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Validity and Test Use: An International Dialogue on Educational Assessment, Accountability and EquityEditor

Madhabi ChatterjiTeachers College, Columbia University, USA

SynopsisThis volume questions the validity issues surrounding educational assessment programs and their appropriate uses in applied contexts. The authors break new ground in terms of validity theory and practice, offering recommendations, frameworks and assessment solutions that are broadly applicable in different regions. Chapters discuss the social consequences of validity oversights in high stakes testing, evaluation and accountability contexts. Questions addressed include: Do validity issues arise due to the technical complexities in assessment programs today, or a lack of awareness and inattention to technical limitations of assessment instruments by users? Is there a communication divide between educational policy-makers and measurement professionals that is obstructing more valid use of educational assessments and other forms of data? The prominent authors, representing voices of educational policy-makers, leaders, and recognized experts in educational measurement and evaluation from around the world, describe assessment programs in their regions, and appraise the conditions and factors that could enhance valid, equitable or fair assessment practices.

Top Selling Points• Breaks new ground by examining validity issues in international “high-stakes” test use

contexts

•Represents a dialogue among international stakeholders of assessment programs, including recognized experts in measurement and evaluation, education, and policy

• Provides recommendations, frameworks and technical solutions to persistent and emerging validity challenges

•Contributing authors include Michael T. Kane, Michael J. Feuer and Adrie Visscher, amongst others including Edmund W. Gordon.

ReadershipAn essential reference handbook for all involved in educational assessment programs.

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Validity and Test Use: An International Dialogue on Educational Assessments, Accountability, and EquityFront Matter and AcknowledgementChapter 1 Global Forces and Educational Assessment: A Foreword on Why We Need an International Dialogue on Validity and Test Use – Madhabi Chatterji, Teachers College, Columbia University

Section 1 Validity, Fairness and Testing of Individuals in High Stakes Decision–making ContextsChapter 2 Validity and Fairness in the Testing of Individuals – Michael Kane, Educational Testing Service

Chapter 3 Standardized Assessments and Implications for Improving Test and Sampling Designs: Applying Kane’s Principles on Validation – Alina von Davier, Educational Testing Service

Chapter 4 Is Fairness Research in Educational Measurement Doing Justice to Diverse Populations? A Modest Proposal for an Alternative Approach – Kadriye Ercikan, University of British Columbia & Maria Elena Oliveri, Educational Testing Service

Chapter 5 Fairness and Validity from the Viewpoints of Different Actors in Assessment: A French Reaction to Kane’s Validation Approach – Sébastien Georges, Centre international d’études pédagogiques, France

Chapter 6 The Gordon Commission’s Perspectives on the Future of Assessment: Looking Beyond Kane’s View – Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University

Section 2 Validity Issues in Models of Teacher Evaluation and School AccountabilityChapter 7 Evaluation–centered School Improvement: Potential, Prerequisites, and Validity Considerations – Adrie Visscher, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Chapter 8 Education, Testing, and Validity: A Nordic Comparative Perspective – Jakob Wandall, Nordic Metrics – Jakob Wandall, Nordic Metrics

Chapter 9 Reflections on Rationality, Evidence, and Issues of Validity: Evaluating Schools and Teachers – Aaron Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia University

Chapter 10 International Parallels in Responses to Accountability Requirements: Validity Considerations – Drew H. Gitomer, Rutgers University

Chapter 11 Addressing Validity and Other Challenges in Evaluation–Centered School Improvement Models: Possibilities in The Netherlands and Malaysia – Haniza Yon, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

Section 3 Validity Issues in International Large–Scale Assessment (ILSA) ProgramsChapter 12 Validity Issues in International Large–Scale Assessment Programs: “Truth” and “Consequences” – Michael J. Feuer, The George Washington University

Chapter 13 International Large Scale Assessment Programs: Appraising the Challenges of Consequential Validity – Hans Wagemaker, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement

Chapter 14 Validity in International Large Scale Assessment Applications in Developing Countries: Reflections on Feuer’s Framework – Eduardo Backhoff, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Chapter 15 Validity and International Large Scale Assessment Programs: A Reaction to Feuer’s “Truth” and “Consequences” – Valena White Plisko, Private Consultant, formerly with the National Center for Education Statistics, USA

Chapter 16 Applying Feuer’s Validation Framework in a Canadian Context: A Look at International Large Scale Assessment Programs – Robert Laurie, Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, University of New Brunswich, Canada

Chapter 17 An Afterword on Improving Validity in Three Test Use Contexts: New Insights and Theories of Action – Madhabi Chatterji, Teachers College, Columbia University

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ISSN: 0275-4959ISBN print: 9781781905876ISBN electronic: 9781781905883Publication date: 30 September 2013Price: £82.95 €121.95 US$154.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 425Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: MBPCPrimary BISAC code: SOC057000LCC code: RA418-418.5

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Social Determinants, Health Disparities and Linkages to Health and Health CareResearch in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 31

Editor

Jennie Jacobs KronenfeldArizona State University, USA

SynopsisThis volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage includes papers on geographical and place factors and disparities, SES and race/ethnicity factors, chronic care and serious health problems such as HIV/AIDs and kidney transplantation, comparative aspects and perceptions of health disparities. Starting with an introduction that reviews the crucial sociological literature on social determinants and health disparities, papers in this volume go on to cover key themes including ageing, barriers to care, ethnicity, social inequalities, the views of parents on their children’s care, and doctor/patient relationships.

Previous VolumesVolume 31, ISBN: 9781781901243 Issues in Health and Health Care Related to Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender

Volume 29, ISBN: 9780857247155 Access to Care and Factors That Impact Access, Patients as Partners in Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers

Healthcare Management

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Social Determinants, Health Disparities and Linkages to Health and Health CarePart 1 – Introduction to Volume• Social Determinants and Health Disparities

Part 2 – Geographical and Place Factors and Disparities• Addressing Health Disparities: Understanding Place in the Role of

Social Determinant Interventions

• The Impact of Neighborhood Cohesion on Older Individuals Self-Rated Health Status

• Structural and Hidden Barriers to a Local Primary Care Health Care Infrastructure.

• Autonomy, Decisions about Primary Health Care and the Centrality and Significance of Power

• The Effects of Residential Advantages upon Rural Residents’ Self-reported Physical Health and Environmental Well being

Part 3 – Race/Ethnicity and SES Factors and Disparities• Ethnic Group Differences in the Utilization of Preventive Medical Care

Services among Foreign-Born Asian and Latino Adults in the United States.

• Birth Outcomes of Patients Enrolled in “Familias Sanas” Research Project

• Variations in Parents’ Perceptions of their Children’s Medical Treatment: The Effect of Dissatisfaction on Preventive Care and Unmet Need

• An Application of the Andersen Model of Health Utilization to the Understanding of the Role of Race Concordant Doctor/Patient Relationships in Reducing Health Disparities

Part 4 – Chronic Care and Serious Health Problems• A Generation Skipped: An exploratory study of HIV/AIDS Education

and Prevention Services for Older Adults

• The Sociology of Chronic Illness and Self Care Management

• Social Capital, Gatekeeping and Access to Kidney Transplantation

Part 5 – Comparative and Political Issues•Contextualizing Disparities: The Case for Comparative Research on

Social Inequalities in Healthcare

• Political Ideology, Party Identification and Perceptions of Health Disparities

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ISSN: 2042-9940ISBN print: 9781781907283ISBN electronic: 9781781907290Publication date: 10 September 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 250Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: JPAPrimary BISAC code: POL000000LCC code: JA71 80

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The World of Biology and Politics: Organization and Research AreasResearch in Biopolitics, Volume 11

Editors

Dr Steven A. PetersonPennsylvania State University, PA, USA

Dr Albert SomitSouthern Illinois University, IL, USA

SynopsisThis volume describes (a) the present academic and institutional status of Biopolitics and (b) the wide range of research areas that have emerged within the field.

