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  • Handbook of Industrial Organization

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • Richard Schmalensee + 1 more
    • English
    This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization (or industrial economics), the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towards them. Comprehensive and up-to-date surveys are provided of recent developments and the state of knowledge in the major areas of research in this field as of the latter part of the 1980's, written at a level suitable for use by non-specialist economists and students on advanced graduate courses. Each chapter can be read independently, although they are organized into sections.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English

  • Strategic Planning

    The Chief Executive and the Board
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • B. Taylor
    • English
    The aim of The Best of Long Range Planning is to bring together the best articles on a particular topic from the Long Range Planning Journal, so that readers wishing to study a specific aspect of planning can find an authoritative and comprehensive view of the subject, conveniently published in one volume. This first volume is about the place of strategic planning or strategic management in the leadership and direction of major businesses. The authors deal with three issues: (1) What should be the role of the chief executive and the board in making and implementing strategy? (2) How do most chief executives and directors behave in practice? (3) What happens when major companies adopt strategic management or strategic leadership as a management style?

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Knowledge Acquisition from Text and Pictures

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • H. Mandl + 1 more
    • English
    Media-didactics have recently become more firmly grounded on cognitive theory, with an increasing concern for the internal processes of knowledge representation and acquisition. With this cognitive aspect in mind, an international group of researchers held a meeting in Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany, to present and discuss the theoretical approaches to and empirical investigations of knowledge acquisition from text and pictures. This volume contains the revised contributions resulting from that meeting.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Psychological Perspectives of Helplessness and Control in the Elderly

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 57
    • P.S. Fry
    • English
    The past few years have witnessed widespread acceptance of the notion that few elderly individuals are willing to stand by silently in the process of growing, and to relinquish whatever actual controls, autonomy or control beliefs they had in the past. Increasingly, old age is viewed as the dynamics of growth in mastery, control and self-efficacy, on the one hand, and a relative decline in psychological and physical resources on the other. It is the intent of this volume to communicate both aspects of these changes, and to offer a comprehensive review of the cross-fertilization of the field of gerontology and the psychology of reactance, freedom and control. Leading psychologists and social science researchers from the United States, Canada and Europe give their views on the meaning and application of control-related constructs having specific implications for the field of human aging. They address themselves to one or more of the major themes, issues or concerns which currently figure in discussions of control beliefs and control constructs as they apply to aging and old age.Written primarily for scholars, researchers and developmental theorists interested in the complexities and generativity of control constructs and their applications for the psychological well-being of older adults, the data and issues presented will be equally informative to gero-psychologists and mental health professionals concerned with healthy adaptive functioning of the elderly.

  • The Second Handbook on Parent Education

    Contemporary Perspectives
    • 1st Edition
    • Marvin J. Fine
    • English
    This book should enhance the reader's understanding of the contemporary scene in parenting education, including effective programming, important issues, and future trends.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Handbook of Development Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • H. Chenery + 1 more
    • English
    For this Handbook authors known to have different views regarding the nature of development economics have been selected. The Handbook is organised around the implications of different sets of assumptions and their associated research programs. It is divided into three volumes, each with three parts which focus on the broad processes of development.Volume 1 of the Handbook begins by discussing the concept of development, its historical antecedents, and alternative approaches to the study of development, broadly construed. The second part is devoted to the structural transformation of economies. The role that human resources play in economic development is the focus of the last section of this volume. For more detailed information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

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