The corporate governance of subsidiaries in multinational groups of companies has become increasingly important for managers and researchers, particularly through the developments around classical corporate governance in the last years. This book investigates for the first time comprehensively a topic, which research has addressed only sporadically so far. It reviews established theories and empirical findings from classical corporate governance, and applies them to subsidiaries, thereby describing and delineating the topic and deducing the availability and efficiency of governance mechanisms for subsidiaries. A dataset on multinational groups, surveyed at IMD International, is employed to test hypotheses from the theoretical analysis, and the findings are combined with those from a series of executive interviews. The core result is that mechanisms of classical corporate governance are, by and large, unavailable or inefficient for subsidiaries, and alternative solutions are employed in practice. Overall, subsidiary governance is found to be of strategic importance for multinational groups, and the book brings forward recommendations for managerial practice.

The Corporate Governance of Subsidiaries in Multinational Corporations: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence from Europe

Business & Money

Brellochs, Jochen

International

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller

Today, enterprises need more flexibility than ever before, but classic firms oftenfail this requirement. Therefore, a more flexible kind of enterprise evolved: TheVirtual Enterprise. One reason why Virtual Enterprises are that flexible is theirextensive use of IT. Yet, given the temporary character of Virtual Enterprises, existingsoftware concepts are often not applicable. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) mayhelp to solve this problem. However, a concept that allows cooperating agents to support the management of the complete life-cycle of a Virtual Enterprise, is still amiss. This book attendsto that gap. It identifies the management tasks of the Virtual Enterprise life-cycle,determines those that may be performed by software agents, identifies preconditionsfor their successful completion, and proposes an abstract architecture. Thearchitecture defines the structure of a MAS for Virtual Enterprise life-cycle support,determines communication standards, interaction protocols and messages, and identifiesontologies, that have still to be elaborated.

Software Agent Support of the Virtual Enterprise Life-cycle: Evaluation and Concept Development

Grünert, Andreas

Computers & Technology

This study explores the differences between traditional teaching of writing as the acquisition of communicative skills, and authorship in the classroom, a pedagogy drawing on the work of Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy and grounded in transformative education. This study asks whether the use of authorship in the elementary classroom, including authoring and self publishing books, has an effect on the development of voices of students, teachers, and parents. The study also explores the need, use, and potential of assistive technology as a tool to assist in the authorship process. Using participatory research, dialogues with practicing preschool and elementary school teachers, administrators and teacher educators revealed the significant impact of authorship on student literacy and voice. It can also be used with assistive technology to help students with special needs. Authorship has an impact on the development of teachers'' own voices and teaching effectiveness. It also helps teachers understand their students and improve relationships with students'' families. Authorship unifies different aspects of literacy and expands vocabulary.

AUTHORSHIP AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL: TEACHERS'' PERSPECTIVES ON AUTHORSHIP TO DEVELOP VOICE

Winkley, Cheryl

Medical Books

This book presents a research on monitoring concepts for composite coordinated services. It deals with coordination models, explaining them in detail in the monitoring aspect, in order to decide where and how the information can be obtained to introduce the coordination awareness of monitoring.Due to the fact that the work, this book is based on, is done in a specialized context, significant technologies, predefined by this context, are also introduced and explained in detail. This predefined context also specifies an infrastructure for the upcoming monitoring approach, mainly for an environment where the monitored activities are distributed. Some context conditional limitations for the use of certain simplification technologies are included as well.Finally, this work presents a monitoring approach for the regarding context, concerning all previously presented aspects, technologies and especially a predefined infrastructure.The conclusion qualifies the resulting monitoring solution and gives an outlook on upcoming approach extensions and possible implementation limitation solutions.

Coordination Aware Service Monitoring: Monitoring of Distributed Components under Awareness of Several Coordination Mechanisms

Kravets, Jewgeni

As national governments reform their educational systems to meet the challenges of living in a globalised world, the agenda setting power of transnational organizations like the OECD and the EU have become more transparent in the last decade. The phenomenon of globalization has a number of implications for education policy-making processes and not least it has had an impact on who conducts policy studies and how. This book brings together a variety of contributions which explore recent political economic changes affecting education policy-making processes including the ascension of neo-liberalism and the transnationalization of education policy-making, as well as the tension between research of policy and research for policy. Working from different perspectives, the authors help to provide a better understanding of these two important sets of issues which the field of education must contend with today.