The Introduction puts into perspective the major differences and similarities between Biopolitics and more traditional approaches to political science in terms of basic concepts, scope, research methodology, and the resulting implications for public policy. The next two chapters focus on the institutions and organizations that have significantly influenced the structure and direction of the “movement.” Chapter 4 describes how and why evolutionary theory has had an increasingly influential impact on political science. Chapters 5 through 9 are “case studies” of how biological perspectives have been productively used in several of the discipline’s established “fields.”

Chapter 10 is a measured critical analysis of the enterprise and Chapter 11 looks at where biopolitics as a field might be moving.

Previous VolumesVolume 10, ISBN: 9781780528205 Biopolicy The Life Sciences and Public Policy

Volume 9, ISBN: 9780857245793 Biology and Politics: The Cutting Edge

Sociology and Public Policy

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The World of Biology and Politics: Organization and Research AreasChapter 1: Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson, Biology and Politics: An Introduction

Chapter 2: Biology and Politics: Organizational Issues

A. Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson, International Political Science Association’s Research Committee

B. David Goetze, Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

C. Rob Sprinkle, Politics and the Life Sciences

Chapter 3: Graduate Training in Biology and Politics

A. Albert Somit, and Milton Lodge, The Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

B. Andrea Bonnicksen, The Biopolitics Program at Northern Illinois University

C. Rebecca Hannagan, Bootstrapping “Biology-Minded” Graduate Programs

D. Albert Somit, Other Related Aspects of Training Students

Chapter 4: Tatu Vanhanen, On the Evolutionary Roots of the Social Sciences

Chapter 5: John Friend and Bradley Thayer, Neuropolitics and Political Science: Providing a Foundation for the Study of Politics

Chapter 6: Johan van der Dennen, The Biopolitics of Great Apes

Chapter 7: Odelia Funke, Biopolicy: Can it provide a new paradigm?

Chapter 8: Robert E. Gilbert, Attempted Assassination and Presidential Achievement: The Case of

Ronald Reagan

Chapter 9: Steven A. Peterson, Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Individualist and Communist Anarchism

Chapter 10: Robert Blank and Michael Bang Petersen, Success or Failure? A Critical but Optimistic Evaluation of Biopolitics

Chapter 11: Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson, Quo Vadis? Biology and Politics and the Future

Biographical Statements – Research in Biopolitics, volume 11 - 9781781907283Robert H. Blank, PhD. University of Maryland, is currently a Research Scholar at the New College of Florida and a Visiting Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Previous academic positions include Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in West London, Associate Director of the Program for Biosocial Research at Northern Illinois University, and Chair of Political Science at the University of Idaho. He has held residential fellowships at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, Indiana University, the Medical University of South Carolina and Aarhus University in Denmark and Fulbright Lectureships in Taiwan (1976-77 and 2007) and New Zealand (1984). He has taught, lectured and written widely in the areas of comparative health policy, medical technology assessment, and biomedical policy. Among his over 35 books and 200 journal articles are Rationing Medicine (Columbia University Press), Biomedical Policy (Nelson-Hall), The Price of Life (Columbia University Press), Brain Policy (Georgetown University Press), End of Life Decision Making (MIT Press), Condition Critical (Fulcrum Press) and Comparative Health Policy, 3rd. ed. (Palgrave).

Andrea Bonnicksen (Ph.D. Washington State University) is Distinguished Research Professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, where she teaches courses in biomedical and biotechnology policy. She is the author of three books, including Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells (Georgetown University Press, 2002) and In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures (Columbia University Press, 1989). Her fourth book is Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research: Politics and Policymaking. She has published journal articles and book chapters on ethical and policy issues related to embryonic stem cell research, human reproductive cloning, germ-line gene therapy, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, ovum nuclear transfer, human embryo freezing, and other reproductive and genetic technologies.

John Friend is currently a degree fellow with the East-West Center and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where he focuses on politics and the life sciences, neuropolitics, international security, and contemporary political thought. Mr. Friend holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University.

Odelia Funke is a political scientist. She has taught courses in political theory and American government at several universities, and also has many years of experience working in public policy for the US federal government. Her published research has focused on topics in political theory and environmental policy. She is currently a manager and senior analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency. The views of the author are entirely her own and do not in any way represent the US government or Environmental Protection Agency.

Robert Gilbert (PHD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), is the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He teaches courses in American Politics, focusing especially on the American Presidency. He is the author of several award winning books, including The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House, Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the 25th Amendment and The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death and Clinical Depression. He has also published articles in numerous journals in the United States and abroad, including Political Psychology, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, Politics and the Life Sciences, Journal of American Studies, Fordham Law Review, UMKC Law Review, Political Communication and Persuasion and Politics, Culture and Socialization. Gilbert has been awarded Northeastern University’s Excellence in Teaching award and in 2004, was chosen to deliver the annual Robert D. Klein University Lecture. In 1994, he was appointed to the Working Group on Presidential Disability by President Carter and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The Working Group met with Presidents Ford and Carter over a two year period and presented its Report and Recommendations to President Clinton at the White House in December,1996.

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David Goetze is Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. He has served as Executive Director of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences for the past nine years. His research focuses on human cooperation and conflict -- most recently, on the evolutionary origins of group bonding and the evolved psychology of warfare.

Dr Rebecca J. Hannagan is currently a visiting Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliate of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at Portland State University. She is a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska, and her home institution is Northern Illinois University where she is Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty Associate of Women’s Studies, and Research Faculty of the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault. Her research and teaching focuses on the biological underpinnings of political attitudes and behavior with particular emphasis on gender differences. Her research has been published in Political Behavior, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Politics and the Life Sciences, The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Biology and Philosophy, and other journals and edited volumes. Dr. Hannagan was the principle investigator on a National Science Foundation grant for approximately $95,000, undertaking the study of gender dynamics in local government decision making.

Milton Lodge is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Political Science Department’s Laboratory for Political Research. In addition to disciplinary recognition – he was President of the Midwest Political Science Association in 1999-2000, an Obermann Fellow at the University of Iowa’s Center for Advanced Studies in 1991, and appointment as Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science in 2003-2004 -- Professor Lodge served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Central University of Nepal in Kathmandu in 2001-2002. Professor Lodge is widely recognized as a founding father of political psychology, as witnessed by being awarded in 2005 the Harold Lasswell Award in recognition of his “distinguished scientific life-time contribution to the study of political psychology”.

Michael Bang Petersen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University in Denmark. His research focuses on the psychology of public opinion formation and draws on theories and insights from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience. He is affiliated with the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara and has published in journals such as Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research and Journal of Cognition and Culture.

Steven A. Peterson is Director of the School of Public Affairs and Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His areas of research interest include: American Politics, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Biology and Politics, and Public Policy (AIDS policy and education policy). He has authored or co-authored (or co-edited) over twenty books, among which are Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy; The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution, Political Behavior: Patterns in Everyday Life; The World of the Policy Analyst, and over 100 publications. He has served as President of the New York State Political Science Association and the Northeastern Political Science Association. He has served as an officer in the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) and Research Committee # 12 (Biology and Politics) of the International Political Science Association.

Albert Somit is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he served as President. He also was Executive Vice President at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is Professor Emeritus. Her has been a pioneer in biopolitics and the founder of Research Committee # 12 (Biology and Politics) of the International Political Science Association, for which he currently serves as President. He has published extensively in the history of political science, the politics of the elderly, and, of course, biopolitics. Among his major works in biopolitics: Biology and Politics; Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy; Human Nature and Public Policy.

Bradley A. Thayer is a Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the author of numerous works in biopolitics and international relations, including Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict. He has served as a consultant to the United States Government, including the Department of Defense.

