While it is estimated that over 175 million or 3% of the world¿s population live outside their country of origin, there is still a lack of documented evidence on the health and safety of migrant workers. In response to ...
Globalisation and advances in communications technology have greatly expanded the potential marketplace for professional teams, especially for those sports internationally popular. As a result, many team brands profit from ...
Today, it is commonplace to say that we live in what has been called a society of organizations (Perrow 1991), one in which questions of power and control exercised by organizations become crucial. One consequence of this ...
I am concerned in this chapter with the management of drinking and drug taking - particularly as it pertains to the situation in the UK. Intuitively, intoxication would seem to be a direct contrast to the sober rationality ...
The chapter the draws together the research presented in the book, other contributing research and presents a Paralympic research agenda for the future.
Hawryszkiewycz Igor(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010)
Collaboration is now playing a greater role in business processes, where knowledge workers leverage knowledge to develop innovative products and services. Such business processes go beyond the goal of simply achieving a ...
In the standard mean variance (MV) capital asset pricing model (CAPM) with homogeneous beliefs, the optimal portfolios of investors are MV efficient. It is expected that this is no longer true in general when investors ...
Oppewal Harmen; Morrison Mark; Wang Paul; Waller David(Emerald, 2010)
An assumption made in many applications of stated preference modeling is that preferences remain stable over time and OYer multiple exposures to information about choice alternatives. However, there are many domains where ...
The term "toxic asset" is a nontechnical term used to describe certain financial assets whose value has fallen significantly so that there is no longer a functioning market for these assets. That is, there is no liquidity ...