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Few forms of market exchange intrigue economists as do auctions, whose theoretical and practical implications are enormous. Complementing their own research with papers written with other specialists, the authors provide a focus on common value auctions and the 'winner's curse.'

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This new edition examines intercultural communication in the workplace. Firmly grounded in theory, it offers practical suggestions on how people can develop cultural awareness and communication skills. Fully updated with the latest research, this makes an ideal core text.

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Understanding the array of occupational rights that give meaning to the emerging demands, expectations, and role responsibilities in the modern workplace is of critical importance.

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Communicating for Survival is a complete sourcebook to managing the necessary organizational changes in order to adapt to the new demographics and resulting labor crisis of the next decade.

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The communication secrets that experts and top professionals use.

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Until the past decade, development experts shared a conception of how to facilitate development in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Instead, scholars and development planners began to search for alternative models of development and for other conceptions of development communication.

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An examination of the future of media into the 21st century. Demographic, sociographic, technological and media trends are examined as this book speculates into how the changes in communications disciplines will impact upon advertising, broadcasting, public relations, and sales promotion.

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This book offers a novel account of how the Chinese Communist Party has achieved rapid economic growth while preserving political stability. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and challenging existing paradigms of political economy, it sheds light on the financial foundations of China's evolving authoritarian capitalism. -- .

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This book offers a novel account of how the Chinese Communist Party has achieved rapid economic growth while preserving political stability. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and challenging existing paradigms of political economy, it sheds light on the financial foundations of China's evolving authoritarian capitalism. -- .

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Current trends in police reform stress much greater interaction with the community and, consequently, carry new implications for police roles, operations, and social control.

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Here is a complete guide to company reorganization for the executive who must get the job done rapidly, humanely, and effectively. Beginning with a lineup of compelling reasons for reorganization, it carries the reader through a how-to-go-about-it sequence of planning, communicating, and carrying out, from get-ready to wrap-up.

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This collection of papers on comparable worth written by political scientists contains the best annotated bibliography on comparable worth that this reviewer has yet seen. One notable paper categorizes the 50 states as to whether they have conducted a comparable worth legislation, and have implemented comparable worth.

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People's basic values are shaped by major changes in environmental conditions, such as scarcity of resources and hostility in the political and socioeconomic system.

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In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution.

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These expert case studies focus on ways in which a variety of innovative local economic development programs have been implemented in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.