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  • Social Impact Assessment

    Method And Experience In Europe, North America And The Developing World

    by Henk Becker, Netherlands. Henk Becker University of Utrecht ...
    This book is intended for introductory courses in SIA within sociology, social policy, human geography and political science at postgraduate level. Specialist postgraduate and professional courses in policy- orientated social research and in social and general impact assessment. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Growing Old in the Future

    Scenarios on health and ageing 1984–2000

    by Henk A. Becker, C.F. Hollander, Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This publication represents the report of the Scenario Committee on Ageing. The draft report was discussed with a wide range of experts, inter alia during the symposium 'Growing Old in the Future' held on October 27th, 1984. In addition to the scenario report, a background report containing the basic analysis employed in the scenarios on ageing has been prepared. The scenario report has been ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Methods of Disaster Research

    by Robert A. Stallings ...
    The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the worlds leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation

    Edited by Michael L. Barnett, Timothy G. Pollock ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Where do reputations come from? How do we measure them? How do we build and manage them? Over the last twenty years the answers to these questions have become increasingly important-and increasingly problematic-for scholars and practitioners seeking to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • "Proof," Policy, and Practice

    Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education

    by Paul E. Lingenfelter ...
    How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics, longing for more influence, may wrongly fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

    by Ann Crabb, Pieter Leroy ...
    Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case, presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas, which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped to grapple with. It is also ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Disaster Management

    by Olivier Rubin, Rasmus Dahlberg ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Disaster Management offers over 200 terms covering different disasters from a social science perspective, brining together insights from many different disciplines including sociology, political science, history, anthropology, and natural science. It also features practical terms, key concepts in disaster research, and important organizations involved in disaster management. Terms ... Read more

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  • A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean: The Strength of a Participatory Approach

    by Edited by Juliet Melville, Edited by Eleanor Wint ...
    A New Perspective on Poverty presents a new perspective on poverty in the Caribbean region using qualitative research methods, presented through poor people's own voices, the realities of their lives. It gives an indepth analysis using specialised software, of the extensive qualitative data generated through participatory poverty assessments to achieve a better understanding of the terms used by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Competence Development

    Developing Skills and Capabilities

    Edited by Knud Illeris ...
    In today’s complex and ever-changing world it has become obvious that even highly developed knowledge and skills are no longer sufficient to meet new challenges, situations and problems facing individuals, organisations and nations. This raises an enormous and potentially confusing issue for educators and trainers: how is it possible to generate and assess abilities to deal with challenges and ... Read more

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  • Organizational Trust

    A Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Mark N. K. Saunders, Denise Skinner, Graham Dietz, Nicole Gillespie, Roy J. Lewicki ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Management
    The globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building. Organizations and their employees are increasingly being asked to manage unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar parties. These relationships not only involve working across different national cultures, but also dealing with different organizational cultures, different ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • Innovations in International and Cross-Cultural Management

    by Harbir Singh, P. Christopher Earley ...
    Presenting cross-cultural research on a wide range of organizational topics, this book ranges from the individual to the macro level. Among the issues examined are: organizational trust in international settings, HRM issues in international joint ventures, developing strategic advantage across borders, and social partnerships for sustainable growth. ... Read more

    $87.29 USD