Lap lambert academic publishing jul 2010 (Oltre 1400 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Using an expanded definition of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide this work analyzes the factors leading to Guatemala''s military operations from 1978 until 1983 against Guatemala''s indigenous population and gives details why these operations accounted for genocide. The main factors to explain the atrocities were the long lasting alienation of Guatemala''s indigenous and non-indigenous population and the evolution of a 'new,' i.e. national indigenous identity previous to the conflict.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Today, the urban conglomerate of Polish Silesia finds itself experimenting a worldwide phenomenon: the continuous blurring of the spatial and conceptual borders between town, city, metropolis and megalopolis; a growing mixture of spaces, activities, interrelations and connectivities that challenge the traditional -and more assessable- image of human settlement. In a crossroads of ages and geographies, Silesia becomes a political and socio-economical experiment on-the-go, a perfect laboratory in which we can study the ups and downs of the current urban trends, the attempts to understand and control them, and the impact they make on our daily quality of life. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Using an expanded definition of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide this work analyzes the factors leading to Guatemala's military operations from 1978 until 1983 against Guatemala's indigenous population and gives details why these operations accounted for genocide. The main factors to explain the atrocities were the long lasting alienation of Guatemala's indigenous and non-indigenous population and the evolution of a new, i.e. national indigenous identity previous to the conflict.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Today, the urban conglomerate of Polish Silesia finds itself experimenting a worldwide phenomenon: the continuous blurring of the spatial and conceptual borders between town, city, metropolis and megalopolis; a growing mixture of spaces, activities, interrelations and connectivities that challenge the traditional -and more assessable- image of human settlement. In a crossroads of ages and geographies, Silesia becomes a political and socio-economical experiment on-the-go, a perfect laboratory in which we can study the ups and downs of the current urban trends, the attempts to understand and control them, and the impact they make on our daily quality of life. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Using an expanded definition of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide this work analyzes the factors leading to Guatemala''s military operations from 1978 until 1983 against Guatemala''s indigenous population and gives details why these operations accounted for genocide. The main factors to explain the atrocities were the long lasting alienation of Guatemala''s indigenous and non-indigenous population and the evolution of a 'new,' i.e. national indigenous identity previous to the conflict. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Today, the urban conglomerate of Polish Silesia finds itself experimenting a worldwide phenomenon: the continuous blurring of the spatial and conceptual borders between town, city, metropolis and megalopolis; a growing mixture of spaces, activities, interrelations and connectivities that challenge the traditional -and more assessable- image of human settlement. In a crossroads of ages and geographies, Silesia becomes a political and socio-economical experiment on-the-go, a perfect laboratory in which we can study the ups and downs of the current urban trends, the attempts to understand and control them, and the impact they make on our daily quality of life. 108 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates the impact of the Times of Zambia gender policy on journalistic practices. The policy was formulated to address issues of representation of women both in news coverage and at an institutional level. In spite of the implementation of the editorial gender policy, no change in gendered representation is evident. The book is informed by a Cultural Studies approach to media studies, specifically drawing on the circuit of culture' (du Guy et al, 1997) and focused on two specific moments', namely representation and production. Data was collected using two qualitative methods, namely document analysis and semi-structured in-depth interviews. The document analysis established that this policy is informed by a liberal feminist approach to media and identified the weaknesses in its formulation. The subsequent semi-structured in-depth interviews probed the practices and perceptions of male and female journalists and editors in relation to the degree of change in gendered representation in the news. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Contemporarily, the sophistication of financial markets coupled with possibilities of high volatilities, thinning of margin and shareholder value erosion have necessitated the search for a model that could have predictive powers which fund managers would leverage on to help with risk management phenomenon. Value-at-Risk (VaR) has recently become popular as an alternative risk measure especially with the traditional beta ( ) measure of market risk coming under heavy critism due to the heightened concern expressed by financial experts as to whether it actually captures and appropriately price the risk of the market. VaR has been defined as a summary measure that indicates the worst loss that could occur to a portfolio or a single asset over a target horizon with a given level of confidence. The research took a cursory look at the empirical relationship that exists between this rapidly evolving measure of risk and its influence on the everyday asset allocation decisions that fund managers are involved with and to discover how this links with portfolio performance at various allocation mixes. To simplify the approach, only two classes of assets were considered; equity and cash. