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Editorial Objectives This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship, innovation and the impact on economic performance. Topicality Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth (ASEIEG) provides a timely and relevant discussion and exploration of entrepreneurial topics, their impact, and ties to key values in today's society, such as social, environmental and economic issues and challenges. Topics range from aspects of entrepreneurial behavior to determinants of entrepreneurial research with contributions from top scholars across the US and the globe. Key Benefits Organization and history of series allows a rich, multi faceted foundation for entrepreneurial topics in a rapidly changing information age. Research can be disseminated in a clear and effective manner to promote communication between the business and academic communities and to foster entrepreneurship within the society. Key Audiences Key audiences range from private industry to policy officials to researchers and educators. The role and understanding of entrepreneurship, the implications for current critical conditions and sustained vibrant economies, is rapidly growing. This series provides each with a highly useful blend of topics and scholarly perspectives. Coverage The series includes related articles and papers, frequently driven by organized colloquia and other business/academic exchange, with interdisciplinary perspectives including those of economics, marketing, law, finance, management, history, science, higher education administration and sociology. Coverage includes but is not limited to: Institutional entrepreneurial development Intellectual property concerns, patenting, and other property rights issues Environmental entrepreneurship and innovation Innovation within and across firms Effect of government regulation and tax policies Organizational factors, market structure effects and marketing strategies Entrepreneurship programmes and other educational activities Relative performance of entrepreneurial firms.

Presents a balanced and representative overview of the major developments and trends in traffic and transport psychology. This book deals with driver performance and social factors. It presents arguments for integrated models, for alternative paradigms and for a blatant a theoretical approach to driver behaviour.

This series focuses mainly on tax policies and research, tax expenditure budget trends, potential effects of tax reforms on real estate investment risks, and income tax laws. This volume covers topics such as tax fairness, taxpayer belief revisions, and the impact of IRS forms on students.

Discusses such topics as where we stand in industrial relations and human resources, critical junctures in the transformation of industrial relations systems, and successor unions and the evolution of industrial relations in former Communist countries.

Part of a series that is dedicated to publishing research and conceptual papers in the broad ranging area of the sociology of health.

Part of a series which focuses on advances in futures and options research, this volume discusses a variety of topics in the field of advances in futures and options research.

Separated into two parts: factor analytic methods and non-factor analytic methods, this work begins with an examination of basic issues in classical measurement and correlation, forming a foundation for subsequent discussions. It also focuses on diverse aspects of factor analysis including factor analyses of entities other than variables.

Part of a series which serves as a research annual for the publication of academic tax research, this title covers topics that include an analysis of the effects of tax law instability and preferential capital gain treatment on investment in risky areas.

Presents studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at reinventing government and the problem of bureaucracy.

Volume 1 of Research in Community Sociology focuses on "Community of the Streets".

Part of a series which focuses on health economics and health services research, this volume discusses topics including cost-benefit evaluations in mental health and the demand for health care for the treatment of mental problems among the elderly.

Education and Quality of the American Labor Force

Part of a series on research in community and mental health.

Suitable for practitioners, administrators, educators and students, this book covers collection management, resource sharing, legal issues and education.

Fund Raising for Nonprofit Institutions

Summarizes the thinking in the field of comparative management. This title intends to make an academic contribution through focused essays, presenting material in a fashion suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

Deals with various aspects of taxation, including tax policy and issues at the federal, state, local, or international level.

The study of the nature and construction of gender and sexuality is a recognized and highly productive research area, and one that is highly suited to ethnographic methods. This book contains chapters that illustrate some of the range of work in the area and the power of ethnography to uncover the complex and contested processes of construction.

Examines issues in financial services, asset pricing, and hedging. This volume contains articles that deal with methods for assessing the safety and soundness of banks, rationales for and economic consequences of bank mergers, and more. It also includes the dynamics between foreign exchange and stock markets in Southeast Asian economies.

Includes a series of papers which examine the contributions of entrepreneurship education on the performance of graduates. Using survey data for 2,484 entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship graduates, this work provides an analysis which indicates that entrepreneurship education contributes to risk taking, and the formation of new ventures.

Part of the "Advances in Applied Microeconomics" series, this volume contains theoretical papers that apply state-of-the-art theory to model important real-world phenomenon, as well as empirical papers that examine such phenomenon.

Presents a collection of original theoretical, empirical, institutional or policy-oriented articles on various dimensions of the Asian financial crisis. This book includes nineteen articles on the overview of the crisis, international capital flows and crisis, reform in financial and industrial sectors, and cultural and post-crisis opportunities.

Intended for marketing executives, new product/service managers, and marketing research professionals, this work focuses on design and market testing issues/solutions for new business-to-business products and services. It includes more than 50 diagrams, tables and figures which support the text.

Features reviews and research on topics in the field of health care management. This work also contains papers from the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Part of a series that publishes papers initially offered in presentations at the yearly meetings of the International Conference on Advances in Management. This volume contains seventeen chapters divided into six sections - Organization Theory, Organizational Behaviour, Trust, Morality, and Ethics, and others.

"The keynote address and all of the research papers were delivered at the Sixth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics in the fall of 1999 in Niagara Falls, New York"--p. 1.

Social Factors in Mental Health and Illness

This is the 5th volume in the series Cultural Studies, edited by Norman K. Denzin

Studies in Symbolic Interaction (SSI) is an ISI listed serial that locates current symbolic interactionist thought and provides contemporary readings of social situations. The papers are longer than the average journal article allowing more scope for expansion and development. To reflect the wide range of perspectives in symbolic interactionism, SSI draws on many interpretative resources including: Post-structuralism Reconstructivism Performativity Critical race theory Feminist theory Posthumanism Materials theory Post-colonialism Affective theories Queer theory

The half century from 1946 to 1996 brought space trips to the moon, artificial intelligence, cloning of animals, and much more. This book traces various developments in business breakthroughs during the most productive period in world history.