Table of Contents

Social Change and Ways of Living: An Introduction; B.Blunsdon , K.Reed , P.Blyton  & A.Dastmalchian PART I: LIFESTYLE AND IDENTITY An Analysis of Time Use to Reveal National Differences in Lifestyle Patterns; K.Reed  & G.Cucumel Households, Work, Time Use and Energy Consumption; S.McEachern Longer to Launch: Demographic Changes in Life-Course Transitions; R.A.Venne Fortunate Lives: Professional Careers, Social Position and Life Choices; T.Castleman  & R.Reed Live to Work or Work to Live? The Search for Work-life Balance in 21st Century Japan; T.Craig PART II: COMMUNITY Personal Communities and Lifestyle: The Role of Family, Friends and Neighbours; B.Blunsdon  & N.McNeil To Downshift or Not to Downshift? Why People Make and Don't Make Decisions to Change Their Lives; C.Goulding  & K.Reed Ways of Life after Redundancy: Anatomy of a Community Following Factory Closure; P.Blyton  & J.Jenkins PART III: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS What Do (and Don't) We Know About Part-Time Professional Work?; V.Corwin Work Values, Across Cultures: The Role of Affect and Job Outcomes Among Young Executives in Canada, Iran and Turkey; H.Kabasakal , P.Imer  & A.Dastmalchian Designing for Well-Being: The Role of the Physical Work Environment; C.Steinke , R.Kurosawa  & A.Dastmalchian Shifting Responsibility for Health and Healthy Lifestyles: Exploring Canadian Trends;  Angela Downey , A.Dastmalchian , H.Kelley , D.Sharp  & K.D'Agnone

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TANYA CASTLEMAN is Preofessor of Information Systems at Deakin University, Australia and is Head of the Deakin Business School VIVIEN CORWIN is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Service Management at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada TIM CRAIG is a Professor at Doshisha University's Institute for Language and Culture, Japan GUY CUCUMEL is Professor of Quantitative Methods and Accounting at the Ecole des sciences de la gestion of Universite du Quebec a Montreal (ESG UQAM), Canada KRISTENE D'AGNONE received an MSc in Management from the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests have focussed on the integration of health care services, health promotion and organizational change. ANGELA DOWNEY is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria, Canada CARMEL GOULDING is a PhD student at Deakin University, Australia PINAR IMER is a Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Management, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey JEAN JENKINS is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff University, UK HAYAT KABASAKAL is Professor of Organization Studies at the Management Department of Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey HELEN M. KELLEY is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Management and Director of the Master of Science in Management Program at the University of Lethbridge, Canada REI KUROSAWA is a Research Assistant for Cohos Evamy Integratedesign and a student in Urban Studies with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada STEVEN MCEACHERN is a Lecturer in Management in the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University of Technology. NICOLA MCNEIL is a Lecturer in Management at Latrobe University, Australia ROSSLYN REED is an Honorary Research Associate of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia DAVID SHARP is Associate Professor in the managerial accounting and control group at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of western Ontario, Canada CLAUDIA STEINKE is the Research Lead for Cohos Evamy's research initiatives in Calgary, Canada ROSEMARY A. VENNE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour at the Edwards School of Businesss at the University of Saskatchewan

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TANYA CASTLEMAN is Preofessor of Information Systems at Deakin University, Australia and is Head of the Deakin Business School VIVIEN CORWIN is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Service Management at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada TIM CRAIG is a Professor at Doshisha University's Institute for Language and Culture, Japan GUY CUCUMEL is Professor of Quantitative Methods and Accounting at the École des sciences de la gestion of Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM), Canada KRISTENE D'AGNONE received an MSc in Management from the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests have focussed on the integration of health care services, health promotion and organizational change. ANGELA DOWNEY is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Faculty of Business, University of Victoria, Canada CARMEL GOULDING is a PhD student at Deakin University, Australia PINAR IMER is a Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Management, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey JEAN JENKINS is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff University, UK HAYAT KABASAKAL is Professor of Organization Studies at the Management Department of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey HELEN M. KELLEY is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Management and Director of the Master of Science in Management Program at the University of Lethbridge, Canada REI KUROSAWA is a Research Assistant for Cohos Evamy Integratedesign and a student in Urban Studies with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada STEVEN MCEACHERN is a Lecturer in Management in the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University of Technology. NICOLA MCNEIL is a Lecturer in Management at Latrobe University, Australia ROSSLYN REED is an Honorary Research Associate of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia DAVID SHARP is Associate Professor in the managerial accounting and control group at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of western Ontario, Canada CLAUDIA STEINKE is the Research Lead for Cohos Evamy's research initiatives in Calgary, Canada ROSEMARY A. VENNE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour at the Edwards School of Businesss at the University of Saskatchewan.