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Human experience can only be understood across the landscape of time. Yet organizational and groups research has traditionally paid little attention to time as a construct.

Offers feminist perspectives on the social, cultural and medical aspects of women as sexual beings and of their fertility, pregnancy and child bearing. The seven essays included here, raise questions about control and agency asking who decides if, when and how fertility should be controlled and the circumstances under which birth takes place.

Presents papers that identify issues and challenges facing child development laboratory programs nationwide as they seek to solidify the roles they play within the child development and early childhood education fields.

This volume sheds light on the internationalization of research and development for research and technology management and international business scholars, industrial R&D practitioners, and government policymakers.

These papers provide an ongoing exploration of the major current theoretical and methodological efforts in the fields of entrepreneurship, small and family business growth and firm emergence and growth.

Explores cultural influences in relation to concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft and maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, third-world industrial development, implementation of technology transfer, and more.

Focusses on the interrelations of the global and the local in their consequences for work. This book analyzes the process of restructuring of work as an ongoing, locally situated process in which actors within work organizations play an important role.

These papers bring out the distinct contribution criminologists and criminological sociologists have to offer in the study of counter-terrorism from theoretical, methodological, and substantive viewpoints. It looks at terrorism in relation to hate crimes, state crimes, civil liberties, punishment, transnation crime and the international court.

The essays that comprise this collection address an important managerial issue for internationally active companies. The entire volume is devoted to the technical, legal and ethical issues that surround entry into the international market.

Fourth in the series International Research in the Business Disciplines, the papers in this volume provide a survey of the nature and scope of entrepreneurship within ethnic groups. The contributors address the role of ethnic entrepreneurship in shaping the structure of modern economies.

In this volume, several topics of relevance to the issue of identification and assessment of learning and behavioural disabilities are discussed by leading scholars, in reviews of recent relevant research, policy analyses, and new investigations with original data.

"Advances in Group Processes" publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 20, the second volume of a five-series set, includes papers that address fundamental issues of power and status.

Rather than providing a step-by-step guide to the use of visual methods, the authors draw on their experience of visual research to provide critical accounts of its use in the field, its potential for unlocking otherwise unseen places, spaces and social action, and as a basis for the generation of conceptual and theoretical insight.

Second, this volume should stimulate more discussion between social psychologists and organizational researchers on issues of legitimacy and future directions for understanding legitimacy processes.

Examining political struggle based on sexuality, gender, and age, this volume explores identity politics from different contexts using methodological approaches and theoretical views. It teaches students and scholars of political sociology, the role of political opportunity and threat in social movements, and transgender political activism.

Contains articles presented at a conference which was held on April 20, 2001 at the Fox School under the auspices of the Institute of Global Management Studies (IGMS) and the Advanta Center for Financial Services Studies, as the Second Annual International Business Forum sponsored by the IGMS.

Whilst these papers consider issues relating to access and exclusion for students, the remit of this volume is deliberately broad. It includes articles on access and exclusion with regard to academics and their managers, curriculum content and the manner in which the media approach this topic.

The papers in this collection cover diverse disciplines in examining approaches to improve job stress research. The contributors explore historical and current perspectives on stress and its impact on health.

Despite the global mood for privatization in the last decades of the 20th century, dissatisfaction with failing public/private partnerships and calls for an active state in the face of increasing globalization has created a situation where the term "public administration" has gained new validity.

Suitable for those interested in international advertising research and international advertising practitioners, this book addresses the need to move international advertising in new directions by summarizing existing knowledge in several areas, reporting findings of new studies, and providing future research directions.

Part of the series that explores the state of political sociology at the beginning of the 21st century, this title examines several substantive areas within political sociology. It also includes works that show significant advances in the study of the social roots of all things 'political' in society.

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government and not-for-profit organizations. This book revolves around three main themes: we live in worlds our questions create, appreciative discourse and narrative, and the design of inquiring systems.

This volume offers sophisticated sociological analyses of job training that go well beyond standard accounts of general versus specific skills and overly simple assumptions about employer and worker behaviour.

Attempts to reflect the cutting-edge research in the area from several countries in terms of causes, experiences, and outcomes of sport-related pain and injury.

By presenting a research agenda the editors reveal the need for a labour revitalization process that takes into account national and regional sensibilities, regarding such an undertaking in the key labour markets of the world.

Examining the transnational firm, its present and its future, this collection covers a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and represents the thinking in the field on managing transnational firms focused on resources, market entry and alliances.

Seeks to provide a theoretical foundation and linkage between financial and managerial accounting. After providing the theoretical foundation for information asymmetry in the first three sections, this monograph emphasises on case studies.

The theoretical frameworks political sociologists use to understand, describe and predict political behaviour have evolved in response to empirical challenges and interdisciplinary influences. This work should prompt readers to evaluate theoretical assumptions and expand their thinking.

In the 1980s, the ideologies of deregulation and privatization formed the start of the debate on the "environmental state" and the 1990s left the debate facing new challenges. This text examines the processes, transformations and continuities related to the topic.

Scholars in international comparative education are calling for a new paradigm - a multi-level qualitative analysis of cross-national data. In response, this volume demonstrates the application of a multi-level analysis to qualitative data, based on case studies on civic education in 24 countries.