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Includes the 'contemporary' and 'alternative' approaches to leadership. This volume covers the nature of charisma, transformational leadership and leader-member exchange.

Includes the 'classical' and the 'new wave' approaches to leadership. The classical approaches should be instantly recognizable by any student of leadership because of their resilience and longevity. The new wave approaches offer different perspectives on aspects of leadership that can be analyzed from a multiple-levels perspective.

A study of urban problems and policy. It addresses the socio-economic context of the Metropolitan region. It also discusses: fragmentation, divisiveness and governmental organization; divisiveness and law enforcement; divisiveness and the social services; and, divisiveness and regional development.

Discusses the global applicability of managerial theory and experience. This book examines issues in organizational behavior, human resource management, and managing across cultures.

This is the 22nd volume in a series of monographs whose main topic of concern is that of organizational behaviour and industrial relations. This volume deals with managing changes.

This study in economic and financial analysis looks at industrial entrepreneurs during India's liberalization. Topics addressed include: the founding entrepreneurs - origins, education and capital; and social mobility, human capital, liberalization and entrepreneurship.

Part of a series on international comparative management, this title addresses: the status of applied public management - applied and theoretical considerations; public management in selected nations; and, public management implementation challenges.

Contains papers, which grew out of the eighth biannual Conference on Negotiation in Organizations.

Designed as a forum for the presentation of conceptual and methodological issues in the field of personnel and human resources management, this title covers such topics as the role of domain specific measures, and emotionality and job performance.

A collection of contributions to theory, research and policy concerning crime, law and deviance. It deals with the core sociological concept of control, and aims to emphasize the breadth and diversity in theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.

Intended to be a corrective to the literature on marginality. In addition to theoretical and methodological concerns a major theme for this volume is the combination of both theory and method towards an investigation of issues and problems that emanate from the social structure, and are closely linked to power and domination.

Part of a series of research articles in social movements, conflicts and change, this title contains papers that are broad in scope and methodologically diverse.

Focuses on the policy implementation process in developing nations. This work attempts to better understand how political and administrative institutions of particular countries effect their domestic policy implementation process.

Focuses on the patterns and processes connected with leaving religion. This volume contains papers that range from theoretical analyses of the dynamics underlying religious exiting to case studies examining specific instances of distancing from and departing from a religious lifestyle.

Part of a series which examines advances in Pacific Basin financial markets, this title discusses issues such as time-varying volatility estimates in option pricing, the risk behaviour of Hong Kong firms approaching bankruptcy, and the time value of futures options in Australia.

This volume presents examinations, recommendations and future predictions in the fields of social science information and policy-making in both a contemporary and historical framework.

Covers a variety of topics in financial planning and forecasting.

Covers such topics as financial distress and capital structure choice; optimal capital structure and valuation of the firm in multiperiod context; regression tests of the present value model of stock prices; and, intra-industry information transfers and stock repurchases.

Includes papers that cover organizational shifts, interlibrary lending and borrowing, preservation, and budgeting for administrators, educators and students.

Suitable for librarians and library managers in academic institutions, this title covers advances in library administration and organization. It collects articles that draw upon practical situations to illustrate administrative principles.

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and important policy issues of the day. This title addresses the global financial crisis debates.

Contains nine papers that address the challenges in organizational change, report the results of change-related research, and advocate methodological advances in the field.

Emotions have widespread effects in organizations and underlie a broad range of dynamics in organizations. This volume explores the role that emotion plays in such diverse organizational phenomena as entrepreneurship, change, service failure, and creativity.

Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. This book presents a variety of lessons learned from case studies from Asian countries (India, Japan and Thailand).

Aspects of technology policy which managers have to cope with are covered in this volume, including: research and development management, technological developments as related to corporate strategy; procedures conducive to innovation; and matching technological development trends.

A general dictionary within the areas of company, business and financial law, where the selection of terms is based primarily on established and emerging usages within Community legal terminology. It provides definitions and general explanations in English, supplemented with specific explanations in Danish and/or German as required.

Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous economist Carl Menger. When he was professor of geometry at the University of Vienna from 1927 to 1938, he joined the Vienna Circle and founded his Mathematical Colloquium. This title offers the transcription of those parts of Menger's notes.

Deals with the methodologies of financial risk management of pension plans, mostly defined benefit plans. This book outlines basic actuarial valuation concepts and also presents valuation methods for defined benefit plans, and discusses their relationship to other types of pension plans. It also analyzes measurement of rate of return of a fund.

Provides a synopsis of the various accounting sub-fields and an analysis of the controversies. This book shows how, often, critique authors and their discussants express divergent opinions, and how such disagreement offers an encouraging signal that there remain interesting, open research questions and that our scholars find these issues exciting.

Represents a holistic approach to convergence, bringing to bear a number of critical perspectives: economics, engineering, business, organization theory, psychology, and policy analysis. This book is useful for schools of communication, centers for telecommunications studies, business schools, policy departments, and telecommunication operators.