Johan M.G. van der Dennen studied behavioral sciences at the University of Groningen, and is at present senior researcher at the Section Political Science of the Department of Legal Theory, formerly the Polemological (Peace Research) Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on all aspects of human and animal aggression, sexual violence, neuro and psychopathology of human violence, political violence, theories of war causation, macroquantitative research on contemporary wars, ethnocentrism, and the politics of peace and war in preindustrial societies. In 1995 he published his dissertation The Origin of War: the Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, an evolutionary analysis of the origin of intergroup violence in humans and animals.

Tatu Vanhanen is Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University of Tampere, Finland, and currently a visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki. He became Doctor of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere in 1968 and has held positions at the University of Jyväskylä, at the University of Tampere, and the University of Helsinki. Among his books are The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States, 1980-88 (1990), On the Evolutionary Roots of Politics (1992), Prospects of Democracy: A study of 172 countries (1997), Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism (1999), IQ and the Wealth of Nations (Co-author, 2002), Democratization: A Comparative Analysis of 170 Countries (2003), IQ and Global Inequality (Co-author, 2006), and The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution (2009).

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ISSN: 0163-786XISBN print: 9781781907320ISBN electronic: 9781781907337Publication date: 9 July 2013Price: £72.95 €105.95 US$134.95Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 332Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JPWPrimary BISAC code: POL003000LCC code: JA1 92

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Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and ChangeResearch in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 35

Editor

Prof. Pat. G. CoyKent State University, OH, USA

SynopsisThis latest volume in the august Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series carries on a long tradition of featuring only the best data-driven and multi-method research upon which useful theory can be painstakingly built.

Part one focuses on old and new media platforms and their intersections with mobilization issues, highlighting protest websites and the US Tea Party movement. Part two investigates the roles elites play in advancing movement campaigns for increased rights and decreased inequalities in the US and Peru. The third section spotlights best and worst practices in conflict transformation and peacebuilding ventures in Croatia and Israel/Palestine, while the fourth section interrogates the use of consensus building processes in Local Social Forums and in the Occupy Movement. Finally, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Neil Smelser’s A Theory of Collective Behavior, we close with a creative combining of Smelser’s structural functionalist approach with social identity models for understanding crowd behaviors in the context of university party riots.

Previous VolumesVolume 35, ISBN: 9781781906354 Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements

Volume 34, ISBN: 9781781903452 Nonviolent Conflict and Civil Resistance


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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

Patrick G. Coy

PART I: OLD AND NEW MEDIA AND MOBILIZATIONSpreading the Word or Shaping the Conversation: “Prosumption” in Protest WebsitesJennifer Earl

Media, Movements, and Mobilization: Tea Party Protests in the U.S., 2009-2010Tarun Banerjee

PART II: ELITES AND ADVANCEMENTS IN RIGHTSStrategic Action Fields and the Context of Political Entrepreneurship: How Disability Rights Became Part of the Policy AgendaDavid Pettinicchio

Inconsistency in Policy Elites’ Support for Movement Claims: Feminist Advocacy in Two Regions of PeruAnna-Britt Coe

PART III: PEACEBUILDING PATHOLOGIES AND BEST PRACTICESPathologies in Peacebuilding: Donors, NGOs, and Community Peacebuilding in CroatiaLaura J. Heideman

Organizational Adaptation and Survival in a Hostile and Unfavorable Environment: Peacebuilding Organizations in Israel and PalestineMichelle I. Gawerc

PART IV: CONSENSUS IN OCCUPY AND IN SOCIAL FORUMSLearning Consensus Decision-Making In Occupy: Uncertainty, Responsibility, CommitmentAnna Szolucha

Practices of Local Social Forums: The Building of Tactical and Cultural Collective Action RepertoiresPascale Dufour

PART V: 50 YEARS LATER: SMESLER REAPPLIEDYou Have to Fight! For Your Right! To Party! Structure, Culture, and Mobilization in a University Party RiotStephen C. Poulson, Thomas N. Ratliff and Emily Dollieslager

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS – Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change, volume 36, 9781781907320

Tarun Banerjee Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Anna-Britt Coe Umeå Center for Gender Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Patrick G. Coy Center for Applied Conflict Management, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

Emily Dollieslager James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Pascale Dufour Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Montréal, Canada

Jennifer Earl

Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Michelle I. Gawerc Department of Sociology, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Laura J. Heideman Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

David Pettinicchio Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Stephen C. Poulson Department of Sociology & Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Thomas N. Ratliff Department of Criminology, Sociology & Geography, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA

Anna Szolucha Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland

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ISSN: 1475-1488ISBN print: 9781781908389ISBN electronic: 9781781908396Publication date: 5 September 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 180Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KFCPrimary BISAC code: BUS001000LCC code: HG1706-1708

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Advances in Accounting Behavioral ResearchAdvances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Volume 16

Editor

Donna Bobek SchmittUniversity of Central Florida, FL, USA

SynopsisAdvances in Accounting Behavioral Research publishes high-quality research encompassing all areas of accounting and addressing issues that affect the users, preparers, and assurers of accounting information. This research incorporates theory from, and contributes knowledge and understanding to, applied psychology, sociology, management science, and behavioral economics. The first chapter investigates how non-professional investors react to risk disclosures within management discussion and analysis (MD&A) sections of financial statements. The next three chapters focus on professional accountants’ work experiences, respectively investigating how the need for cognition influences audit sampling judgment, role stress and job outcome experiences for public accountants, and the role of fraud training in improving auditors’ ability to detect fraud risk factors. The next two chapters focus on methodological issues that can be useful for future researchers; one develops and validates a psychometric scale measuring worry and rumination, while the other provides a tutorial for accounting researchers who would like to develop their own experiments using z-tree. The final chapter provides a comprehensive literature review on the topic of sales and uses tax research including implications for future behavioral research in the area.

Previous VolumesVolume ISBN Title

15 9781780527581 Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

14 9781780520865 Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

Accounting and Finance

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ISSN: 1474-7871ISBN print: 9781781908426ISBN electronic: 9781781908433Publication date: 5 August 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 244Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KFCPrimary BISAC code: BUS001000LCC code: HF5601-5689

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Advances in Management AccountingAdvances in Management Accounting, Volume 22

Editors

John Y. LeePace University, NY, USA

Marc J. EpsteinRice University, TX, USA

SynopsisAdvances in Management Accounting (AIMA) is an academic series whose purpose is to meet the information needs of both practitioners and academicians. It publishes thoughtful, well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting, broadly defined.


21 9781781901045 Advances in Management Accounting

20 9781780527543 Advances in Management Accounting


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ISSN: 1041-7060ISBN print: 9781780526188ISBN electronic: 9781780526195Publication date: 27 September 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 200Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KFCPPrimary BISAC code: BUS001000LCC code: HJ9701-9940

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Managing Reality: Accountability and the Miasma of Private and Public DomainsAdvances in Public Interest Accounting, Volume 16

Editor

Cheryl R. LehmanHofstra University, NY, USA

SynopsisAccounting’s contribution to reality construction is envisioned in this volume of critical research, examining accounting’s role in contemporary issues: ethics, sustainability, financial instability, post SOX legislation, education, and performance appraisals to name a few. Do CEOs manage rather than reveal environmental liabilities in their never-ending quest for reporting earnings? Under the scrutiny of negative publicity, does the banking community revise images, mask impending crises, and distort regulatory processes? Will shifts in litigation risk influence financial reporting? How do demands and perceptions from powerful external stakeholders change education or organizational processes? How might accounting positively engage in social movements, grass-roots empowerment, and change? These are among the explorations in this volume through case studies, interviews, analysis and interdisciplinary perspectives. Exposing accounting’s impact on major social struggles of our times, these works contribute to the debates by revealing that the discipline can be a vital technology in the tool box of governance, political, economic and social practice, holding a key for affirmation and empowerment.


15 9781849507288 Ethics, Equity, and Regulation

14 9781848553002 Extending Schumacher’s Concept of Total Accounting and Accountability into the 21st Century


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ISSN: 2043-9059ISBN print: 9781781907702ISBN electronic: 9781781907719Publication date: 23 July 2013Price: £72.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 350Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJRSPrimary BISAC code: BUS008000LCC code: HF5387-5387.5

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Institutional Investors’ Power to Change Corporate Behaviour: International PerspectivesCritical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Volume 5

Editors

Suzanne YoungLa Trobe University, Australia

Stephen GatesAudencia Nantes School of Management, France

SynopsisThe aim of the book series is to explore public concerns and practical issues deeply and rethink theoretical debates and institutional policies critically in the broad area of corporate responsibility, corporate governance and sustainability around the world. It examines the social, economic and environmental impacts of corporations, and the real effects of corporate governance, CSR and business sustainability on societies in different regions. It facilitates a better understanding of how value systems, cultures and traditions in different societies may affect the policies and practices of corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability. It identifies the future development trends of corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability in contexts when examining and exploring those key issues.


4 9781780529981 Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A Challenging Concept

3 9781780524382 Business & Sustainability: Concepts, Strategies and Changes

Business Ethics and Law

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ISSN: 1529-2096ISBN print: 9781783500741ISBN electronic: 9781783500758Publication date: 3 September 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 200Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJGPrimary BISAC code: BUS008000LCC code: HF5387-5387.5

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Moral Saints and Moral ExemplarsResearch in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Volume 10

Editors

Howard SchwartzRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Howard HarrisUniversity of South Australia, Australia

SynopsisThe purpose of the series is to explore the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a pluralistic, free enterprise economy. The primary goal of the research studies published here is to examine how profit seeking and not for profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way.


9 9781781907689 Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations

8 9781780529882 Applied Ethics: Remembering Patrick Primeaux

Business Ethics and Law

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ISSN: 1574-8715ISBN print: 9781781907542ISBN electronic: 9781781907559Publication date: 2 July 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 275Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KCGPrimary BISAC code: BUS000000LCC code: HF1701-2701

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Non Tariff Measures with Market Imperfections: Trade and Welfare ImplicationsFrontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 12

Editor

Professor John C. BeghinIowa State University, USA

SynopsisThis volume presents new developments in non-tariff measure (NTM) policy analysis by leading authors in the field; from conceptual developments and methodology improvements, to a series of innovative cases studies. A novel policy research agenda underlies the book recognizing that some NTMs are required to sustain market exchange. The investigations address the welfare and trade impacts of standard-like NTMs in presence of market imperfections, their measurements, potential protectionism, and implications for North-South trade and income prospects in developing countries, including for small holders. Several analyses address the potential trade-cost effects of these NTMs through their lack of transparency, their heterogeneity across countries, and constraints to harmonize them and gains from harmonization. Several analyses investigate trade within OECD countries, including looking at export decisions by heterogeneous firms and the effect of harmonization of standards on firm productivity, and exploring the export-enhancing effect of a country’s own stringency in standards. Practical policy implications are drawn.


11 9781780523965 Economic Growth and Development

10 9780857247575 Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare

Economics

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ISSN: 0270-4021ISBN print: 9781781907009ISBN electronic: 9781781907016Publication date: 12 August 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: Hardback Format electronic: PDFPage count: 203Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JNTPrimary BISAC code: EDU029000LCC code: LB1501-1547

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Learning Across the Early Childhood CurriculumAdvances in Early Education and Day Care, Volume 17

Editors

Lynn Cohen Long Island University, NY, USA

Sandra Waite StupianskyEdinboro University, PA, USA

SynopsisEducation, according to John Dewey, should be viewed as dynamic and ongoing with direct teaching of integrated content knowledge. This volume offers readers an examination of the content areas in early childhood curriculum that honor Dewey’s belief in active, integrated learning.

When young children learn in a way that is most natural to them, they unconsciously integrate subject areas into a complex whole based on their current interests. The ability to apply and integrate academic skills such as language arts, numeracy, scientific investigation, social studies, technology, and health and physical education is key to building capacity for future learning. Teachers who follow this method of teaching view curriculum as a fully spun web that incorporates a number of subject matter components at one time, and ensure that the content areas are taught. Topics addressed in this volume include: The role of STEM, teacher preparation, communication and technology.


16 9781781900741 Early Education in a Global Context

15 9780857242792 The Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Grant: Research and Practice

Education Management

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ISSN: 1479-3687ISBN print: 9781781908501ISBN electronic: 9781781908518Publication date: 14 August 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JNTPrimary BISAC code: EDU029000LCC code: LB1705-2286

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From Teacher Thinking to Teachers and Teaching: The Evolution of a Research Community Advances in Research on Teaching, Volume 19

Editor

Cheryl J. Craig The University of Houston, TX, USA

SynopsisThis volume covers advances that have occurred in the thirty year existence of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT), the organization that helped transition the study of teacher thinking to the study of teachers and teaching in all of its complexities.

This evolution meant that teachers and the act of teaching are no longer exclusively studied from the outside, but from the inside as well.

The chapters capture an international paradigm shift that set the course of teaching and teacher education research. The origins of the movement are traced, work of researchers who contributed to the movement is featured, the spread of the movement into new regions is followed, and the future of the international research community that resulted is imagined.

Thirteen section editors and the two main editors present the volume by themes, with work from several regions covered in each theme area.

Each sub-section includes:

1. a representative sample of research conducted historically on a particular topic;

2. a review of what developments have occurred in the interim; and

3. contemporary piece/s of scholarship.


18 9781781906514 Emotion and School: How the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

17 9781781902349 Warrior Women: Remaking Post-Secondary Places Through Narrative Inquiry

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ISSN: 1479-3679ISBN print: 9781781906989ISBN electronic: 9781781906996Publication date: 8 July 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JNMPrimary BISAC code: EDU040000LCC code: LB2300-2430

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The Development of Higher Education in Africa: Prospects and ChallengesInternational Perspectives on Education and Society, Volume 21

Editors

Alexander W. WisemanLehigh University, PA, USA

C.C. WolhuterNorth-West University, South Africa

SynopsisIn spite of the worldwide higher education ‘revolution’, the higher education sector throughout Africa remains surprisingly underdeveloped.

This volume investigates the challenges and prospects pertaining to higher education expansion and development in Africa, especially issues of access, capacity and accessibility.

The authors present, case studies and research about the development of higher education not only across Africa as a whole, but in regions, countries and educational systems within Africa as well. The book uniquely explores the continent-wide, region-specific and country- or system-level contexts, policies, and conditions that drive both the creation and reform of public and private higher education. It also investigates the international, multilateral and bilateral organizations that influence the development of higher education in and across Africa.

Emphasis is placed on mapping out a future course for the development of higher education in Africa, taking note of contextual factors in the region, and comparatively considering higher education development in other parts of the world.


20 9781781906941 Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2013

19 9781781906538 Teacher Reforms around the World: Implementations and Outcomes

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ISSN: 1479-3628ISBN print: 9781781906828ISBN electronic: 9781781906835Publication date: 20 August 2013Price: £72.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JNMPrimary BISAC code: EDU001030LCC code: LB2300-2430

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Theory and Method in Higher Education ResearchInternational Perspectives on Higher Education Research, Volume 9

Editors

Malcolm Tight Lancaster University, UK

Jeroen HuismanUniversity of Bath, UK

SynopsisTheory and Method in Higher Education Research contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education. Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies is being applied. As an expanding multidisciplinary area of interest, we may also expect increased development of theory and method. This volume aims to offer a channel for discussion, critique and innovation. It should become essential reading for the growing numbers of researchers engaging with higher education across the globe.