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the relationship between the perceived corporate ethical behaviour and Brand Trust in the innovative online environment. Hitherto there has been extremely limited literature about this issue and Delgado's Brand Trust model is associated for the first time with the characteristics of an ethical company. The existing bibliography is sketched, touching upon the interaction of CSR and Brand Trust in the novel communicative context of the Internet. Mixed methodology, by means of small-scale survey and in-depth interviews, was used in order to integrate the quantitative and the qualitative results for an overall interpretation of the research issues. Internet is found to be the most appropriate medium for communicating CSR to contemporary, more ethically oriented consumers that expect from companies to manifest social responsibility and concern. Through the use of SPSS, data analysis supports the initial presupposition that Brand Trust and perceived ethical behaviour correlate strongly. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Individual level factors related to the successor have a central role to play in the succession process of the business. When these factors are viewed in relation to succession planning models, these factors have a direct relation to the succession models in terms of success or failure of the succession process. The major contributing factor to the success or failure of the succession process is that of the leadership provided to the organization by the predecessor. These leadership qualities change from one form to another during different phases of the succession planning models. This Book reviews available succession planning models and try to converg them into a single model considering the individual level factors related to succession planning. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book deals with PPP in different countries especially in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, South Africa and USA. Because the issue of PPP is really extensive this book is focused just on financing of this type of projects. To be able to analyze situation in mentioned countries just one part of financing of PPP project, Public Sector Comparator (PSC), was chosen. Every country has its own approach to PSC and the aim of this book is to compare advantages and disadvantages of PSC methodic in individual countries and create a recommendations for application of possible improvements into Czech PSC methodic. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Recent scholarship underscores the importance of industry-universities collaboration as an important organizational form for knowledge creation within the national system of innovation (NSI), especially in stimulating new technologies. There are two broad assumptions underlying the establishment and management of universities. The first one is that universities are set up to perform certain well defined functions such as teaching, research and knowledge production and could remain outside the broad national, cultural and political influence. Second, and specific to the research function, the notion of research and development (R&D) without much attention to downstream activities that involve commercialization, limits the relevance of university research. This book based on sound empirical and theoretical scholarship advances considerably our understanding of these issues within a development context. We strongly recommend it to all those interested in the development debate. 72 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Keeping in view the scarcity of human resource management (HRM) literature about Pakistan, this book is useful for researchers, international investors and others interested in knowing management practices in Pakistan. It reviews the literature on integration and devolvement in various parts of the world. It also reports the findings of an empirical survey in fifty-two higher education institutes (HEIs) of Pakistan.The results of the study show that the HEIs are practicing a low level of integration and devolvement. The level of devolved decision-making and the direction of change in theses decision is different for various HR activities. The departmental heads do not have similar training level in various areas of HRM. Public and private sector HEIs are similar in most of their HRM patterns and organizational characteristics. Presence of HR department is the main predictor of integration and devolvement. There is resistance to HRM convergence in Pakistan and the high power distance culture is shaping many policies and practices. The divergent trends prevailing in higher education sector are expected to stay until formal HR departments become integral to all HEIs. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study focuses on the impact of standardization on product innovation, market access and export performance in South African sectors. It begins by giving a comprehensive theoretical framework. Thereafter, it focuses on South Africa where it examines how the institution of standard setting has evolved. It then gives case studies on the net impact of standards in various sectors within South Africa. The final chapter gives international case studies on the impact of standards. 