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The ratification in 1994 of the North American Free Trade Agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico awakened them to look to the south of the US border. This book offers an analysis of trade and liberalization movements in Latin America, and explores macro- and micro-financial implications of investing in Latin American countries.

Over a career in economics spanning 40 years, Peter Gray has made significant contributions and syntheses in a variety of subfields in international economics. This work presents essays by eminent scholars in the fields of International Trade and Investment written in honour of H Peter Gray. Contributors include John Dunning, and Gabriel Benito.

Examines one particular aspect of the global economic order, namely international public policy. This book provides a forum for publication of some of the research findings in studies of international public policy and also aims to augment the work done in the area of examining the internationalizing process of public policy.

These research papers study a number of important issues in the world's financial markets.The objective of the book is to provide the reader with a comprehensive and balanced overview of the world's financial markets at the end of the 20th century.

Traditional notions of stand-alone, "atomistic" organizations are giving way to new concepts about organizations and new modes of organizational interaction. This volume develops a number of systems perspectives and approaches that are essential in managing today's organizations.

Tourism and development are frequently mentioned together, yet the contribution of tourism to development in the Third World is controversial. This book provides an in depth study of Mexico's experience with the international tourism industry since the 1960s.

Provides an analysis of the management and investment strategies of Japanese multinational companies, examining foreign investment from a Japanese perspective by studying international business practices and the behaviour of multinational companies in the global environment.

Presenting the history and status of airline alliances, this book looks at reasons why alliances are being formed. It also analyzes the questions such as: Why are alliances likely to remain a key fixture of the airline industry in the foreseeable future? And what implications do alliances have on carrier management and public policy makers?

Aims to present, analyse and discuss the evolution and outlook for financial services in North America, with special attention to the banking sector. This book addresses the theme within the context of the globalization of trade and financial services and the changes in domestic banking and regulatory policies in Canada, Mexico and the US.

Brings together the research on conceptual change from perspectives in developmental, cognitive and motivational psychology, instructional psychology and science education. This book addresses four main themes that include traditional cognitive views on knowledge acquisition and socioconstructionist perspectives.

This volume proposes a classification of organizational types based on studies of managers' actual approaches to "framing" the environment of an organization and possible modes of achieving it between organization and environment.

Establishes a line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. This book contextualizes it in terms of relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. It focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards pleasure travel. It also looks at the relationship between modernity and motivations of tourists.

Deals with one of the great dramas of our day, the transformation of countries from economic backwardness, into greater efficiency and participation in the invigorating currents of international trade and investment. This book is about building market institutions and about the struggle to shed institutional baggage of the past.

Examines the changing regulatory climate for the liner shipping industry and explores managerial thinking about co-operation and competition within the industry. This book develops guiding principles for a common regulatory policy for liner shipping while proposing a framework for shipping managers to guide strategy formulation and implementation.

Examines the impact of globalization on the competitiveness of a variety of regions and countries. This work analyzes the interface between trade, FDI flows, and the activities of MNE's. It also deals with the consequences of globalization, and the deepening of cross-border economic relationships, on the policies of national governments.

Addresses the fundamental topics within travel behaviour research and serves both to define the state of the art and to stimulate research. This book contains twenty-nine papers presented at the Seventh International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and subsequently refereed and revised for publication.

There have been marked developments in the field of measurement in education and psychology. This book presents the developments that have occurred and puts them into perspective. It discusses the challenge to improve measurement both for research and for the assessment of student performance and learning in schools.

Contributes to the state of knowledge in the area of relationship marketing and provides readers with an insight into the antecedents and roots of the "fashionable" interest in relationship marketing. This book presents ideas on our understanding of networks, relationships, and interaction.

Aims to collect papers on learning declarative knowledge and problem solving skills that involve multiple representations such as graphical and mathematical representations, knowledge at different levels of abstraction. This book covers approaches to this topic from different perspectives: educational, cognitive modelling and machine learning.

Studies how organisations manage safety and what is crucial for a good safety management system, how to harness change directly to safety improvement and how to adapt safety management systems to change imposed from the outside.

This text addresses many of the issues which arise in the funding and settlement of cross-border financial transactions, covering a broad spectrum of the international finance issues encountered in global business operations.

The market model is one of the most studied and utilized return generating models in finance. This book analyses the market model; discusses its characteristics; and presents criticisms and shortcomings. It also presents a guide to the various applications of the model, as well as a discussion of other types of model.

Suitable for readers interested in transport and/or European policies, this book provides an overview of the problems and challenges that the European transport system faces. It includes an analysis of the Guidelines on trans-European transport networks (TEN's) decided by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament in July 1996.

Information technology has transcended the borders of the individual firm. Rapid developments in information technology have many implications for the organisation and management of transport and logistics. This work presents 20 chapters that study applications of information systems to logistics and transportation systems.

In May 1998, twenty representatives from the higher education communities of the United States and Western Europe met in Glion, Switzerland to discuss the challenges facing higher education and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. This work presents the collection of papers written by members of the colloquium.

Contains cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. This work studies the design, dynamics and outcomes of a variety of policies both at the national and the institutional level. It also includes comparisons that are made within Europe, and between Europe, the United States and Australia.

Focussing on the shortage in supply of science-trained students, this book addresses the question of how best to plan investment in science at secondary level in developing countries using insights from the studies conducted under a five-year research programme carried out by the International Institute for Educational Planning.

Provides readers with an examination of the use of computer based communication technologies within education. This work includes a discussion that ranges from whether new forms of teaching and learning involving telematics can replace existing methods, to how far collaborative learning can take place through telematics.

Serves as a Festschrift for Hans J Eysenck on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Each chapter in this volume describes Hans Eysenck's contribution to a particular topic then what research has developed from it, what kinds of amendments, modifications or additions to his work are appropriate and, finally thoughts about the future of the field.

Offers an analysis of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness. This book defines the concepts of school and educational analysis. It demonstrates the scope and range of application of the concept of school effectiveness. It focuses on modelling and theoretical interpretation of educational effectiveness.