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In December 1991, the US Congress enacted and President George Bush signed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). This title provides knowledge on improving the performance of banking systems. It is useful to researchers and policy-makers both in evaluating regulatory structures and in designing modified structures.

The information society and associated technologies have become a key component of modern life. They touch almost every aspect of the working environment. These essays explore how everything, from personnel management to virtual work teams, is affected by information technology.

With an overview by the editors, this 21st volume begins by describing personality research in the organizational sciences followed by chapters that discuss issues as diverse as IT and human resource management and cross-cultural differences in responses to feedback.

The Internet has revolutionized the way consumers and firms interact in the marketplace, and it has dramatically changed the information enjoyed by market participants at various points in the value chain. Discussing the Internet and e-commerce, this title provides academics and practitioners with research to hold the new economy together.

The eighth volume of "Research on Accounting Ethics" addresses a wide range of issues including faculty perceptions on the inclusion of business ethics in the curriculum and the importance of context in investigating auditors' moral abilities.

Produced annually, these essays and papers are published to increase the level of interest in the specific problems of accounting in emerging economies. The aim is to raise awareness of the real issues for emerging countries and not just to copy what is done in the industrialized nations

A commentary on the practice of knowledge and technology transfer and the practice of observation and intervention, this title documents the various ways in which knowledge and technology transfer happen in practice and how they result in new socio-technical arrangements.

The papers included in this volume identify some of the problems and some of the solutions to the kinds of problems that arise through working as virtual teams. They provide a framework for thinking about such problems and ideas that can form a foundation for advancing practice in the field.

The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the failure of public schools. This volume has a far more positive perspective on the achievements and value of teacher unions and our public education system.

Advances in Management Accounting publishes well-developed articles that are relevant to both practitioners and academicians. Covering the impact of teaming on productivity, quality, and employee satisfaction that was measured using research design methods not commonly found in field study research

The theory of social capital asserts that social actors gain resources through relationships with other actors. While social capital research has largely focused on individuals as the unit of analysis, this volume looks at social capital of organizations, or Corporate Social Capital (CSC).

This volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. It includes a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory.

Hardbound. Research on Accounting Ethics is devoted exclusively to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. Its threefold mission is to: advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting related disciplines on a global basis; improve ethics education in and throughout the professional accounting and management curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels; provide a source of information for the professional accounting and auditing community for integrating ethics and good business practices in public firms, business corporations, and governmental organizations. This series features articles on a broad range of important and timely topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, individual morality, accountability, good business practices in public accounting and the litigation crisis. Papers will be empirical or theoretical in nature, and will draw upon paradigm

Focuses on problems in banking that have the potential not only for disrupting the smooth provision of banking and other financial services, but also for adversely affecting domestic and even international macroeconomic activity. This work talks about fragility and regulation in different countries.

The process of globalization, communication/information technology, multinational corporation-based economy, have tended to transform and restructure contemporary communities in a variety of ways. We need to know the emerging structure, and the dynamics of communities facing complex problems in a changing world. This work deals with this area.

Presents two papers on methodological issues facing the study of social movements. This work includes four papers on specific social movements or social movement organizations, two papers on aspects of social change and inequality, and one study critically analyzing the conflict resolution prospects in a situation of protracted violence.

Presents research on technology as either a tool or context for groups and teams. This volume covers management issues from two critical perspectives: groups and teams in evolving high-tech contexts; and leading edge research on technology for communication and knowledge management within groups and teams.

Part of the "Advances in Group Processes" series, this volume covers a broad section of theory and research. It includes chapters with themes such as:: theoretical issues concerning status in task groups; aspects of power in bargaining and exchange; conflict in familial relations; the spread or transition of social phenomena; among others.

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory

Provides a a forum for research articles of interest to library managers that are longer than the typical journal article but shorter than most books in library administration. This series includes contributions to the literature of library administration and organization. It is of interest to library and information science graduate students.

Thomas A. Fetherston explores the financial markets in the 6th volume of Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets.

Features 11 papers covering: Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; Resistance to Economic Development for Canada, Mexico and the US; Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya and more.

Part of a series which focuses on advances in futures and options research, this title discusses a variety of topics in the field.

DESCRIPTION: This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on the relationship of law and values and race and the law. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors; Law and Values: Interpretive freedom and divine law: early rabbinic renderings of divine justice (C. Halberstam); Rawls' law of peoples: an expansion of the prioritization of political over religious values (E. Carpenter); Post modernity and the fading of individual responsibility (J. Krapp); Race in Law; Passing phantasms/sanctioning perfomativities: (re)reading white masculinity in Rhinelander v. Rhine lander (N. Hers); Tortious race, race torts: hate speech, intentional infliction, and the problem of harm (P.L. Rivers); Before or against the law? Citizens' legal beliefs and experiences as death penalty jurors (B. Steiner).

Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology.

This is the 17th volume in a series examining research in finance.

Considers policy implications of gender research placing an emphasis on its relevance for children-particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings in the United States.

Focuses on debates and developments in methodology and the ways in which ethnographic work interacts with education. Particular chapters in this volume are concerned with access to research sites, critical ethnography, text construction, dilemmas of researching different ethnic groups and or researching children, and more.

Immigration, Citizenship and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States

As organizations and leadership become more global, there are pressing needs for better developed conceptual models and definitions of what is meant by global leadership. This work is divided into three parts: theory, research and practice. It addresses definitional issues, as well as the philosophical problems of universality among cultures.