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Focuses on Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services. This book discusses Program Security, Data Security and Authentication, Internet Scourges, Web Security, Usable Security, Human-Centric Aspects, Security, Privacy and Access Control, Economic Aspects of Security, Threat Modeling, Intrusion and Response.

Includes an article that compares the strengths and weaknesses of using a single type of research method to investigate accounting phenomenon and explains why using multiple methods provides a richer understanding of particular issues. This book includes articles, which are useful in facilitating behavioral research.

Emphasizes critical approaches to the study of race, identity and self, as well as developments in interactionist theory, ethics and dramaturical studies.

Examines the nature and seriousness of fieldworkers' problems of failure to gain access, achieve comprehension, and avoid intrusion. This volume speaks of access to human subjects data, dealing with methods and concerns about intrusion.

Creativity is being recognized as an important source of competitive advantage because a single creative idea that is both novel and useful may take an organization in a profitable new direction. This work aims to promote the burgeoning interest in group creativity by identifying new questions that will drive future research in this area.

This is the first volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English.

Part of a series which serves as a research annual for the publication of academic tax research, this title covers topics that include an empirical study of the objectivity of CPAS's tax work and the impact of education on perceptions of tax fairness.

This volume focuses very sharply on emerging economies, specifically on Croatia, Poland, Romania, India, China and Vietnam. Consumer-purchase behaviour is examined in terms of radical social change and complete transformation, and specific attitudes of female consumers are examined.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.

Aims to illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. This title shows the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural process and how these processes are changed by individuals' emotional experience.

With an annual output, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology. Addressing issues such as rural development and growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, and social and personal implications of rural and agricultural change, this series provides in-depth and up to date research on the local and global systems affecting rural dynamics.

With an annual output, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology. Addressing issues such as rural development and growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, and social and personal implications of rural and agricultural change, this series provides in-depth and up to date research on the local and global systems affecting rural dynamics.

Includes sections devoted to financial applications of forecasting, as well as demand forecasting. This publication also includes a section on general business applications of forecasting, as well as one on forecasting methodologies.

Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.

"Corporate Governance" has become a manifestation, creating interplays of political, private, academic, cultural, and economic consequences. This work offers provocations challenging the views of Corporate Governance, illuminating the controversies and ethical outcomes of using it as a prescription for public action.

Contains five essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of creativity and innovation. This title offers literature reviews, model developments, methodological advancements, and some data for the study of creativity and social influence, innovation and planning, and creativity and cognitive processes.

Discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts and addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians as well as the importance of character.

Aims to provide a forum for researchers concerned with appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. This title recognizes and examines the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities.

Explores the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of "flow time." This book examines the issue of excessive change in organizations, which are defined as the simultaneous pursuit of multiple unrelated changes.

Features articles on various topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This volume contains articles on innovation strategy and the use of performance measures, performance effects of financial incentives, and evaluating product mix and capital budgeting decisions.

Complex collaboration refers to situations where working together effectively across boundaries is critical for complex projects and problems. This volume addresses such issues as unit of analysis, critical relationships, resource development, virtual teaming, and improvement processes.

Featuring articles covering areas of accounting, this volume examines the behavioral implications of alternative going concern reporting formats. It explains how forensic experts at professional service firms assess the factors that indicate financial statement fraud. It reports three research studies examining performance in a managerial setting.

Contains papers which consider the basic role of market discipline, how it may be applied to banking and more broadly to large financial institutions of various types.

Do amenities, entertainment and cultural centres promote growth in cities? This, and other questions surrounding gender, technology, consumers and consumption, form the subject matter of this study into the urban landscape as an entertainment machine.

No question is more pertinent to worker welfare than explaining changes in overall income inequality. The papers presented in this volume explore this important issue and evaluate government programmes and their impact upon welfare.

This volume presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law, and examines law and culture, the complex intersections of law and policy, and the place of religious values in legal life.

Ethnographic methodology can be used to identify how educational policy is formulated and implemented through a process of enculturation. The object of these papers is to show how such a task can be carried out and to reveal the benefits it can yield.

Beginning with a set of theoretical and empirical perspectives on the governance of relations in businesses, markets and organizations this multi-authored volume addresses a range of topics concerned with labour, jobs and contractual agreements within a range of organizations.

An international cast of scholars and writers explore a range of issues related to contracts and corporate entrepreneurship. They cover the characteristics and country differences that describe how entrepreneurs succeed in a number of sectors and locations worldwide.

Part of a series that explains and discusses the unsatisfactory outcomes that result from many poorly conceived mergers, and bringing together academics from various disciplines, this title presents papers that integrate the disparate but growing body of literature on mergers and acquisitions.