Research of vs Research for Education Policy: In an Era of Transnational Policy-making

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The growing number of individuals with dementia represents a significant physical and mental health challenge not only for the health professions, but also, and even more dramatically, for the primary and secondary caregivers of dementia patients. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of dementia caregivers¿ anxiety, stress, and depression by examining the presence and extent of grief that may be a part of the experience. Further, this study identifies and examines the particular part of grief that is referred to as anticipatory grief offering support that 1.) Grief is present for dementia caregivers; 2.) anticipatory grief is part of the dementia caregiving experience, and 3.) the MM-CGI- Short Form is a reliable and valid instrument in evaluating anticipatory grief in family caregivers of dementia patients. This work suggests the need for implementing anticipatory grief assistance to caregivers and further implicates the need and potential benefits of integrating anticipatory grief assistance into existing caregiver support programs.

Dementia and Anticipatory Grief: Exploring Family Caregivers' Experiences

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ross, Angela

Psychology & Counseling

Office buildings are one of the major assets of companies enabling them to maintain their competitive advantage. Successful and effective facility management of corporate assets means highly efficient personnel, which translates into minimum cost and maximum profit. Preventing office buildings from getting obsolete, adaptability to change and emerging technologies protects organizations from foreseeable and excessive costs. Facilities are the infrastructure that support people in realizing their goals and require ongoing management if they are to remain aligned with their intended and primary support function. All of these facts demonstrate the indisputably important role that facilities play in corporate success. Thus, in this book, the problems that corporate buildings encounter in time and solutions for these problems are analyzed through numerous cases and systematized under certain categories. Afterward, a decision-tree that is integrated on a timeline is proposed based on the previously formed categories. This study is expected to be a useful aid for corporate managers who are aware of the unique status of their corporate real estate and are willing to take one step further to inquire about their various alternatives and find the most appropriate option to preserve the value of their assets.

Ways to Prevent Office Buildings from Getting Obsolete: A Decision-Tree Approach

Civan, Isilay

Management & Leadership

High speed and Highly Accurate Tip-Scanning Atomic Force Microscope

Science & Math

Lee, Dong-Yeon

Technology

This book details an exploratory investigation into the area of academic advising and used the motivation and self-regulation literature as a theoretical backdrop. More specifically, the research presented in this book incorporated self-theory and Hirsch's (2001) multiple intervention model in its interpretation. The interview narratives suggested that students experiencing academic difficulty tend to voice more problems, to be less ready for study and to be more avoidance oriented than students not experiencing academic difficulty. The research also showed that motivation is an unstable but useful variable when considering academic achievement. Moreover, group-based study skill programmes appeared to have some impact on academic attainment, and level of choice with regard to study course options appeared to be related to intent to access individualised academic advising systems. The discussion in the book, therefore, considered the ideas of motivation, achievement and academic advising, and showed that the effectiveness of academic advising is somewhat reliant on the initial motivation of students towards their study.

Students' Motivation to Learn, Academic Achievement and Academic Advising: An Exploratory Investigation

Henning, Marcus

Higher & Continuing Education

The work described in this book investigates the development of internalizing (e.g. depression and anxiety) and externalizing (e.g. aggression and hyperactivity) problems from age 2 to 12, and investigates how and why some children exhibit pure or co-occurring internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. This question is especially appealing because even though internalizing and externalizing problems are two disorders from different diagnostic classes and represent separate forms of psychopathology they tend to co-occur in the individual. The findings indicated that psychopathological problems are established early in development and that children may exhibit only internalizing, only externalizing or both types of problems. The risk groups differed in terms of antecedents (cognitive abilities, temperament, home environment) and outcomes (peer relationships, delinquency). The findings of the current work are important for parents trying to understand the development of aggression and depression. Moreover, the book provides important information to psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers investigating the development of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology."

Development and Co-development of Aggressive and Depressive Psychopathology: Infancy to Early Adolescence

Andrea Fanti, Kostas

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