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Based on a conference on growth through business innovation and entrepreneurship, this volume addresses a wide range of starting points for technology and innovation managers on how to develop and commercialize new technologies.

Research on collaborative learning is a very popular topic in education, psychology and computer science. This book aims to serve as a contribution towards refining and operationalizing the concept of collaborative learning.

The interrelationship of religion and tourism has barely been touched upon in scholarly research. This book aims to present and analyze this relationship from sociological, economic and anthropological perspectives. It identifies numerous contemporary issues worthy of attention and research.

Everyone accepts that education should be for all, but how is education best provided? This book, deals with problem areas in European education; for example school quality, examinations, the teaching of foreign languages, and science education. It also spells out the role of basic education in forming a European identity and consciousness.

Contains papers from the International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies (Wassenaar, Netherlands, May 1990). This work covers topics such as advances in population ecology, transaction cost economics, control theory, leadership studies and decision-making, among others.

Presents a collection of papers from an international symposium on Science and Education in the 21st Century held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. These papers, written by leading scientists and educators, review the competence achieved by science teaching in secondary schools as well as the issues facing science education.

This volume includes some of the papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Panel Data, Texas, June 2004, and other solicited papers that passed the refereeing process and includes such topics as dynamic panel data estimation, non-linear panel data methods and the phenomenal growth in non-stationary panel data econometrics.

Presents a forum for the presentation of conceptual and methodological issues in the field of personnel and human resources management.

This handbook compiles the latest knowledge in critical areas of human resource management, including employee financial and non-financial participation in the enterprise, employer flexibility, unions, collective bargaining and workplace dispute resolution.

This is the fourth volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems.

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

Focuses on the learning experience of a group of researchers conducting their first major study for a PhD. The essays deal with such issues as the role of personal experience, the collection of data through the management of field relations, the analysis of data, and the writing process.

Provides the theoretical and methodological summary of judgment analysis that integrates a diverse range of issues, guiding principles, and applications. This work traces the history of the judgment analysis paradigm from Brunswik. It is a methodological guide to the conduct of judgment analysis studies.

Gives an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. This book reviews basic research from 3 theoretical perspectives which are tourist as a form of development or acculturation, as a personal transition, and as a kind of social super structure. It also examines the applied side of this field.

Contains some of the research on university-based technology transfer, intellectual property issues, and the entrepreneurship program/technology transfer interface. Eleven of the papers are from the Colloquium on Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer held at the White Stallion Ranch, Tucson, Arizona, January 21-23, 2005.

Examines the concept of performance in ethnographic studies, focusing on the issues surrounding the performances of race, and cultural and environmental identities. It considers interaction theory, and re-examines the spectatorial gaze in fictional approaches to the portrayal of the past.

Assembles a group of international scholars to address issues on marriage and the state, motivations to marry, partner selections, marriage ceremonies, religion, kinship ties and marriage, sexual interaction and marriage, and divorce.

Deals with a variety of topics in the field of advances in public interest accounting.

This volume includes evidence from three experiments relating to the effect of socioeconomic background on computer anxiety and performance. Other areas covered include audit expert system development, and articulating accounting database queries.

Acknowledges important themes found in the works in urban sociology. This book suggests both a beginning and a continuing evolution of sociological theorizing about contemporary urban places.

Presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in policy-related disciplines, and applied research on issues in public policy analysis and public management.

Covers the broad view of international human resources management, HRM issues and practices in Europe and in other important regions, and international HRM and expatriates.

Discusses such topics as the role of activity-based systems in supporting the transition to the lean enterprise, applying field research to behavioural issues in management accounting, and human resource valuation and amortization in corporate acquisitions.

Covers such topics as advances in working capital management.

Focusing on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in school. It examines the role of NP-movement vs. lexical rules in accounting for alternations in grammatical functions. It presents the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory.

Contains papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Management of Technology held in Orlando, Florida, February 1998. This work includes sections that cover management of technology, management of research and development, innovation and technology transfer and deals with commercialization, or how to profit from innovation.

Addresses the question of whether specific forms of government regulation are more effective than others in helping to solve the higher education crisis, by analysing the relationships between government and higher education in 12 states in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Presents a forum for papers incorporating laboratory experimental economics. This work includes papers that discuss the design of instructional experiments in such areas as monopoly, asset trading double auctions, and public goods. It also examines practical issues of using laboratory experiments as a teaching tool.

Ideas which are comfortable and familiar are not likely to challenge or transform our thinking. As humans, our need to reduce cognitive dissonance causes us to seek the familiar and reject the unfamiliar, often without reflection. This work is a statement of the vibrancy and changing nature of the field of organizational change and development.

Consists of papers that were presented at three invited sessions at the annual meetings of the Western Economic Association in San Diego, California on July 8-10, 1999. This work includes the comments made by delegates at that time. The theme of the sessions was 'Bank Problems: A Global Perspective'.