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Globalization, trade and foreign direct investment
Examines the impact of globalization on the competitiveness of a variety of regions and countries. This work analyzes the interface between trade, FDI flows, and the activities of MNE's. It also deals with the consequences of globalization, and the deepening of cross-border economic relationships...
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Doing educational administration
"Doing Educational Administration" is the final part in a three volume series by Evers and Lakomski presenting their perspective on educational administration.
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Defense industry in the post-cold war era
Focuses on the challenges faced by defense-related industries and by the US Department of Defense in the post-Cold War era. This book explores the conditions they face, as well as the corporate strategies and public policies that each develops in response to these conditions and visions.
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In perpetual motion
Through the interaction of a number of disparate disciplines alternative ideas and approaches are being discovered to grapple with the complexity of human travel and behaviour. These papers document the direction and findings of contemporary research.
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Revitalizing higher education
Focuses on the lessons of experience with reform and innovation in higher education that are most relevant to the challenges of developing countries. This work analyzes experience and issues in four priority areas and concludes with a case study of the effects of the implementation of a comprehe...
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Modelling changes in understanding
Part of the "Advances in Learning and Instruction" series, this work describes and explains how we develop an understanding of the physical world around us. Focusing on the discipline of physics, it includes a discussion on computer models which claim to answer questions and accumulate understand...
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System safety
The articles gathered in this collection address safety-oriented systems interventions and the various ways in which experience can be transferred and corrective measures applied to situations that warrant such attention.
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Rural transport policy
Addresses rural transport policy issues in a comprehensive way. The aim of this book is not so much to provide answers to the various transport problems, but to provide a foundation for the formulation of ideas. It sets out to define the key transport issues involved in a rural context, and explo...
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Empowerment for sustainable tourism development
Aiming to explore theoretical advances in tourism studies, this book explores the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and empowerment. The theoretical framework is explored across three levels through five case studies drawn from the South Pacific.
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Issues in educational research
Presents an overview of the controversial questions arising in educational research, that depend on the nature of the problem and the extent to which research has been undertaken in an area. This volume is divided into three sections: an introduction to the field; diverse approaches; and the key ...
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Managing international business ventures in china
This work encompasses the latest thinking on managing international business ventures in China's emerging economy. It examines key topics in areas including management of joint ventures, human resource management, and strategic management.
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Geographic information systems in transportation research
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized spatial planning and decision making. This work provides an overview of GIS for transportation, from data management issues, to data manipulation and analysis, including considerations brought to the forefront by real-time and mobile comput...
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Global financial markets at the turn of the century
These research papers study a number of important issues in the world's financial markets.The objective of the book is to provide the reader with a comprehensive and balanced overview of the world's financial markets at the end of the 20th century.
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Corporate strategy, public policy and new technologies
Based on a study of the electronics giant Philips, this book examines the key factors which have determined the success or failure of technologies and the global competitiveness of firms within a major European consumer industry. It traces the influences of Philips and of European Community polic...
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Challenges facing higher education at the millennium
In May 1998, twenty representatives from the higher education communities of the United States and Western Europe met in Glion, Switzerland to discuss the challenges facing higher education and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. This work presents the collection of papers wr...
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Human dichotomy
Discusses how the ratio between the numbers of males and females changes. This book shows how medical interventions and the looming prospect of sex selection at birth will affect the rough balances in the numbers of men and women. It describes various problems associated with the changing balance...
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Services in the transition economies
Service activities such as banking, insurance, telecommunications, and other services have been at the forefront of the transformation process in East Central Europe and former Soviet Union. This volume uses case studies, field research and industry studies to consider strategic options for Forei...
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New patterns of adult learning
This volume reports on a six-country comparative investigation of the patterns of adult education participation.
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School-based evaluation
Presents a conceptual framework for school evaluation, and evaluation methods that can be used within the framework of the school. This work is based on concepts and ideas originally developed in the area of program evaluation and combining internal and external evaluation, that provides a common...
