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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences. With extensive input from hundreds of librarians and OCLC staff, the OCLC Market Research team developed a project and commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. to survey a representative sample of information consumers. In June of 2005, we collected …
Corporate Social Responsibility is for all Finance and Management Professionals as well as Academics, Policy Makers, and Regulators.Corporate Social Responsibility is based on critical insight gained by analysig four large companies' experiences of corporate social responsibility. This study highlights the inadequacies of social and ethical reporting by business, both in terms of the ad hoc nat…
This book contains 57 cases divided among ten parts and written with three criteria in mind. First, the writers wanted situations based on real firms, real products, real individuals and-most of all-real issues. Second, the writers wanted the cases to require the thoughtful application of financial concepts. Finally, the writers felt the cases should incorporate some of complexities that are ch…
This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how relatedness is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities--such as gender, power and history. Examples are used from a wide range of areas includi…
Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages. Analysis of the …
Dividends of Kinship is not intended to provide a well-rounded spectrum of the various possible ways of approaching kinship. Instead, it proposes the further elaboration of one particular perspective that has received little attention lately: namely, the functional aspects of kinship. This entails a shift of emphasis from ?meaning? to ?function? without ignoring the former. The question ?what i…
The twentieth century was undoubtedly the era of democratization and concomitant development of more scientific and sophisticated forms of public relations, particularly in the United States and countries of Western Europe. The 1990s also was the decade of globalization because of the founding of the World Trade Organization and the formation of many regional and trans-region blocs such as NAFT…