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Issues in corporate governance and finance
Mark Hirschey
While "advances" continues to publish papers from any area of finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct.
Immigration
Barry R. Chiswick
Immigration to what is now the united states has been a contentious issue from the earliest days of the european settlement.
Empirical methods for bioethics
Liva Jacoby
In recent years concerns over the use of results of scientific advances, expectations about how medical decisions are made, and demographic changes have raised ethical questions about how resources are allocated, and how the principles of beneficence, and.
Envisioning a new accountability
Cheryl R. Lehman
Sustainable environments, global networks, ethical financial reporting, and emancipatory accounting are increasingly shaping social and accounting dialogue.
Privatization in transition economies
Ira W. Lieberman
This volume brings together contributions from a diverse group of authors each of whom have worked extensively on privatization and related reforms, such as restructuring and bankruptcy, in the transition economies of central and eastern europe (cee), the.
Sustainable feminisms
Sonita Sarker
This volume illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics.
Social psychology of gender
Shelley J. Correll
Advances in group processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory-based empirical chapters on group phenomena.
Bioethical issues, sociological perspectives
Barbara Katz Rothman
This volume deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities.
Qualitative urban analysis
Paul J. Maginn
Subjects covered include: multiplicities, interwoven threads, holistic paths; immigration, settlement and cultural diversity; gender empowerment in sri lanka; insights from interviews and focus groups into the spatiality of later life; and more.
Real options theory
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Real options theory has attracted significant interest in the field of strategic management.
Assessing teachers for professional certification
Lawrence Ingvarson
Nothing is as fundamental to the quality of a school system as the quality of its teachers.
The cyclic nature of innovation
Guus Berkhout
This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance.
Globalization
Katalin Fábián
Globalization studies are rapidly filling many a library shelf, and understandably so.
Multi-level issues in creativity and innovation
Michael D. Mumford
Advances in accounting
Philip M. J. Reckers
This series focuses on the academic and theoretical side of the profession in the areas of financial accounting, accounting education and auditing.
Research in personnel and human resources management
Joseph J. Martocchio
This volume contains seven chapters on important issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field..
Strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action in the health care industry
John D. Blair
Increasingly, there is a need for managers operating in the complex and dynamic health care environment to better understand the competitive nature of the health care industry and the opportunities that potentially exist within it.
Autonomy in social science research
Malcolm Tight
This book examines how and why autonomy matters in contemporary social science research.
Globalization
Katalin Fábián
Globalization studies are rapidly filling many a library shelf, and understandably so.
Living on the edge
A. Troy A.
Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the american west.
Economics of obesity
John H. Cawley
Obesity, which has increased in most developed countries in the past few decades, is the result of genetics, environment, and individual choices.
Cultures of contamination
Michael R. Edelstein
This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy.
Regional aspects of multinationality and performance
Alan M. Rugman
This volume contains recent chapters dealing with empirical tests of the relationship between multinationality (m) and performance (p).
Entrepreneurial strategic processes
Jerome A. Katz
Entrepreneurial value creation requires that organizations understand both the actions they need to take and how to effectively take them.
Devolution, port governance and port performance
Kevin Cullinane
The relationship between ports and governments has changed profoundly over the past quarter of a century.
Lost virtue
Nuala Kenny
The advances in bioethics series is devoted to publishing collections of original papers and multi-authored volumes that advance the field of bioethics either by exploring new areas, or by taking new approaches to traditional areas.
Inequality and poverty
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the first meeting of the society for the study of economic inequality (ecineq).
Current perspectives in special education administration
Festus E. Obiakor
Developmental entrepreneurship
Curt Stiles
This 5th volume provides a timely survey of the most critical aspects of developmental entrepreneurship currently being discussed in the fields of entrepreneurship, sociology, and economics.
New black
Rutledge M. Dennis
The contributions to this series consist of original research papers from an international community of specialists on race and ethnic relations.
Equity
Peter J. Lambert
For equity, societies may wish to eliminate certain forms or manifestations of inequality.