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Safety management
Studies how organisations manage safety and what is crucial for a good safety management system, how to harness change directly to safety improvement and how to adapt safety management systems to change imposed from the outside.
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Science education and development
Focussing on the shortage in supply of science-trained students, this book addresses the question of how best to plan investment in science at secondary level in developing countries using insights from the studies conducted under a five-year research programme carried out by the International In...
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Managing imaginary organizations
Until recently real people worked in real locations to conduct business, whether in large corporations, or smaller businesses. These papers consider the implications for managers directing staff who work outside the physical confines of a location using telecommunication technologies.
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Curriculum policy
The book is divided into three parts, the first section describes the background to recent curriculum policy, the second section looks at a variety of ways of constructing the curriculum, while the third section offers a series of critiques on current policy.
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Cooperative strategies and alliances
Whilst the old-fashioned vertically-organized firm is far from dead, the fact remains that it is in retreat in the face of increasing cooperation between large companies. These papers explore this recent phenomenon that is changing the nature of business.
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Strategic groups, strategic moves and performance
Provides a collection of papers, analyzing and assessing the role and value of strategic moves and groups in industry. This book contains theoretical models which are supplemented by empirical studies on the dynamics of competitive moves and the link between strategic groups and performance. It l...
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Handbook of logistics and supply-chain management
This volume contains commissioned refereed papers that cover the main elements of transport logistics. The authors were selected from around the world and asked to provide critiques of their subject areas as well as a review of the state of the art and case study examples.
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Iea study of science
Gives the results of the 2nd IEA Science Study. This book contains comparisons which are made between countries in terms of the conditions under which science is taught, the organization of science teaching, the emphasis on different science areas and on the process of science, the focus of decis...
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Educative accountability
Provides practical and educative accountability policies, looking at processes and criteria that help in the quality of learning, teaching and leadership in educational institutions and systems. This book offers a review of the history of ideas and international policies concerning accountability...
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Handbook of special and remedial education
Offers a summary of knowledge in the field of special education. This volume covers a wide range of topics from a discussion of early education for disabled children and those at risk, to educational resilience. It also covers such topics as visual, hearing, and language impairments.
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The new world order
This volume covers the world of international business and economics. Topics include internationalism, regionalism and the multinational corporations.
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Management of technology
Based on a conference on growth through business innovation and entrepreneurship, this volume addresses a wide range of starting points for technology and innovation managers on how to develop and commercialize new technologies.
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The global challenge for multinational enterprises
Governments and multinational firms have moved from a situation of conflict to one where government policies were seen as a constraint on the activities of MNE's. This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which changed profoundly in the p...
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Government and higher education relationships across three continents
Addresses the question of whether specific forms of government regulation are more effective than others in helping to solve the higher education crisis, by analysing the relationships between government and higher education in 12 states in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Learning in humans and machines
Discusses the analysis, comparison and integration of computational approaches to learning and research on human learning. This book aims to provide the reader with an overview of the prolific research on learning throughout the disciplines. It also highlights the important research issues and me...
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Tourism and religion
The interrelationship of religion and tourism has barely been touched upon in scholarly research. This book aims to present and analyze this relationship from sociological, economic and anthropological perspectives. It identifies numerous contemporary issues worthy of attention and research.
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Countryside stewardship
Examines the market effects of stewardship policies across Europe, as well as their possible impact on the supply of agricultural commodities. This book looks at the economic nature of the agri-environmental measures that were intended to reduce the negative effects of agricultural production on ...
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Market approaches to education
Contains essays that address the debate on school choice and vouchers. This book contains three major parts such as: Theory and Practice of Choice in Education; Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools; and Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers. It also provides opinions on the r...
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Reasoning by mathematical induction in children's arithmetic
The central argument that Leslie Smith makes in this study is that reasoning by mathematical induction develops during childhood. The basis for this claim is a study conducted with children aged five to seven years in school years one and two.
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Tourism community relationships
Deals with the impacts tourism is having on communities internationally. This book reviews such impacts to investigate the origins, development and manifestations of community attitudes. It combines social-psychological, sociological, economic and media analyses and terms it a study within the sp...
