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This title was first published in 2000: This book contributes to
social movement theory and to an understanding of Hong Kong
politics through analysis of an urban housing protest movement. The
theoretical approach adopted is a multi-level one, and seeks to
show the influence of the political context, the resources
available to the groups concerned, the actors' interpretations of
their situation and their strategy preferences. This approach fills
a gap in social movement theory because most theoretical frameworks
focus on a single level of analysis. The book also aims to help
researchers in the field to re-examine the current development of
social movement theories and to learn the specific trajectory of
urban social movements in Hong Kong.
This title was first published in 2002.The region of Southeast Asia
has been one of the focal points for study in academic circles.
Most of the studies concentrate on the economic development but
social development received relatively lesser attention. The region
has undergone a period of rapid transition and development in
various aspects, such as education, social security, poverty
reduction, labour protection, health, social structure and
politics. The financial crisis in 1997 has posed a serious threat
to most of the countries and territories in the region, and
unavoidably affected the social development achieved in the past
decades. This text is dedicated to examining the development and
achievement of various social aspects in the region. It discusses
the challenges and potential of this region in the twenty-first
century. It is of considerable reference value and benefits those
who want to have an overview and critical understanding of the
issues of social development in Southeast Asia.
This title was first published in 2000: This book contributes to
social movement theory and to an understanding of Hong Kong
politics through analysis of an urban housing protest movement. The
theoretical approach adopted is a multi-level one, and seeks to
show the influence of the political context, the resources
available to the groups concerned, the actors' interpretations of
their situation and their strategy preferences. This approach fills
a gap in social movement theory because most theoretical frameworks
focus on a single level of analysis. The book also aims to help
researchers in the field to re-examine the current development of
social movement theories and to learn the specific trajectory of
urban social movements in Hong Kong.
This title was first published in 2002.The region of Southeast Asia
has been one of the focal points for study in academic circles.
Most of the studies concentrate on the economic development but
social development received relatively lesser attention. The region
has undergone a period of rapid transition and development in
various aspects, such as education, social security, poverty
reduction, labour protection, health, social structure and
politics. The financial crisis in 1997 has posed a serious threat
to most of the countries and territories in the region, and
unavoidably affected the social development achieved in the past
decades. This text is dedicated to examining the development and
achievement of various social aspects in the region. It discusses
the challenges and potential of this region in the twenty-first
century. It is of considerable reference value and benefits those
who want to have an overview and critical understanding of the
issues of social development in Southeast Asia.
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to
make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This
invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for
academics to develop their understanding and professional practice
in working across cultural boundaries. It considers the fundamental
theories and frameworks of cross-cultural management and deepens
our understanding of how they can be applied to management
knowledge. Managers, researchers, students, HRM practitioners, and
specialists in international business and cross-cultural affairs,
will find this book a valuable reference source. Chapters suggest
how frameworks can be further developed and how managers and
employees can put them to use so as to build cross-cultural
understanding and productive cross-functional teams.
Our understanding of management in Asia has not kept pace with the
demands of managers and students. The Handbook of Asian Management
provides in-depth critical reviews of central topics in strategy
and organizational behavior research in Asian contexts. Leading
scholars take stock of what has been learned and give clear
directions towards greater rigor and relevance for research in this
region.
Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for
instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe
limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that
they can process at one time. George Miller argued that they can
handle no more than seven, plus or minus two independent pieces of
information at any given time. Thus, necessarily they must develop
ways to simplify the task of processing the information that exists
in their environment. They do this in many ways. One way is to
select the stimuli that are most imp- tant in their lives, what are
often called values. Another way is to chunk stimuli by linking
them to each other, so they form bundles of stimuli that can be
processed as if they are one entity. Generalized expectancies of
what is linked with what are beliefs, and these beliefs are
structured into bundles (see Triandis, 1972).
Our understanding of management in Asia has not kept pace with the
demands of managers and students. The Handbook of Asian Management
provides in-depth critical reviews of central topics in strategy
and organizational behavior research in Asian contexts. Leading
scholars take stock of what has been learned and give clear
directions towards greater rigor and relevance for research in this
region.
This book discusses the interplay between statistics, data science,
machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on
environmental science, the natural sciences, and technology. It
covers the state of the art from both a theoretical and a practical
viewpoint and describes how to successfully apply machine learning
methods, demonstrating the benefits of statistics for modeling and
analyzing high-dimensional and big data. The book's expert
contributions include theoretical studies of machine learning
methods, expositions of general methodologies for sound statistical
analyses of data as well as novel approaches to modeling and
analyzing data for specific problems and areas. In terms of
applications, the contributions deal with data as arising in
industrial quality control, autonomous driving, transportation and
traffic, chip manufacturing, photovoltaics, football, transmission
of infectious diseases, Covid-19 and public health. The book will
appeal to statisticians and data scientists, as well as engineers
and computer scientists working in related fields or applications.
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to
make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This
invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for
academics to develop their understanding and professional practice
in working across cultural boundaries. It considers the fundamental
theories and frameworks of cross-cultural management and deepens
our understanding of how they can be applied to management
knowledge. Managers, researchers, students, HRM practitioners, and
specialists in international business and cross-cultural affairs,
will find this book a valuable reference source. Chapters suggest
how frameworks can be further developed and how managers and
employees can put them to use so as to build cross-cultural
understanding and productive cross-functional teams.
Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for
instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe
limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that
they can process at one time. George Miller argued that they can
handle no more than seven, plus or minus two independent pieces of
information at any given time. Thus, necessarily they must develop
ways to simplify the task of processing the information that exists
in their environment. They do this in many ways. One way is to
select the stimuli that are most imp- tant in their lives, what are
often called values. Another way is to chunk stimuli by linking
them to each other, so they form bundles of stimuli that can be
processed as if they are one entity. Generalized expectancies of
what is linked with what are beliefs, and these beliefs are
structured into bundles (see Triandis, 1972).
This book gives an up-to-date overview of methodological and
data-analytical issues of cross-cultural studies. Written by
leading experts in the field, it presents the most important tools
for doing cross-cultural research and outlines design
considerations, methods, and analytical techniques that can improve
ecological validity and help researchers to avoid pitfalls in
cross-cultural psychology. By focusing on the relevant research
questions that can be tackled with particular methods, it provides
practical guidance on how to translate conceptual questions into
decisions on study design and statistical techniques. Featuring
examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality,
health, and intercultural communication and management, and
illustrating key techniques in feature boxes, this concise and
accessible guide is essential reading for researchers, graduate
students, and professionals who work with culture-comparative data.
This book gives an up-to-date overview of methodological and
data-analytical issues of cross-cultural studies. Written by
leading experts in the field, it presents the most important tools
for doing cross-cultural research and outlines design
considerations, methods, and analytical techniques that can improve
ecological validity and help researchers to avoid pitfalls in
cross-cultural psychology. By focusing on the relevant research
questions that can be tackled with particular methods, it provides
practical guidance on how to translate conceptual questions into
decisions on study design and statistical techniques. Featuring
examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality,
health, and intercultural communication and management, and
illustrating key techniques in feature boxes, this concise and
accessible guide is essential reading for researchers, graduate
students, and professionals who work with culture-comparative data.
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