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Whilst it is impossible to make resistant urban growth, resilience is becoming more widely accepted and urban systems must be resilient enough to cope with the climate related hazards. This book highlights the issues of resilience through regional, national, city and community-based studies.

This important reference title provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of elite entrepreneurs of new China and contains over 100 substantial profiles of top overseas returnees who have made noteworthy contributions to Chinese society in general and economic development in particular since the reform era began in 1978.

Intends to sharpen our analytical tools in order to better appreciate the term governance in the educational field. This title also addresses the marginally studied issue of change in the 'educational science order'.

Provides in-depth understanding about business-to-business (B2B) and organizational relationships. This title includes descriptions on how B2B networks form, function and develop and is for readers who want to delve into how B2B relationships actually work and, frequently, do not work.

Contains 14 chapters that focus on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. This title takes a look at urban food provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo.

Accounting research in emerging economies has grown over the years. This title includes articles that contribute to our understanding of how accounting functions in emerging economies.

Discusses a variety of topics in the field of research in international business and finance.

Over the years there has been substantial changes in the size, composition, educational level, work activity, and locational choice of families. This book offers an understanding of the forces that have led to the choices and consequent observed changes.

This book provides a data-based approach to present and future developments in the Muslim world. It focuses on the economics of the Muslim world, including hot topics such as terrorism and oil-prices and also suggests an approach that deals with the high illiteracy rates and inadequate education facilities in many Muslim countries.

Presents an understanding of business information in the context of those who seek business information. This book contains information-seeking behavior that includes the underlying information needs that drive one to seek information, and the types of information used to resolve information needs.

Examines the question of whether providing work experience within courses of study in higher education affects entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviour, important given government imperatives to foster entrepreneurship through the education system.

Based on research presented at the Ninth International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), this volume captures major developments in the field. It presents contributions within seven themes including methodological developments in choice analysis, and longitudinal perspectives in choice modelling.

Suitable for researchers, and graduate students in the field of transportation and urban planning in general, and in travel behaviour analysis in particular, this volume of the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, held in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2006, examines key issues and emerging trends in the field of travel behaviour.

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers a view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete.

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an overview of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change. It presents studies that move beyond the very concept of globalization.

Presents studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems. This volume is directed toward the application of management science to financial management, specifically in portfolio analysis and in productivity management such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

Helps meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. This title includes articles that emphasize pedagogy that is explaining how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula/programs.

Identifies various challenges to the world community of transport survey specialists as well as the larger constituency of practitioners, planners, and decision-makers that it serves and provides potential solutions and recommendations for addressing them.

Considers the potential of autopoiesis theory to provide an alternate unifying framework for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational phenomena as emergent phenomena. This title includes papers that integrate open systems theory with the pioneering work of Maturana and Varela (1980, 1992) on autopoiesis in biological systems.

Divided into four parts, this title examines commodity racism: representation, racialization and resistance. It presents the interpretive works in the interactionist tradition. It features the essays which interrogate the intersections between biography, media, history, politics and culture.

Includes the papers that present the research and policy evaluations which represent an evolving record of policy and research on high technology small firms through many changes in economic conditions and government policy approaches over the years.

How does the disintegration of the Soviet system help us to understand the character of library and information institutions and practices within post-soviet space? This title brings together diverse reflective essays, reports and empirical analyses of the changing character of the post-soviet library world to address the question.

Helps scholars think about mergers and acquisitions in fresh ways, building our knowledge base on this critical topic.

The process of globalisation has its own dynamics and several serious flaws that have resulted in significant economic, political and social imbalances in the global political economy. This book examines the implications of these imbalances for achieving lasting global peace.

Contains an overview of the common medical and psychiatric disorders that follow road traffic accidents (RTAs). This book addresses the major psychological disorders of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder. It also reviews how the medical and psychiatric disorders interact with the role of the lawyers and insurers.

Despite the promise for international development, and despite the proven track record of exceptional loan repayment rates, little research has explored the impact this expansion has had on global poverty and economic and social development in general. This title outlines a multidisciplinary research agenda for the field.

An annual publication featuring studies and theoretical work dealing with the topic of change in organizational settings. Showcasing the approaches to organizational research, whether they be quantitative or qualitative in nature, it includes papers that bring fresh perspectives to classic issues in the field such as resistance and communication.

Contains topics that include the design of a country's financial safety nets, the effective policies of acquiring failed banks in reducing moral hazard problems, the voluntary disclosure of real options by corporate managers, and the interrelationship between the housing and general economic activities.

Addresses the subject of the disproportional decline of Black American Males in higher education. This book provides critical historical overviews and analyses pertaining to Black American males in higher education and Black Americans of both genders.

Divided into five parts, this title covers such topics as - information theory and segregation measurement; the Gini index and the measurement of segregation; measuring segregation with ordered categories; exploring changes in segregation; and, wage inequality and segregation.