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Offers an inquiry into the nature, scope and content of religion in cyberspace. This volume provides a conceptual mapping of religion in cyberspace. It is intended for those who seek to understand how religion is being presented on the Internet, and how this topic is likely to unfold.

Part of a series which focuses on research into labour economics, this volume explores such topics as growth and labour mobility, public policies and the working poor, the structure and consequences of eligibility rules for a social programme, and testing job search models.

Publishes articles dealing with all aspects of taxation. The articles can address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. This is the tenth volume in the series which primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues.

This volume explores issues connected with quality, planning of services and access concerns especially as linked with providers of care, health care institutions, and patients. Changes have continued to occur within the field but have been led by overall marketplace trends. Papers in this volume are presented in four parts covering changing models of health care. In Part I topics come from a broad perspective to include: development of newer models of care, more traditional areas such as the medical profession and the patient or the hospital and the patient, the changes that alternative medicine brings to issues of quality of care and access and planning, and of citizen participation in health planning.Part II deals with federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and access and quality issues within those programs. Part III covers the challenges of planning for long-term care needs and services. And Part IV explores other aspects of the changing health care delivery system: changes in nursing, midwifery, and rural health care and provides linkages to quality, access, and planning issues. This excellent work helps the reader to think more carefully and more creatively about issues of quality of care, access to care, and planning for services.

Presents state-of-the-art studies in the integration of mathematical planning and management. This research annual includes topics such as cash management, capital budgeting, financial decisions, portfolio management and performance analysis, and financial planning models.

Discusses a variety of topics in the fields of derivative market analysis, macroeconomic factors, initial public offering studies, foreign exchange topics, financial management concerns and capital asset pricing and market efficiency studies.

Focuses on negotiation and conflict within organizations. This book covers the problem of 'deviance' within organizations from a conflict and justice perspective. It also addresses the effective management of environmental conflict, and demonstrate factors contributing to the intractability of environmental disputes.

This series 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.

Deals with the investigation of the contemporary financial issues of the e-commerce market.

This book is comprised of essays and research reports for the search for well-founded knowledge that can undergird the collective understanding of ethics and values in the business world.

Examines the determinants of monetary and bank efficiency and the key factors that contribute to successful monetary and banking operations; the institutional factors that enhance or detract from the efficient manner in which markets work; and the macro, micro, and social factors that impact stock valuation and portfolio selection.

Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology.

Part of a series on social research, this book presents an analysis of regional cultures. It covers such topics as the emergence of Wales and Saxony as modern regions in Europe; state support and literary regionalism in Norway and the US; and, regional industrialization and political mobilization.

Includes a set of papers by a number of well-known figures in philosophical studies both on the environment and on technology which aims to open different pathways in both environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

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

An analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. It covers topics that include: environmental ethics and the recovery of culture; media, identity and politics; technological enlightenment as a continuation of modern thinking; and, the rhetoric of eugenics.

Part of a series of studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at legel, regulatory and policy changes that affect entrepreneurial midsize firms.

This is the 16th volume in a series examing research in finance.

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

This third volume in the series covers a variety of topics in the field.

Analysing lifetime distribution and redistribution, this book uses a cohort microsimulation model as a tool to analyse several questions which concern income distribution and redistribution, social security and income tax incidence. It is suitable for those working in social and economic policy who are concerned about such issues.

This volume brings together a multidisciplinary perspective of recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the use of language for communicating in the classroom.

Presents research in the field of applied business strategy.

Demonstrates the behavioral ecology's maturation as a subfield of anthropology. These papers also show how behavioral ecology conceptually integrates the core of biological anthropology with the other subdisciplines by providing a common framework for investigating and understanding basic economic questions.

This volume in the "Comparative Social Research" series addresses a number of issues related to this new diversity. Common themes are multiculturalism, power and integration, and these themes are analysed through a comparative lens.

Reflects the key contemporary issues and developments in marketing strategy that face organisations. This work examines a range of changes that are taking place in marketing that both demonstrates the state of marketing technique and provides a glimpse of where marketing is heading.

Contains papers presented at the fourth Conference, which was conducted in London, England, in June, 2004. This volume includes chapters which deal with various aspects of emotion in organizations, such as loneliness, leader-member relationships in teams, organizational justice, creativity, and organizational reactions to crisis situations.

A study that focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the development of intelligence. It includes topics ranging from neuropsychology to intelligence, personality and information processing.

Intended to foster fresh ways of thinking about quality in terms of how it is researched and practiced. This work focuses on two major themes: the role of suppliers in improving quality (supplier quality awards, integrating suppliers in new product development, and supplier management), and organizational aspects and how they relate to quality.

A collection of contributions from scholars and financial analysts. Their data, means of analysis and policy insights should be a useful resource for future research and educational improvements.