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Focuses on the phenomenon of globalization, and specifically its relevance to and impact on small business and entrepreneurship. This book presents four sections; and helps readers to better understand and anticipate the dramatic changes coming, and to design appropriate corporate strategic responses.

A comprehensive study of the applications of a power control exchange framework of accounting to management control systems, this text includes chapters which deal with the issues from a sociological perspective, rather than an organizational sociological perspective.

Presents a collection of essays in international marketing. This book addresses various aspects of export and multinational marketing. It examines international marketing from theoretical and practical perspectives, and addresses various aspects of export and multinational marketing through management, public policy, and other issues.

Focuses on the economics of obesity. This work assesses the impact of food quality, access to fast food, food prices, legislation, and other factors on diet, physical activity, and body weight. It calculates the impact of obesity on hospital costs and examines the externalities imposed by obesity through health insurance.

Microsimulation allows computing the whole set of taxes and benefits of a country and the resulting budget constraint for each household of a representative dataset. This volume contains eight contributions aimed to advance policy analysis using the European tax-benefit micro-simulation model, EUROMOD.

"Exploring Interpersonal Dynamics".

Brings together articles on Mergers and Acquisitions from academics around the world with the purpose of enhancing our knowledge of the process, from strategic analysis to integration. This work is the diversity of perspectives that creates an opportunity to learn from others.

Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research annual whose purpose is to meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. Contributions include empirical and non-empirical articles and emphasize pedagogy, explaining how teaching methods or curricula/programmes can be improved.

These papers explore the contemporary strategic management field. They examine how firms behave, why they are different, what limits their scope and what determines success and failure in international competition.

Focuses on topics related to the economics of airline institutions such as airports, air traffic control, labor, operations and marketing. This book provides a collection of articles covering developments in the airline industry.

This collection of material on the subject of international comparisons is divided into two main sections: The papers in Part I relate to empirical studies of different sectoral and national income aggregates at both regional and global levels, while the papers in Part II deal with methodological and analytical issues.

Coalitions refer to mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and associations. This book examines sequential coalition formation in oligopolies. The principal aim is the prediction and explanation of the coalition structure - whether an industry will emerge as a monopoly, say, or as a collection of sub-coalitions.

This series presents essays on topics in international marketing. Both theoretical/conceptual and empirical contributions are included.

Part of a series which discusses advances in mathematical programming and financial planning.

This volume covers such topics as the sociology of education, theoretical diversity in the analysis of gender and education, the influence of subject areas on middle school tracking policies, and unifying and differentiating processes in schools and classrooms.

This is the 3rd volume of Advances in Telecommunication Management, focusing on Information Technology and Crisis Management.

Part of the "Advances in Austrian Economics" series, this title contains a collection of papers on the evolution of consumption.

Global changes in policy and technology in the telecommunications industry in the 1990s are described and analyzed in this volume, showing how this industry creates a bridge for society's transition to the next century. It explores such areas as multimedia, cellular communications and the Internet.

Provides a comprehensive view of the economic and social research frontiers of the telecommunications and information activities in the Information Age.

A discussion of various aspects of dynamic behavior of empirical macroeconomic, and in particular, macroeconometric models, is presented in this book. This book addresses in depth several theoretical and practical aspects concerning the modeling and analysis of long-run equilibrium behavior, adjustment dynamics and stability.

This book represents an ongoing research agenda the aim of which is to contribute to the Keynesian paradigm in macroeconomics. It examines the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model, the assumption of intertemporal optimizing behavior of economic agents, competitive markets and price mediated market clearing through flexible wages and prices.

Part of a series examining different aspects of knowledge and society, this volume focuses on the anthropology of science and technology. Divided into three parts, it covers: the reconstruction of medical science and technology; science and technology at large; and discipline, culture and power.

Presents theoretical work, significant empirical studies, methodological developments, analytical techniques, and philosophical treatments to advance the field of multi-level studies, regardless of disciplinary perspective. This volume provides scholarly information on multiple level issues in organizations and time.

Focusing on Equity, this volume provides an international forum for researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields.

Intends to promote theory and research on various substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.

Contains thirteen chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. This work deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. It covers topics such as: job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, and schooling.

Includes papers that reflect a range of theoretical approaches to the social psychology of the workplace. This volume explains the cognitive processes through which gender influences the way we perceive, interpret, and respond to our social world. It emphasizes the importance of understanding gender as a multilevel structure.

This book addresses major developments in a systematic way, from the perspective of criminology and sociology, by looking at several types of crimes, old and new, from the angle of human rights and human rights violations. It highlights the influence of the human rights paradigm on parts of the justice system in North America, Europe and elsewhere.

The growing use of the internet by businesses and consumers is rapidly changing the structure, conduct, and performance of different sectors of the global economy. This ten chapter volume on organizing the 'new economy' documents some of these changes, and examines the ramifications for business strategy and public policy.

Covering a range of fields in economics: econometrics, actuarial science, experimental economics, index theory, national accounts, and economic forecasting, this book takes measurement in economics as its central focus. It shows how different and sometimes distinct fields share the same kind of measurement problems.