72 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Franchising, in its current form, evolved in the United States throughout the 1950s and 1960s. During that period, franchising witnessed an explosive growth in terms of the numbers of companies that adopted franchising as a business model. In respect of the revolution in business contracts, the franchising investor should basically take into account the legal perspective of the franchising contract. Therefore a definite legal relationship between parties can only be attained when they both understand all their respective rights and obligations and terms under which the contract is to be terminated. In addition, complete awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of the franchise business will lead to a safe operation of the franchise business. The present book is an effort to address, for a legal perspective, the major issues pertinent the franchise business and present sufficiently clear answers for the major questions to who seek to get involved in franchise business. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Panchayats for years have been the milestone for decentralization initiatives in West Bengal, India and also the state's penchant towards grassroots democracy. For a state experiencing financial crunch, devolution of financial and fiscal autonomy to the local governments had been the envisaged drive no doubt. For the overburdened state health system, sharing of responsibility by the Panchayats through public health expenditures made out of local revenue collected could have been a way out. Results also show that wherever the Panchayats have acted, the overall health situation (and also quality of life) has improved. But although they have much to do, and quite a scope, are they ready to make a paradigm shift from physical assets to quality of life Their own fiscal health in general, their motivation to generate revenue on their own, and their capacity to act according to the local situation (without directives from upper tiers), and also their priority towards tangible assets that would at the end of the day earn them the vote-bank seem to speak otherwise. The analysis should help to comprehend the pitfalls and perils of development through decentralization. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Northern Uganda has suffered violent conflict that has devastated the social fabric of the region. The conflict between the National Resistance Movement and the Lord's Resistance Army has eluded numerous attempts to resolve it. The Juba peace talks that run between 2006 to 2008 presented an opportunity to end the conflict, but both parties failed to endorse the final agreement. This book provides an analysis of the reasons for the failed talks, the role played by the different actors, and the impact they had on the final outcome. Neema challenges the assumption that one conflict resolution model fits all conflict contexts, and argues that sufficient time be devoted to a thorough assessment of the best conflict resolution mode to bring about a sustainable resolution to a given conflict. The analysis points to the need to understand the unique nature of each complex political emergency as an essential tool if we are to move towards lasting peace agreements. This book is intended to form the basis for empirical research and act as a guide for policy makers in the betterment of current and further efforts of resolve conflicts of this nature. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Organizational misbehaviour has long been recognized as workers' attempt to redress the balance of control and power in the workplace. The advent of the computer, particularly the internet, raised hopes of increased productivity but it also raised questions of ethical use in the workplace as it has huge potential for damage to fellow employee, the employer and the organization. Although it is a relatively new concept, data reveals the staggering lengths to which internet abuse has extended and the accompanying financial losses. This book examines the extent to which this phenomenon exists among public sector workers in St.Vincent and the Grenadines. It explores literature related to organizational misbehaviour with emphasis on internet abuse. It also examines data collected from the specified population. It then draws upon data collected to arrive at conclusions and formulate a proposed Internet Use Policy that could be used to control these activities and reduce the negative impacts they can have. The information could prove very useful to students and lecturers of management and organizational behaviour as well as employers who are trying to cope with the identified phenomenon. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Adolescent childbearing is a phenomenon that has significant ramification at personal, societal, and global levels. Present research attempts to explore whether the utilization of Reproductive and Child Health Care Services differs among adolescent and older mother after controlling the potential background socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The study utilizes data from three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) to understand the level, trend and determinants of teenage childbearing and utilization of basic Reproductive and Child Health Services (RCH) in India. The Reproductive and Child Health Services that are examined in present study includes antenatal care, safe delivery, and child immunization. Results show that prevalence of teenage childbearing in India has remained almost stagnant over the past 13 years. The analysis shows that after controlling the potential socioeconomic and demographic factors, maternal age appeared to have the significant influence on the use of maternal and child health care services. Adolescents are less likely to use any health care services than the older women. