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Presents essays that consist of research and theory within the general sociological perspective known as Symbolic Interactionism. This series draws upon the work of interpretive students of cultural studies, ethnographers, phenomenologists, and others. It attempts to bridge links to an emergent critical theory of self, language, race, and others.

Covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change through organizational levels.

Focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this book looks at wide-ranging and diverse topics of interest, from dictatorships, civil wars, terrorism and water shortages, to more economic problems arising from volatile oil prices, barriers to trade and foreign investment, dominance of public enterprises, and low skill work forces.

Explores the institutional, economic and ideational factors that shaped the way in which Europe adapted to, resisted, and responded to the challenges of globalization. This book reveals 3 main strategies adopted by European political actors in their response: resistance, adaptation, and the production of alternatives to global norms and practices.

Includes a series of papers designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. This volume addresses real management problems from a research perspective. It leads with a bibliometric study designed to help us understand the development of library science and higher education as disciplines.

Aims to: raise the level of interest in the specific problems of accounting in emerging economies; and increase awareness of real issues. This title provides an overview of the research and progress in this field.

Contains contemporary analysis of three key developments in financial economics: financial integration; the dynamics of financial markets; and the information, computer, and technology revolution and its impact on markets and the economic performance, among others.

Examines occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book explores the work and non-work interface which discusses, amongst others, social anxiety, the importance of coping, working with family, women in the workplace and work addiction.

In decades, sociological research has investigated the nature of the school institution and its uneven effects on the progress of families, societies, and the global community. This book speaks to the diverse contexts in which children function around the world, and to how these contexts shape school experiences and outcomes.

Shows the inter-relationships between transport and land use planning, emphasising the nature of their integration, and showing benefits of integration. This book demonstrates research findings and draws conclusions for application to policy and practice.

Covers a range of aspects of the modelling of transportation processes as complex systems. This work includes contributions that deal with some aspect of human behaviour whether as travellers, drivers, passengers, operators, or regulators reflecting the strides being made in developing theories and mathematical representations of these phenomena.

The complex and conflicting demands that society makes on the countryside have led to a strategic approach to its management. This work evaluates the key challenges facing managers and policy-makers in the British countryside, and examines a range of strategies for making the most of our natural heritage.

Aims to organize, examine, and analyze the works of John Lansing Carey, the longest serving chief staff officer of the AICPA. This biography represents an important chapter in the history of the accounting profession. It demonstrates the role of John Lansing Carey as a leader among the accounting professionals.

This volume presents selected papers presented at the International Microsimulation Conference on Population Ageing and Health: Modelling Our Future held in Canberra, Australia in December 2003; and recent thinking in the field of microsimulation as reflected in special contributions by some of the leading experts in the field.

The book focuses on agency rating system of the international country risk guide and analyses risk returns and models of conditional volatility. Time series data permit a comparative assessment of risk ratings for 120 countries, and highlight the importance of economic, financial and political risk ratings as components of a composite risk rating.

Examines how developed countries are solving the problem of providing capital for transportation goals. After describing the theoretical basis of funding, this book introduces the policies and financial systems established in several major countries. It appeals to higher level researchers and graduate students in transportation and economics.

Aims to bring together the work of leading scholars of Constitutionalism, Constitutional law, and politics in the United States to take stock of the field to chart its progress, and point the way for its future development.

Focuses on the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (ISCTSC) on maintaining and improving the quality of data collection in transport surveys. This book is derived from papers that were a part of the 7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, held at Playa Herradura, Costa Rica, during August 2004.

Focuses on the entrepreneurial processes that have an impact on strategic outcomes such as organizing, learning, and contributing to outstanding financial performance. This book contains chapters that address entrepreneurial processes in a corporate setting including large and medium-sized corporations.

Discusses such topics as learning disabilities and intelligence, mainstreaming an emotionally handicapped student in science, the success of social skills training with delinquent youth, and the social competence of individuals with learning disabilities.

Deals with a variety of topics, such as developmental language disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and self-regulated strategy development.

Research in Community and Mental Health

Researching Social Processes in the Laboratory

Entrepreneurship, the creation of new economic entities, is central to the structure and functioning of organizations and economies. The papers in this volume explore many of the issues that are central to the study of entrepreneurship and the importance of entrepreneurship, the process by which entrepreneurship occurs.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on the relationship of law and values and race and the law. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors; Law and Values: Interpretive freedom and divine law: early rabbinic renderings of divine justice (C. Halberstam); Rawls' law of peoples: an expansion of the prioritization of political over religious values (E. Carpenter); Post modernity and the fading of individual responsibility (J. Krapp); Race in Law; Passing phantasms/sanctioning perfomativities: (re)reading white masculinity in Rhinelander v. Rhine lander (N. Hers); Tortious race, race torts: hate speech, intentional infliction, and the problem of harm (P.L. Rivers); Before or against the law? Citizens' legal beliefs and experiences as death penalty jurors (B. Steiner).

Asks questions, regarding the implications of motivation theory for school reform. This volume portrays the potential of research methods and re-examines tried and true conceptions of the nature and nurture of motivation. It also suggests issues and points to venues for application.

A collection of papers which present both theoretical developments and empirical research based on a variety of case studies and other research in diverse industrial and geographical contexts. It investigates the role of networks and strategic alliances in competence building and leveraging processes.

Intended for scholars, students and practitioners of business, this volume focuses on ecology and strategy. It addresses diverse fields such as the US motion picture, British motorcycle, and optical disk drive industries. It deals with the human ecology of organizations, the relationship between the employee and the company.

Designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management, this book contains eight papers on critical issues in the field of human resources management.

Addresses the major subject areas of urban sociology, ethnic and minority groups within the city, social network of urban residents, location of retail and industrial activities within the metropolitan complex, decline of the central cities and emergence of suburban lifestyles, and the core question of community integration itself.