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Anthropology of tourism
Gives an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. This book reviews basic research from 3 theoretical perspectives which are tourist as a form of development or acculturation, as a personal transition, and as a kind of social super structure. It ...
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Trade and investment in a globalising world
Over a career in economics spanning 40 years, Peter Gray has made significant contributions and syntheses in a variety of subfields in international economics. This work presents essays by eminent scholars in the fields of International Trade and Investment written in honour of H Peter Gray. Cont...
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International encyclopedia of educational technology
Educational Technology is seen as a problem-solving process, concerning most aspects of teaching and learning through media and technology, in the context of education and training. This volume presents information on various aspects of educational technology.
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Autonomy and choice in context
Brings together research about the academic effects and policy implications of the school reform known as parental choice. This book discusses the topic of choice in education, in terms of why, when, where and how, if at all, it should be implemented. It contains 14 original papers written by sch...
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The return generating models in global finance
The market model is one of the most studied and utilized return generating models in finance. This book analyses the market model; discusses its characteristics; and presents criticisms and shortcomings. It also presents a guide to the various applications of the model, as well as a discussion of...
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Powerful learning environments
Presents the collective output of a European research network, coordinated by the Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology of the University of Leuven. This work focuses on unravelling and identifying basic component and dimensions of powerful learning environments.
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Activity-based approaches to travel analysis
Societal trends have made the need for better travel demand forecasts more urgent, at the same time as making people's travel and activity patterns far more complex. This work is organised into four sections: modelling developments; theories and empirical analyses; data needs and data representat...
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Schooling in modern european society
Everyone accepts that education should be for all, but how is education best provided? This book, deals with problem areas in European education; for example school quality, examinations, the teaching of foreign languages, and science education. It also spells out the role of basic education in f...
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Systems perspectives on resources, capabilities, and management processes
Traditional notions of stand-alone, "atomistic" organizations are giving way to new concepts about organizations and new modes of organizational interaction. This volume develops a number of systems perspectives and approaches that are essential in managing today's organizations.
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Strategic change
Brings together 12 articles from "Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management" dealing with different aspects of the complex process of managing strategic change. This work covers issues such as the development of strategic vision and the creation of a sense of mission...
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Writing hypertext and learning
Once the basics of hypertext had spread around the world via the Internet it became the subject of research. These papers analyse the educational effects of producing it.
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Marketing strategies
Reflects the key contemporary issues and developments in marketing strategy that face organisations. This work examines a range of changes that are taking place in marketing that both demonstrates the state of marketing technique and provides a glimpse of where marketing is heading.
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Exporting paradise
Tourism and development are frequently mentioned together, yet the contribution of tourism to development in the Third World is controversial. This book provides an in depth study of Mexico's experience with the international tourism industry since the 1960s.
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Mockers and mocked
With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. This volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from a theoretical and empirical perspective in a c...
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Issues in science education
Presents a collection of papers from an international symposium on Science and Education in the 21st Century held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. These papers, written by leading scientists and educators, review the competence achieved by science teaching in secondary schools as well as...
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Collaborative learning
Research on collaborative learning is a very popular topic in education, psychology and computer science. This book aims to serve as a contribution towards refining and operationalizing the concept of collaborative learning.
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Flexible urban transportation
"Flexible Urban Transportation".
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Banking in north america
Aims to present, analyse and discuss the evolution and outlook for financial services in North America, with special attention to the banking sector. This book addresses the theme within the context of the globalization of trade and financial services and the changes in domestic banking and regul...
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The network reliability of transport
These papers from INSTR 2001, cover aspects of transport network reliability, such as definitions and methodological developments for reliability indices, behavioural analysis under uncertainty, and evaluation methods for the disaster resistance of transport networks.
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Multimedia learning
Based on a selection of papers presented at the first International Seminar on Using Complex Information Systems held in Poitiers, France, this volume presents an overview of research issues related to multimedia usage considered from cognitive and instructive perspectives.
