bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
An Empirical Analysis of International Accounting Standards, Equity Markets, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Authors: Larson Robert K. , Kenny Sara York 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe International Accounting Standards Committee receives widespread support for its efforts to ‘harmonize’ international accounting. International Accounting Standards (IASs) are, however, controversial, particularly in the context of developing countries. The authors report the results of an exploratory study empirically examining the relationships between the adoption of IASs, equity market development, and economic growth in developing countries with equity markets. They analyzed 27 developing countries by means of a cross‐national sociological research design and partial least squares. The results indicate no major association between developing countries' equity market development and economic growth due to adoption of IASs. Questions for future research are proposed.
Failure Prediction: Evidence from Korea
Authors: Altman Edward I. , Eom Young Ho , Kim Dong Won 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThis study is an attempt to construct and test a distress classification model for Korean companies. Utilizing a sample of 34 distressed firms from the recent 1990‐1993 period and a matched (by industry and year) sample of non‐failed firms, we observe the classification accuracy of two models. Both models utilize measures of firm size, asset turnover, solvency and leverage with one model available for testing only on publicly traded companies and one model applicable to all public and private entities. We observe excellent classification accuracy based on data from the first two years prior to distress. And, although the accuracy drops off after t‐2, the models still provide effective early warnings of distress in many cases. The results of this study are of particular relevance in the current financial market scenario of increased deregulation and greater individual financial institution decision making. It is somewhat ironic for us to be proposing the use of a financial distress early‐warning model given the current robust economic growth and low bankruptcy rate in Korea. But, the financial problems in Japan are a sobering reminder that high growth can be followed by financial excesses, increased business failures and large loan losses.
Recruitment in the Public Service, with Special Reference to the New South Wales Public Service
Authors: Murray George 
Published: April 2007

SUMMARYThe functions of the State have so expanded that the public service has become of utmost importance: The need for an efficient civil service led England to abolish patronage in making appointments to the service: Similar reforms were attempted in Australia as early as 1862, but it was not until the passing of the New South Wales Public Service Act in 1895 that the reforms found very adequate expression: The operation of this Act has done much to improve the quality of the New South Wales public service, although the principles underlying the Act have been constantly violated: The present recruitment policy fails to attract the most desirable recruits to the service: There is urgent need for building up an administrative division to deal with the higher work of Government.
Departmental Reports
Authors: Willson F. M. G. 
Published: April 2007

Book review in this article.DEPARTMENTS WHICH DO NOT ISSUE ANY REPORTSDEPARTMENTS WHICH ARE REQUIRED BY STATUTE TO ISSUE AN ANNUAL GENERAL REPORTDEPARTMENTS WHICH ISSUE NON‐STATUTORY GENERAL REPORTSDEPARTMENTS WHICH DO NOT ISSUE GENERAL REPORTSCORONA THE JOURNAL OF H.M. COLONIAL SERVICE
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Bock Edwin A. , Miller J. D. B. , Marshall A. H. , Keith‐Lucas Bryan , Happold Margaret , Davies Ernest , Grove J. W. , Grove J. W. , Hart Jenifer , Walker Nigel , Lawrence Michael 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article: Administrators in Action By F. M. G. Willson. New Dimensions in Foreign Policy By Max Beloff. Development from Below By Ursula K. Hicks. The Structure of Local Governments throughout the World By Samuel Humes and Eileen M. Martin. Local Government in the United States of America. Building by Local Authorities By Elizabeth Layton. Parliament and Public Ownership By A. H. Hanson. Basic Issues in Public Administration Edited by Donald C. Rowat. State Sponsored Bodies By Garret FitzGerald. The Australian Police Forces By G. M. O'Brien. Attendance Centres By F. H. McClintock, in collaboration with M. A. Walker and N. C. Savill. Parliament By G. A. Campbell.
Book Reviews
Authors: MADDICK HENRY , MACKENZIE W. J. M. , McCLELLAND W. G. , FOX ALAN , WALKER NIGEL , WALKER NIGEL , SHARPE L. J. , BELL REGINALD W. 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article:Public Administration Problems of New and Rapidly Growing Towns in AsiaThe World Role of Universities By Edward W. Weidner.The Organizational Society By Robert Presthus. Alfred A. Knopf.British Wages Council By F.J.Bayliss.Offenders As Employees By J.P.Martin.The Habitual Prisoner By D.J.West.The Metropolitan Problem And American Ideas By Luther Halsey Gulick. Alfred A.Knopf.The Compleat After‐Dinner Speaker By Gerald McKnight.
Book Reviews
Authors: GREAVES H. R. G. , MACKENZIE W. J. M. , JOHNSON NEVIL , STANYER JEFFREY , BUCHAN ALASTAIR , RHODES G. , RIDLEY F. , STUVEL G. , WALKER NIGEL , HUGHES R. P. F. 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article: Representative and Responsible Government. A. H. Birch. Bureaucracy and Political Development. Edited by Joseph LPalombara. The British System of Government. Norman Wilson. Social Leaders and Public Persons: A Study of County Government in Cheshire since 1888. J. M. Lee. American Civil‐Military Decisions: A Book of Case Studies State and Local Government: A Case Book. Edited by Edwin A. Bock. Les sociétés locales d'économie mixte et leur contr&#x006f;&#x030c;le. F. ‐ J. Fabre, R. Morin and A. Serieyx. La Prévision: Domaine — Méthodes — Résultats. J. Wolff. Crimes of Violence. F. H. MClintock. Modern Business Filing and Archives. Robert L. Collison.
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: KLAPISCH‐ZUBER CHRISTIANE , GOLDBERG P. J. P. , WEIL RACHEL , CORI PAOLA Dl , KINNEAR MARY , PENNYBACKER SUSAN DABNEY , HOLTON SANDRA STANLEY 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in this Article:Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women.Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague.Susan Dwyer Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570‐1640.Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, Sul movimento politico delle donne. Scritti inediti.Alison Prentice, Paula Bourne, Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Beth Light, Wendy Mitchinson and Naomi Black, Canadian Women: A History.Patricia Hollis, Ladies Elect, Women in English Local Government, 1865‐1914.Ann Morley with Liz Stanley, The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison. A Biographical Detective Story, with Gertrude Colmore's The Life of Emily Davison’.Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860‐1914.
THEMATIC REVIEWS
Authors: TWELLS ALISON 
Published: April 2007

Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780‐1870Moira Ferguson (ed.) The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and RadicalsMoira Ferguson, Colonialism and Gender from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean ConnectionsDoris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier‐Kenney (eds) Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783‐1823Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson (eds) Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
The Organizational Socialization Inventory
Authors: Taormina Robert J. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractOrganizational socialization is regarded as an interactive process between employees and their organizations such that employee perceptions of socialization may impact on the process. Four social‐psychological factors were theorized to influence employee perceptions of their socialization at work, namely: training; understanding; co‐worker support; and prospects for the future. Based on these four factors, an Organizational Socialization Inventory (OSI) was created as a quantitative measure of socialization in organizations. The OSI is intended for general use in a variety of organizational settings. This paper describes the construction of the OSI and its subscales, reports their reliabilities, relates the results of their initial validity tests, and suggests some potential uses of the OSI.
The Validity of the SHL Customer Service Questionnaire (CSQ)
Authors: Furnham Adrian 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThis study set out to validate the Saville and Holdsworth (SHL) Customer Services Questionnaire (CSQ) by relating test scores to ‘objective measures’ like absenteeism, punctuality, and letters of compliment and complaint, as well as subjective supervisor rating measures. Over 170 airport staff served as subjects. The dependent measures were logically related one to another and there were a few sex and rank differences on them. A number of significant correlations between CSQ subscales and the dependent measures showed two subscales (TC4) Approach to Organizing and (EC2) Need for Results the best correlates of the dependent variable. Of the subscales scores within the three factor scores Relations with People showed fewest significant correlations, and Emotions and Energy most. Results were discussed in terms of the limited research in this field.
Assessment Center Graduate Selection: Decision Processes, Validity, and Evaluation by Candidates
Authors: Jansen Paul , Stoop Bert 
Published: April 2007

