The global negotiations over climate change involved over 180 countries and innumerable observers and other participants, addressing enormously complex and economically vital issues with conflicting agendas. For the UN to create an effective and well-supported international regime required enormous and very skilful organization. Using the metaphor of a theatrical production, this book shows how…

Chaos Organization and Disaster Management offers a scholarly survey of disaster response behavior and management in the face of natural and manmade catastrophe. The author provides a methodological and empirical platform from which to initiate a critical analysis of disaster management. Sparked by a unique field study of the Israeli experience during the Gulf War, this book demonstrates the ma…

Most executives harbour misconceptions about the many quality initiatives that have Preface xvi bombarded US companies over the past two decades. This book will clarify these misconceptions. The first, and most important, misconception to dispel is that Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) only applies to engineering designs. Given the name Design for Six Sigma, this confusion is understandable but cost…

Improving how our government works is urgent business for America. In this book experts from the RAND corporation provide practical ways for government to reorganize and restructure, enhance leadership, and create flexible, performance-driven agencies.

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and How of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation ot unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to …

This volume offers unique and timely insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. It provides an overview of online newspapers, including current trends and legal issues and covering issues of credibility and perceptions by online news users. The heart of the book is formed by empirica…

This volume provides an extensive review of the literature on personality and intelligence research (in the past 100 years), looking not only at the independent theoretical and empirical developments of both constructs, but also their interactions?namely, the psychometric interface between personality traits and cognitive ability measures. Nevertheless, it is argued that this interface (which h…

this book is aimed at current and future data mining practitioners. It is not meant for software developers looking for detailed instructions on how to implement the various data mining algorithms nor for researchers trying to improve upon those algorithms. Ideas are presented in nontechnical language with minimal use of mathematical formulas and arcane jargon. Each data mining technique is sho…

this book is about how to manage change constructively, and how to help your company, division, and people deal with the upheavals of change.You?ll also learn practical things you can do to make change initiatives more successful and less painful for the people you manage.

Market Structure and Competition Policy applies modern advances in game theory to the analysis of competition policy and develops some of the theoretical and policy concerns associated with the pioneering work of Louis Phlips. Containing contributions by leading scholars from Europe and North America, this book observes a common theme in the relationship between the regulatory regime and market…