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This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions.

Advances in Financial Economics Vol 19 is peer reviewed and focusses on International Corporate Governance.

Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts. The need for experimental learning in public management development, experimental learning formats and innovative teaching and transfer and value creation.

This book explains in a rigorous, concise and practical manner all the vital components embedded in structural equation modelling. Focusing on R and stata to implement and perform various structural equation models.

This volume covers how regime changes, political movements and nonviolent unrest develop and then shape the political decisions of both civil society and the state. Chapter discussions include the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, youth movements in Post-Communist states, and the efforts of nonviolent INGOs.

This special issue, featuring contributions from top scholars including former editors of top journals in marketing, will assemble a set of current, comprehensive review articles written by distinguished experts on the state-of-the-art of marketing research and future prospects in the transition towards sustainable society.

The movement of Asian citizens across continents now occurs on an unprecedented scale. What are the interests of Asian tourists and what are the impacts on host communities? This book addresses questions about Asian tourist contact with unfamiliar countries and cultures and the implications for the marketing, planning and policy of tourist markets.

What is our role in creating healthy organizations and a healthy world? This book fosters a unique dialogue on the interconnections between leadership, sustainability, the long-term viability of the planet, and organizational development. Together, these areas of research and action can contribute to creating a healthy society.

Volume 9 of Advances in Global Leadership, includes timely and impactful articles on processes associated with effective global leadership. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple contextual and organizational variables associated with effective global leadership is critical.

By examining the current status and recent developments in a number of countries in Asia, this book makes recommendations, provides analysis, and suggests new approaches to startup angel financing in the Asia Pacific region.

Strategy Beyond Markets is organized around three themes: Public Politics, Private Politics, and Integrated Political Strategy. The book explores the way these strategies influence political environments, firms and corporations.

The papers collected here offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy.

An efficient air transport system is critical to countries attaining and sustaining healthy economies in an increasingly interconnected world economy. This volume 5 of Advances in Airline Economics includes literature surveys and original empirical research examining airline efficiency in the twenty first century.

Innovation is embedded into daily routines, public service activities, and interactions with non-state actors, making it difficult to uncover excellent practices, but these chapters illustrate how innovative and entrepreneurial actors can be. Scholars have contributed ample evidence of flourishing innovation and enterprise in this important field.

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. This volume discusses potential developments in urban (and rural) policy and planning which need to be considered.

Presents an exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. This book is concerned with the ways data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspects of the composition and dynamics of populations.

This volume, More Accounting Changes, is a revised and updated edition of Herz's earlier work, reflecting: developments in financial reporting; global developments regarding the use of International Financial Reporting Standards; current efforts at disclosure modernization and simplification by the SEC and FASB; and more developments in the field.

This volume provides insights into multinational enterprises' (MNEs) global staffing and global talent management (GTM), and covers issues of global mobility from organizational, individual and contextual perspectives.

This innovative collection puts forward how women are able to challenge oppression through circumventing rules, roles, obligations and prejudice through a powerful agency. Chapters cover the experiences of women in different global settings related to education, political activism, corporeal violence, identity, sexuality, and poverty.

Volume 19 of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting brings together a range of articles exploring the professional responsibilities of accountants, codes of conduct which affect them, and securities regulations.

This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.

Volume 25 of Advances in Management Accounting exemplifies the broad scope of the series by examining a number of key areas of management accounting.

This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides a critical examination of sociological and biomedical approaches to genomics, including strengths and limitations of each perspective.

Focuses on the issue of health. This book concentrates on the identification and analysis of economic factors in the production of health and wellness. It consists of ten anthropological papers that explore the general theme of the economics of health and wellness in a variety of ways.

Taking into account the rapid decrease in 'throughput' due to containerisation and the subsequent conversion of cargo berths for other uses, this title looks at data regarding natural conditions for site selection, choice of location and orientation of major port components - such as access channels, basins quays and specialised berths.

Forms the proceedings of the congress 'Global Construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities' organized by Concrete Technology Unit (CTU) of the University of Dundee. This book deals with issues such as materials, properties and production characteristics, specification for foamed concrete, applications and case studies.

Examines diverse developments in the evolution of public policy institutions for remedying social problems. This title includes chapters that address the transformation of social problems, social problems work, and social problems solutions in the context of criminal justice, mental health, and community institutions in contemporary society.

This book introduces engineers to the principles and procedures necessary for infrastructure planning in rapidly developing regions. It covers the technical methods required in planning for infrastructure provision from base-line studies and problem definition through to the specification for a set of projects.

Contains 12 contributions by some of the leading activist scholars on Commodity Racism, Chief Illiniwek, and Native American Sport Mascots. This title features seven performance narratives - black womanhood, masculinity, whiteness, and gender, sexual violation, old civilization and democratic citizenship.

Contains ten papers, including: An Empirical Examination of The Intraday Return Volatility Process; The Valuation of New Product Introduction Under Uncertain Competition: A Real Option Approach; Earnings, Dividends, and Equity Value of Multinational Firms; Debt Covenant Violation and the Value Relevance of Accounting Information; and more.