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Contains chapters that focus on the individual interrelated subjects regarding the economics of information systems: the adoption and diffusion of information technologies; the pricing of data communications; the means and tactics firms us to compete with each other; and the manner in which firms interact with and distribute goods to customers.

Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title examines fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.

Featured in this volume are articles on managers' perceptions of the physical reality of the firms' utilization of its physical assets; operational planning and control involving activity-based costing; effects of benchmarking and incentives on organizational performance; and work team empowerment.

Presents evidence showing that ownership structure affects a firm's agency costs of cash flow, which, in turn, influences the market's reaction to changes in the firm's dividend policy. This volume examines the relationship between managerial entrenchment and the effectiveness of internal governance mechanisms and the firm performances.

Presents papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. This work covers the field of human resources management and acts as a primary resource to both individuals and series.

These papers explore the interplay among country and company cultures, examine corporate strategy and identify the stage that company and business unit development has reached. The contributors offer a deeper understanding of multinational and global leadership issues.

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The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. Among biological areas from which these linkages are drawn include: human ethology; socio-biology; ethology; genetics; evolutionary theory; neurosciences; biotechnology; and, bioethics, amongst others.

The 12th volume in a series of analyses of political power and social theory. It is divided into three parts, which discuss: globalization; labour and the state; and scholarly controversy - civil society and ethnicity.

Covers chapters on different theoretical perspectives in motivation research. This work provides an overview of the social cognitive motivational theories and the issues that these models and perspectives are confronting at the edge of motivational science. It includes chapters such as self-efficacy theory, self-concept theory, and others.

This is the 16th volume in the series discussing a variety of topics in the field of current perspectives in social theory.

Political economists and other macro-oriented scholars have focused on the comparative specificities of distinct capitalist systems. Mostly, these systems are studied as national systems. This title features a section that addresses techniques of analysing the variety of political-economic constellations in a methodological way.

Presents a series of class notes taken at Northwestern and Chicago during the period 1964-1967. This work contains notes from courses at Northwestern are Robert Clower's course on economic theory, and Frank Fetter's course on monetary institutions and policies. It also includes Samuels' notes from a faculty seminar on myth, theology and society.

Includes Glenn Johnson's notes from Charles M Hardin's 1947 course on the politics of agriculture and Warren Samuels' notes from Charlton Tebeau's 1953 course on United States constitutional history. This volume contains Allan Schmid's journal entries distributed in connection with his courses on institutional and behavioral economics.

Presents materials in two fields, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, both broadly considered. This series also presents review essays on various works in the two fields, some of which are multiple reviews; and occasional mini-symposia.

Examines the roles of organizational justice and trust in management control system. This title explores whether qualitative information contained in annual reports contains potential fraud risk indicators. It includes the findings that suggest that deception can be detected by analyzing management's discussion and analysis.

Offers comprehensive and analytical literature surveys of the central questions regarding the linkages between intellectual property protection, international trade and investment, and economic growth. This book covers such questions as policy coordination in IPR, dispute resolution, and markets for technology and technology transfer.

Documents research on the impact of computer games on the learning of adults. Designed for professionals in the gaming, simulation, assessment and evaluation, educational technology, and educational psychology communities, this book explores the use of computer game technology for teaching and measurement of learning in adults.

Addresses the impact on international marketing of major trends in the external and internal environment of the firm: technology-enabled international marketing research, global account management, procurement and international supplier networks, internationalization of small and entrepreneurial firms, and outsourcing and offshoring.

Discusses such topics as the global variation in financial ratios, trading costs of target firms around corporate takeovers, and economic activity measures in nonlinear asset pricing.

Part of a series on research in human social conflict, this title covers such topics as demography and ethnic conflict, racial and ethnic conflict, psychological perspectives on inter-racial and inter-ethnic group conflict, and attitudes related to racial and ethnic conflict.

This volume is concerned with political action on the margins of conventional political participation in a democracy - extremism, protest and social movements.

Covers a variety of topics concerning patients, consumers, providers and caregivers.

Part of a series offering international reviews of comparative public policy, this book provides comparative perspectives on family law and gender bias. It discusses the concept of the natural family and the American family; gender and racial sterotype; and patriarchy in China.

Part of a series which covers advances and progress in the field of human ecology, this title discusses such topics as: the world around us and how we make it; the political economy of environmental problems and policies; and, the assembling of human populations.

Deals with such topics as managing the organizational environment, the values of accounting and education, segregation in the professions and expectations of professional success in accounting.

Focuses on different aspects of international business and international relations.

Contains monograph length conceptual papers that are designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.

Discusses such topics as the influence of the environment, the effect of the type of regime, regional case studies, and generalizations.

Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This title presents theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology.