Abstract: Increasingly in our integrated global economy, civil engineers are being assigned as team members in multinational consortia. Trying to work effectively in a cross-cultural setting is stressful and potentially debilitating; ...

Abstract: Restructuring is often used as a means of dealing with uncertainty in an organization's production, processes, or operating environment. Consequently, academics and consultants frequently recommend that bureaucracies adopt ...

Abstract: Evidence from the study of urban transit systems in two maritime cities suggests that certain aspects of this municipal service are inequitably distributed. A linear regression analysis of several equity‐measuring variables ...

Abstract: Central business districts in many North American cities have been losing shoppers to suburban shopping centers that have developed over the past few decades. One of the major factors affecting this loss is a rise in ...