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It contains the description and analysis of the risk management strategies,foreign exchange transactions, with a view to gaining an insight into the impact of these issues on economy.The Indian financial system has undergone a considerable change in the recent past. Only a few years ago it used to be a closed, opaque,classified system shaped and regulated by the bureaucrats of the finance ministry.The scenario today is very different.Since 1991, gradually, it metamorphosed into a substantive, self-regulating system and developed as one obeying no rules or dictates other than those consistent with its own character.It has left the backwaters and entered the open sea and though sometimes buffeted by swift, violent and complex happenings, it has necessarily shaped up as a free financial system should be.It has chosen to be competitive, market-oriented.The transformation implies that the components of the Indian financial system, that is, the institutions and markets functioning within it, have chosen to be well managed and growth-oriented to make it a global, modern and a twenty-first century system. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Black-Scholes model was a revelation and took a large step forward in terms of mathematical application in quantitative finance. An empirical trait is that the model has generally been used by practitioners in an ad-hoc fashion. This may explain why actual option prices have rarely converged to respective Black-Scholes estimates. Empirical options research has highlighted systematic biases within the model and has attempted to correct for these by proposing models that offer greater consistency in both internal processes and pricing performance. In this thesis, we explore the fundamental reasons for failure in the Black-Scholes and analyse the benefit of augmenting the model for processes that may be more consistent with the real world. We place emphasis on consistency between the option-implicit distribution of the underlying asset and the actual implicit distribution of the underlying asset. Using a three year FTSE 100 option dataset, we quantitatively examine the pricing consistency and reliability of such augmented models. 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The importance of the performance of business processes for the success of organisations is undeniable. For surviving and being able to compete, organisations have to improve themselves by improving their business processes. This explains why process performance improvement is very popular and beneficial today. This book aims to integrate the techniques such as process qualification, fifth discipline, sustainability and six sigma, which are used in different points throughout process performance management, to examine the relationships between them and to investigate possible contributions they may have on each other. In this manner, these techniques and methodologies will become more powerful by being used together and this will provide a more efficient performance management. The book also shows the cause and effect relationship between process qualification and process performance. How an improvement obtained in process qualification causes an improvement in process performance is demonstrated by a case study. 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thailand and Brazil have similarly employed the methods of an 'activist state' in attempting to provide free, universal access to antiretroviral medication to their citizens. While a specific alignment of social, political, and economic factors in Brazil enabled a description of its mode of medical activism as a 'tool of new democratic politics and ethics,' the divergent nature of these forces in Thailand problematize not only the extension of this description to Thai AIDS activism, but also the relationship between democracy and 'biological citizenship.' Through ethical processes of legitimation and delegitimation, a complex web of actors and technologies mediates Thailand's ability to alter the global therapeutic economy of pharmaceuticals and redraw lines of political power. This work, which argues for greater specificity in describing and legitimating new biopolitical forms, should be of particular interest to scholars of political and pharmaceutical anthropology as well as those concerned with the achievement of human rights in this key moment of neoliberal globalization. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During the last decades of the twentieth century, Morocco had forsaken its African roots, to the point where 30 countries out of a total of 52 on the continent recognized the self proclaimed SADR. Since 1999, Morocco retrieved its African dimension and an important number of agreements between the Kingdom and African countries have been signed and implemented at the political, economic, and social levels. However, Morocco has a singular particularity that other countries do not have with sub-Saharan Africa. The Kingdom shares strong historical and cultural links with Africa, which could be very useful for Rabat in order to solve the Sahara issue. This book therefore, tries to demonstrate how implementing cultural cooperation between Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa can serve a country's national interests. The work, which adopts a social constructivist perspective, is a mixed methods study that includes qualitative and quantitative research, and should be especially useful to researchers in the region's history, or anyone else interested to understand this strong historical links between the Sherifian Kingdom, and a large number of African countries. 