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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible empirical work to a broad audience.
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Organisational Transformation and Scientific Change

The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

Recent changes to the funding and governance of higher education and scientific research systems are affecting both the organisation of the sciences and the nature of universities as strategic actors in many countries. Transforming the organisational contexts in which research is carried out has altered...
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Non Tariff Measures with Market Imperfections

Trade and Welfare Implications

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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

This volume presents new developments in nontariff 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...
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The Politics of Policing

Between Force and Legitimacy

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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings...
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by Malcolm Tight, Jeroen Huisman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

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...
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by Malcolm Tight, Nina Maadad
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Academic mobility promotes the development of joint research activities, broadens the horizons of researchers, lecturers and professors, and promotes knowledge flows between institutions. This book offers a contemporary perspective on the mobility of academics across the globe with contributions by...
Cover of Challenges For the Trade in Central and Southeast Europe
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

This volume focuses on Central and Southeast Europe, and explores the dynamic and complex area of distributive trade on markets which have recently undergone a huge transformation. Papers in the volume employ both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and focus on retailing, international...
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Bounded Rational Choice Behaviour

Applications in Transport

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

This book brings together frontier research in transportation and travel behaviour on the formulation and estimation of models of bounded rationality to analyse and predict various facets underlying daily activity-travel behaviour. Key behavioural principles and mechanisms relate to simplifying decision...
Cover of Essays in Honor of Peter C. B. Phillips
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014

These essays honor Professor Peter C.B. Phillips of Yale University and his many contributions to the field of econometrics. Professor Phillips's research spans many topics in econometrics including: non-stationary time series and panel models partial identification and weak instruments Bayesian model...
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West Meets East

Toward Methodological Exchange

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

This book series' mission is to provide a forum for critique, commentary and discussion about key methodology issues in the strategic management field. Strategic management relies on an array of complex methods drawn from various allied disciplines to examine how managers attempt to lead their firms...
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by Charles Baden-Fuller, Vincent Mangematin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

In this volume, leading scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia come together to explore new dimensions of the business models topic paying particular attention to the modelling dimension - what this means, how modelling should be approached, how business models are manipulated, how they become...
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by Tanya Bondarouk, Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012

International Business is vital to nations, to their economies. It brings wealth, it creates jobs, it opens views, it changes mindsets, and it creates economic and social stability. International Relations is important to nations too. It establishes relationships between nations, it exchanges political...
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Enterprising Communities

Grassroots Sustainability Innovations

by Liam Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012

This book provides an internationally grounded and critical review of grassroots sustainability enterprises, specifically focusing on the processes that lead to their formation, the governing context that shapes their evolution, the benefits they create and the challenges that they face in different...
Cover of Transport and Climate Change
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Transport accounts for 23% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing. There is a pressing need for transport to begin reducing emissions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The world is already committed to some degree of climate...
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