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31. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

    The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

    By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

    Series: Environment for Development

    This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

    Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
32. Asset Management and International Capital Markets

    Edited by Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz, Chris Adcock

    This innovative volume comprises a selection of original research articles offering a broad perspective on various dimensions of asset management in an international capital market environment. The topics covered include risk management and asset pricing models for portfolio management, performance...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
33. Green Organizations

    Driving Change with I-O Psychology

    Edited by Ann Hergatt Huffman, Stephanie R. Klein

    Series: Applied Psychology Series

    This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues....

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge Academic
34. Recession at Work

    HRM in the Irish Crisis

    By Bill Roche, Paul Teague, Anne Coughlan, Majella Fahy

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
35. Food Policy in the United States

    An Introduction

    By Parke Wilde

    Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

    This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
36. Getting Started with Business Analytics

    Insightful Decision-Making

    By David Roi Hardoon, Galit Shmueli

    Assuming no prior knowledge or technical skills, Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making explores the contents, capabilities, and applications of business analytics. It bridges the worlds of business and statistics and describes business analytics from a non-commercial...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
37. Beyond Liquidity

    The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis

    Edited by Brad Pasanek, Simone Polillo

    ‘Liquidity’, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology....

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
38. Liberalising the Accounting Curriculum in University Education

    Edited by Alan Sangster, Richard M.S. Wilson

    This book presents the views of accounting educators, accounting education policy-makers, and accounting practitioners from across the world on the challenging topic of liberalising the accounting curriculum within university education. Accounting is a relatively new subject within universities and...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
39. Handbook of Test Security

    Edited by James A. Wollack, John J. Fremer

    High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
40. Second Victim

    Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience

    By Sidney Dekker

    How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an...

    Published March 25th 2013 by CRC Press