

Strategic Management

Telecommunications systems are central to the development of a global economy, and are fundamental to the means by which most business is conducted, organised and managed. These papers tacitly stress the importance of path dependence; that is, institutional features and history, are important in determining telecommunications futures.

The convergence of telecommunications, mass media and computer technologies has brought developments of intelligent interconnected systems. This volume provides research and policy debates in this important field. An international perspective is provided with contributions from academic, business and governmental communities.

Covers the actions that need to be taken into account for the design of buildings. This book explains the Eurocode clauses on densities, self-weight and imposed loads; snow loads; thermal actions; actions during execution and accidental actions. It intends to help the designer acquire a knowledge of the appropriate Eurocodes parts of EN 1991.

A detailed guide to Eurocode 6 Design of Masonry Structures: Part 1-1 Common rules for reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures, dealing with the various sections in EN1996-1-1: 1 General Introduction and Terminology / 2 Basis of design / 3 Materials / 4 Durability / 5 Structural analysis / 6 Ultimate Limit State / 7 Serviceability Limit State / 8 Detailing / 9 Execution.

Prescribed Form of Record for a Large Raised Reservoir is fully updated to incorporate the latest amends to the Reservoirs Act.

Offers constructive demonstrations of the possibilities of designing participative forms of organization. Field experiment cases illustrate how the operational level can assume a new significance in competitiveness and strategic positioning.

As an intellectual movement, entrepreneurial studies began about the same time as the Austrian revival. The beginnings of the entrepreneurship movement might be dated to sometime before 1978 when Babson College established its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the first such center in the US.

This volume brings together a set of studies analyzing different aspects of food and agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This sector is of crucial importance to the MENA economies, especially in terms of employment.

Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these, including issues related to measurement, valuation, and disclosure.

It is the intention of the editors to make available with this book a selection of current work in regional economics and regional science.

Explains how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula/programs.

Part of a series presenting scholarly thinking about research and concepts related to the transformation of organizations. The papers presented in Volume 14 address practical, conceptual and methodological issues in the field of organizational change.

Part of the "Cultural Studies" series, which draws on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history, and English. This annual contains papers that focus on the intersection of interpretive critical theory, qualitative inquiry, culture, media, history, biography and social structure.

Looks at the process by which leaders, as entrepreneurs and strategists, attempt to build and craft the skill-bases of their firms to best create long-term value for their customers. This book examines the foundations of resource-based approaches to management and strategic thinking, and also presents the case histories of four different firms.

Governments and multinational firms have moved from a situation of conflict to one where government policies were seen as a constraint on the activities of MNE's. This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which changed profoundly in the period from the 1950's to the late 1990's.

Contains forty papers presented at the International Conference on 'Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control' held in 1998. They show that mathematical ideas and methodologies continue to play a prominent part in transport research. They include applications on transport planning, congestion, assignment, networks, signalling, and more.

Drawing together research into fatigue and its management in various transport modes, this book shows that much can be learned from approaching the phenomenon in an integrative way. Exposing common misconceptions and exploring key research findings, it presents the complexity of the problem.

"Doing Educational Administration" is the final part in a three volume series by Evers and Lakomski presenting their perspective on educational administration.

Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This book explores the elastic boundary between structure and flexibility that enables modern organizations to function effectively under uncertain, dynamic conditions. It shows how communities and organizations cope with dynamic and unpredicted events.

Discusses the basic concept and practical conditions of financial resources for transportation systems. After describing the theoretical basis of burden, this book introduces the policies and financial systems established for transportation in some developed countries (Germany, France, UK, USA, Japan) and compares them from an analysis viewpoint.

Relationship marketing has become one of the dominant approaches in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This book presents the developments in international industrial and service marketing research, from a relationship and network perspective. It also examines different concepts, uses different methods and arrives at different outcomes.

DRAG is a complex computer model that simulates accident propensities under detailed conditions. In applying flexible mathematical forms, the DRAG model also allows significant conceptual and empirical claims to be made about the importance of detecting responses that reverse themselves. This work explains its nature, purpose and value.