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Focuses on market systems and market liberalization in local communities. Divided into 4 parts, this book addresses topics which include the oil industry and the gulf coast, negotiating values in the market, and more.

Includes a synthesis of advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise, with a focus on internalization and international diversification issues. This research volume proposes important extensions of multinational enterprise theory, especially as regards the importance of geography to multinational strategy.

Focuses on the ways in which corporations exercise political power, and how changes in the political-legal arrangements in which corporations are embedded affect their organizational behavior. This volume examines the historical and dialectical relationship between the corporation and the state.

Presents papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. This book contains seven papers on critical issues in the field of human resources management, aimed at developing a more informed understanding of the field.

Focusing on "Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification", this volume addresses key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. It includes papers which explore the importance of entrepreneurial motivation in changing markets, and more.

Documents the types of work in which women engage, and gender equity issues they face. The papers in this title show both the importance of considering the uniqueness of cultural contexts for understanding and resolving problems and how global interdependence affects local gender realities.

Research methods present the strategic management field with opportunities and challenges. This second volume describes challenges and opportunities inherent in particular content areas, examines key ontological and epistemological issues in the strategic management context and also describes how strategy researchers can use particular methods.

A collection of papers that address the tension between what researchers can deliver, what they define as reputable knowledge, and what library practitioners need to know "to get the job done".

Presents lecture notes from courses at the University of Wisconsin during 1955-6 given by Hans Gerth and Edwin Witte, together with correspondence of Selig Perlman. This volume also presents notes taken by Taylor Ostrander in courses given at the University of Chicago during 1933-4.

A collection of papers which push the study of the multifaceted nature-society relationship and the socioeconomic consequences of human dependence on nature forward in a variety of areas. It examine the roles of material process, space, and time in shaping social processes of economic ascent and long term hegemonic change.

Includes contributing chapters from authors based in Asia, Europe, and North America to examine how Japanese firms have responded to the challenge of a slower domestic economy and a more competitive international economy. This work contains articles to address three aspects of this issue.

Contributes to the understanding of product innovation - how it takes place and how it affects firms and the economy. This book links product innovation to interactive learning and to the performance of firms. It studies the interconnections between these three elements on the basis of unique data sets and detailed case studies.

Examining practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations, this volume features contributions that are based on four themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, and cinema.

The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. Focusing on issues that relate to health care providers, dealing with home and community based services for the elderly and provides lessons from countries outside the United States related to the overall themes of chronic care, .

Provides an overview of the rise and fall of Europe's new stock markets (the German Neuer Markt, the French Nouveau Marche, the Italian Nuovo Mercato and Nasdaq Europe). This book contains twelve papers which investigate the characteristics, the ownership structure and the market performance of companies in the short and long run.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of family issues in Eastern Europe. Bringing together scholars from 14 Eastern European countries, this book explains family processes in that particular country focusing on the historic, social and economic contexts and the impact they have on families. It also provides demographic information about families.

The sociology of emotions is at the forefront of micro social theory and research. The papers in this volume represent an array of approaches to the analysis of emotions, including from traditions in social psychology and micro sociology traditions such as symbolic interactionism, expectation states research, interaction ritual theory, and others.

Contains articles that exemplify the conflicts, the coping strategies and resolutions adopted by those at the policy implementation interface. Examination of these processes using ethnographic methods identifies and characterises these tensions and provides research findings that can be used to construct solutions.

Contains selected papers presented at the "Canada-United States Business Conference" held at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, on April 11-12, 2003.

Explains how the accounting profession and the FASB failed to deal with developing problems, and how there is hope that the integrity of the profession can be restored. The author presents his basic belief that only a historical cost based system can be used to establish the reliability in financial data.

Starting with an overview of the history and philosophy of punishment, this title includes articles that explore penal practices in the modern state and the deeper philosophical and social aspects of retributive justice.

The 11 papers that comprise this volume cover managed care issues and organizational features, special groups of patients and health issues, lessons from countries around the world and broader policy concerns and health insurance reform.

Why has schooling failed to deliver on its promise of reducing economic and social disparities? This volume addresses this and other questions, taking the reader into a variety of nations and cultural settings. It illuminates how schools can reduce or reinforce the layered stratification of society, even in nations with non-western traditions.

Offers a critique of biomedical approaches to personal and public health, and calls for more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined.

Presents an examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book presents a critical assessment of issues in occupational stress and well being.

Most universities do not teach meta-thinking so it is logical that company thinkers may not really understand how to think and decide upon important issues. This volume explores how such thinking can be employed to improve the thinking of those who are responsible for core performance.

Features contribution from people who have developed and used video in teacher education. This book focusses on video as opposed to other technology (e-mail, etc) and its use in teacher education.

Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories regarding disaster and terror. This volume brings together a creative set of papers, most of which are about the 9.11 attacks.

Part of a series that aims to present timely, scholarly work on multiple levels of analysis, multi-level theory, research, and methods. The focus is on critical essays, theoretical work, empirical studies, methodological developments, analytical techniques, and philosophical treatments.

Asseses the leadership of Indiana University in the developments in the field of international business. This book develops several overlapping themes: the process of internationalization within major Business Schools; and, the Indiana University experience as a leader in comparison to others.