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This book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in capitalism by opening new pathways for creative practices that can become influential. This analysis includes contributions from a variety of fields that will be of interest to both academics and all those who recognize themselves as "creative" in their professional practice.

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Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decision makers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Employing original data produced through both quantitative and qualitative research, this title provides an understanding of how art works as an engine for transforming communities.

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Small is beautiful--but how small is small, and what practical steps can we take to achieve its beauty In Creative Compartments, Gerard Fairtlough draws on his wide experience and on a profound analysis of the operation and interaction of small organizations.

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Provides an insider's look into how creative presentations impact the introduction or sale of fashion and other products at the trade and consumer levels. The entire spectrum of professionals who use creative presentations is covered. Forms of presentations discussed range from visual boards to couture and pret-a-porter fashion shows.

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Creative problem solving (CPS) is a six-step process designed to help people systematically resolve nonroutine, ambiguous types of problems.

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Styles of effective leadership in the much-admired research arm of Japanese organizations are examined for the first time in this scientifically validated study of research and development units.

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Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to analyze them. The book is aimed at researchers and students in finance, at quantitative analysts i

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Offers a treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. This book models credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other securities exposed to credit risk. It is intended as a resource for researchers and students.

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He concludes that crime reporting neither serves the functions nor has the negative effects that are often attributed to it.

Lotz discusses the functions and dysfunctions of crime reporting, the ideological biases of crime news, and the balance between coverage of explosive events and the less dramatic news of courts and prisons.

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Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies This book shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies with market-oriented retrenchment.

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Analyses the major changes taking place in Japanese government and business and describes the new openings and opportunities these changes present for U.S. firms.

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Turbulent Waters: Cross-Border Finance and International Governance advocates faster progress in reforming the international financial system. Its most important theme is the need for national governments and international organizations to upgrade their collective efforts at crisis prevention and prosperity management.

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The 2008 crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion. This major re-assessment shows how it was initially contained but that the more fundamental challenges to western leadership, democracy and prosperity, unless addressed, will preclude sustained recovery and pave the way for recurrent crises.

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The authors bring the disciplines of accounting and economics to bear on an examination of the critical role played by the major accounting firms in the ongoing economic recovery of Pacific Rim nations from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

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For multinational corporations (MNCs), there is arguably no more important operational function that affects all areas of manufacturing, marketing, management, and finance as international transfer pricingthe practicing of supplying products or services across borders from one part of the organization to another.

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From the complexity of today's business world and its daily transactions has come a proliferation of new accounting standards.

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Designed as a convenient, clearly written, and comprehensive desktop reference for executives and managers, Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s.

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The most influential researchers and writers in the field of HRD outline the ideas and issues that will dominate theory and practice

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This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series looks at the contributions of critical theorists to the study of Europe.

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The increasing gap between the theory and practice of accounting should be taken as a warning that academics have emphasized the economics and sociology of accounting, while neglecting the applied science of accounting.

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This review of the literature dealing with management in business in selected countries, and how management is affected by the culture and values of that country attempts to establish a baseline and methodology for developing further empirical studies.

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Here, the views of a diverse range of well-known academic researchers, industry leaders, and public policy experts have been brought together to show how knowledge and knowledge management perspectives vary across different cultures, in different contexts, using different processes for different purposes.