8 9781781904992 Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom: Perspectives from Different Voices

7 9781780525006 Hard Labour? Academic Work and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education

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ISSN: 1074-7540ISBN print: 9781781900185ISBN electronic: 9781781900192Publication date: 24 June 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJHPrimary BISAC code: BUS0025000LCC code: HB615-715

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Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Competing with ConstraintsAdvances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Volume 14

Editors

Andrew C. CorbettBabson College, USA

Jerome A. KatzSaint Louis University, USA

SynopsisThis volume explores the theme of “resources” in entrepreneurship, and examines the resourcefulness of entrepreneurs that persevere in uncertain times to build new businesses. The different perspectives gathered in this volume present new ways of thinking about how entrepreneurs acquire, borrow, and make use of resources in seemingly impossible environments. Contributions discuss how entrepreneurs can yield success using bricolage; how to leverage “newness” and resource constraints as an advantage; and how high growth entrepreneurs overcome cognitive weaknesses and self doubt to succeed in new ventures. Further articles provide insights into resourcefulness of corporate entrepreneurial environments; links between knowledge flows and barriers in the entrepreneurship processes; and entrepreneurial resourcefulness in challenging and hostile economic environments.


14 9781780529004 Entrepreneurial Action

13 9781780520728 Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Enterprise and Innovation

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ISSN: 2051-5030ISBN print: 9781781906279ISBN electronic: 9781781906286Publication date: 26 April 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 249Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJGPrimary BISAC code: BUS008000LCC code: HF5387-5387.5

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Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical, Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate RequirementsAdvances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Volume 12

Editors

Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-PerezUniversidad EAFIT Medellin, Colombia

Liam LeonardIT Sligo, Ireland

SynopsisAdvances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Volume 12: Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements brings together a range of practitioners and academics from the world of business who examine corporate social responsibility in policy and practice in a series of case studies from across the globe. This volume, co-edited by Dr. Liam Leonard and Dr. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, is the second in the series (formerly Advances in Ecopolitics) dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility within the scope of international business. Both books in this pair of studies bring together contributions from authors located in 13 countries in the 5 continents, and this second volume on the topic specifically incorporates academic works from 21 researchers representing institutions from Australia, Canada, Colombia, England, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, and the United States. As such, these studies represent one of the most comprehensive collections on contemporary business practices in the significant area of Corporate Social Responsibility.


11 9781781906255 International Business, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

10 9781780522029 Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights

Environmental Management/Environment

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ISSN: 2040-7262ISBN print: 9781781908822ISBN electronic: 9781781908839Publication date: 11 September 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 200Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: RNRPrimary BISAC code: SCI026000LCC code: GE300-350

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Water Insecurity: A Social DilemmaCommunity, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Volume 13

Editors

M.A. AbedinKyoto University, Japan

Umma Habiba Kyoto University, Japan

Rajib Shaw Kyoto University, Japan

SynopsisIt has been estimated that globally, 1.2 billion people live with acute shortage of water. Water scarcity, particularly in south and south-east Asian countries, is well known. However, the social dilemmas and insecurities related to water issues are often less discussed. In the case of south and south-east Asia, the distribution of available water amongst various casts and creeds has been determined through several social hierarchies. Hence, water forms a critical socio-political issue, with a multi-faced dimension. This book critically analyses the associated social issues of increasing water scarcity in countries such as India. It documents the social impacts and predicament of water scarcity.

The book will be of prime interest to researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the fields of development and environment, as well as water planners, and it will be a useful reference guide for future research in the field of water scarcity and risk management.

Topics analysed include arsenic contamination, the impact of salinity on livelihood and mitigation, and drought resilience, adaptation and policy. The book concludes by providing lessons, challenges and future perspectives of water insecurity.

Previous VolumesVolume Number ISBN Title

12 9781780526904 Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

11 9781780524863 Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush – Himalayan Region

Environmental Management/Environment

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ISSN: 1474-8231ISBN print: 9781781906330ISBN electronic: 9781781906347Publication date: 14 August 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: Hardback Format electronic: PDFPage count: 241Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: MBPPrimary BISAC code: MED035000LCC code: RA960-1000.5

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Leading in Health Care Organizations: Improving Safety, Satisfaction, and Financial PerformanceAdvances in Health Care Management, Volume 14

Editors

Hannes LeroyKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands

Grant T. SavageUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Tony SimonsCornell University, NY, USA

SynopsisHealth care organizations around the world are judged in terms of a health care triple bottom line: ensuring employee and patient safety, maximizing employee and patient satisfaction, and meeting financial goals. Given the increasing burden of chronic diseases, the increasing complexity of medical interventions, and the increasing costs of care, innovative leadership is required to achieve this triple bottom line. The 14th volume of the Advances in Health Care Management research series addresses the links between leadership and safety, satisfaction or financial performance in health care management by exploring questions such as the following:

1. How does leadership impact employee safety?

2. How does leadership affect patient safety?

3. How does leadership impact employee satisfaction?

4. How does leadership affect patient satisfaction?

5. How does leadership affect financial performance?

6. How do health care organizations deploy multi-level leadership to achieve safety goals? Satisfaction goals? Financial goals? Multiple goals?

7. How do health care organization leaders establish and maintain a safety culture? A patient-centered culture? A high performance culture? Combined cultures?


13 9781781901908 Annual Review of Health Care Management Strategy and Policy Perspectives on Reforming Health Systems

12 9781780528588 Health Information Technology in the International Context

Health Care Management

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ISSN: 1479-3555ISBN print: 9781781905852ISBN electronic: 9781781905869Publication date: 30 September 2013Price: £82.95 €121.95 US$154.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 440Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: JMJPrimary BISAC code: MED061000LCC code: RA790-790.95

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The Role of Emotion and Emotion Regulation in Job Stress and Well BeingResearch in Occupational Stress and Well Being, Volume 11

Editors

Pamela L. PerrewéFlorida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Jonathon HalbeslebenUniversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

Christopher C. RosenUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

SynopsisThis series promotes theory and research in the growing area of occupational stress, health and well being, and in the process, showcases the work of the best researchers and theorists who contribute to this area. Furthermore, the series promotes the development of truly path-breaking contributions that significantly advance theory and provide specific directions for future work. Each volume of this series has a specific theme and provides a rich compilation of the insights of the top researchers from a variety of fields concerning what we know about work stress and well being and what the critical gaps are that most need attention for the field to progress. The theme for volume 11 concerns the role of emotion and emotion regulation in job stress and well-being.


10 9781781900048 The Role of the Economic Crisis on Occupational Stress and Well Being

9 9780857247117 The Role of Individual Differences in Occupational Stress and Well Being

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ISSN: 0065-2830ISBN print: 9781781904794ISBN electronic: 9781781904800Publication date: 6 June 2013Price: £72.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 334Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: GLMPrimary BISAC code: LAN025000LCC code: Z668-669.7

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Mergers and Alliances: The Wider View Advances in Librarianship, Volume 36

Editors

Anne WoodsworthNew York, NY, USA

W. David PennimanNewtonville, NY, USA

SynopsisVolume 36 of Advances in Librarianship seeks to provide a comprehensive broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations. While corporate mergers make headlines, similar efforts in library and information science are less vociferously touted. They are occurring however amongst libraries, among LIS degree programs, and enterprises such as networks and consortia They are occurring as governments around the world mandate consolidation of operations amongst agencies under their purview in order to reduce or curtail expenditures.

The chapters include original research, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual papers on the following topics:

• Structural and operational mergers in the US, and also in Finland where higher education has undergone significant change in the past 10 years resulting in merged and joint library operations;

• A review of successful and unsuccessful mergers in the corporate sector which provide lessons that benefit the nonprofit sector;

• Experiences in higher education in library and information science programs through analysis of collaboration both in the US and in Europe and the Middle east by multi-university effort that adhere to standards of the Bologna Process;

• The collapse and mergers of former OCLC regional networks in the US;

• The fiscal results and savings from network acquisition of electronic resources and databases; the impact of efforts such as the Council on Library and Information Resources to nurture collaboration amongst libraries and various types of agencies;

• The results of radical fiscal constraints in Greece which led to contraction and collaboration among university libraries there.