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Transportation and traffic theory
Contains over 30 papers presented at ISTTT symposia, exploring solutions to the analysis of traffic and transportation problems through use of the models, methods and analyses. Divided into ten sections, this book addresses issues of safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, planning and the en...
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European union and the race for foreign direct investment in europe
Countries create different type of incentives for foreign firms, such as; direct incentives/subsidies, tax relief, soft loans and preferred handling. This volume aims to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are bein...
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Learning with multiple representations
Aims to collect papers on learning declarative knowledge and problem solving skills that involve multiple representations such as graphical and mathematical representations, knowledge at different levels of abstraction. This book covers approaches to this topic from different perspectives: educat...
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Fundamentals of transportation and traffic operations
Presents the basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field. This book contains chapters on "tools", covering topics such as graphical methods, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics and simulation, which are complemented by application chapters on traffic ...
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The foundations of educational effectiveness
Offers an analysis of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness. This book defines the concepts of school and educational analysis. It demonstrates the scope and range of application of the concept of school effectiveness. It focuses on modelling and theoretical interpretation of educationa...
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Learning to think
Aims to discuss the state of knowledge about how young people think and reason. This book explores 3 ways of thinking in the context of education, looking firstly at the 'skills' approach, secondly at the 'infusion model' and thirdly at the belief that the traditional disciplines and pedagogy of ...
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Human factors for highway engineers
How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and a high level of safety? This book looks at how the science of human behaviour can provide answers on improving highway design.
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Organising innovative research
Contributes to the European debate on the relationship between government and universities. In developing general policy arguments, introduced in the opening chapters and summed up in the concluding discussion, this book examines empirically the "cultures" of four innovative and three stagnant Sw...
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Theoretical foundations of travel choice modeling
Documents the theoretical foundations of travel choice modeling. Divided into three parts, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Decision Theory and Statistical Theory, this book extends approaches to travel choice modeling beyond the consumer theory developed in economics by applying theories from th...
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Travel behaviour research
Addresses the fundamental topics within travel behaviour research and serves both to define the state of the art and to stimulate research. This book contains twenty-nine papers presented at the Seventh International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and su...
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Going trans-european
Suitable for readers interested in transport and/or European policies, this book provides an overview of the problems and challenges that the European transport system faces. It includes an analysis of the Guidelines on trans-European transport networks (TEN's) decided by the Council of Ministers...
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Iea preprimary study
Presents information from Phase 1 of the IEA Preprimary Project. This volume is useful to early childhood professionals and researchers as well as to policymakers concerned with family and educational issues. It presents information about group settings in various nations, including their sponsor...
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Strategic alliances in eastern and central europe
Deals with Eastern and Central Europe (ECE), and alliances with local partners with different attitudes, beliefs and ways of thinking. This book addresses issues in depth as how to reduce the gaps between Western and Eastern firms and how to make the alliances workable and fruitful. It also looks...
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Emergence of learning societies
Provides an international comparative study on the world of adult learning activities. This book offers a systematic attempt to provide empirical information on some critical issues regarding the transformation of adult and continuing education in post-industrial societies.
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Relationships and networks in international markets
Relationship marketing has become one of the dominant approaches in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This book presents the developments in international industrial and service marketing research, from a relationship and network perspective. It also examines different concepts, uses di...
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Marketing strategies for services
What are the trends affecting the marketing of services? Why is cross-sector fertilization particularly useful for services, and what type of strategic response is most likely to shape business success of service firms in the future? This work presents a fresh approach to questions of marketing s...
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Cooperative strategies and alliances in international business
This series applies a truly international perspective to the study of international business, with a special emphasis on management and marketing issues, and aims to advance the frontiers of knowledge in this fast developing field.
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Exploring educational administration
Extending the claims made in "Knowing Educational Administration", this book demonstrates how a post-positivist science of administration can deal with traditional and vexed issues in the field of educational administration. It begins the task of extending the authors' ideas into more applied dom...
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International handbook of road traffic accidents and psychological trauma
Contains an overview of the common medical and psychiatric disorders that follow road traffic accidents (RTAs). This book addresses the major psychological disorders of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder. It also reviews how the medical and psychiatric disorders interact wit...
