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Designed to illustrate qualitative methods used to study teaching, assess constraints and illuminate representative questions and findings. This book is organized around three issues that impact research in qualitative paradigms: perspective, methodology, and representation. It provides findings, insights, and claims from qualitative research.

This invaluable book covers all aspects of procurement, from drafting and using contracts to procurement strategies for privately financed projects. It is written from a construction perspective, and uses examples from other industries where appropriate.This essential book offer presents guidance, explanations and case studies to help the reader comprehend the strengths and weaknesses and realistic meanings and outcomes of the stages in the development of an effective procurement strategy.

Based on a study of the electronics giant Philips, this book examines the key factors which have determined the success or failure of technologies and the global competitiveness of firms within a major European consumer industry. It traces the influences of Philips and of European Community policymaking on the development of the industry.

Provides an example of applied analysis of banking to students attending courses on financial markets and banking and financial integration. This book discusses the nature of banking in relation to 3 main areas in economic theory which are: market failure and the need for regulation; effects of deregulation and, market entry and contestability.

This book represents a continuation of an uninterrupted record of international research pertaining to high technology small firms (HTSFs) over a period that has witnessed a rebirth of interest in the growth problems of the small firm.

Examines the impact of Feuerstein's theory of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) on our understanding of the learning, instruction and cognitive modifiability of children, adolescents and young adults. This book begins with a historical essay charting the origins of the theory in Feuerstein's work with holocaust survivors and immigrant children.

There is an urgency to rediscover local knowledge and wisdom as universities and their communities respond to globalisation. This work presents an insightful account of the role of indigenous knowledge in higher education institutions across a number of societies.

Examines the nature of the evolutionary relationship that developed between the United States and the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) system, and considers the effects of this relationship on their individual evolution and development.

This volume reports on a six-country comparative investigation of the patterns of adult education participation.

Covers a broad range of contemporary topics in behavioral neuroscience. This book focuses on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus system emphasizing inputs to the 'clock', their neurochemical phenotype, and outputs from the 'clock' to behavioral and other effector systems.

Provides research on satiety, the neuroendocrinology of fear, sleep regulation, and the stress response.

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume reflects on recent social scientific engagement with Ecosystem Health research and practice and sets out a vision for the future.

Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish

In times of international political and economic change the great universities of Europe and North America are being transformed. The papers of this volume are the outcome of the process of discussions, which took place during the 1995 international symposium on the future role of the university held in Vienna, Austria.

An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.

Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title offers fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics, legal reform, law and the family, race relations and gender issues.

The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. This title covers topics that include human nature in the theory and practice of modern international relations; decision-making under uncertainty; political culture and AIDS policy; and, emerging political leadership in young adults.

This is a collection of eleven essays authored by prominent accounting historians and designed to aid potential as well as experienced researchers in the methodologies and resources available for scholarly work in accounting history.

Examines issues such as indirect financial distress and sales performance, stock market volatility and the business cycle, the behaviour of futures prices, and curved option pay-offs.

What does it take to craft and maintain successful radical NPD programs? This book explains why both manufacturing and customer firms usually reject new technologies and how competitors new to the industry become successful by focusing on unnoticed customers and offering higher performance with lower costs via the radically new technologies.

Features insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure, and tourism. This work aims to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire fresh research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected.

Contains eight papers dealing with European responses to high unemployment rates; the effects of alternative types of staffing arrangements; the adoption and use of alternative dispute resolution procedures in the nonunion workplace; building and sustaining labor-management partnerships; and other aspects.

Points to the multiple perspectives that teachers, researchers, parents, and children bring to our understanding of play.

Focuses on identity and agency in a variety of social institutions in educational ethnography. The contributors explore these themes in a range of international contexts. They demonstrate the capacity of educational ethnography to provide accounts of participants' perspectives and understandings to highlight the agency of educational subjects.

The administration of public schools encompasses myriad generic issues having to do with curriculum content, instructional methodology, human resource and financial management, and of course, the guidance and counseling of students.

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.

Simulations are often used in the military and other performance-critical fields (law enforcement, aviation) to assess readiness, to support training, management, and decision making and to conduct mission rehearsal. This volume documents the state of the possible individual and small unit human performance research and simulation.

The field of Strategic Management has explored a range of questions regarding technical change, firm capabilities, and executive decision-making, producing insights into the development of firms and unfolding of competition over time. This book explores the relationship between business strategy and the industry lifecycle competitive interaction.

"Research on Employment for Persons with Severe Mental Illness".

Divided into three parts, this volume involves a series of papers focused on theoretical perspectives of the multinational enterprise. It aims to highlight theoretical foci in this field and to serve as a catalyst to the research, designed to help us understand and build a theory of the multinational firm.