92 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The financial systems have been rapidly changed for a double of decades all over the world. Consequently, their regulatory and supervisory authorities have been continuously adjusted in order to respond to these changes. With the recent global financial and economic crisis, the important role of the financial regulators/supervisors has especially been reaffirmed and as such gone up to a new level. Vietnam, the country whose economy has been integrated into the international economy since the mid 1990s, has also been in harmony with the reforming of the financial systems worldwide. For those questions such as: Where do the Vietnam's banking financial system and its regulatory and supervisory authorities stand and which direction they should take Are these empirical evidence beneficial to other transforming economies as well as emerging ones, the answers could be found the Study 'Banking Supervision Moves Ahead in the New Era: A Study of the State Bank of Viet Nam'. For which we are pleased to introduce here to the Readers. 164 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study empirically investigates the strategic foreign exchange risk management practice by Danish medium-sized non-financial, not-listed companies that are involved in international activities. The study focuses on the interaction between financial and operational hedges in the management of operating exposure and reveals significant company specific factors that explain the importance and application of the various hedging strategies. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Shorttitle During the past two decades there was a discussion about the human resource management of private and public universities in Thailand whether which group of universities has more effective human resource management. This book will introduce you to the human resource management of the private and public universities in the following aspects: human resource management in general; recruitment and selection; training and development; benefits and compensation; and discipline and promotion, in many more interesting details. For example, Private universities had more freedom to make very quick decisions on human resource management, and offered double pay of salary. On the other hand, public universities appeared to have placed great emphasis on social activities, and on having instructors and employees working outside of school that would be beneficial to the communities they are located. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the 1990 s, public-private partnerships agreements (PPPs) have been used as a main tool for investments in public infrastructures. The movement began in the United Kingdom and fortunately became a great success, which later was adopted by many other countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. As international experiences have shown, the combination of private capital in public services and facilities can be very thriving, particularly under the best value for money principle. In an overall approach, this study compares the UK (original) PPPs with the newly Brazilian PPPs, focusing on the financial contractual risks under both systems. The analysis shall emphasise the mandatory financial contractual guarantees given by the public sector to the private sector, within the Brazilian PPP legal framework (Federal Law nº 11.079/2004, article 8). Therefore, this book should help clear some basic definitions and understandings on both systems and should be especially useful to professionals on public and private initiatives, either supplying, financing or contracting under PPP agreements. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The financial sector in Namibia is well developed and offers a wide range of services. This assertion can be supported by the ratio of broad money supply (M2) and the private sector credit to gross domestic product (GDP), which stood at 43 and 40 per cent respectively in 2004. Despite the observed level of financial sector development, real economic growth remained low, growing at 3 per cent on average during the past 12 years. This tend to suggest that there might not be a strong long run link between finance and economic output. This book therefore examines whether there is a long run relationship between financial development and economic growth in Namibia and hence determine the direction of causality. The book employs a two step Engle-Granger method of Cointegration; and a Granger Causality Test. Moreover, the book explores the history of banking in Namibia. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of monetary, financial, macroeconomics and practitioners as well. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Electricity is a key ingredient for the socio- economic development of the country. Adequate and reliable supply of electricity is an important pre- requisite for attracting both domestic and foreign investment. But frequent power failure has turned out to be a national crisis in Bangladesh. Therefore, the Government has given top priority for the development of the sector considering its importance in overall development of the country. The current 158 KWh per capita consumption of electricity in Bangladesh is one of the lowest in the world and only 38% population has the access to electricity. Providing electricity to all by 2020 creates a huge opportunity for private investment in Bangladesh and the government is keen to promote private investment in power generation by providing significant fiscal incentives and other incentives for investors through Private Power Generation Policy adopted in 1996. The book provides an in-depth info on the current power generation status in Bangladesh and analyzes the investment opportunities through Independent Power Producers and Small Power Producers. 60 pp. Englisch.…