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This series is aimed at graduate students in special education, educational psychology, and developmental and clinical psychology. It discusses basic theoretical positions and empirical findings within various professions which provide the foundation for research and application.

Provides comparative perspectives on international strategies in monetary policy. The contributors work both in academic settings and for central banks, and their papers discuss issues from the usefulness of money as indicator of future spending to historical developments in the Bank of Israel.

This annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.

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

Part of a series focusing on research into law and economics, this volume discusses a variety of topics in the field.

Part of a series that examines the interrelations of politics and society, bringing together articles from an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars, this title examines global perspectives on the political economy of race and ethnicity.

Presents fresh approaches to understanding leadership. This book addresses: team citizenship behavior; self-leadership, self-managed teams and shared leadership; transformational leadership; organizational culture as expressed in the behavior of team members; and, decision making in top management teams.

The sixth part in a series of studies in community sociology, this volume covers issues such as: using classical theorists to reconceptualize community dynamics; AIDS in the community; communes; new immigrant communities; and communities in cyberspace.

Part of a series of theoretical, review and empirically-based papers on group phenomena; this title adopts a broad conception of 'group processes'.

A study of business management and forecasting. It covers forecasting in transportation; forecasting for water and energy; and the applications of forecasting. It also includes a case study of the Greek airport system.

Focuses on the human learning, reasoning and thinking, and the different sites in which these activities take place. This book addresses the nature of the influence of technology on learning, stressing especially on information technology and how it can influence any type of learning situation.

Aims to discuss the state of knowledge about how young people think and reason. This book explores 3 ways of thinking in the context of education, looking firstly at the 'skills' approach, secondly at the 'infusion model' and thirdly at the belief that the traditional disciplines and pedagogy of education provide for the development of thinking.

Privatisation, regulation, deregulation, competition, funding, evaluation: these are all transport policy issues of great current interest worldwide, in the public arena as well as among researchers. This work is is organised into sections including: Institutional Settings and Markets; Planning Perspectives; and Asset Management and Funding.

What are the trends affecting the marketing of services? Why is cross-sector fertilization particularly useful for services, and what type of strategic response is most likely to shape business success of service firms in the future? This work presents a fresh approach to questions of marketing strategies for services in global markets.

Provides students and researchers with a grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the important topics of part-time and contingent work. This book helps you learn more about the growing range and diversity of marginal employment in the contemporary economy, the hardships and challenges of marginal employment.

These studies are based on information on time use in nine countries. It deals with the "when?" and "with whom?" questions describing human behavior, "what is done?" questions of the quantities and determinants of economic activities as well as children's issues and issues involved in the creation of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS).

Addresses the need for a high-level analysis of unit roots and cointegration. This work integrates the theory of stationary sequences and issues arising in the estimation of their parameters, distributed lags, spectral density function, and cointegration.

Transport systems, the vital arteries of modern societies and economies, shape our world and are shaped by it. This volume talks about the dynamic interactions between transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies it weaves through. It also discusses how to obtain appropriate data and model these transport-geographic phenomena.

Many academic institutions tend to be managed on an ad hoc basis as the leadership may not be fully and formally equipped to lead, and stakeholder-mix issues often limit its ability to govern proactively. This book is meant as a guide for making strategic management a more realistic option.

This book presents a catalogue and discussion of the Late Bronze Age Minoan-Mycenaean agricultural, wood-working, met-allurgical and general purpose tools found in Europe.

The need for questioning the ways in which technology is used in sports is the subject of this volume. Much of the focus is on the ethical implications of allowing genetic manipulation of human beings and the impact this could have on sport in general.

As the world shrinks and globalization continues apace, efficient communications systems allow firms to operate easily over vast distances. These papers consider the strategic management of space and place from both an academic and practical point of view.

This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.

This volume contains commissioned refereed papers that cover the main elements of transport logistics. The authors were selected from around the world and asked to provide critiques of their subject areas as well as a review of the state of the art and case study examples.

With contributions from experts in Europe, America and Australasia, this book examines the origins, development, application and value of OHSM. It provides an international perspective on their effectiveness in managing ill-health at work. It also examines the impact of changes in economic, labour market, organisational and regulatory structures.

Designed to illustrate qualitative methods used to study teaching, assess constraints and illuminate representative questions and findings. This book is organized around three issues that impact research in qualitative paradigms: perspective, methodology, and representation. It provides findings, insights, and claims from qualitative research.

This invaluable book covers all aspects of procurement, from drafting and using contracts to procurement strategies for privately financed projects. It is written from a construction perspective, and uses examples from other industries where appropriate.This essential book offer presents guidance, explanations and case studies to help the reader comprehend the strengths and weaknesses and realistic meanings and outcomes of the stages in the development of an effective procurement strategy.

Based on a study of the electronics giant Philips, this book examines the key factors which have determined the success or failure of technologies and the global competitiveness of firms within a major European consumer industry. It traces the influences of Philips and of European Community policymaking on the development of the industry.

Provides an example of applied analysis of banking to students attending courses on financial markets and banking and financial integration. This book discusses the nature of banking in relation to 3 main areas in economic theory which are: market failure and the need for regulation; effects of deregulation and, market entry and contestability.

This book represents a continuation of an uninterrupted record of international research pertaining to high technology small firms (HTSFs) over a period that has witnessed a rebirth of interest in the growth problems of the small firm.