Authors:Shaul M Gabbay, Roger Th A J Leenders,
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: organizations, sociology, research, volume, social, capital
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-06-25
List price: $121.00
ISBN-10: 0762307706
ISBN-13: 9780762307708

One of the most influential concepts in the social science literature in the last two decades, the theory of social capital, asserts that social actors gain resources through relationships with other actors. While social capital research has largely focused on individuals as the unit of analysis, this volume looks at social capital of organizations, or Corporate Social Capital (CSC), exploring how and to what extent social networks facilitate or impede the attainment of organizational goals. This collection of papers posits a distinction between social structure and its outcomes, noting th

Authors:Roger Th.A.J. Leenders, Shaul M. Gabbay,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: liability, capital, social, corporate
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-07-31
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0792385012
ISBN-13: 9780792385011

What enables some organizations to routinely perform better than others? Conversely, what makes some firms consistently perform worse than their competitors? Within a single corporation, what enables some teams or individual firm members to outperform their counterparts? Through the concept of social capital, this book addresses these questions by studying the effects of relationship networks on the ability of corporate players (firms and their members) to attain their professional goals. The idea of social capital has become one of the premier approaches to studying networks in the c

Author: Shaul Mukamel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: optical, imaging, sciences, series, spectroscopy, nonlinear, principles, oxford
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-04-29
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0195132912
ISBN-13: 9780195132915

This textbook presents a systematic and unifying viewpoint for a wide class of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques in time domain and frequency domain. It is directed towards active researchers in physics, optics, chemistry, and materials science, as well as graduate students who enter this complex and rapidly developing field. Nonlinear optical interactions of laser fields with matter provide powerful spectroscopic tools for the understanding of microscopic interactions and dynamic processes. One of the major obstacles facing researchers in this field, however, is the flood of experimental tec

Author: Shaul Shay
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: terror, yemen, islamic, somalia, triangle, sea, red, sudan
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2006-10-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412806208
ISBN-13: 9781412806206

In the aftermath of the terror campaign launched on September 11, 2001, the United States declared war against global terror. It identified the al-Qaida organization and Afghanistan under the Taliban regime as the initial targets of the offensive, and Iraq as the next. However, aside from the countries included by President Bush in the "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran, and North Korea), a triangle of countries in the Red Sea region are also potential targets in the war against terror - Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. This assessment is based on the historical record: Each of these countries has in one fo

Author: Shaul Shay
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: palestinian, terror, hizballah, iran, evil, axis
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0765802554
ISBN-13: 9780765802552

The Axis of Evil outlines the operations and goals of Shiite and Iranian terror. As Shaul Shay shows, Iran has done its utmost to conceal its involvement in terror activities and avoids leaving incriminating ’fingerprints’ that might prompt retaliatory action by victims of this terrorism. The Axis of Evil deals extensively with Iran’s involvement in terrorist activity against Israel through Hizballah after the Israel Defense Forces’ withdrawal from Lebanon (May 2000) and the instigation of the Al-Aksa Intifada (September 2000-2003). It examines Iran’s attitude towards the Sta

Author: Nitzan Ben Shaul
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: problems, solutions, cinema, interactive, narrative, hyper
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-08-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 9042024615
ISBN-13: 9789042024618

Hyper narrative interactive cinema refers to the possibility for users or "interactors" to shift at different points in an evolving film narrative to other film narrative trajectories. Such works have resulted so far in interactor distraction rather than sustained engagement. Contrary to post-modern textual and cognitive presumptions, film immersion and computer game theories, this study uses dual coding theory, cognitive load theory, and constructivist narrative film theory to claim that interactive hyper-narrative distraction results from cognitive and behavioral multi-tasking, which lead to

Author: Shaul Shay
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: balkans, terror, islamic
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1412808685
ISBN-13: 9781412808682

The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s ended the Yugoslavian Federation, which for nearly fifty years had succeeded in preserving a delicate coexistence among the ethnic, religious, and national components contained within it. Following this, the Balkans became a violent arena of confrontation due to these warring factions. "Islamic Terror and the Balkans" describes and analyzes the growth of radical Islam in the Balkans from its inception during the years of World War II to the present.Shay’s account shows how the Bosnian War between the Muslims and the Serbs provided the h