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Features the research being undertaken into higher education systems and issues outside of North America. This book sets out to convey a diversity of ideas and approaches. It includes examples of quantitative and qualitative strategies for data collection and analysis; and approaches ranging from historical and policy analysis to self reflection.

Documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving, and transforming, early childhood practice in these changed and changing times. This book provides readers with possibilities for enacting pedagogies that are responsive to the contemporary circumstances shaping the lives of young children.

Offers insights on the development of authentic leadership. This volume considers the dynamics whereby such factors as humor, political skill, emotions, resiliency, and moral and spiritual leadership interact with authenticity to foster authentic leader-follower relationships at dyadic, group, and organizational levels.

Offers cases with wide ranging policy implications regarding structural and functional changes institutions and organizations might consider, given the confines of context and resources, to improve the conditions of mentally ill offenders.

Examines international health care management. This work consists of 12 papers, and explores the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20 countries in their comparisons.

Looks at conflicts of interest, codes of ethics, and the regulation of corruption in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Community. This title finds that there is less corruption than ever before, but the gap between public expectations and perceptions has nevertheless widened.

Considers the role of cognition in learning and behavioral disorders, along with investigation of learning in diverse settings, including clinical, special class, and inclusive general education classrooms. This book is intended for those concerned with the issues of cognition and learning in a variety of instructional contexts.

Talks about the applications of management science to: Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Productivity Management (DEA), and Financial Management. This book provides an overview of some of the most essential aspects of the discipline. It is suitable for persons interested in management or management science.

Consists of papers that focus on 'collaborative capital' - broadly defined as the organizational assets that enable people to work together well. This volume is manifested in such outcomes as increased innovation and creativity, commitment and involvement, flexibility and adaptability, leveraging of knowledge, and enhanced learning.

Presents research from a group of scholars who have been active in studying multinational teams in a global context. This book focuses on culture and other intra-group factors that affect the effective functioning of multinational teams. It also examines the effect of technology and other external influences on team processes and outcomes.

Features articles encompassing various areas of accounting that incorporate theory from and contribute knowledge and understanding to the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics. This eighth volume promotes research that integrates accounting issues with organizational behavior, and cognitive psychology.

Focusing on "The Marketing Process in Organizational Competence", this volume reflects the fundamental market orientation in competence theory's foundational concepts and theoretical development. It includes papers which explore key aspects of the common conceptual foundations of competence and marketing theories.

Focusses on financial developments in the MENA region, emphasizing the role of stock markets and portfolio flows, foreign direct investments and private and public savings in the growth and development experience of the region. This volume addresses the role commercial banks played in channelling funds from savings to investments.

Enduring scholarly interest in the process of strategy making stems from an assumption that some ways of strategizing are more efficacious than others, and thus lead to higher firm performance in the long run. This volume explores a less visible side of the strategy process field, its sixteen chapters represent strategy process research.

Highlights the valuable role that educational policy plays in the development of education and society around the world. The role of policy in the development of education is crucial. Much rests on the decisions, support, and most of all resources that policymakers can either give or withhold in any given situation.

Volume 12 of this title contains eight papers that deal with contemporary and historical aspects of unionism and other forms of union and labour representation.

Examines topics in the discourse and methodology of economics, focusing on the types of metaphor, the use of mathematics, and the "Economics of..." literature. This work also includes reviews covering topics such as Classical political economy, Marx, communitarianism, Scholasticism, Hume's political ideas, and rational expectations.

Part of a series of studies on research in marketing.

Change has always been characteristic of serials, and the nature and speed of that change have altered with the development of electronic technology. This work presents essays in various topics, emphasizing the response to change and clear communication among those who work with serials as producers, processors and users.

This is the sixth volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems.

Carl J Couch was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and a driving force of the Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction. This title includes essays that are written to honour his life and his life's work.

Part of a series of interdisciplinary research on law, this title invites research on a range of law-related subjects, including law and inequality, feminist jurisprudence, racial oppression and law, and legal institutions and communities.

Discusses such topics as the implications of mainland China and Taiwan's joining GATT on cross straits economic relations and capital structure, market fundamentals and stock returns.

Contains articles dealing with various aspects of taxation. These articles address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. This title offers studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues.

Part of the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series, this work contains 12 original papers, nine empirical ethnographic studies and three theoretical essays - all linked by a common concern with economic choice in various social and cultural situations.

High-quality research and case studies that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. This series features articles on a broad range of important and timely topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, ethical judgment, and accountability.

Explores the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a flourishing, pluralistic, free enterprise economy. This book examines how profit seeking and not-for-profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way.

Research on mental health services for children and adolescents has become a vibrant subspecialty within the larger field of mental health services research.

Contains fourteen research papers with theoretical and empirical treatment of important financial aspects of corporate governance. These papers cover major corporate governance issues such as the role of the board of directors, ownership structure, ownership concentration, and the influence of outside blockholders.

Takes a diverse look at the development of globalization. This work contains an Introduction by Harry F Dahms. It also includes five chapters and two commentaries from some of the most respected personalities in the field.