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Coming to grips with work hours requires difficult choices by individuals, families, organizations and society at large. This title examines the effects of work hours on individual, family and organizational health. It also considers why some people work long hours and the potential costs and benefits of this investment.

Focuses on the research and measurement issues related to the emergent field of gambling studies. This book aims to offer a common starting point for researchers with diverse backgrounds by explaining the generally accepted knowledge in the area, research trends, and information gaps.

Provides a contribution for the analysis of the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) activities on host development and growth, the creation of linkages and knowledge flows in local contexts, and the relationships between foreign activities and home competitiveness.

Talks about the work done in the sociology of law, a field dedicated to the study of the influence of social factors on legal behavior. This book looks at the operation of the justice systems and at various stages of the legal process. It also illustrates the advances in jurisprudential, moral, and practical applications of legal sociology.

"Transportation and Traffic Theory: Papers Selected for Presentation at 17th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, a Peer Reviewed Series Since 1959".

Considers Bilbao's social history and the complex relationships between local and global entities. This book argues that globalization processes in Bilbao are as old as the city itself and that the role of the State must be taken into account in order to explain the city's changing fortunes.

Presents the theoretical background to risk and corporate crisis management and offers useful methods and techniques applicable to small and medium sized enterprises in the event of disastrous situations such as fire, flood, storm, etc. This book deals with topics such as globalization, international business negotiations, and others.

The 13th International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT) convened during the period of April 37, 2004 in Washington DC, USA. Derived from that conference, this book discusses collaboration between government, industry, and university.

This book conceptualizes the success of Israeli high-tech as a multilevel operation consisting of global, governmental, sources of new start ups, organizational, and industrial factors. It discusses each of these factors individually and the interaction between them, and is an aid for understanding high tech takeoff.

Celebrates Erik De Cortes' scientific career in the international scientific field of instructional psychology. This book addresses the core topics of the learning sciences from a diversity of perspectives. Its sixteen chapters are grouped into 6 sections, including: Learning and Development; Learning and Assessment; and, Learning and Technology.

Written by a distinguished group of academics in planning, this work examines the impact of the institutionalism on the field of planning and on its theory. It is concerned with how civic traditions and institutions affect the urban realm. It also presents the meaning of public-private partnerships that shed light on the role of planning.

This volume brings together chapters presenting a diversity of views on some of the current debates and developments in the field of ethnography. Topics discussed include: participant observation; research roles in fieldwork; access to places and people in research; ethical issues concerning anonymity and intimacy in research; and the use of video.

Focuses on two key components of microeconomics - optimization subject to constraints and the development of comparative statics. The book assumes familiarity with calculus of one variable and basic linear algebra, allowing coverage of additional topics like the chain rule and Taylor's theorem.

A compilation of different qualitative approaches to data gathering in educational research. Topics covered include anthropological perspectives, collaborative research, symbolic interactionism, a feminist materialistic approach and the approach to ethical issues.

All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.

This book is embedded in practical tools which proposes a fourth field of economics in addition to macro, micro and industrial organisation economics (IO); namely what may be called the economics of diversity. This book asserts that businesses are as individual as people. All have unique identities, what may be called genomes.

This tribute to the work of Lawrence R. Klein, from all his friends who share a common agenda to relate the study of economics to the studies of mankind, is a learned, erudite exposition of macroeconomics and macroeconomic modeling including national, sectoral, issues exchange rate, environment, international price competitiveness and linkages.

Traceable as far back as the work of the path-breaking Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, subculture and counterculture have long been conceptual staples of the discipline. This collection includes 16 readings on aspects of sub-community life in sport that showcases the breadth and depth of sport subcultural research.

Sustainable environments, global networks, ethical financial reporting, and emancipatory accounting are increasingly shaping social and accounting dialogue. This volume contributes to a visionary accounting practice in its coverage of issues and geographical perspectives prompting changes in social beliefs and levers of power.

In our reforming public institutions it sometimes feels as though the very ground of social and political contracts is shifting. This volume features contributors who give us a start in thinking through such a repositioning, some within the values framework of NPM, others as external observers.

Drawing on sociology, labor economics, organizational behavior and social history, this title presents papers that examine time in the workplace. It examines issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors including race, class, occupation and other structural components of work.

Focuses on the foundations of global leadership, and explores a selection of the social and psychological processes underlying effective global leadership. This title also looks at the practice of global leadership, discussing practical solutions to the problems that leaders face.

The estimation of the effects of treatments endogenous variables representing everything from individual participation in a training program to national participation in a World Bank loan program has occupied much of the theoretical and applied econometric research literatures. This volume presents a collection of papers on this topic.

The study of social dynamics using quantitative methodology is complex and calls for technical and methodological approaches in social science research. This book provides step-by-step instructions for designing and conducting longitudinal research, with focus on the longitudinal analysis of both quantitative outcomes and qualitative outcomes.

Explores the significance of various issues in international trade that may be instrumental in bringing about a workable economic order. This work discusses International trade topics - both theoretical and applied - from a number of perspectives: the Anglo-Saxon, the Pacific-Asian, the European, and developing economies.

Access prices are important for competition in formerly monopolistic industries, and also for industries where competition has long been established such as payment and credit card networks or mobile telecommunications. Organized into five parts, this book provides theoretical and empirical analyses in access pricing and related topics.

Presents an introduction to the issues and applications of experimental economics. This volume examines the methodology of field experiments, and offers various applications of field experiments. The applications cover issues such as risk and time preferences of the Danish population, savings decisions of the Canadian working poor, and more.

Examining various issues in international finance and financial institutions, this collection of eleven papers represent the research on important topics in finance. The contributions include analyses of issues relating to asset prices, the behaviour of stock returns, and capital-raising activities.

This volume is based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi Conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi, June 2004), which are jointly organized every two years by CESifo and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Focuses on issues that affect buyer behavior in an international context. This volume contains papers that contribute to theory development. It looks at the impact of direct to consumer prescription drug advertising on consumers, and at the role of emotions in advertising and retailing contexts and their impact on buyers.