Organizational Culture is the newest book in the prestigious Foundations for Organizational Science Series and provides a thourough interdisciplinary overview of the organizational culture literature. It shows how and why researchers have disagreed about such fundamental questions as: * what is organizational culture? * what are the major theoretical perspectives used to understand cultures in organizations? * can a researcher decipher the political interests inherent in research that claims to be politically neutral as merely descriptive?
Organizational Culture is the newest book in the prestigious Foundations for Organizational Science Series and provides a thourough interdisciplinary ...
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, products liability, and punitive damages, against the background of the larger political and academic debate over tort reform. Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform brings together and summarizes the authors' extensive empirical research on civil jury verdicts in the context of that debate. Some commentators are arguing that there is a substantial gap between the image of juries and civil justice that is driving tort reform and what is known of the...
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, produ...
Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare. Less is said about how such reforms might affect the ability of individuals to recover damages for injuries suffered through another party's negligence. On that count, Texas--where efforts at tort reform have been energetic and successful--provides an opportunity to appraise the outcome for plaintiffs and their lawyers, an opportunity that Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin take full advantage of in this...
Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and ...