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Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Taking a strategic imperative perspective this book introduces business leaders to a key differentiator that contributes to competitive advantage and financial sustainability: cultural competence. In a fast-changing and globalized world where organizations are being forced to rethink their strategies understanding present and future environmental social and economic challenges is fundamental to creating a resilient and value-creating business. Combining experience and reflection this book addresses concepts of organizational cultural competence as an internal differentiator and source of competitive advantage. Most organizations approach differentiation as an external feature of product and/or service delivery. Whereas these are open to imitation cultural competence as the internal DNA of an organization is much more difficult if not impossible to imitate. The authors bring to bear their years of experience in corporate roles and as entrepreneurs and academics sharing views and experiences based on research but also on primary examples meta-insights and real-world case studies. Senior leaders and consultants across industries as well as students of strategy and leadership development will value this serious and comprehensive guide that explains the importance of cultural competence as a strategic advantage in a global market. | Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

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Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management: Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage is a highly accessible book providing a unique look into the strategic drivers of the dynamic and ever-growing fashion industry. Derived from the knowledge gap in quality strategic fashion management literature this book blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives. The analysis is highly global in nature and aims to accelerate the strategic skills required to navigate the industry and contribute to a firm’s growth. Using copious examples from across the world this book provides in-depth discourse and progressive theoretical concepts and strategies which readers will be able to apply immediately to their studies or practices. The book is particularly suitable for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying fashion management or marketing as well as those on MBA and international business courses who wish to understand more about the fashion ecosystem. It is also designed to serve as an important reference for executives who are interested in conceptualising strategic issues that are pertinent to the industry. | Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

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Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

The concept of strategic human resource management has developed widely in the last couple of years especially because of the impact of human resources on the competitiveness of organizations. The development of human resource strategies involves taking into account their multiple mutual dependencies and the fact that they must be vertically integrated with the business strategy. These strategies define the intentions and plans related to the overall organizational considerations such as organizational competitiveness effectiveness or image and to more specific aspects of human resources management such as resourcing motivating valuating learning and development reward and employee relations. Strategic management of human resources provides a large perspective on the way critical issues or success factors related to people can be addressed and how different concepts of strategic decisions are made with long-term impacts on the behavior and success of the organization. The fundamental objective of human resource strategic management is to generate strategic capabilities by ensuring that the organization has the high-qualified committed and well-motivated employees it needs to achieve and sustain the competitive advantage. The emergence of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is influenced by global competition and the corresponding search for sources of a sustainable competitive advantage. SHRM has achieved its prominence because it provides a means by which business firms can enhance the competitiveness and promote managerial efficiency. It facilitates the development of human capital that meets the requirements of a competitive business strategy so that organizational goals and the mission of the organization will be achieved. The HRM system is defined as a set of distinct but interrelated activities functions and processes that are directed at attracting developing and maintaining (or disposing of) a firm’s human resources. Many agree that HRM is the most effective tool which contributes to the creation of human capital and in turn contributes to organizational performance and the competitive advantage. This book puts emphasis on understanding the role of HRM between organizations and people and provides an analytical approach toward encompassing HRM employment relations and organizational behavior. As a management discipline HRM draws insights models and theories from cognate disciplines and applies them to real-world settings. Further this book discusses how current theoretical perspectives and frameworks (e. g. those related to strategic competitiveness knowledge management learning organization communities of practice etc. ) can be applied by reflective practitioners to create an eco-friendly organizational culture. | Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

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Bayesian Designs for Phase I-II Clinical Trials

Bayesian Designs for Phase I-II Clinical Trials

Reliably optimizing a new treatment in humans is a critical first step in clinical evaluation since choosing a suboptimal dose or schedule may lead to failure in later trials. At the same time if promising preclinical results do not translate into a real treatment advance it is important to determine this quickly and terminate the clinical evaluation process to avoid wasting resources. Bayesian Designs for Phase I–II Clinical Trials describes how phase I–II designs can serve as a bridge or protective barrier between preclinical studies and large confirmatory clinical trials. It illustrates many of the severe drawbacks with conventional methods used for early-phase clinical trials and presents numerous Bayesian designs for human clinical trials of new experimental treatment regimes. Written by research leaders from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center this book shows how Bayesian designs for early-phase clinical trials can explore refine and optimize new experimental treatments. It emphasizes the importance of basing decisions on both efficacy and toxicity. | Bayesian Designs for Phase I-II Clinical Trials