35 9781781900604 Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship

34 9781780523903 Librarianship in Times of Crisis

Library and Information Studies

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ISSN: 0065-2830ISBN print: 9781783500543ISBN electronic: 9781781904800Publication date: 4 September 2013Price: £77.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 329Dimensions: 165 x 240 mmPrimary BIC code: GLCPrimary BISAC code: SOC023000LCC code: Z4-115.5

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Mergers and Alliances: The Operational View and CasesAdvances in Librarianship, Volume 37

Editors

Anne WoodsworthLibrary Consultant

W. David PennimanLibrary Consultant

SynopsisVolume 37 of Advances in Librarianship presents detailed examples of local and regional mergers and collaborations and serves as a companion to Volume 36 which presented a comprehensive broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, and the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations. While corporate mergers make headlines, library and information science examples, especially at regional an local levels, have less visibility. This volume demonstrates that such efforts are occurring in libraries, among LIS degree programs, and enterprises including networks and consortia. They are occurring as economic conditions around the world mandate consolidation and/or collaboration among agencies and enterprises to reduce or curtail expenditures.


36 9781781904794 Advances in Librarianship

35 9781781900604 Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship

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ISSN: 1877-6361ISBN print: 9781781908983ISBN electronic: 9781781908990Publication date: 4 September 2013Price: £77.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 329Dimensions: 165 x 240 mmPrimary BIC code: KJPrimary BISAC code: BUS041000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Social Media in Strategic ManagementAdvanced Series in Management, Volume 11

Editors

Prof. Miguel R. Olivas-LujanClarion University of Pennsylvania, USA

Dr Tanya BondaroukUniversity of Twente, The Netherlands

SynopsisSocial media are changing the way businesses interact in technology-mediated ways with most of their stakeholders. Strategically-minded managers, researchers and students cannot afford to ignore the new ways in which interactions with customers, employees, shareholders, and many other important constituents are taking place as a result of the widespread availability and creative use of these new technologies. Conventional wisdom is being challenged and virtual workspaces that had never been conceptualized are opening at blistering speed. This volume in the Advanced Series in Management series bridges empirical and theoretical approaches to identifying and demystify this set of emerging, exciting new family of user-gene rated content technologies. With contributions from and about a wide diverse range of countries, from emerging to established, researchers and informed practitioners will find intriguing, diverse perspectives on how the social media revolution challenging managers and management scholars. Involving disciplines as different as management, communications, information technology, personnel, finance and others, contributions in this boo k will be cited in future research projects or used in classrooms and other training settings by those more likely stay in the leading edge of this family of innovative tools.


10 9781781906019 (Dis)honesty in Management: Manifestations and Consequences

9 9781780526744 Commercial Diplomacy and International Business: A Conceptual and Empirical Exploration

Management Science/Management Studies

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ISSN: 1877-6361ISBN print: 9781781909003ISBN electronic: 9781781909010Publication date: 26 August 2013Price: £72.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 270Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJPrimary BISAC code: BUS041000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Social Media in Human Resources ManagementAdvanced Series in Management, Volume 12

Editors

Prof. Miguel R. Olivas-LujanClarion University of Pennsylvania, USA

Dr Tanya BondaroukUniversity of Twente, The Netherlands

SynopsisSocial media have radically shifted the way people relate with each other and with organizations in technology-mediated ways; few areas are being impacted more strongly than Human Resources or Personnel Management. Attraction of candidates, internal communication with employees, communication with and among people; creation, design, testing and promotion of new services, new ways of organizing are appearing and changing the landscape at record speeds. This volume in the Advanced Series in Management utilizes empirical and theoretical approaches to shed light on this exciting set of emerging, stimulating new uses of technology that stretch creativity beyond conventional limits.


11 9781781908983 Social Media in Strategic Management

10 9781781906019 (Dis)honesty in Management: Manifestations and Consequences


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ISSN: 2046-6072ISBN print: 9781781909546ISBN electronic: 9781781909553Publication date: 19 September 2013Price: £72.95 €97.95 US$124.95Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 256Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJPrimary BISAC code: BUS000000LCC code: LB2341-2341.95

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Getting Things Done: Practice in Critical Management StudiesDialogues in Critical Management Studies, Volume 2

Editors

Jonathan MurphyCardiff University, UK

Virpi MalinJyvaskyla University, Finland

Marjo SiltaojaJyvaskyla University, Finland

SynopsisThis book explores the possibility of a progressive and transformative management which, while grounded in the analytic tradition and values of CMS, also confronts practical demands of meeting social needs. The format of the book is a discussion between and among CMS scholars with diverse viewpoints on CMS and critical engagement, and with different subject positions and domains of engagement. In the critical tradition, the book also gives voice to those who question a simple translation of theory into practice, as well as raising questions around the potential and limits to a progressively transformative management.


1 9781780522807 The Third Sector


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ISSN: 1069-0964ISBN print: 9781781908587ISBN electronic: 9781781908594Publication date: 15 August 2013Price: £82.95 €121.95 US$154.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 408Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJKPrimary BISAC code: BUS043020LCC code: HF5410-5417.5

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Deep Knowledge of B2B Relationships Within and Across BordersAdvances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, Volume 20

Editors

Prof. Arch WoodsideBoston College, USA

Dr. Roger BaxterAuckland University of Technology, New Zealand

SynopsisRelationships of individual and groups among three-plus firms represent the cornerstone concept in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. The three-plus firms include manufacturer-supplier to manufacturer-customer to distributor-customer, and facilitators (e.g., transportation and management consulting firms). The common thread of the five papers in this volume is that making sense and achieving deep knowledge of three-plus B2B relationships are necessary antecedents for achieving high operating effectiveness, high (on-time) efficiency, and sustaining profits for each firm in these relationships. As the titles of the five papers imply, reading the volume provides deep insights into the specifics of how high performing three-plus B2B relationships influences these three major objectives of the firm: National Cultures? Impacts on Western Industrial Buyer-Seller Relational Process Models; Developing Guanxi Relations; Industrial Buyer-Seller Relations in a Chinese Context; Adaptation in Business Contexts; Working Triadic Relationships; How Do Managers See It? Capturing Practitioner Theories via Network Pictures.


19 9781780529967 Visionary Pricing: Reflections and Advances in Honor of Dan Nimer

18 9781780525761 Business-to-Business Marketing Management: Strategies, Cases and Solutions

Marketing

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ISSN: 2045-0605ISBN print: 9781781908860ISBN electronic: 9781781908877Publication date: 22 July 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 270Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJUPrimary BISAC code: BUS085000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Building Networks and PartnershipsOrganizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, Volume 3

Editors

Philip MirvisBoston College, USA

Abraham B. (Rami) ShaniCalifornia Polytechnic University, CA, USA

Christopher G. WorleyUniveristy of Southern California, CA, USA

Susan Albers Mohrman University of Southern California, CA, USA

SynopsisVolume 3 of the Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness series gives readers insights into how organizations use networks, partnerships, and collaboration to achieve better and more sustainable results. Volume editors Christopher Worley and Philip Mirvis contend that globalization and its complexities have produced economic, social, and environmental challenges that cannot be addressed effectively by single organizations actingalone. Informed by individual and comparative case studies contributedby 13 authors from around the world, the volume delves into how organizations build collaborative capabilities, formÿcross-sector partnerships,and deliver real value for business and society by working together.


2 9781781900321 Organizing For Sustainable Health Care

1 9780857245571 Organizing for Sustainability

Organizational Studies

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Research in Organizational Change and Development Research in Organizational Change and Development, Volume 21

Editors

William A. PasmoreTeachers College Columbia University, USA

Richard WoodmanTexas A&M University, TX, USA

A. B. (Rami) ShaniCalifornia Polytechnic State University, USA and and Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Debra A. NoumairColumbia University, USA

SynopsisResearch in Organizational Change and Development provides a special platform for scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights. Volume 21 continues the tradition of providing insightful and thought-provoking chapters. Papers bring new perspectives to classic issues in the field such as organizational complexity, change leadership, emotional intelligence and interorganizational change.


