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This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as well as techniques for collecting data and assessing MDS results. It covers the design, execution, and analysis of multidimensional scaling experiments and includes detailed descriptions and examples of six major MDS computer programs: MINISSA, POLYCON, KYST, INDSCAL/SINDSCAL, ALSCAL and MULTISCALE. These six approaches are sufficiently fundamental that continuing developments in the field will build on the principles presented in this volume.

This book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, and reviewing a considerable body of previous work. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. Case studies include academic, business and commercial search engine applications.

Provides a comprehensive review of the reform programs throughout the world in the land passenger transport sector. This book contains papers written by those who influence policy and institutional reform in over 20 countries. It presents a comprehensive statement of the successes and failures in public transport reform.

Talks about how business changes at the micro level during the transition to a market economy. This book focuses on the Russian market, as it is one of the biggest countries making the transition. It presents a case study, which covers the period from 1986 to 1998, and analyses and explains how business networks in Russia have changed.

Despite the evident importance of Silicon Valley North for regional, national, and international technological development this phenomenon is far from being well understood. An exceptionally timely endeavor, this book is devoted to the multidimensional and multifaceted nature of SVN, its history, current state and future developments.

This tenth volume of papers emanating from the annual International High Technology Small Firms Conference represents a full decade of research and policy relevant papers on innovation and growth problems of New Technology-based Firms (NTBf).

Combining the experiences of safety science and knowledge management in service organisations, this book focuses on individual and group processes and on organisational strategy or societal and environmental issues. It addresses questions such as how can an organisation learn from its successes and failures, from its experiences and accidents

Provides an understanding about the impact of culture and communication on international business negotiations. This work explores the problems faced by Western managers while doing business abroad and offers guidelines for international business negotiations. It also focuses on an important aspect of international business: negotiations.

Presents the collective output of a European research network, coordinated by the Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology of the University of Leuven. This work focuses on unravelling and identifying basic component and dimensions of powerful learning environments.

Based on the Third International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics III held in Madeira in 2003), this volume includes developments in the modelling, evaluation and planning of city logistics schemes. It also provides an overview of the visions for city logistics and public private partnerships for city logistics.

Countries create different type of incentives for foreign firms, such as; direct incentives/subsidies, tax relief, soft loans and preferred handling. This volume aims to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI.

These papers from INSTR 2001, cover aspects of transport network reliability, such as definitions and methodological developments for reliability indices, behavioural analysis under uncertainty, and evaluation methods for the disaster resistance of transport networks.

Devoted to the environmental impacts of transport. This work looks at the various aspects of the subject such as environmental concepts, both physical and economic. It also examines environmental concerns such as: global warming, air quality, noise, safety, amenity, and severance; political settings and policies; and more.

This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation.

The internationalization of business has accelerated during the post-war period and particularly in the 1990s. At the same time, research on international business has grown considerably. The book provides critical perspectives on internationalization and on internationalization research.

This text tackles some of the issues facing practitioners and researchers in the field of management of technology. Special attention is given to the challenges facing nations and companies at the dawn of a new millennium where technology is expected to dominate every aspect of human endeavour.

Focusing primarily on the application of the theories of complexity to organisations, it slowly helped to disseminate ideas on complexity. The 14 international authors in this volume reflect this interest in 10 chapters that range from the very practical application of the theory to more philosophical reflections on its nature and applicability.

Until recently real people worked in real locations to conduct business, whether in large corporations, or smaller businesses. These papers consider the implications for managers directing staff who work outside the physical confines of a location using telecommunication technologies.

Business networks have been defined as networks of connected business relationships between firms, where a business relationship is a lasting relation between two firms doing business with one another. This volume aims to discuss learning in business network settings.

Examines how the higher education environment is being shaped by new information technologies, with a particular focus on technologies based in the Internet. This work illustrates a vision of how virtual universities and their elements are emerging, and of how they can be shaped to the needs of knowledge-based societies.

Discusses transport systems and the implementation of related public policy - a relevant topic with contemporary traffic congestion, environmental intrusion, transport safety, and budget issues. This is a useful resource for both experienced researchers and those new to the field.

This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.

The supplement presents an intriguing combination of 21 chapters on Accounting and Accountability in Emerging and Transition Economies

Addresses the subject of event analysis and the learning organisation in context to safety management systems. This book shows how to manage various responses to an accident, how to collect and analyse data to derive the lessons, and how to deal with the different and conflicting objectives of judicial procedures and organisational learning.

There is a widespread consensus that adult education and continuing vocational training are central elements in a strategy aimed at achieving economic growth. However, the stakes are not only economic. Adult education has also become a structural determinant of employment opportunities, earnings and quality of life. Adults who lack the motivation, opportunity or information needed to participate in a lifelong learning society will become increasingly disadvantaged. Educational systems must prepare people for a life of active learning. This volume argues that the principles of lifelong learning must be at the heart of a new approach to skills development. Lifelong learning is advocated not as a theoretical and utopian idea, but as the inevitable reality in affluent, technologically advanced, politically and culturally pluralistic societies. Each chapter addresses one of several questions important for the future of lifelong education. In particular they concern theory and research on the five themes: lifespan development and education; intelligence; transfer and capacity to learn; informal learning in the work place; learning to learn; and the implications for policy.

Part of a series which presents research on international social movements, this volume focuses on social movements and violence. Topics discussed include: individual motivations in underground political organizations; decisions to use terrorism; and ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorism.

This book analyses the viability of unfunded pension systems in the presence of the projected demographic evolution and looks at: efficiency considerations and the possibility of welfare improvements; political economy aspects and the feasibility of reforms; and the process of European integration and its influence on national pension systems.

Containing papers on index number and aggregation theory, this volume studies aggregation problems in economics, primarily the aggregation over goods problem. It is useful for government agencies around the world that produce price statistics, insuring an understanding of important properties of alternative indexes.

The telecommunications industry is being transformed by contradictory forces: on the one hand, the trend toward global expansion by carriers, and on the other hand, fragmentation and entry in local communications. This volume discusses the complexities of the bi-polar forces and maps out the policy issues which need to be addressed.

Contains bibliographical and archival materials pertaining to two eminent American economists: "The Finding Guide to the Frank H Knight papers at the University of Chicago" and a bibliography of the writings of Frank H Knight. This title also includes a bibliography to references for Thorstein Veblen works for the period 1983-1996.