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Research View, June/July 2000

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

NCUR Notes: Students showcase research and creative efforts at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Dog Days of Summer: Aimee Hurt's bear scat study was made possible through IBS-CORE, a program that funds projects for undergraduate researchers

Montana Academy of Sciences: High school students and professionals from around the state are "part of a community," thanks to this science organization

Joint Effort: Astronaut Jerry Ross gives a tour of the International Space Station

Lost in Space Camp: Kids learned about rockets, teachers received GIS training and the public saw stunning NASA images at the Big …

Shafer Court Connections (2000-06)

Shafer Court Connections, 1994-2010

For alumni of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Catalog | 2000-2001 (June), Jacksonville State University

Announcements, Bulletins & Catalogs | Undergraduate

Vol. 91, No. 1 (June 2000). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.

Facing Up To Another Cold War, 2000 June, Clinton H. Whitehurst Jr.

Publications

No abstract provided.

Employment Strategy : Comparing Japanese And British Retail Companies In Hong Kong, Mei Ling, May Wong

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series

This study examines and compares the employment strategy used by Japanese and British retail companies in Hong Kong. Hendry's (1995) structured employment systems model is adopted as the theoretical framework for this research. Three case companies - Morioka and Okadaya (Japanese-owned) and Supercom (British-owned) - are studied regarding what employment strategies they have adopted to expand in the Hong Kong, and to adjust to the changing consumer market. The evidence shows that the Japanese companies adopt more structured employment systems employing more employee groups than the British company. Both Japanese companies vary employment practices to different employee groups on the …

Employee Casualisation In Department Stores In Hong Kong, Mei Ling, May Wong

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series

This study examines the pattern of employee casualisation in two Japanese and a British department stores in Hong Kong. A number of employee categories can be identified in these companies according to the model of the ‘flexible firm’. These companies employed four major casualisation strategies which reflected their culture and business strategies. During the economic good times, the Japanese companies tended to casualise more local staff due to the fact that they preferred to use ethnocentric management overseas. However, during the economic downturn, all companies used casualisation for cost-minimisation as a major business strategy for survival. This study implies that …

News From Hope College, Volume 31.6: June, 2000, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Automation Technology In Elementary Technology Education, Esa-Matti Järvinen, Jukka Hiltunen

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Prevalence And Risk Factors For Potentially Avoidable Hospitalization Of Medicaid-Enrolled Assisted Living Residents, Marion Becker, Timothy Boaz, Ross Andel, Joshua Digennaro

Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

2000-06-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

2000-2001 Ursinus College Course Catalog, Office Of The Registrar

Ursinus College Catalogues, 1869-Present

A digitized copy of the 2000-2001 Ursinus College Catalog. It contains details of the curriculum, departmental requirements and courses of instruction as well as lists of students, faculty and administrators. Student life, terms of admission, expenses and financial aid are also included as well as descriptions of the buildings and equipment available to students.

Enabling Business - Community Partnerships, Seema Gupta

IIMB Management Review

The decade of the 1990s has perhaps seen the most profound changes in global economic structures. The effects of structural adjustment and globalisation and the emergence of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have meant that the role of business has dramatically changed throughout the world. Statistics of the number of corporations that are larger than nation-states abound and only illustrate the importance of the corporate sector and its impact on the world order.

Achieving Growth Through Corporate Partnerships And Joint Ventures: Will Singapore's Strategic Leap Into The Region Work?, Ravinder K. Zutshi, Wee Liang Tan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

One of the characteristic features of the East Asian economic development strategy has been the interventionist role of the government in the economic sphere (Amsden 1989; Kwon 1994; Wade 1990; Zutshi and Gibbons 1998). Governments in East Asia have traditionally, worked closely with the private sector. As a result unique business systems embedded in networks and alliances have evolved in countries like Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Singapore (Hamilton and Biggard 1988). Singapore has attempted to extend this model of strategic cooperation beyond its borders into the region. Schein (1996) identifies a number of major development eras in the evolution of …

Um Student From Great Barrington Puts Academics To Work, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Group Donates Nearly $10,000 In Books To Um Library, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Leading With Knowledge: The Nature Of Competition In The 21st Century: By Richard C Huseman And Jon P Goodman, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998., Neelesh Hundekari

IIMB Management Review

Readers who pick up any book on knowledge management, intellectual capital or the learning organisation, approach it with a single objective: what does it mean and how do I implement it? The success or otherwise of any such book, therefore, will to a large extent depend on how well it answers these questions. Huseman and Goodman have done a singularly comprehensive job of answering these questions with conceptual clarity and practical implementability.

Vulnerability Analysis: A Tool For Survival, S D Kshirsagar

IIMB Management Review

Managers are often reluctant to tread the unknown path. They do not even try to foresee the unknown. But what you do not foresee can hurt you, and refusing to anticipate the future may lead to major problems and even extinction.

Organisational Development Revisited, Vijay Padaki

IIMB Management Review

The liberalisation in the Indian economic environment in the 90s has been accompanied by a quiet but firm demand for better management in all spheres of work. The liberalisation process has also opened up the marketplace for all kinds of goods and services, not excluding packaged management systems. We can expect a lot of management being marketed in the new dispensation more suppliers, more products, more brands, more aggressive selling and, lest we forget, more dumping. The consumer needs help in the supermarket to make informed choices. In the management bazaar, too, the consumer could do with some guidance.

Management And Cultural Values: The Indigenization Of Organisations In Asia: Edited By Henry S R Kao, Durganand Sinha And Bernhard Wilpert, New Delhi: Sage Publishers, 1999., R C Sekhar

IIMB Management Review

This is the third of a series of publications on inter-cultural studies emerging out of three conferences organised by the International Union of Psychological Science at Hongkong, Taiwan, Guang Zhou, China (Mainland). The studies are focused on Asia and are spread over more than a decade.

Psychology For Trainers: By Alison Hardingham, London: Universities Press, 1999, Vasanthi Srinivasan

IIMB Management Review

Trainer effectiveness is a critical dimension in successful training programmes. In recent times, a number of self-help and how-to books have tried to address some aspects of trainer effectiveness. The University Press series on ‘training essentials’ is an addition to the subject. The books in the series written by experts are intended to act as core readings for trainers who wish to obtain competency in the area of training. The current book differs from the other books in the series mainly in the emphasis. While most of the other books focus on the training function in the organisation (as evident …

Foreword: Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, Anita Bernstein

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

What Is To Be Done, Kate Millett

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Since its existence, the feminist movement has fought for equal rights for women, and, in so doing, it has challenged the oldest and most fundamental social scheme in history-patriarchy. Patriarchy is the rule of males over females in all departments of human life, and it is based on custom, belief, law, and ultimately on force. Although the American feminist movement made significant progress in its early years, it has struggled in recent years to accomplish many of its goals. Millett notes that the American feminist movement now stands stalemated, on the defensive, and trying desperately to hold on to the …

Reasking The Woman Question At Divorce, Penelope E. Bryan

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Bryan first explores the disconnect between the feminist goal of equality for women and women's experience at divorce. Divorce continues to devastate women's economic prospects, frequently deprives them of their children, and sometimes compromises their physical safety. Many feminists have proposed changes to existing law and procedure that offer to protect women's interests in their children, in marital assets, and in their physical safety. Yet theoretical and strategical rifts between feminists continue to compromise their political ability to promote women's interests in divorce. Bryan urges feminists to abandon these differences and return to the basic "woman question" by supporting legal …

Biology For Feminists, Katharine K. Baker

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Feminists and sociobiologists have more in common than many people realize. In this Essay, Baker argues that feminists can use insights from sociobiology to validate feminist theories about patriarchy and to bolster claims for a greater legal commitment to feminist normative agendas. Paying particular attention to the laws regarding rape, marriage, and parenthood, Baker shows how biology helps confirm what feminists have long argued about the law's inadequate protection of women. Moreover, she shows how biology helps demonstrate the keen need for feminist social norms that help alleviate the harms caused by nature's inequities.

Apostasy?, Jennifer Gerarda Brown

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this Essay, Brown revisits the issue of single-sex education, questioning the wisdom of her own earlier proposal that a women's law school could remedy the alienation, underachievement, and silencing that women are said to experience in law school. The Essay addresses two questions. First, as a growing body of empiricism in some ways supports but in other ways undermines earlier claims that sex is the characteristic most determinative of law school experience, the Essay considers whether a remedy based on sex is viable. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the Essay draws upon Vivian Paley's work with very young children, …

Feminist Law And Film: Imagining Judges And Justice, Orit Kamir

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Essay offers a model for systematic application of "feminist law and film" methodology to investigating the imagery of law and justice; to reexamining the relationship between feminist theory that focuses on an ethics of care and feminist theory that focuses on dominance, oppression, and resistance; and to reviewing the relationship between legal feminism and postmodernity. More specifically, employing interdisciplinary methodology, the Essay explores the imagery of a newly developing legal feminist concept, "caring justice," by focusing on popular cultural images of the judiciary as presented by the film industry. Offering a close reading of a contemporary film, Pedro Almodovar's …

The Effects Of Role-Taking And Embarrassability On Undergraduate Drinking: Some Unanticipated Findings, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This paper focuses on the relationship between role-taking, affect, and alcohol use among college undergraduates. Role-taking is the process through which people anticipate the perspectives—expectations, evaluations, and behaviors—of others (Mead, 1934). Reflexive role-taking (i.e.,viewing oneself through the eyes of others) was significantly related to four distinct types of embarrassment. However, in opposition to our hypotheses, embarrassment resulting from becoming the center of others’ attentions was the only form of embarrassability significantly related to undergraduate drinking. Moreover, it was those students least susceptible to this type of embarrassment who were the most likely to be drinkers. While role-taking, in general, was …

The Art And Craft Of Strategy, Robert E. Hunter

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

The Art And Craft Of Strategy, Robert E. Hunter

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Review Of Group Work With Overwhelmed Clients. June Gary Hopps And Elaine Pinderhughes. Reviewed By Charles Garvin, University Of Michigan., Charles Garvin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of June Gary Hopps and Elaine Pinderhughes. Group Work with Overwhelmed Clients. New York: The Free Press, 1999. $29.95