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Strategic management relies on an array of complex methods drawn from various allied disciplines to examine how managers attempt to lead their firms toward success. This book discusses about key methodology issues in the strategic management field.

Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies, died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her book "Industrial Organization".

Addresses the issue of product market integration within the European Union (EU) from a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from economics to political science and sociology. This book assesses the functioning of the EU Internal Market and evaluates the need for differentiated integration in an enlarged and heterogeneous EU.

This volume brings together various emerging perspectives in strategy research for further interaction and debate. Contributions address a range of issues related to the globalization of strategy research and chapters examine strategy theory, methods and research as well as strategy as practice, discourse and reflexive design.

If an organization has reached a high level of project management maturity, the organization should regard that as a reason for extreme pride among competitors. This book describes the attributes, procedures, and policies that reflect sophisticated organizations.

Delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on literature, contemporary issues and various trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective.

Provides researchers, practitioners and advisers working in the fields of psychology and education with an overview of research across a broad spectrum of work within the domain of psychology of education. This book focuses on typically developing school-age children, although issues relating to specific learning difficulties are also addressed.

In contrast to a typical general text in demography, which is concerned with demographic principles, trends, problems, and theories, Applied Demography explores the practical issues with which demographers working for government agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and businesses deal.

Covers both multivariate analysis and matrix algebra. This work focuses on tests of hypotheses such as the Lagrange multiplier test. It discusses asymptotic distribution theory, and characteristic functions in depth. It is suitable for beginning graduate courses in mathematical statistics and econometrics.

Addresses ethical and theoretical concerns central to research in psychology, sociology, and anthropology. This book explains ways to collect data, methods for assuring the quality of that data, and the techniques and tools used to organize results, conclusions, and interpretations. It discusses the historical development of ethnography.

The information technology boom of the 1990s stoked a New Economy characterized by surging output per worker but with hard-to-measure and vulnerable underpinnings. This collection of essays aims to offer a thorough investigation of the New Economy.

Offers several features to prepare executives for effective utilization of information systems. This book presents coverage of the information systems technology within the context of information systems and issues surrounding design and implementation of information systems including microcomputers, security issues, and group support systems.

Examines the expectations that underlie financial risk models and the practices and institutions they have engendered. This work includes subjects ranging from risk reporting and risk forecasting to enterprise risk management and the effect of behavioral finance on compensation systems. It seeks to encourage critical thinking and innovation.

Aims to present evidence on what really drives the competitive performance of organizations in multicultural milieu.

Based on the MC-ICAM conference, this text discusses various questions relating to achieving a general public acceptance of various "road pricing" measures.

This text considers the nature of new research questions facing electoral scholars, why conventional pre- and/or post-election studies are ill-equipped to address these questions, and how such studies are adapting to meet the challenges faced by scholars today and in the future.

Once the basics of hypertext had spread around the world via the Internet it became the subject of research. These papers analyse the educational effects of producing it.

These papers discuss how transport paradigms have evolved over the past decade. They show how to translate the understanding of the social and cultural elements of increased transportation of goods and people into more effective and less harmful transport strategies.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized spatial planning and decision making. This work provides an overview of GIS for transportation, from data management issues, to data manipulation and analysis, including considerations brought to the forefront by real-time and mobile computing.

Examines how knowledge is socially constructed and shared through discursive interactions within the classroom community. This book discusses the meaning of the cognitive, emotional and social discourses that exist between teachers and learners and suggests how teachers can create an effective learning partnership to stimulate children.

Examines the market effects of stewardship policies across Europe, as well as their possible impact on the supply of agricultural commodities. This book looks at the economic nature of the agri-environmental measures that were intended to reduce the negative effects of agricultural production on countryside amenities.

Contains over 30 papers presented at ISTTT symposia, exploring solutions to the analysis of traffic and transportation problems through use of the models, methods and analyses. Divided into ten sections, this book addresses issues of safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, planning and the environment.

A selection of papers from the Computer Assisted Learning 1995 Symposium. The theme of the proceedings, Learning to Succeed, draws upon the experience of the widespread use of the microcomputer in education over the past decade in order to assess the use in the new millennium.

Provides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors affecting the lives of Europe's children. This book brings together professionals and researchers from a range of disciplines, to present challenges, for the healthy development of Europe's children and their passage into a satisfying and productive adulthood.

Examines the cultural and organizational complexities which arise during mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances. This book explains the strategic relationship between national cultural differences, execution and the performance of global and corporate alliances.

Focuses on the role of shareholder value as a key tool for evaluating strategic options. By learning the lessons propounded in this volume, companies can avoid inappropriate predation, generate attractive returns for shareholders and provide a platform from which to launch successful strategies.

Concerns about justice and fairness are ubiquitous within and between communities, social groups, organizations and states. This title introduces justice theorizing and research at the intersection of justice and groups. It is of interest to students and scholars in psychology, sociology, law and organizational behavior.

Offers a collection of seven papers that deals with the issues in the field of human resources management.

Features articles that deal with the various aspects of taxation. This title also addresses tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level.

Deals with the issue of entrepreneurship and family business. This title considers the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. It covers topics such as the emergence and growth of family businesses, and the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms.