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Drawing from philosophical, historical, and psychological research, this book redefines conceptual change as it applies to learning and instruction. It addresses topics such as: foundations of conceptual change research, examines the influence that personal beliefs have on conceptual change, and focuses on mathematics learning and teaching.

Delivers insights of scientific studies pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism, providing a forum to stimulate discussions on contemporary issues and trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. This title intends to divulge the methods of inquiry so as to inspire research topics.

Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.

Focuses on how leaders use strategy, structures, and systems to create the conditions that stimulate others to meaningfully contribute to the overarching goals of the organization. This book explores how leaders exercise leadership indirectly through structures, processes and systems that stimulate others to contribute to organizational goals.

Covers a range of topics in the field of income distribution and extends the approach to related issues such as mobility and attitudes to risk. This selection of papers includes both participatory experiments and questionnaire experiments.

Research methods present the strategic management field with several opportunities and challenges. This volume includes three types of chapters aimed at exploiting the opportunities and meeting the challenges. Collectively, they offer thinking about research methodology provided by intellectual leaders within the strategic management field.

Covers areas that consist of a clarification of theoretical research on social networks; the emergence of trust and cooperative norms under conditions of uncertainty; social identity processes; and processes in discussion groups and teams.

Part of a series which discusses advances in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting.

The International Conference series on Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo Series) is an event that brings together academics, government policy makers, politicians, consultants and public transport operators to review the developments in the theme area. This book presents selected papers from the 9th Thredbo Series.

Provides a discussion of the relationship between higher education and working life from three different perspectives: society, higher education and the world of work. Divided in three sections, it discusses the interplay between education and work both from the societal point of view and from the pedagogical perspective.

Offers an analysis of complexity in learning environments from a cognitive perspective. This book makes specific suggestions for educational practice on complexity. It discusses theoretical accounts and empirical findings about learning, the learner, and learning environments.

Urban freight transport has become an essential issue in urban planning. This book is an outcome of the Fourth International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics IV held in Langkawi in 2005) organised by the Institute for City Logistics. It includes recent developments in the modelling, evaluation and planning of city logistics schemes.

"Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity".

Develops a model for the exchange relationship between local customers and MNCs, and investigates the effect of different political organizations and other business firms. This book examines relationship using many dimensions, business, social and political, through multiple cases from a developing country (DC) and industrialized countries.

Aims to present analyses of some major developments in work and organisational psychology, with a focus on international business and management. This book deals with such topics as globalization, international business negotiations, cross-cultural communication, entry strategies, doing business in different regions, and future trends.

Developments in the field of timing and time perception have multiplied the number of relevant questions regarding psychological time, and helped to provide answers and open many avenues of thought. This book brings together presentations of many of the main ideas, findings, hypotheses and theories that experimental psychology offers to the field.

Contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the IMA 4th International Conference on Mathematics in Transport. This work focuses on the development and application of mathematical and statistical modelling in transport.

In the developed and developing world, taxing certain kinds of activities, sectors or individuals - the so-called "hard-to-tax" - is a challenge for governments. This volume's goal is to take a hard, objective look at the different aspects of taxing the hard-to-tax, as well as at a variety of approaches that have been employed around the world.

This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. These relationships are analysed in this book by operationalising normative social choice theory, with aggregate and hierarchical approaches developed and empirically applied.

The result of the first European Conference on Cognitive Economics, this book gives an overview of recent achievements of cognitive economics and aims to better define its motivations and its boundaries. The articles illustrate the different tools and methods which are currently used in the domain and enlarge those traditionally used in economics.

A global mindset is 'a set of individual attributes that enable an individual to influence individuals, groups, and organizations from diverse socio/cultural/institutional systems'. This book intends to explore the content of a global mindset, how it is developed, when and how it should be applied, and what its consequences are.

Reviews economic institutional approach to business and corporate strategy bringing together the disparate strands of institutional economics-based strategy research. This book focuses on institutional economics' insights regarding diversification, alliances, franchising, geographic location, innovation, and other strategic choices.

Presents papers by academics, practitioners and consultants who are engaged in global leadership, from multiple perspectives. This title includes chapters on: personality, leadership and globalization; the roles of international experience, experiential learning, and cultural intelligence in developing global leaders; and, ethical leadership.

"Consumer Culture Theory".

Includes papers that describe the Library & Information Science community in Finland, outline the history of Library & Information Science in Finland, and reviews the scientific achievements of its Library & Information Science scholars. This title deals with some universal themes and topics in Library & Information Science research and practice.

Provides understanding of global phenomenon marketplaces where individuals living in poverty buy/sell products and services. This volume presents a collection of articles that describe the particular group of consumers and entrepreneurs, and inform us on better ways to understand, reach, and empower them.

Containing eleven papers, this issue collects empirical studies on producers cooperatives in Israel, Italy, Spain and Canada. It focuses on theoretical advances in the literature on cooperatives with the objective of understanding the conditions that explain co-ops longevity. It contains a mix of empirical and theoretical research.

Examines topics in law and economics. This book models the price effects of mergers that not only increase concentration in the relevant market but also increase the merged firms' participation in other, complementary markets.

Suitable for researchers in both practice and academe, as well as libraries, this title includes articles on: value-creation models for value-based management; performance standards and managers adoption of risky projects; the effects of organizational culture on budgetary conflict; and, capacity utilization and the Befcu model.

Featuring chapters that explore the interrelationship of qualitative methodologies and development theory, policy and practice, this book demonstrates the importance of placing qualitative methodologies within their conceptual, practical and political contexts. It asks questions of development research.