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Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management is a case-rich and practical overview of how luxury creates value and why some firms are more successful than others. The focus of luxury study has traditionally centered on the clients’ drivers of consumption their perception of the brand and the way to effectively engage with them. Luxury is rarely however discussed from a strategic perspective: how luxury managers make complex decisions relative to their competitive environment. The book provides insight into the luxury industry and how companies face market complexity across three key areas. First the company itself determining what defines a luxury firm. Second the book offers a specific framework to assess creativity across management and not simply as an individual talent. Third the book considers the competitive landscape and the principles that allow companies to compete consistently and meaningfully. Each chapter includes pedagogical features to ensure comprehension including chapter objectives and self-study questions. With examples and case studies from international firms illustrating each chapter Strategic Luxury Management is essential reading for postgraduate MBA and executive education students studying luxury management luxury brand management luxury creativity and innovation and strategic management as well as reflective practitioners within the luxury industry. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides. | Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

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Safety-II in Practice Developing the Resilience Potentials

Safety-II in Practice Developing the Resilience Potentials

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed out from the very beginning that resilient performance - an organisation’s ability to function as required under expected and unexpected conditions alike – required more than the prevention of incidents and accidents. This developed into a new interpretation of safety (Safety-II) and consequently a new form of safety management. Safety-II changes safety management from protective safety and a focus on how things can go wrong to productive safety and a focus on how things can and do go well. For Safety-II the aim is not just the elimination of hazards and the prevention of failures and malfunctions but also how best to develop an organisation’s potentials for resilient performance – the way it responds monitors learns and anticipates. That requires models and methods that go beyond the Safety-I toolbox. This book introduces a comprehensive approach for the management of Safety-II called the Resilience Assessment Grid (RAG). It explains the principles of the RAG and how it can be used to develop the resilience potentials. The RAG provides four sets of diagnostic and formative questions that can be tailored to any organisation. The questions are based on the principles of resilience engineering and backed by practical experience from several domains. Safety-II in Practice is for both the safety professional and academic reader. For the professional it presents a workable method (RAG) for the management of Safety-II with a proven track record. For academic and student readers the book is a concise and practical presentation of resilience engineering. | Safety-II in Practice Developing the Resilience Potentials

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Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce their financials their customers and their partnerships but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their data. Infonomics is the theory study and discipline of asserting economic significance to information. It strives to apply both economic and asset management principles and practices to the valuation handling and deployment of information assets. This book specifically shows: CEOs and business leaders how to more fully wield information as a corporate asset CIOs how to improve the flow and accessibility of information CFOs how to help their organizations measure the actual and latent value in their information assets. More directly this book is for the burgeoning force of chief data officers (CDOs) and other information and analytics leaders in their valiant struggle to help their organizations become more infosavvy. Author Douglas Laney has spent years researching and developing Infonomics and advising organizations on the infinite opportunities to monetize manage and measure information. This book delivers a set of new ideas frameworks evidence and even approaches adapted from other disciplines on how to administer wield and understand the value of information. Infonomics can help organizations not only to better develop sell and market their offerings but to transform their organizations altogether. Doug Laney masterfully weaves together a collection of great examples with a solid framework to guide readers on how to gain competitive advantage through what he labels the unruly asset – data. The framework is comprehensive the advice practical and the success stories global and across industries and applications. Liz Rowe Chief Data Officer State of New Jersey A must read for anybody who wants to survive in a data centric world. Shaun Adams Head of Data Science Betterbathrooms. com Phenomenal! An absolute must read for data practitioners business leaders and technology strategists. Doug's lucid style has a set a new standard in providing intelligible material in the field of information economics. His passion and knowledge on the subject exudes thru his literature and inspires individuals like me. Ruchi Rajasekhar Principal Data Architect MISO Energy I highly recommend Infonomics to all aspiring analytics leaders. Doug Laney’s work gives readers a deeper understanding of how and why information should be monetized and managed as an enterprise asset. Laney’s assertion that accounting should recognize information as a capital asset is quite convincing and one I agree with. Infonomics enjoyably echoes that sentiment! Matt Green independent business analytics consultant Atlanta area If you care about the digital economy and you should read this book. Tanya Shuckhart Analyst Relations Lead IRI Worldwide | Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

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Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Most books on the biotechnology industry focus on scientific and technological challenges ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. The Business Models for Life Science Firms aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools needed to design and implement an effective business model customized for the unique needs of research intensive organizations. Onetti and Zucchella begin by unpacking the often-used ‘business model’ term examining key elements of business model conceptualization and offering a three tier approach with a clear separation between the business model and strategy: focus exploring the different activities carried out by the organization; locus evaluating where organizational activities are centered; and modus testing the execution of the organization’s activities. The business model thus defines the unique way in which a company delivers on its promise to its customers. The theory and applications adopt a global approach offering business cases from a variety of biotech companies around the world. | Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

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Foreign Trade In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Ii

Foreign Trade In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Ii

This second yearbook of The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies presents studies dealing with the economic situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Its foreign trade analysis offers insights into the ongoing transition process from centrally planned to market-oriented systems. | Foreign Trade In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Ii

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Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education The impact and legacy of Gravissimum Educationis

Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education The impact and legacy of Gravissimum Educationis

It is only in the years since Vatican II that the new thinking about Catholic education has crystalised into shape. Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education provides an opportune moment to take stock of the impact of Vatican II on Catholic education. This volume considers the various ways in which Vatican II and its teaching on education has been received and engages with the challenges and testing times that beset faith-based education in the twenty-first century. With insights from an international range of leading and influential advocates of Catholic education the volume demonstrates the differing contexts of Catholic education and explores the ways in which Vatican II’s teaching on education has been received over the past four or five decades. | Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education The impact and legacy of Gravissimum Educationis

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Volume 19 Tome II: Kierkegaard Bibliography English

Volume 19 Tome II: Kierkegaard Bibliography English

The long tradition of Kierkegaard studies has made it impossible for individual scholars to have a complete overview of the vast field of Kierkegaard research. The large and ever increasing number of publications on Kierkegaard in the languages of the world can be simply bewildering even for experienced scholars. The present work constitutes a systematic bibliography which aims to help students and researchers navigate the seemingly endless mass of publications. The volume is divided into two large sections. Part I which covers Tomes I-V is dedicated to individual bibliographies organized according to specific language. This includes extensive bibliographies of works on Kierkegaard in some 41 different languages. Part II which covers Tomes VI-VII is dedicated to shorter individual bibliographies organized according to specific figures who are in some way relevant for Kierkegaard. The goal has been to create the most exhaustive bibliography of Kierkegaard literature possible and thus the bibliography is not limited to any specific time period but instead spans the entire history of Kierkegaard studies. | Volume 19 Tome II: Kierkegaard Bibliography English

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Amoris Laetitia and the spirit of Vatican II The Source of Controversy

Amoris Laetitia and the spirit of Vatican II The Source of Controversy

Amoris Laetitia Pope Francis' post-synodal exhortation on love in the family turned out to be one of the most controversial documents of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church in recent decades. It was published in April 2016 following the two Synods of Bishops on the Family held in 2014 and 2015. The document brought division amongst the Catholic hierarchy theologians and pastors and nearly two years after its publication the exact meaning of the document and its implications for the Church are still a matter of dispute. A number of prelates present at the Synods indicated that these gatherings were animated by the spirit of Vatican II. This work links the notion of the spirit of Vatican II with Amoris Laetitia and it argues that a hermeneutics of interpretation of the Second Vatican Council which focuses on following the spirit of the Council is the hermeneutics which can be and in the future most likely will be the predominant way of interpreting and implementing Amoris Laetitia. This book aims to provide a contribution to this hotly debated topic in the field of Catholic theology. | Amoris Laetitia and the spirit of Vatican II The Source of Controversy

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The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

Incorporating published and archival material this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant from Morocco to Iran. Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was constant anti-Semitic propaganda and general economic deprivation; communities were bombed; and Jews suffered because of the anti-Semitic Vichy regulations that left them unemployed homeless and subject to forced labor and deportation to labor camps. Nevertheless they fought for the Allies and assisted the Americans and the British in the invasion of North Africa. These men and women were community leaders and average people who despite their dire economic circumstances worked with the refugees attempting to escape the Nazis via North Africa Turkey or Iran and connected with international aid agencies during and after the war. By 1945 no Jewish community had been left untouched and many were financially decimated a situation that would have serious repercussions on the future of Jews in the region. Covering the entire Middle East and North Africa region this book on World War II is a key resource for students scholars and general readers interested in Jewish history World War II and Middle East history. | The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

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World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland The Practice of Authenticity

World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland The Practice of Authenticity

This book explores the consequences of the latest political shifts in Central Eastern Europe: the rise of right-wing parties and among other things politics becoming more invested in history. These phenomena coincide and overlap with the democratisation of history by turning the past into a hot topic persistently present in the public sphere and often evoking strong emotions. Ethnographic research (conducted in 2012-2016) focusing on how World War II reenactors experience the past serves as the basis to analyse the ways in which the group uses the widespread often institutionalised interest in history to – on the one hand – become involved in debates on World War II and the remembrance thereof and – on the other – to authentically experience this past. The volume therefore analyses how physical the process of creating and experiencing grassroots visions of the past is and how these visions interact with the public discourse about the past. Reenactors’ ability to marry the often-contradictory orders of historical truth authenticity and representation is explored. Moreover Baraniecka-Olszewska analyses how the reenactors overcome various obstacles on their way towards authentic experiences performing history through their bodies. | World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland The Practice of Authenticity

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Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs The Legacy of World War II

Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs The Legacy of World War II

This book first published in 1989 is a comprehensive examination of the profound impact of World War II on Soviet military affairs. It systematically assesses the costs and lessons of the war and their substantial impact on Soviet military and Party leaders in the Cold War era and particularly in the 1980s. Starting with the experiences of the war and its influence on the development of Soviet military thinking the book addresses the relationship between the military and the Soviet political system threat perception decision making and crisis and risk assessment. Also discussed are the war’s influence on the structure and operations of the military in the 1980s focusing on doctrine conventional forces the defence industry and historiography. | Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs The Legacy of World War II

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Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050-1250 Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds both vertical and horizontal while section two charts patterns of local regional and transnational elite networks from wide-scope longitudinal perspectives. Finally the third section turns to case-studies of networks in action analyzing strategies and transactions implied by uses of social resources in specific micro-political settings. A concluding chapter discusses how social power in the North compared to wider European experiences. A wide range of sources and methodologies is applied to reveal how networks were established maintained and put to use – and how they transformed in processes of centralizing power and formalizing hierarchies. The engagement with and analysis of intriguing primary source material has produced a key teaching tool for instructors and essential reading for students interested in the workings of medieval Scandinavia elite class structures and Social and Political History more generally. | Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

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The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume II: Education

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume II: Education

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume II: Education examines the many methods and motivations for vocal pedagogy promoting singing not just as an art form arising from the musical instrument found within every individual but also as a means of communication with social psychological and didactic functions. Presenting research from myriad fields of study beyond music—including psychology education sociology computer science linguistics physiology and neuroscience—the contributors address singing in three parts: Learning to Sing Naturally Formal Teaching of Singing Using Singing to Teach In 2009 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume II: Education focuses on the second question and offers an invaluable resource for anyone who identifies as a singer wishes to become a singer works with singers or is interested in the application of singing for the purposes of education.

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The History of Chinese Animation II

The History of Chinese Animation II

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years however and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history present and future of China’s animation industry. The author divides the business’s 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical aesthetic and artistic perspective. In addition the book focuses on representative works themes directions artistic styles techniques industrial development government support policies business models the nurturing of education and talent broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies. | The History of Chinese Animation II

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Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II

Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II

Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II draws together a collection of papers from Current Issues in Asian Tourism (CIAT). CIAT was launched by the editors of Current Issues in Tourism in response to the growing number of papers about tourism in Asia received by the journal and the increasing number of authors from Asian countries. This volume focuses on three aspects of Asian tourism. Firstly the section on marketing consumption and demand for Asian tourism includes papers on mega events creative experiences World Heritage Sites and pollution. Secondly a group of papers focus on sustainable Asian tourism destinations including papers on investment climate change energy and local food. Finally there are two chapters on Asian tourism research methods including the use of photography and qualitative methods. The papers in this book were originally published in Current Issues in Asian Tourism.

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A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

First published in 1976 this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the theory presented in volume one. The result is a major revision of existing research into problems of group structure and a case study in paradigm development. This book will be of interest to students of all social sciences. | A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

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