20 9781780528069 Research in Organizational Change and Development

19 9781780520223 Research in Organizational Change and Development

Organizational Studies

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ISSN: 0733-558XISBN print: 9781781909225ISBN electronic: Not applicablePublication date: 15 July 2013Price: £135.95 €188.95 US$239.95 Format print: BoxsetFormat electronic: Not applicablePage count: 726Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJUPrimary BISAC code: BUS085000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Institutional Logics in ActionResearch in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 39, Part A&B

Editors

Michael LounsburyUniversity of Alberta, Canada

Eva BoxenbaumMines ParisTech, France and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

SynopsisThe Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to “bring society back in” to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a focus on the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of institutions. In doing so, it has embraced a more practice-centered approach to agency that emphasizes situated interactions, the importance of history, the role of both symbolic and material elements, and the study of cross-level processes and mechanisms.

This two volume set, seeded by an ABC Network conference held in Banff, Alberta, CANADA in June 2012, provides a fresh set of papers by scholars at the cutting edge of research on institutional logics. As a whole, the papers provide many novel theoretical insights about institutional logics in action—focusing on their dynamics, complexity, and evolving relationship to actors as actors actively navigate their social worlds.

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ISSN: 0733-558XISBN print: 9781781909188ISBN electronic: 9781781909195Publication date: 15 July 2013Price: £77.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 327Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJUPrimary BISAC code: BUS085000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Institutional Logics in ActionResearch in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 39, Part A

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ISSN: 0733-558XISBN print: 9781781909201ISBN electronic: 9781781909218Publication date: 15 July 2013Price: £82.95 €113.95 US$144.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 339Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: KJUPrimary BISAC code: BUS085000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Institutional Logics in ActionResearch in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 39, Part B

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Individual Sources, Dynamics, and Expressions of EmotionResearch on Emotion in Organizations, Volume 9

Editors

Wilfred J. ZerbeMemorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Neal M. AshkanasyUniversity of Queensland, Australia

Charmine E. J. HärtelUniversity of Queensland, Australia

SynopsisResearch on Emotion in Organizations is the publication of the Emonet listserv http://www.emotionsnet.org, which hosts the biennial International Conference on Emotion and Worklife. Chapters in the series include a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the conference, together with invited chapters by leading scholars in the field of emotion in organizational settings.


8 9781780526768 Experiencing and Managing Emotions in the Workplace

7 9781780522081 What Have We Learned? Ten Years On


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ISSN: 0882-6145ISBN print: 9781781909768ISBN electronic: 9781781909775Publication date: 25 September 2013Price: £77.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: Hardback Format electronic: PDFPage count: 350Dimensions: 152 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: JHPrimary BISAC code: BUS000000LCC code: HM711-806

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Advances in Group Processes: 30th Anniversary EditionAdvances in Group Processes, Volume 30

Editors

Prof. Shane R. ThyeUniversity of South Carolina, USA

Prof. Edward J. LawlerCornell University, USA

SynopsisThis volume marks the 30th anniversary of the Advances in Group Processes Series. Publishing theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of “group processes.” This includes work on groups ranging from the very small to the very large, and on classic and contemporary topics such as status, power, exchange, justice, influence, decision-making, intergroup relations and social networks. Previous contributors have included scholars from diverse fields including sociology, psychology, political science, philosophy, computer science, mathematics and organizational behaviour.


29 9781781902561 Biosociology and Neurosociology

28 9780857247735 Advances in Group Processes


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ISSN: 1057-6290ISBN print: 9781781903230ISBN electronic: 9781781903247Publication date: 11 September 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$125.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JHBPrimary BISAC code: SOC000000LCC code: RA418-418.5

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Ecological Health: Society, Ecology and HealthAdvances in Medical Sociology, Volume 15

Editor

Dr. Maya K. GislasonUniversity of Sussex, UK

SynopsisDrawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and post-normal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume reflects on recent social scientific engagement with Ecosystem Health research and practice and sets out a vision for the future. While significant links between human health and the environment are increasingly evident, how to make sense of the interdependence of human health on natural systems is posing significant challenges. Ecological health is a new approach used by medics, public health practitioners, veterinarians, as well as social and natural scientists who study health at the nexus between human, animal and ecological systems. This volume is a reference tool offering a sociological analysis of the interrelationship between society, earth systems and health as conceptual frameworks. The authors provide methodological tools for conducting social science research that integrates social, natural and medical systems. It will appeal to a broad audience of researchers and practitioners who currently work in the arena of ecology and health and as well as those interested in expanding their research.


14 9781780529301 Critical Perspectives on Addiction

13 9781780526324 Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences (Paperback)

13 9781848558809 Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences (Hardback)


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ISSN: 2045-7944ISBN print: 9781781907245ISBN electronic: 9781781907252Publication date: 20 September 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 250Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JPLCC code: JF1338 2112

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Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management: Looking for Concensus?Series Title Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management, Volume 2

Editors

Professor John DiamondEdge Hill University, UK

Professor Joyce LiddleUniversity of Nottingham, UK

SynopsisThis volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and the point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership is far from over. The long term implications of these crises for governance, political and civic institutions are hard to be precise about. However, we can observe how across a number of nation states and supra national relationships (from the European Union to the IMF) are institutions and those who lead, manage or hold them to account in crisis too. The broad group of scholars and academics examine key conceptual and theoretical ideas in contemporary international public management and explore: What are the implications of these developments for city managers and local political leaders (from elected mayors to NGO leaders and activists)? Is coalition and consensus building possible in a time of uncertainty and change? And, finally, what are the implications for those who seek to manage or administer public services in this time of crisis?


1 9780857249975 Emerging and Potential Trends in Public Management: An Age of Austerity


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ISSN: 0198-8719ISBN print: 9781781907269ISBN electronic: 9781781907276Publication date: 25 September 2013Price: £72.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 300Dimensions: 156 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JHBAPrimary BISAC code: SOC026000LCC code: HM481-554

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Decentering Social TheoryPolitical Power and Social Theory, Volume 25

Editor

Professor Julian GoBoston College, MA, USA

SynopsisSocial theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. A continuation of PPST’s previous volume on “Postcolonial Sociology,” this volume, “Decentering Social Theory,” questions old categories, advances new postcolonial themes in social science, and debates alternative theoretical paradigms. The “Scholarly Controversies” section contains a critical exchange on “Southern Theory” between Raewyn Connell and Patricia Hill Collins, Mustafa Emirbayer, Raka Ray and Isaac Ariail Reed.


24 9781781906033 Postcolonial Sociology

23 9781780528663 Political Power and Social Theory


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ISSN: 0895-9935ISBN print: 9781781905456ISBN electronic: 9781781905463Publication date: 26 August 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 250Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JFFSPrimary BISAC code: SOC00000LCC code: HM831-901

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Global Development: Progress or RegressResearch in Political Sociology, Volume 21

Editor

Barbara WejnertUniversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA

SynopsisThis volume addresses issues of modern globalized development posing a question whether it symbolizes progress or regress for world’s societies. The papers focus on economic and political issues experienced by countries at this time of rapid diffusion of democracy and of the global market economy. A range of pertinent political issues are discussed, such as international migration, environmental protection and green energy, human rights, tolerance and equality, and economic justice. The concluding chapter provides a summary of presented topics in form of a discussion forum on outcomes of global development.


20 9781781903377 Linking Enviroment, Democracy and Gender

19 9781780522388 Democracies: Challenges to Societal Health


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ISSN: 1057-1922ISBN print: 9781781905975ISBN electronic: 9781781905982Publication date: 4 July 2013Price: £77.95 €113.95 US$144.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 350Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: JFSFPrimary BISAC code: SOC026020LCC code: HT401-485

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Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New ParadigmsResearch in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 19

Editors

Dionisio Ortiz MirandaUniversitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Ana Maria Moragues FausUniversitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Eladio Vicente Arnalte AlegreUniversitat Politècnica de València, Spain

SynopsisMediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures.