Micro-simulation in action
Olivier Bargain
This volume contains eight contributions aimed to advance policy analysis using the european tax-benefit micro-simulation model, euromod.
Capitalisms compared
Lars Mjoset
Over the last decade, political economists and other macro-oriented scholars have increasingly focused on the comparative specificities of distinct capitalist systems.
Equity
Peter J. Lambert
For equity, societies may wish to eliminate certain forms or manifestations of inequality.
Advances in culture, tourism and hospitality research
Arch G. Woodside
Advances in culture, tourism, and hospitality research (acthr) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and ev.
Aspects of worker well-being
Solomon W. Polachek
This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being.
Methodological developments in ethnography
Bob Jeffrey
What counts as ethnography and what counts as good ethnographic methodology are both highly contested.
Cultural differences between the military and parent society in democratic countries
Giuseppe Caforio
This book is a report of cross-national research on the civil-military cultural differences in democratic societies, particularly centred on the attitudes of national elites, here considered as being mainly composed of professionals.
Value creation in multinational enterprise
Reid W. Click
The papers in this volume of international finance review provide a reflection on the role of international finance -- and its relationship to strategy, economics, political science and public policy -- in examining value creation in multinational enterpr.
Maritime transport
Athanasios A. Pallis
Research in transportation economics is now available online at sciencedirect -- full-text online of volumes 6 onwards.
Real options theory
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Real options theory has attracted significant interest in the field of strategic management.
Teaching leaders to lead teachers
Saran Donahoo
Teaching leaders to lead teachers: educational administration in the era of constant crisis in the 21st century, the perceived crisis in how schools educate students significantly influences the decision of teachers to move into administrative posit.
Taking life and death seriously
Takao Takahashi
Full-scale bioethics research began in america around 1970, a decade later america introduced it into japan.
Dilemmas of engagement
Nigel Norris
In our reforming public institutions it sometimes feels as though the very ground of social and political contracts is shifting.
Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Warren J. Samuels
The series presents materials in two fields, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, both broadly considered.
Studies in symbolic interaction.
Norman K. Denzin
Volume 29 of "studies in symbolic interaction" honors ron pelias' contributions to symbolic interaction and performance studies.
Railroad economics
Scott M. Dennis
Research in transportation economics is now available online at sciencedirect -- full-text online of volumes 6 onwards.
Negotiating boundaries and borders
Matt Smith
As international development presents enormous moral, political and ethical challenges, so researching and understanding it requires negotiation of its contested contours.
Empirical methods for bioethics
Liva Jacoby
In recent years concerns over the use of results of scientific advances, expectations about how medical decisions are made, and demographic changes have raised ethical questions about how resources are allocated, and how the principles of beneficence, and.
Global mindset
Mansour Javidan
In his best selling book the world is flat, friedman (2005) argues that many more countries and companies now compete in global markets than ever before.
Research in personnel and human resources management.
Joseph J. Martocchio
"research in personnel and human resources management" is designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.
Ethics and epidemics
Robert Baker
The advances in bioethics series is devoted to publishing collections of original papers and multi-authored volumes that advance the field of bioethics either by exploring new areas, or by taking new approaches to traditional areas.
Research in the history of economic thought and methodology.
Warren J. Samuels
Volume 25-c commences a series of class notes taken at northwestern and chicago during the period 1964-1967.
Bus transport
David A. Hensher
The bus is the most patronised of all land based public passenger mode but is seen as a somewhat unglamorous means of supporting mobility and accessibility, in contrast to rail heavy and light, yet offers so much to the travelling public as well as offeri.
Issues in corporate governance and finance
Mark Hirschey
While "advances" continues to publish papers from any area of finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct.
Politics and neoliberalism
Harland Prechel
The articles in this volume directly or indirectly examine central tenets of neoliberalism: interference with market mechanisms is the cause of poor economic performance, and returning to market fundamentalism will restore prosperity.
Long-term management of contaminated sites
Leschine T. M.
Even today, many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society.
Workplace temporalities
Beth A. Rubin
The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has generated have enormous implications for the organization, experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace.