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Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations

Talks about deviance in the workplace. This book defines deviance as departures from laws or organizational rules by workers, managers, or an organization as an entity. It brings together contributions by scholars in the sociology of work and of crime and deviance, and identifies workplace deviance as a subject shared by the two.

Probes Black American Intellectualism and Culture in the organizational construct of intellectual studies; cultural studies; literary studies; and social thought. This book presents an intangible view of Africana people and illustrates from an African American prism.

Eighteen papers address a number of financial research topics pertinent to the Pacific Basin region in the 5th volume in the series.

Carries seven papers that analyze the effect of government and corporate actions on individuals' labor market behavior and seven others from a November 1996 conference at Cornell University discuss new empirical research on employer training.

Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies

Oligopoly

Focuses on various aspects of labor markets and how these markets affect our well-being. This volume contains 11 chapters: three on labor supply, dealing with the aspects of the participation decision; two on human capital, the accumulation of worker skills; three on employee earnings; and three on the distribution of earnings throughout society.

How have America's largest cities managed to adapt to the economic and demographic changes of the late Twentieth Century? To shed light on the transition, this volume presents papers spanning the life of Research in Urban Economics. These selections provide a cross-section of the scholarship on urban economics and policy over the past generation.

With This Ring is the 19th volume of the series Contemporary Studies in Sociology from their Sociology collection, edited by R.Robin Miller.

"Bioethics for Medical Education".

Presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. This title examines fresh perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.

Urban space has emerged as the central organizing construct in studies of the post-modern metropolis. This volume talks about how urban space is used and contested by different social groups, how urban space is transformed by the changing economic relationships manifested in the world order, and how urban space is defined by those who use it.

Presents essays on the major issues in contemporary theoretical work in sociology, providing both a critical overview of the development of major debates and original formulations by specialists working in various fields. This book places emphasis upon the presentation of developments in special areas.

Publishes articles dealing with various aspects of taxation. This work aims to address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level.

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.

Includes essays which provide insights into accounting behavioral research. This work also contains a methodological paper on the uses and misuses of Cronbach's alpha in behavioral research. It is intended for PhD students and researchers who desire to rely on the estimated reliability properties of the Cronbach alpha statistic.

As policy choices grow more complicated, they are harder to present to citizens - which undermines citizen legitimacy of parties and elected officials. How can government maintain democratic accountability? This volume explores the answers by probing citizen involvement in specific cities and countries the world over.

Deals with such topics as information systems practice and theory, information systems and the accounting/auditing environment, and differing perspectives on information systems research.

Dairy industry restructuring is being affected by formidable forces of change: the withdrawal of government protections and price support mechanisms; the globalization of markets; the rising power of food processors; and the associated discontinuities of modern life. This book examines various aspects about the reshaping of this troubled industry.

An academic research annual whose purpose is to meet the needs of individuals interested in the ways to improve their classroom instruction.

Over the years, students of strategy have borrowed ideas from the disciplines of economics, sociology, and psychology. Organized into five themes, this book shows how strategic management research draws upon root disciplines by interconnecting disciplines or fields within a particular discipline, or by focusing tightly on a particular subfield.

Presents contributors who refine ideas that have been part of the conceptual toolkit of gender scholarship from its inception, identifying challenges to and applications for the concepts of the public/private dichotomy and of patriarchy.

Includes papers on: Edwin Cannan, economic theory and the history of economic thought; Gardiner C Means, the relation of his administered price hypothesis to neoclassical price theory; Alfred Marshall's approach to economics differed from neoclassical economics; and notes taken by Victor E Smith from lectures by William Jaffe on Alfred Marshall.

One of the more interesting perspectives for evaluation is 'narrative'. Narratives are the common vehicles people use to understand and to communicate the value of their actions and social practices. This volume explores what a narrative perspective can mean for the practice of program evaluation.

Motivational theory has tended to focus on internal psychological processes, this volume reminds us that contextual factors are also important contributors to motivation and achievement. It includes chapters that address the role of context in educational settings including classroom and school analyses, family contexts, work settings, and others.

"Foundations, Adult Dynamics, Teacher Education and Play".

Considers intelligence in its widest sense, representing diverse view points and areas of specialization. This volume focuses on a few points of special importance, that is, the changeability of intelligence and its relation to cognition.

An analysis of fuzzy sets and the theory of evidence to accounting. It is divided into parts, covering: methodology; inference; prediction; and neural networks.

Focuses on fresh ideas in services marketing and management and is committed to encouraging scholars to the area of services to pursue innovative and interdisciplinary services-related research. This series presents leading scholars who delve into services issues such as service quality, internal marketing, service design, and others.