AbstractIn this contribution, results are presented of research on the predictive validity of a procedure for the career‐oriented selection of graduates in The Netherlands. After selection on account of applicant letter, the selection procedure consists of four selective steps: interview with a ‘recruitment officer’, mental test, interview with line manager, and an assessment center comprising two situational exercises. Performance indicators investigated are present salary, average annual changes in function, appraisal of performance, appraisal of management potential, and average annual salary progression. We report on the relationships between the predictors, between the criteria, and between predictors and criteria. The assessment center, together with other steps from the selection procedure, appear to be valid for a number of performance indicators. The correlation between the overall assessment center rating and present salary, corrected for restriction in range, equals 0.55. Stepwise regression indicates that elements from all procedure steps contribute to the prediction of the criterion of average annual salary progression. The disturbing influence of possible ‘crown prince’ ‐effects on these results, are discussed. Also, the decision process taking place during the end meeting of the assessors is investigated. Finally, the evaluation of the procedure, both by accepted and by rejected candidates, is discussed. These and other results are compared to what is generally known about assessment centers.
The Correlation of General Cognitive Ability and Psychomotor Tracking Tests
Authors: Ree Malcolm James , Carretta Thomas R. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractA study was conducted to investigate the nexus of cognitive and psychomotor tests as might be used for personnel selection and assessment. These two domains are frequently seen as independent. A multiple aptitude cognitive test battery and a psychomotor test battery were administered to 354 United States Air Force recruits. The average multiple correlation of the cognitive tests and each psychomotor score as a criterion was 0.34, corrected for range restriction. Confirmatory factor analyses disclosed general cognitive and general psychomotor factors, three lower‐order psychomotor factors, and two lower‐order cognitive factors. The general cognitive factor accounted for 39% of the variance and the general psychomotor factor accounted for 29% of the variance. Residualized, the lower‐order factors accounted for between 10% and 3% of the variance. The average g saturations (loadings) of the cognitive and psychomotor tests were 0.82 and 0.34 respectively. An implication for personnel selection is that the incremental validity of psychomotor tracking tests beyond the validity of cognitive tests will be small due to the commonality of measurement. A further implication of findings is the need to study the validity of the general and specific psychomotor factors.
Youth unemployment, economic deprivation and suicide
Authors: Hagquist C. 
Published: April 2007

The objective of this article is to shed light on the relationship between unemployment and financial hardship/ recession on the one hand and suicide of young persons on the other, based partly on a review of the literature and partly on a tentative analysis of empirical data from Sweden. Aggregated data have been used to produce a descriptive analysis of the changes in suicide rate with time, changes in the unemployment rate and the proportions of those in receipt of social allowance. Individual level data have been used to perform a cohort study.The results based on aggregated data show that no signs of positive links between suicide rates and unemployment/social allowance recipients figures can be found among Swedish young persons during the last decade. The results from the cohort analysis show a clear link between economic deprivation on the one hand and suicide on the other during the second part of the 1980s.
Institutionalized strategies in face‐to‐face encounters: focus on immigrant clients
Authors: Jonsson T. B. 
Published: April 2007

