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Includes 16 contributions that fill the mind with knowledge, skills, and insights useful for improving the executive's ability to do what needs to be done, such as: scan environments better to find the weak signals on breakthrough technologies; shifts in customers' attitudes and behaviors; and, changes in behaviors of suppliers and governments.

Includes papers which represent the evolution of worker attitudes at Mitsubishi Motors, pay satisfaction and skill acquisition under skilled-based pay systems, payment systems for British telephony personnel, and dual and unilateral employee loyalty.

Aims to investigate to what extent it is possible to explain the emergence of ethnic conflicts and the variation in the degree of ethnic conflicts by our assumed predisposition to ethnic nepotism, not to find explanations for all ethnic conflicts.

"Research in Economic History".

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

Applies John Maynard Keynes' theory of investor liquidity preferences to the examination of the stock market literature on the January effect and other seasonal anomalies. This book provides a literature review along with identification and empirical examinations of the intergenerational transfers hypothesis, special closings of the NYSE.

Presents a collection of papers exploring several areas of disability research. This work includes an examination of the media representation of disability and coverage of disability policy issues which gives an understanding of the far reaching impact of the fourth estate.

Illustrates the breadth of questions and approaches that are amenable to qualitative research. Of theoretical relevance and pragmatic significance, this book is aimed at organizational scholars and practitioners.

This study contains a series of theoretical reflections inspired by empirical research into the ethical dilemmas of life in contradiction-ridden postmodern America. It looks at hospital birth, special education, Gen X, community-based anti-crime policy, public intellectuals, and mass death.

This volume contains contributions from scholars concerned with cross-cultural perpsectives on youth and violence. The chapters range from theoretical examinations of violence-related attitudes among American youth, to bullying in German and Japanese schools, to problems of urban youth in Brazil.

The term socialization, in sociology and social psychology, almost always denotes the process whereby individuals learn to behave willingly in accordance with the prevailing standards of their culture. In this work, the black men interviewed set the stage for a critical examination of the conventional interpretations of black male socialization.

Part of a series of interest to those involved in the business, economic or financial affairs of the Pacific Basin.

Part of a series of research in economic anthropology, this title covers: studies of Otavalo, Ecuador; commoditization; women as consumers and producers; subsistence and market production - Siberia, Mexico, Sierra Leone; and, complex prehistoric economies - Louisiana and Illinois.

Explores issues connected with quality, planning of services and access concerns especially as linked with providers of care, health care institutions, and patients. This book deals with federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and access and quality issues within those programs.

Presents a variety of topics relevant to disorders of learning and behavior, from a diverse international group of researchers. This title includes a chapter that presents a comprehensive discussion and analysis of working memory in readers with learning disabilities and its relation to deficits in executive processing.

Presents studies that provide a look at the experiences of proteges and mentors during the mentoring process in higher education settings. This title includes the studies examining the effects of mentoring on individuals as well as those examining the perceptions and experiences of individuals involved in the mentoring process from the proteges.

Emphasizes memory in organizations, organizational improvisation, strategies of learning, the nuances of learning and integrating strategy and organizational learning. This book includes a chapter on social learning and transaction cost economics.

Covers a variety of topics in financial planning and forecasting, including: the change in earnings response coefficient around dividend omissions; estimating spin-off values; and, forbearance, deposit insurance, and the market value of savings and loan associations.

Useful for both practitioners and academicians, this title contains articles on the practice and research of management accounting. It is intended for accountants at various levels who work in corporations and not-for-profit organizations.

Part of a series, which publishes articles encompassing all areas of accounting that incorporate theory from and contribute new knowledge and understanding to the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics.

Over the years, many governments, including the United States and Canada, have launched a major shift to what are sometimes called "incentive based" pollution control procedures. Because these proposed systems inherently required institutional design, they constituted a natural domain for laboratory experimental economics research.

This volume of Advances in Econometrics discusses new econometric techniques for addressing problems caused by working with incomplete data such as econometric results that are fragile due to the inclusion or omission of just a few observations in the sample.

Focuses on the theory and research on self-fulfilling prophecies and other aspects of the effects of teachers' expectations in classrooms. This book covers expectation-related issues, such as: teachers' efficacy perceptions with respect to difficult-to-teach students; expectation-related phenomena in urban high schools; and more.

This is the second volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English.

This volume of Advances in Econometrics looks at applying maximum entropy to econometric problems and consists of two sections: the first section contains papers developing econometric methods based on the entropy principle; an interesting array of applications is presented in the second section of the volume.

Offers skill-building case exercises written to improve your sensemaking abilities. This book deals with the process of improving our sensemaking capabilities into how to: scan environments actively to gather data that is relevant to pressing issues; interpret usefully what we see; and evaluate well what we have done and what has occurred.

This series targets the tests of the global applicability of existing managerial theory and experience. The first volume, and its underlying conference, reflect the building of communities of interest between people so situated as to help one another in that targeting and testing.

Intends to act as a vehicle for the communication of research in strategic management. This title contains papers presenting theoretical and/or empirical analysis of strategic problems, comparative and analytical case studies of issues and application of concepts.

Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research (CPFR) provides a forum for the very latest in family research; examining family structures, behaviours, and relationships from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary viewpoints. Published annually, each volume focuses upon a 'hot topic' at the leading edge of family research, providing in-depth coverage from expert authors. Previous volumes have covered issues such as economic stress, family relations in the 21st Century, and parent-child relations in later life. Each annual volume recognizes the mainstream of family research topics and provides detailed investigations within those topics. In addition, each annual volume honours the internationalization of family research, and provides perspectives on each topic from a truly cross-cultural point of view.

Explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is presented in this book examine seven strategies for public management reform. They address the need for and application of various strategies, and impediments to implementation of each strategy. Case analysis is used to derive findings and conclusions.