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Is there evidence that performance budget reform increases administrative discretion? This book examines that question by testing the fit between reform expectations and reform outcomes as viewed by practitioners.

Hardbound. What is it like to live and work as an academic at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century? This volume, containing contributions from authors in Europe and Australasia, seeks to provide a diversity of answers to that question.

Explores the impact of social factors on health, illness and the use of care. Contributors examine a number of social factors including sex, gender and socio-economic status on the healthcare experience and focus on both patients within the care process and the providers of care.

Collects together quality-related theory and research papers. This book examines the evolution and development of the discipline.

Part of "Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research" series that features work on the frontiers of interdisciplinary research on families and family life. This edition reflects the orientation by bringing together empirical research that examines various ways that families intersect with and are affected by crime and the criminal justice system.

This volume reflects and contributes to common themes in management with strong emphasis on theory. These include: major attention to organization features and effectiveness; important behavioural outcomes in organizations; and substantial attention to the public sector.

This volume offers papers touching on four inter-related themes: a critique of the European Enlightenment as a basis for the production of knowledge; the use of "gender" as a concept; problems in feminist theories of development; and the place of feminism in the production of knowledge.

This monograph is characterized by a focused eclecticism, informed by theory and reflection, and stretching the boundaries of practice. Included are papers from a symposium honouring the career of a distinguished practitioner, discussing the challenges facing the profession.

From the de-institutionalization of psychiatric hospitals to the privatization of prisons, the dramatic public policy changes of the last three decades have been, to a large extent, changes in organization. The chapters in this volume examine these organizational changes.

Advances in Financial Economics publishes peer reviewed quality manuscripts on any aspects of financial economics including corporate finance, financial institutions and markets and microeconomics.

Covers such topics as financial meltdown and industrial development, money and financial markets, exchange rates, capital flows, economic reforms, human capital development, impact of the financial crisis on growth and poverty incidence, as well as other development problems in Asia-Pacific countries.

This volume presents studies contributing to the enhancement of the outcomes research paradigm on public health by incorporating economic and social interactions within the health care delivery, clinical decision-making and outcomes systems.

Edwin R A Seligman was a leading specialist in public finance, as well as the history of economic thought. This volume publishes a set of student notes taken in his famous course in public finance at Columbia University. The lectures cover the history of public revenues, types of public revenues in general and of taxation in particular, and more.

Begins with an introduction to Marx's theory of capitalism in his own words, with his examples modernized from use of shillings and pence as subdivisions of the Pound. This work also summarises the political activism and theoretical work of Henryk Grossman through 1926, and includes a brief article of his from 1919.

This volume contains a broad range of papers examining contemporary managerial and public policy issues in finance and banking. Special emphasis is given to financial institutions, instruments, and markets.

How do technology, public works projects, mental health, race, gender, mobility, retirement benefits, and macroeconomic policies affect worker well-being? This volume contains fourteen original chapters utilizing the econometric techniques to answer this question.

Drawing from the Center for Study of Work Teams conference, this volume covers a diversity of issues and variables that contribute to successful teaming. It also presents a variety of types of teams and remind us that different factors apply to different team requirements. It is useful for anyone who is involved with teaming.

Perspectives on Social Problems

Researchers in education and geography embed analysis of instructional methods and learning activities such as lecture, discussion, and simulation into the context of purposes and goals of specific subject matter. They respond to the dilemma that teacher education textbooks and much research on teac

Part of the "Advances in Agricultural Economic History" series, this volume includes articles on the topics of Italian sharecropping, agricultural wage discrimination, factor endowment and contract choice, as well as total factor productivity measures for the United States.

The EMU and the Euro are transforming European banking institutions, regulations, performance, and bank-state relationships. This book analyzes these challenges and processes. It presents various perspectives to guide an understanding of European banks, banking culture, and the role of the banking sector in the EMU's competitive environment.

Addresses out-of-the-box leadership challenges for top-performing 21st century organizations, covering topics such as self leadership, teleleadership, interorganizational leadership, leadership networks; cognitively complex, behaviorally complex, and socially complex leadership.

Studies research in urban sociology. This work presents an analysis of race and ethnicity in urban areas.

Three important issues have attracted researchers to study the economics of disability such as: the availability of sophisticated "data sets"; the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991; and growth in public and private costs of disability support programs. This work brings together studies dealing with these three issues.

Devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting, this title features articles on a range of topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, individual morality, accountability, good business practices in public accounting and the litigation crisis.

Deals with a variety of topics in the field of advances in public interest accounting.

Comprises the work of scholars who gathered in May, 1998, at a conference held at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Administration. This title includes articles that address particular macro aspects of team context and their influences on team process and effectiveness and ultimately their effectiveness as performing units.

A comparative study of how the industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since the 1980s.

Presents a research in employment policy. This title addresses the reform of the unemployment insurance system.

Contains papers that aim to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.