The aim of this article is to explore how officials' institutionalized patterns of acting can be useful for understanding encounters between immigrant clients and representatives of a welfare organization. The data indicate that there are two fundamental social mechanisms at work: the materialization of the organizational ideology, and the cultural filter. Both have an impact on the type of action strategy chosen by an official in handling client problems. An analysis of the strategy outcomes according to the social mechanisms shows that: 1) The outcome will depend on the client's consent to the organizational ideology. Immigrant clients more often than other clients are assumed to have different views on, for example, sickness, work capability and retirement age; 2) Comparing clients to the image of an ideal‐typical long‐term sick person can lead to the definition of clients with different cultural backgrounds or those of immigrant status as deviant, and therefore problematic to deal with; 3) The cultural filter through which the officials interpret their clients' situation can be an important obstacle in understanding the responses of immigrant clients.The study was conducted at a local social insurance office in a suburban area of a major Swedish city. Immigrants represented approximately 60% of the long‐term sick people. The empirical material consists of observations of encounters and interviews with the officials working with rehabilitation of the long‐term sick.
Self‐perception of minority group adolescents: the experience of Arabs living in Israel
Authors: Azaiza F. , Ben‐Ari A.T. 
Published: April 2007

This article describes the self‐perception of Arab adolescents living in Israel. The experience of Arab adolescents in Israel is that of a minority group which is currently undergoing cultural, social and political changes. The Arabs in Israel are a non‐assimilating minority, a status that is not the result of their free choice, but of the 1948 Arab‐Israeli war. The continuing state of conflict after this war between Israel and the Arab world has placed the Arabs in Israel in the permanent status of a hostile “minority”, while the Jewish nationalist approach of the state of Israel has placed them outside the national consensus.The sample consists of 692 twelfth‐grade Arab adolescents from seven high schools located in Arab villages, Arab towns and mixed Jewish‐Arab towns all over the country. Questionnaires were distributed among the students and were answered anonymously, each taking about 45 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is a version of the Offer Self‐Image Questionnaire. It was translated from Hebrew into Arabic and modified to fit the unique situation of Arab adolescents in Israel. Demographic information included variables such as gender, religion and level of religiosity, number of years of parents education, and form of residence.Findings show differences in various aspects of adolescents' self‐perception according to gender, family level of religiosity and form of residence. The significance of the findings is discussed within two frameworks: environmental stability as related to self‐concept, and the changes taking place in ethnic minority communities.
The client interview and the context
Authors: Sørensen T. Berg 
Published: April 2007

Based on analysis of 60 tape‐recorded or observed interviews from a Danish social welfare office the article examines the Lipssky‐like question: How and to what extent are macro structures such as social legislation and local municipal rules brought into real live existence in the meeting between case workers and clients? To what extent do the case workers show rule‐conforming practice? Illustrated by several extracts, it is shown that the legislation is not a simple governing instance and that the case workers do not serve as simple tools for fulfilling decisions made as formal rules at a macro level. On the contrary, the case workers made use of those rules and official client or benefit categories that seemed helpful to them for their own professional purposes, and so did the clients in order to secure their interests.All in all, the case workers showed a considerable distance to social security office which was presented for the clients as distant and partly hostile towards the clients.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KORAN TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS1
Authors: Jr Woolworth Sage 
Published: April 2007

This list, although so carefully prepared, is necessarily still incomplete and subject to revision and additions. The writer gives twenty‐seven Arabic printed texts; seven Arabic selections; nine English translations; eleven English translations, selections; six French translations; four French translations, selections; thirteen German translations; six German translations, selections; five Latin translations; three Latin translations, selections; one Hungarian translation; one Czech translation; five Dutch translations; one Greek translation; one Hebrew translation; one Hindi translation; one Hindustani translation; four Italian translations; three Persian translations; one Polish translation; one Russian translation; one Spanish translation; two Swedish translations; one Turkish translation; three Urdu translations. The total number of texts and translations here listed is one hundred and eighteen.For additional information and facsimiles of some Oriental versions see The Moslem World Vol. V. pp. 244‐261. Editor.
THE RELATION OF THE AGGADA TO ISLAMIC LEGENDS
Authors: Heller. Bernhard 
Published: April 2007

