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Covers such topics as cross-functional teamwork, working in public and learning-in-action, organizing knowledge work systems and varieties of knowledge work experience.

Our discipline appears poised to take a leadership role in policy debates and decisions, as well as comparative scholarship throughout the world, but first we need to examine where we need to go. This title combines reviews, scholarship, and critical discussions of topics in the comparative and international field of education.

This volume covers such topics as varieties in governance reform and political constraint and policy choices in the field of research in consumer behaviour.

Explores the research, and theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines of small business, family business, and population ecology. This book considers various demographic issues.

Covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.

Features 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.

Aims to illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. This title shows the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural process and how these processes are changed by individuals' emotional experience.

The phenomenon of increasingly visible groups of immigrant entrepreneurs raises a host of questions. What are the causes of immigrant entrepreneurship and what are its consequences? This work provides a broad view of entrepreneurship in multicultural communities.

Contributes to the emergence of the entrepreneurial economics field, or school of thought, in which the study of patterns in the complex, seemingly chaotic and unpredictable process of entrepreneurship and its role in the economy stands central. This title also includes articles that provide the research done on entrepreneurship.

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

Presents the studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at social and technological factors affecting mid-size businesses, including: education; job training; health policy; and, information technology.

Introduces the AICM Distinguished Scholar Award and Research Forum which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the cross-national or cross-cultural study of organizations and management. This work includes articles that cover a range of management topics with an international focus.

This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.

The European chemical industry is the largest in the world but it is by no means the only source of occupational exposure to chemical hazards, because chemical products are both used and are bi-products in many diverse forms of work. This book is a study of strategic approaches to managing the risks of working with hazardous substances in Europe.

This collection of essays has been organized around three main subject areas: the disciplinary role of capital under neoliberalism; accumulation and finance; and Rosa Luxemburg.

Addresses two recurrent themes in economic anthropology. These are the process of economic development and the basis on which economic integration takes place. The development theme is divided between papers that are concerned with the social and demographic impact of development, and those that examine the recent post-socialist transition.

Based on economic anthropology, this book involves the degree of social content of individual transactions and how economic processes relate to social structure. More specifically, the theme relates to matters such as the need for trust resulting in personalized systems of economic transactions, and how institutions shape economic arrangements.

This volume presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.

This volume addresses an eclectic mix of topics that adapt theoretical concepts relating to the management of libraries to stretch the boundary of practice. The nine contributions include a definition of knowledge management, the Internet and ebooks, and various case studies.

"Exploring Theoretical Mechanisms and Perspectives".

Emphasizes interpretive interactionist work on race, media, culture and identity. This title presents essays on the New Iowa School, the work of Gideon S Joberg, cultural studies and symbolic interactionism, including the work of Norman Denzin.

Aims to present state-of-the-art studies in the integration of mathematical programming into financial planning and management. This title includes topics such as cash management, capital budgeting, financial decisions, portfolio management and performance analysis, and financial planning models.

Aims to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. This work is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management.

Aims to advance philosophical reflections on technology through a focus on metaphysical and epistemological issues. This book contains chapters by contributors who employ the resources of both the phenomenological and analytical traditions of contemporary philosophy in their work.

The accounting profession was on the edge of tremendous changes that occurred within the American business community during the years 1980-1995. This book tells the story of how the profession adapted to these changes and the challenges that accompanied them. It also portrays the profession as an important and exciting field in which to work.

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research promotes research across all areas of accounting, incorporating theory from, and contributing knowledge to, the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, ethics and economics.

Explores issues connected with health care providers, institutions, and patients. This volume features articles, the focus of many of which is on changing patterns of care delivery and provision of care, as it affects these important groups of actors within the health care system.

This is the 8th volume in the series Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, edited by Dr. Cheng-Few Lee.

Represents an attempt to link the theories and research of an interdisciplinary group of urbanists with the practical applications that scholars can help institute in the community. This book analyzes political forces within local communities and their intersection with policy decisions about economic development.

Part of the "Advances in Management Accounting" (AIMA) series, which presents articles on a variety of topics in management accounting. It also includes articles on the practice and research of management accounting, the creation of customer value and outside-in cost, capital budgeting, brand valuation, target costing, kaizen costing, and more.