When we think about the future of the modern state, we encounter a puzzling variety of scholarly diagnoses and prophecies. Some authors predict nothing less than the total demise of the state as a useful model for organizing society – its powers eroded by a dynamic global economy and by an increasing transference of political decision-making powers to supranational bodies. Others disagree p…
Over the last five decades, significant advances in the estimation and inference of various econometric models have taken place. This includes the classical linear model where the explanatory variables are nonstochastic (fixed) and the error is normally distributed, and the non-classical models, where these classical assumptions are violated. These models are frequently used in applied work, su…
The principal purpose of this book is to analyse where the West Europeans have succeeded or failed in their attempts at cooperation in defence procurement, and why. This chapter aims to give some political background to this analysis by looking, very selectively, at a few of the pressures which exist for West European collaboration in defence and security policy in general. Logically, the …
This volume draws on the knowledge of many regulators and utilities analysts around the world. Some of these experts are colleagues; others have provided work that we have used without benefit of collaboration. Regulatory accounting is a bur- geoning field of endeavor, and regulators are increasingly establishing and publishing regulatory accounting requirements and standards. Awareness of and …
Managing Human Resources in Europe provides an analysis of the most important themes in European human resource management (HRM) written by leading authorities based all over Europe. Unrivalled by any other text it provides a thematic approach with distinctive country examples in each chapter and is characterized by a critical approach with special attention given to dilemmas, controversies, pa…
Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) is a professional journal whose purpose is to meet the information needs of both practitioners and academicians. We plan to publish thoughtful, well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting, broadly defined. Advances in Management Accounting is to be an annual publication of quality applied research in management accoun…
The Current Issues series has slightly unusual origins. Current Issues in International Trade, which Macmillan published in 1987 and which turned out to be the pilot for the series, was in fact 'conceived' in the Horton Hospital, Banbury, and 'delivered' (in the sense of completed) in the Hilton International in Nicosia! The reader may be struck by the thought that a more worthwhile and enjoyab…
Stochastic Methods in Economics and Finance introduces the reader to certain mathematical techniques by presenting both their theoretical elements and their applications. Topics such as martingale methods, stochastic processes, optimal stopping, the modeling of uncertainty using a Wiener process, Ito's lemma as a tool of stochastic calculus, basic facts about stochastic differential equations…
The most imperative challenge facing a number of managers in recent years has been to regain lost market share and secure new competitive advantages. The impetus for this trend continues to be the ubiquitous tendency toward globalization and the ensuing intensification of international competition. Customer orientation, lean management and re-engineering are the buzzwords that characterize …
An examination of the historical background to the use of procurement systems shows that in the post-war period up to the early 1970s, despite all relevant official reports and studies recommending otherwise, the majority of building work was carried out by conventional methods of procurement with only a relatively small number of projects being implemented by means of, what were then, non…
When speaking about eBusiness as applied to the healthcare market, two questions arise immediately. First, what is eBusiness? Second, why is eBusiness in healthcare different from eBusiness in other industries? In this chapter, we shall give an overview of the foundations of eBusiness, explain the importance of eBusiness within the healthcare domain, and describe the peculiarities of the h…
This book is about defence procurement and industry policy in small, advanced industrial economies. It is largely an exercise in applied economics but the contributions of legal and management scholars and defence procurement and industry policy practitioners will also be apparent throughout. The book inevitably draws on themes and analysis treated in the defence economics literature and r…
The concept and understanding of brain death have evolved significantly over the past few decades. This entity has become more recognized as our ability to provide prolonged cardiovascular support to brain injured patients became more sophisticated. In parallel with these developments, organ transplantation became a reality with wider applications resulting in significant increase in demand…
This book is written for the procurement and supply chain management professional needing reference to the working methods available today for use on the job. It also has in mind the newly appointed executive or the staff member with only a cursory knowledge of the workings of procurement and supply management. It provides, we trust, a complete compendium of the information that is require…
The seven essays in this volume address different issues related to green and innovation procurement as well as more general challenges in public procurement. These studies address both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems. The evidence that they present covers a broad spectrum of countries including…
Whether you believe it is the second industrial revolution or merely an over-hyped offering from the software industry,e-procurement is upon us.Something that has been around in various forms for more than ten years in a small way, has now accelerated to the point where 92% of the Fortune 500 companies say they are using it,or intend to use it.The statistics showing takeup and growth point …