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Part of "Advances in Learning and Instruction Series", this book provides a comprehensive and coherent perspective on the processes and outcomes of a meaningful and worthwhile educational experience in adult and higher education. It discusses the core concepts of responsibility and control.

This text presents fundamental concepts and general approaches to City Logistics. City Logistics is the process of totally optimizing urban logistics activities by considering the social, environmental, economic, financial and energy impacts of urban freight movement.

Brings together 12 articles from "Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management" dealing with different aspects of the complex process of managing strategic change. This work covers issues such as the development of strategic vision and the creation of a sense of mission, the importance of corporate culture, and more.

Presents research utilizing laboratory experimental methods in economics.

Analyzes factors which may explain, and/or influence the relationship between the competitiveness of multinational enterprises and the countries in which they operate. This book addresses issues such as advances in the determinants and strategy of multinational business activity, and the determinants of location competitiveness of countries.

Focuses on privatization in the transition countries since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the peaceful revolutions in Poland and in then Czechoslovakia (the Czech and Slovak Republics), the break-up of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Russian Federation.

Includes research from North and South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom to provide a global overview of various learning and behavioral disorders. This volume discusses research pertaining to the following areas: working memory, reading disabilities, ADHD, hearing impairments, and motivational orientations.

Examines central tenets of neoliberalism: interference with market mechanisms is the cause of poor economic performance, and returning to market fundamentalism will restore prosperity.

Provides a framework for exploring the relationships between the measurement of non-financial performance at the shop-floor of manufacturing firms across four different countries (UK, Italy, Japan, and Canada) and a range of twenty-eight contingent factors incorporating technological, managerial, organisational and environmental factors.

Looks at the construction of gendered citizenship in different rural contexts.

In an international context, public management arrangements differ significantly from country to country, but also regionally and locally. One reason for these differences may be differences in culture resulting in differing views of the state and its institutions. This book explores cultural influences on public management and its reform.

Mergers and acquisitions continue to be a primary vehicle of growth for companies around the world. Not only in the US and Europe, but also in Japan, China, and India senior executives are making bets on the future of their firms. This title helps scholars think about mergers and acquisitions, building our knowledge base on this critical topic.

Contains chapters dealing with empirical tests of the relationship between multinationality (M) and performance (P). This title determines P, as a dependent variable, by the degree of multinationality, M, where M is usually proxied by the ratio of foreign (F) to total (T) sales or assets, that is, (F/T).

Includes six papers in quantitative economic history. This volume considers growth in colonial North America and examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. It also examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Focuses on corporate governance, defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. This title includes papers that deal with the role played by boards of directors, impact of ownership, executive compensation, and investor protection.

Explores the extent to which the constraints of law explains economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law. This title focuses on such topics that includes economics of environmental policy, urban property rights, antitrust and evolutionary models in economics and law. It focuses on cost-benefit analysis and the law.

Examines the health care and hospital industries and their relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy. This work helps to recognize and address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic thinking and decisive entrepreneurial actions.

Intends to present the research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. This title covers research topics on various aspects of entrepreneurial behavior. It also covers such disciplines as economics, marketing, management, finance, and history. It is suitable for academics and practicing entrepreneurs.

Contains a collection of theoretically data-driven papers, which addresses a series of questions that are at forefront of social movement scholarship. This book builds bridges between scholarship on social movements and on social conflicts. It carries on the distinguished tradition of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series.

Advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. This title aims to advance a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'.

Using studies from Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada, this book offers a contemporary look at police culture from an international perspective by questioning established silos in topics, by presenting new ways of thinking about police culture and suggesting forms that police culture is likely to take in the future.

This volume provides a platform for discussing theoretical and methodological developments in the field of motivation research related to learning and instruction. It highlights how motivation research is reaching out beyond its own traditional domain of study.

Examines real life reflections on Autism Spectrum Disorders, the practices and issues related to assessing, instructing and life-long planning for individuals with autism. This book provides information on identification, characteristics, diagnosis; special, general, early and post-secondary education; and quality of life concerns.

Contains six papers, evenly divided between European and North American topics. On the European side, this title provides regional estimates of social overhead investment in Italy. Turning west, it studies conflicts between ranchers and miners over who should bear the burden of taxation in nineteenth century California.

Features papers presented at the inaugural Wirth Institute Conference on the Austrian School of Economics. This work explores issues in economic policy, applied economics, and pure theory from a variety of perspectives.

Focuses on such themes as - attention to the definitional and theoretical underpinnings of globalization; the ubiquitous nature and topical display of globalization; and, the possibilities of understanding, redefining and rethinking aspects of globalization with the backdrop of issues that relate to education, and the pursuit of public good.

Reviews the literatures on sustainable communities. This volume explores and analyzes the policies, practices and strategies related to community involvement and how this shapes local environmental contexts. It debates and shares experiences generated through the various empirical studies.

Presents a selection of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life. This volume concerns the management by organizations of the emotions of employees and the effects on individuals. It includes research in the field and contributions from established scholars as well as 'rising stars' in the field.

This volume covers subject areas such as: A Two-Sector General Equilibrium Model of a Small Open Economy; Non-Traded Goods and Tourism in the Pure Theory of Trade; Tourism, Taxes and Immiserization in a Two-Country Trade Model; Guest Workers and Resident Immiserization; Terms of Trade and Resident Welfare; and Growth in a Dynamic Model of Trade.

This is an updated collection of advanced theories and methods in the field of urban policies and highlights modern urban policies that stem from them. It gives a dynamic perspective on theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field of urban economics, stressing the limits of previous theories and methods, and new developments in the field.