[By special permission of Dr. Cyrus Adler, Editor of The Jewish Quarterly Review, we reproduce a portion of the extensive review of Ginzberg's “Legends of the Jews” written by Dr. Bernhard Heller of Budapest for that Quarterly (April, 1934).An important work on the subject has recently appeared by D. Sidersky, Les Origines des Légendes musulmanes dans le Coran et dans la Vie des Prophètes, Paris, 1933. Our readers who desire to follow this interesting discussion will find additional references in the footnotes and in the Quarterly mentioned. The references in the text are to the larger work of Ginzberg. Editor].
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Robson James , Khadduri Majid , Elwell‐Sutton L. P. , Baly Denis 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article:The Life of Muhammad. A translation of Ibn Ishāq's Sirat Rasu&#x030c;l Allāh by A. Guillaume.Jews and Arabs. By S. D. Goitein.The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers. By Benjamin Shwadran.Dynamite in the Middle East. by Khalil Totah.
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Ziadeh Farhat , Latham Edward , Rosenstock‐Huessy Eugen , Ettinghausen Richard , Aurbakken Hans L. , Kingsbury John K. , Young T. Cuyler , Spencer William , Calverley Eleanor T. , Elder E. E. 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article:Islamic Law in Africa, by J. N. D. Anderson.The United States and the Arab World 1945–1952. By Mohammed Shafi Agwani.Mohammed and Charlemagne. By Henri Pirenne.Islamic Architects and their Works. By L. A. Mayer.Les Mardis de Dar El Salam Published under the direction of Louis Massignon, Librairie Philosophique, J. Vrin.A History of Turkey: From Empire to Republic. By M. Phillips.Iran, Past and Present. By Donald N. Wilber.The Lycian Shore. By Freya Stark.Kuwait Was My Home. By Zahra Freeth.Islam in Africa and the Near East. Compiled by S. M. Ahmad.
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Key Kerim K. , Cleland W. Wendell , Pickens Elisabeth , Lewis William H. , Ross Floyd H. , Goodsell Fred Field , Bishop Eric. F. F. , Baker Eric , Issawi Charles , Anderson J. N. D. , Shepard Flola L. , Bishop Eric F. F. , Cragg Kenneth 
Published: April 2007

Book Reviews in This Article:Turkism and the Soviets. By Charles W. Hostler.Bureaucracy and Society in Modern Egypt. By Morroe Berger.Expédition en Arabie Centrale. By Philippe Lippens.Moroccan Drama: 1900 – 1955. By Rom Landau.Avlcenna Commemoration Volume.A Turkish – English Dictionary. By H. C. Hony.The Names of Lebanese Cities and Villages with an Interpretation of their meaning: A Linguistic Study. By Anis Fraiha.City of Beirut: A Socio – Economic Survey.Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History. By Muhsin Mahdi.The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act. 1939. By K. N. Ahmed.Étude Descriptive et Comparative du Gafat (Ethiopien méridional). By Wolf Leslau.Islam and the West. Proceedings of the Harvard Summer School Conference on the Middle East, July 25–27, 1955. Edited by Richard N. Frye.The Holy Qurān, Arabic text and translation. By the late Maulawi Sher Ali.
Book Reviews
Authors: Jamal K. S. S. , Boullata Issa J. , Bishop Eric F. F. , Marmura Michael E. , Liebesny Herbert J. , Fitzgerald M. L. , Speight R. Marston , Heggoy Alf Andrew , von Sivers Peter , von Sivers Peter 
Published: April 2007

Book reviewed in this article: The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? By Abdallah Laroui The Muslim Mind. By Charis Waddy The Ethics of al‐Ghazali: A Composite Ethics in Islam. By Muhammad Abul Quassem Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law. By Uriel Heyd. Edited by V. L. Ménage The Muslim Filipinos. Their History, Society and Contemporary Problems. Edited by Peter G. Gowing and Robert D. McAmis. Tunisie du Sud: Ksars et Villages de Crětes. By André Louis. Preface by H. E. Habib Bourguiba The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia: 1919–1929. By Gregory J. Massell Zur Soziologie der Dekolonisation in Afrika (On the Sociology of Decolonization in Africa). Edited by Gerhard Grohs and Bassam Tibi Militär und Sozialismus in der Dritten Welt (Military and Socialism in the Third World). By Bassam Tibi