However, the dynamics developing in the Mediterranean countryside are further complex and diverse; comprising differentiated agricultural systems which have been scarcely analysed in an integrated fashion.

This volume illustrates and deepens the understanding of current agrarian dynamics developing in Mediterranean countries in the light of recent theoretical contributions. The book compiles and analyses a set of Mediterranean case studies that show the range of transformations shaping contemporary agriculture in Southern Europe, which allow considering the usefulness of recent theoretical frameworks in explaining the array of dynamics underway; contributing to the refinement of contemporary conceptualizations.


18 9781780523484 Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture

17 9780857243171 Globalization and the Time-space Reorganization: Capital Mobility in Agriculture and Food in the Americas


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ISSN: 1047-0042ISBN print: 9781781905937ISBN electronic: 9781781905944Publication date: 11 June 2013Price: £82.95 €121.95 US$154.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 400Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: JHBPrimary BISAC code: SOC026030LCC code: HT330-334

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Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide ViewResearch in Urban Sociology, Volume 13

Editor

Gerardo del Cerro SantamaríaThe Cooper Union, NY, USA

SynopsisThe aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing world by focusing on urban megaproject development. Contributions focus on the principal actors, institutions, and innovations that drive capitalist globalization, socio-economic and territorial restructuring, and global city formation by exploring the architectural design, planning, management, financing and impacts of urban megaprojects as well as their various socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. This is the first work on urban megaprojects to be global in scope, with chapters about Korea, Bilbao, Kuala Lumpur, Budapest, Milan, Abu Dhabi, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hamburg, Vienna, Detroit, Philadelphia, Stuttgart, Afghanistan and Mexico City. It is also the first work on the subject to include contributions from sociologists, planners, geographers and architects from top universities around the world, thus making it a truly multidisciplinary project.


12 9781781900369 Urban Areas and Global Climate Change

11 9781780522586 Everyday Life in the Segmented City


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ISSN: 1479-361XISBN print: 9781781908365ISBN electronic: 9781781908372Publication date: 14 August 2013Price: £67.95 €97.95 US$124.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 200Dimensions: 156 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: KJPrimary BISAC code: BUS000000LCC code: HM711-806

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Advances in Mergers and AcquisitionsAdvances in Mergers & Acquisitions, Volume 12

Editors

Prof. Sydney FinkelsteinDartmouth College, USA

Prof. Cary L. CooperLancaster University, UK

SynopsisThe latest volume of Advances in Mergers & Acquisitions brings together the best research in acquisition strategy by leading scholars in the field of M&A. As more and more companies position themselves for growth and change in a fluctuating global financial climate this volume is a must for scholars and strategy specialists involved in the study or implementation of mergers and acquisitions. Contributions explore the “negotiation stage” of acquisition; the role of the customer; human impacts on the performance of a merger or acquisition; managing cross-border deals, and post-acquisition integration.

Important new findings in this volume detail how non-financial considerations help to predict the success or failure of an acquisition strategy. It presents an extensive review of research from the last 30 years on how culture has a direct impact upon global deals and addresses the gap in academic research on how to bridge the organizational and national cultural differences which ultimately cause barriers between acquisition partners.


11 9781781904596 Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions

10 9781780521961 Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions

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ISSN: 0742-3322ISBN print: 9781781908266ISBN electronic: 9781781908273Publication date: 6 August 2013Price: £82.95 €113.95 US$144.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 436Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: KJDPrimary BISAC code: BUS000000LCC code: HD28-70

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Collaboration and Competition in Business EcosystemsAdvances in Strategic Management, Volume 30

Editors

Ron AdnerDartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, USA

Joanne E. OxleyUniversity of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada

Brian S. SilvermanUniversity of Toronto, Canada

SynopsisThe research featured in this volume is devoted to understanding the competitive and collaborative challenges that firms face as they manage interactions with different actors in dynamic environments, in what are coming to be referred to as business or innovation ‘ecosystems’. Rapid technological change, globalization, and recent financial turbulence have brought us to a point where managers are painfully aware that ‘no man [or firm] is an island.’ Success in business, in both the profit and non-profit sectors, increasingly relies upon collaboration with upstream suppliers, alliance partners, and downstream complementors. This volume presents new findings of how innovation and value are created in collaborative networks, specifically ‘ecosystem analysis’ and the unique roles of individual actors within this system.


29 9781781900246 History and Strategy

28 9781780521923 Project-Based Organizing and Strategic Management

Strategy

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ISSN: 1479-067XISBN print: 9781781904893ISBN electronic: 9781781904909Publication date: 8 August 2013Price: £66.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 220Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: KJDPrimary BISAC code: BUS063000LCC code: HD58.7-58.95

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Understanding the Relationship Between Networks and Technology, Creativity and InnovationTechnology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy, Volume 13

Editors

Barak AharonsonTel-Aviv University, Recanati School of Business, Israel

Shmuel EllisTel-Aviv University, Recanati School of Business, Israel

Terry L. AmburgeyUniversity of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada

Israel DroriUniversity of Michigan, Israel

Uriel StettnerTel-Aviv University, Recanati School of Business, Israel

SynopsisAn exciting new volume in the Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy series from Emerald’s popular Strategy collection. This volume features excellent new research devoted to advancing our understanding of how networks foster creativity, innovation and the development of cutting-edge technologies. Contributions offer unique perspectives on the significance of networks to the financial success of businesses, in addition to giving examples of how these can be crucial in bringing about creativity and innovation. It deals with the evolution of networks through geographic and industry boundaries. This is crucial reading for any researchers exploring strategic management tools and techniques, and specifically the intricacies of “network theory” within businesses.


12 9780080450995 The Take-off of Israeli High-Tech Entrepreneurship During the 1990s: A Strategic Management Research Perspective

11 9780080453217 Astute Competition: The Economics of Strategic Diversity

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ISSN: 1745-3542ISBN print: 9781781907467ISBN electronic: 9781781907474Publication date: 20 August 2013Price: £72.95 €105.95 US$134.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 250Dimensions: 152 x 229 mmPrimary BIC code: KNSHPrimary BISAC code: BUS080000LCC code: TX901-946.5

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Advances in Hospitality and LeisureAdvances in Hospitality and Leisure, Volume 9

Editor

Joseph S. ChenIndiana University, IN, USA

SynopsisAdvances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review volume, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this volume is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. This volume is keen to address the needs of the populace having interests in disseminating ideas, concepts and theories derived from scholarly investigations. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the subjects of interest.


8 9781780529363 Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

7 9780857247698 Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

Tourism and Hospitality

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ISSN: 2044-9941ISBN print: 9781781905951ISBN electronic: 9781781905968Publication date: 22 July 2013Price: £62.95 €89.95 US$114.95 Format print: HardbackFormat electronic: PDFPage count: 250Dimensions: 156 x 234 mmPrimary BIC code: RNUPrimary BISAC code: TRA002000LCC code: HE9761-9900

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Sustainable Aviation FuturesTransport and Sustainability, Volume 4

Editors

Dr Lucy C. S. BuddLoughborough University, UK

Stephen IsonLoughborough University, UK

SynopsisThis volume brings together some of the leading names in global aviation policy research to provide a unique and ground breaking synthesis of current debates on sustainable aviation. Unlike previous edited works, this volume is inter-disciplinary and international in nature, drawing on the work of social scientists, transport specialists, and policy experts working in the domains of academia, direct action, and regulation to inform understandings of the prospects for sustainable aviation. Uniquely, the title explores the context of the challenge and examines both scenarios and coalitions for change.


3 9781781904756 Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities

2 9781780524405 Transport and Climate Change

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