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Attempts to promote a broad debate about the notion of causality and the role of causal inference in the social sciences. This volume allows researchers and students in accounting, and the social sciences, to acquire a deeper understanding of the notion of causality and the nature, limits, and scope of empirical research in the social sciences.

Lays out a discussion framework for understanding the role of human-computer interaction in public policymaking. The book takes an international view, discussing potential areas for research and application and their potential for impact. The aim is to provide a solid foundation for discussion, cooperation and collaborative interaction.

Bioresources are becoming increasingly important and topical as the world is faced with growing food demand as well as increased pressure to provide energy and materials. This monograph discusses the current flows of bioresources, their inherent properties and the services that these resources may provide in a sustainable biobased economy.

Presents the many different dimensions to national corporate governance regimes, encompassing the legal, the political, the economic, and the social behaviour. While there is much debate within the literature as to which is the most important aspect of each, this monograph provides a basis to evaluate this burgeoning literature.

Reviews prior studies and proposes new research directions for the corporate governance of China's listed firms. The primary focus is to investigate the underlying relation between China's institutional environment and its listed firms' corporate governance, and show how formal and informal governance mechanisms actually work within these firms.

Takes a broad view of spatial econometrics and introduces some of the basic concepts. After an introduction, the book introduces methods for the spatial econometric analysis of regional data, explores the new emerging field of microeconometrics, and applies the general SARAR paradigm to the case of spatial interaction models.

Focuses on the information-economics theoretic framework of brand equity. The authors posit that consumer-based brand equity is the value of a brand as a credible signal of a product's positioning. In their framework, the content, clarity, and credibility of the brand signal creates intangible benefits, and enhances perceived quality.

Owner-Level Taxes and Business Activity examines advances in both theoretical and empirical research that paint a clearer picture of the effects of owner-level taxation on business activity.

Marketing Dynamics: A Primer on Estimation and Control provides an introduction to the estimation and control of dynamic marketing models. It introduces dynamic models in discrete- and continuous- time, scalar and multivariate settings, with observed outcomes and unobserved states, as well as random and/or time-varying parameters.

Three Essential Analytical Techniques for the Behavioral Marketing Researcher reviews several topics that are essential complementary analytics that enable behavioral marketing researchers to test theories and hypotheses, and thereby advance their respective literatures and contribute to knowledge bases.

Provides an updated and comprehensive review of China's financial system and compares it with financial systems in other countries. The book reviews what has worked and what has not within the markets and intermediaries in China, and further considers the effects of the recent development of China's financial system on the real economy.

Explores the extent to which knowledge transferred from a university to a firm or group of firms through a research partnership results in short-term private gains to a firm as well as to long-term public gains to society.

Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Reviews the major design methodologies that have had a profound effect on designing future Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures. More precisely, the book addresses the problem of NoC design in the deterministic context, where the application and the architecture are modelled as graphs with worst-case type of information.

Helps put contract-based design in perspective. Contracts are precisely defined and characterized so that they can be used in design methodologies with no ambiguity.

Three Branches of Theories of Financial Crises presents basic frameworks linked to the broad topic of financial crises and describes some of the directions in which they influenced the literature and the way they relate to recent events. The authors also address some of the policy challenges, shedding light on them using the analytical tools at hand so that this survey will help to highlight the basic underlying forces that have been studied in the literature for over three decades in a simple and transparent way. It will be an easy and accessible source to the many economists who are interested in exploring the topic of financial crises following recent events.After the Introduction, Section 2 reviews the literature on banking crises and panics. This literature is perhaps most directly linked to the concept of crises. While Section 2 emphasizes fragility faced by financial institutions due to coordination failures by their creditors, Section 3 reviews models that analyze frictions in loans extended by financial institutions and other lenders. Overall, the models of Sections 2 and 3 highlight fragility on the different sides of the balance sheet of a financial institution. Another literature that evolved independently is focused on currency crises. Traditionally, these were viewed as a separate phenomenon, unrelated to banking crises, but more recently the literatures have moved towards each other. Section 4 reviews models of currency crises and Section 5 provides concluding remarks.

Provides an analysis of the progress made in the field of entrepreneurship education by looking in particular at the contributions made to theory and at the challenges that keep emerging in practice. The authors build two different frameworks of analysis in order to examine recent literature on entrepreneurial education.

Updates an earlier review by the authors. This book includes reviews of recent studies on topics that were covered in the earlier survey, and summarises research on new topics. These new topics cover a broad gamut of issues, ranging from hedge funds' use of leverage and exposure to different risks to their impact on various asset markets.

Provides a compact introduction to academic research on market efficiency, behavioural finance, and fundamental analysis. The book is dedicated to the kind of decision-driven and prospectively-focused research that is much needed in a market constantly seeking to become more efficient.

Bifurcation of Macroeconometric Models and Robustness of Dynamical Inferences provides an overview of the classes of macroeconometric models for which bifurcation experiments have so far been run, and emphasizes the implications for lack of robustness of conventional dynamical inferences from macroeconometric policy simulations.

Examines the relevance of academic research to the most senior levels of the marketing profession, the chief marketing officer (CMO), and the interests of their C-suite colleagues, particularly those of the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO).

Tracks the evolution of US science policy research largely as it has been conducted in universities and supported by the National Science Foundation, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to the present, from reliance on expert opinion to more systematic, empirical studies.

A monograph that intends to review the main contributions of game theory in water resources over the past 70 years. It aims to compare the set of issues faced by water resources and those the sector is most likely to face in the coming future. Based on this comparison, a future research agenda and priorities will be proposed.

To what extent does retail therapy really work? This book seeks to address this question by adopting a tripartie approach: motivational (the goals and motives that consumers have for shopping); behavioral (the activities that consumers engage in during the shopping process); and emotional (the feelings that consumers experience while shopping).

Summarizes a burgeoning research domain focused on understanding the content, governance, and structure of network relations in the entrepreneurial context.

A monograph that seeks to assess the contributions of the entrepreneurial orientation concept, provide an overview of the extant EO literature, and evaluate the state of EO research. It also highlights possible avenues for future research, and concludes with a discussion of specific areas where EO research is lacking.

A monograph that presents a more complete understanding of both the critical national features and the underlying processes affecting participation in business creation.

Provides an overview of revenue management (RM) and discusses approaches that firms can use to more profitably manage and define the ways in which they sell their capacity. The book offers an in-depth discussion of the roles that price, time, and space play in RM, and discusses marketing and customer conflicts that arise from the application of RM.