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Volume 36 of Advances in Econometrics recognizes Aman Ullah's significant contributions in many areas of econometrics and celebrates his long productive career.

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services. It considers the various types of innovation through case studies and exemplars both from within the LIS sector and other cognate industries and environments.

This volume examines how universities and colleges around the world are developing innovative ways to provide doctoral education, including new theories and models of doctoral education and the impact of changes in government and/or accreditation policy on practices in doctoral education.

This volume will examine issues of accessibility and how designers can improve the quality of educational materials by embedding supports that anticipate the special learning needs of diverse learners.

This special issue of SLPS examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of the Collaborative Research Network on the Jurisprudence of Disasters within the Law and Society Association. The volume addresses the 'myths' of contemporary disaster law and policy, such as that of society's "invincibility".

The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotions in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. This volume addresses new ways of looking at emotions within organizational frameworks.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st AAPAE Conference, addressing the theme of Political Leadership, Professional Ethics, and the Problem of Dirty Hands. Discussions include medical ethics, military ethics, domestic political matters, and the very nature of 'professions'.

This volume contains chapters dealing with a variety of issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the study thereof, especially in relation to crime, criminal justice, law, and social control.

Volume 22 includes two main chapters in both Part A and B. It appears in two parts because all chapters offer great depth in coverage of core issues senior executives must address for long-term survival of the firm: business intelligence, knowledge management, and understanding of the systems dynamics of interfirm behavior.

This volume examines social life increasingly marked out by global inequality, giving a voice to the marginalized. The researchers of this volume lead the way in probing accounting's participation in significant struggles of our times by examining contemporary rhetoric, governance, politics and strategies.

What knowledge and skills should tourism students be exposed to? How should tourism education programs at all levels be designed to create responsible leaders for the future of tourism? What is the employability and range of careers students can expect after graduation? This book examines and seeks to provide answers to these three questions.

Immigration to what is now the United States has been a contentious issue from the earliest days of the European settlement. What has been the immigration history and what have been the consequences of these inflows of people? This volume addresses these issues.

Aims to highlight the economic aspects of the evolution of communications technologies beyond the fixed-line telephony infrastructure. This volume covers the major technological developments and tracks the changes in these developments, linking them to the ways that both communications can take place and that institutions and policies can evolve.

This is an introduction to the theory of security markets, dealing principally with the allocational role and valuation of financial securities in a competitive setting.

Illustrates the stages of the ethnographic process from inception through the emergence of a focus, and toward a subsequent formalization of methods and analysis. This book also illustrates several approaches designed to reconcile the contradictory demands of the scientific process and human behavior.

This book offers global perspectives on institutions and regulations promoting sustainable economic growth in the Post 2015 development agenda. It addresses sustainability issues from multidisciplinary viewpoints. This second volume, focusing on The UN Global Compact, advances perspectives on the non-compulsory alternative to market regulations.

The papers in this volume address key themes relating to improving our understanding of the processes involved in high-technology entrepreneurship and of the design of effective policy to promote it. Topics examined include start-ups, entrepreneurship clusters, inter-firm collaboration, and growth strategy for high-technology small firms.

Over 22 Volumes and 25 years, the Research in Organizational Change and Development series has offered publication outlets for papers addressing a wide array of topics related to organization development interventions and research.

This volume illustrates the broad range of research based on the garbage can model of organizational choice. This research varies with respect to decision making characteristics addressed, model extensions and integrations proposed, and organizational outcomes of interest. It suggests that the garbage can model is alive and kicking at forty.

Contributions assess the benefits to local banks around the Bakken Formation, the effect of corporate governance on valuation in India, and the undermining of real estate investment because of regulatory uncertainties. We also have studies of dividend policy and systemic risk in emerging markets, plus improvements in quantitative methods.

Marketing Places and Spaces brings context to the forefront for advancing theory and management sensemaking in understanding the influences of marketing on tourism behavior. This book is for tourism professionals and educators seeking deep knowledge of how visiting places transforms the lives of visitors--a nonfiction version of Eat Pray Love.

Topics covered include longitudinal trends, legal requirements, planning, juvenile justice, post-secondary education, mental health services, self-determination, evidence-based practices, curriculum, and process models.

Noted authors discuss how and why consumers identify with and become attached to brands and the challenges marketers face in creating and sustaining these states. Other meaning makers (e.g., celebrities, culture, consumers themselves) can facilitate or detract from the brand meanings marketers aim to create.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the issue of copyright. The papers contain critical analysis and investigation into existing copyright law and provide insight for policymakers and commentators.

This volume gathers a selection of papers presented at the International SPES Conference Business for Peace, Strategies for Hope held in Ypres in April 2014. The papers illustrate the impact of religion in peace management and present solutions and practices for corporate peace-building.

In this third edition the chapters have been enhanced to reflect changes in technology and the way the air transport industry runs. Key topics that are newly addressed include low cost airline operations, security issues and EASA regulations on airports. A new chapter covering extended details about wildlife control has been added to the volume.

The papers in this volume were presented at the third conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The theme of the 2012 conference was "Conflict, Cooperation and Transformation in Everyday Life." This volume focuses on interactions of Conflict and Cooperation.

Volume 28 of the Advances in International Management focuses on the opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises that consider emerging economies and their destinations. It provides a forum for thought-provoking idea and empirical research, and is ideal for researchers and doctoral students whose work touches emerging markets.

The articles in this volume offer stimulating research on the relationship among business cycles, participatory and labor-managed organizations, and employee voice. These contributions take various theoretical and empirical approaches and investigate many industries and countries, thus offering a balanced view on these current topics.

This volume accesses governance in public and non-profit organizations. Building on and challenging recent research in this area, this volume critically examines the contextual, behavioural and historical factors of governance.