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Transport survey quality and innovation
This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation.
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on organization studies
Contains papers from the International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies (Wassenaar, Netherlands, May 1990). This work covers topics such as advances in population ecology, transaction cost economics, control theory, leadership studies and decision-making, among ...
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International public policy and regionalism at the turn of the century
Examines one particular aspect of the global economic order, namely international public policy. This book provides a forum for publication of some of the research findings in studies of international public policy and also aims to augment the work done in the area of examining the internationali...
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After the event
Addresses the subject of event analysis and the learning organisation in context to safety management systems. This book shows how to manage various responses to an accident, how to collect and analyse data to derive the lessons, and how to deal with the different and conflicting objectives of ju...
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International business negotiations
Provides an understanding about the impact of culture and communication on international business negotiations. This work explores the problems faced by Western managers while doing business abroad and offers guidelines for international business negotiations. It also focuses on an important aspe...
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New technology-based firms at the turn of the century
This book represents a continuation of an uninterrupted record of international research pertaining to high technology small firms (HTSFs) over a period that has witnessed a rebirth of interest in the growth problems of the small firm.
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Systematic occupational health and safety management
With contributions from experts in Europe, America and Australasia, this book examines the origins, development, application and value of OHSM. It provides an international perspective on their effectiveness in managing ill-health at work. It also examines the impact of changes in economic, labou...
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Advanced modeling for transit operations and service planning
Addresses the problem of improving public transit systems by taking advantage of various technologies and advanced modelling techniques.
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Telematics in education
Provides readers with an examination of the use of computer based communication technologies within education. This work includes a discussion that ranges from whether new forms of teaching and learning involving telematics can replace existing methods, to how far collaborative learning can take ...
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Drugs to market
The development and marketing of drugs since WWII demonstrates the impact of technology on competitiveness in a major industry. While focusing on the market in the USA, this book examines also the activities of European firms, their contribution to the industry's technological evolution and the i...
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The oecd, globalisation and education policy
This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.
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Travel behaviour research
Based on research presented at the Ninth International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), this volume captures major developments in the field. It presents contributions within seven themes including methodological developments in choice analysis, a...
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Traffic and transport psychology
Presents a balanced and representative overview of the major developments and trends in traffic and transport psychology. This book deals with driver performance and social factors. It presents arguments for integrated models, for alternative paradigms and for a blatant a theoretical approach to ...
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Universities' responsibilities to society
Talks about higher education world-wide and in all its manifestations. This work deals with three broad sub-themes: university and development: anticipating change; universities and the international knowledge enterprise; and, academic freedom and university autonomy: pre-requisites for the unive...
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Network dynamics in international marketing
Contributes to the state of knowledge in the area of relationship marketing and provides readers with an insight into the antecedents and roots of the "fashionable" interest in relationship marketing. This book presents ideas on our understanding of networks, relationships, and interaction.
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Developing strategies for competitive advantage
A selection of papers from "Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management" that examines the evolution of competitive advantage, setting out areas of major change and areas which have been less subject to change. It begins by examining how strategic management has been i...
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International trade in the 21st century
Tackles some of the unresolved issues in international trade. This book examines issues such as: the continuing controversy over NAFTA; globalised trade policy agreements vs local trade agreements; global leadership; the development and impact of the WTO; the single European market; trade control...
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Shared risk
Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This book explores the elastic boundary between structure and flexibility that enables modern organizations to function effectively under uncertain, dynamic conditions. It shows how communities and organizat...
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Creating value
Enormous amounts of money are made and lost through activities related to Mergers, Acquisitions, Demergers, Buyouts and Alliances. This subject area has been extensively covered by "Long Range Planning". This volume brings together a selection of the key papers published by this Journal on the su...
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Higher education research
Provides readers with an overview of the state of higher education research and its relationship to policy and practice. This work draws upon developments in higher education research in Australia, Canada, Japan and Latin America to provide a comparative perspective on the state of higher educati...
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