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- Finite Element Modelling of Moisture Absorption in Single Fiber Reinforced Composite Systems
- The absorption of water in a single-fiber reinforced epoxy-matrix composite system has been modelled successfully using the Finite Element method. The modelling was achieved by considering an analogy between mass diffusion and heat-flow. The model also assumed that polymer swelling due to water absorption was linear and analogous to thermal...
- White papers 2002-05-25
- Developing Collaboratively Competitive Inter-Firm Business Relationships
- The purpose of this white paper is to provide a summary of the research on relationship management and to suggest a methodology for practitioners to enable them to understand and manage their complex inter- and intra-firm relationships. The paper begins by giving a brief historical context of relationship theory. It...
- White papers 2006-09-04
- Regulation And Competition: Emerging Issues In An Indian Perspective
- This paper provides a brief guide to the development strategies that have been pursued and to the evolution of regulatory laws and institutions in India. It examines the new legal basis for promoting competition in India, and uses the example of telecommunications to explore some of economic and political issues...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- An Ethnographic Study Of IS Investment Appraisal
- Both academics and practitioners have invested considerably in the information systems evaluation arena, yet rewards remain elusive. The aim of this paper is to provide rich insights into the process of IS Information Systems evaluation by examining some particular political and social aspects of evaluation processes. An ethnographic study of...
- White papers 2004-05-19
- Does EDS Add Value?: The Expansion Of IT Outsourcing And The Nature And Role Of Computer Services Firms
- Drawing on extensive interviews with senior managers in leading computer services firms and their clients in four countries, this paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the deverticalisation process by exploring the conditions underpinning the oligopolistic nature of the IT Information Technology outsourcing market and the nature and role of...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- The Evolution Of Industrial Dynamics
- The author begins with a general question, 'What kind of knowledge based economic system is modern capitalism?' In giving an answer he will focus on the claim that capitalism's principal organisational forms, firms and markets, provide jointly a unique instituted connection between the growth of knowledge and the transformation of...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Understanding And Measuring eGovernment: International Benchmarking Studies
- This paper is aimed at those involved - in planning, in undertaking, in using or in evaluating - the benchmarking or measurement of e-government. It draws on models of e-government and experience of benchmarking to answer four questions: why benchmark e-government? what to benchmark? how to benchmark? how to report?...
- White papers 2006-07-27
- Intelligent Decision System Based On The Evidential Reasoning Approach And Its Applications
- Intelligent Decision System IDS is a window-based software package that has been developed on the basis of the Evidential Reasoning ER approach, a development in handling hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis MCDA problems with uncertainties. In this paper, the evidential reasoning approach will be briefly described first, and its major...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Foreign Direct Investment In Infrastructure In Developing Countries: Does Regulation Make A Difference?
- Since the mid-1980s, governments around the world have pursued policies to encourage private sector participation in the financing and delivery of infrastructure services. The natural monopoly characteristics of infrastructure utilities mean, however, that the privatization of these industries risks the creation of private-sector monopolies. Therefore, governments need to develop strong...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- To Be or Not to Be - The Dilemma of Strategic Supply Chain Management
- The role of purchasing (i.e. identifying sources, negotiating and placing the purchasing order) has changed significantly. In addition, while the 'Sourcing process' still continues, the remit of a strategic supply chain manager tends to be much wider including issues of outsourcing, relationship management techniques, a clear understanding of the firm's...
- White papers 2006-10-31
- ODESeW for the Creation of R&D Projects' Intranets and Extranets
- This paper describes how the ODESeW platform can be used for the generation of the internal and external Web sites of R&D projects. ODESeW is a platform for the development of Semantic Web applications, which has been successfully used in the creation of the semantic portals of the EU R&D...
- White papers 2006-03-27
- Consultants and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
- Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems have been implemented in the majority of large companies in Europe and the US over the last five years. This paper seeks to address three issues arising from this deployment. Firstly, to consider ERP systems in relation to previous approach to deploying information systems in...
- White papers 2004-12-02
- The Gendering of Computer Gaming: Experience and Space
- The increasing popularity of computer gaming as a contemporary leisure activity, together with the use of PCs and games consoles as leisure technologies are evidence of the increasing convergence of new technology and leisure practice. This paper presents a very different image of gaming and gamers. It investigates computer gaming...
- White papers 2001-08-17
- On-To-Knowledge: Ontology-Based Tools for Knowledge Management
- On-To-Knowledge, builds an ontology-based tool environment to speed up knowledge management, dealing with the large numbers of heterogeneous, distributed, and semi-structured documents typically found in large company intranets and the World-Wide Web. The results aimed for by the project are: a toolset for semantic information processing and user access; OIL,...
- White papers 2000-09-08
- Exploring Processes of Resource Exchange and Co-Creation in Strategic Partnering for New Product Development
- This study articulates and explains the process of resource evolution in long-term new product development collaboration between competing large firms. The study identifies and explores activities leading to resource changes in each period and unravels the underlying explanatory processes behind such behavior and outcomes. Findings from the study indicate that...
- White papers 2003-11-17
- Evolutionary Stable Investment in Stock Markets
- This paper studies the performance of portfolio rules in incomplete markets for long-lived assets with endogenous prices. The dynamics of wealth shares in the process of repeated reinvestment of wealth is modeled as random dynamical systems. The performance of a portfolio rule is determined by the wealth share eventually conquered...
- White papers 2003-06-18
- Most eGovernment-for-Development Projects Fail: How Can Risks Be Reduced?
- eGovernment can make a valuable contribution to development. However, at present, the majority of e-government-for-development projects fail either totally or partially. This paper explains the underlying cause of failure: the oversize gaps between project design and on-the-ground reality (known as 'design-reality gaps'). The dimensions of these gaps are identified, as...
- White papers 2003-07-17
- Information Systems Outsourcing Success: A Client-Service Provider Gap Analysis in Pakistan
- Business value from outsourcing is increasingly dependent on how well the relationship between the client and its service providers is managed. This paper analyses the factors that affect outsourcing success in terms of project success, knowledge transfer and sustainability. Data were collected from six businesses in Pakistan representing three outsourcing...
- White papers 2004-12-21
- Exploring the Inter-Relationships of Strategic Planning, Work System Design and Performance Management in Regulatory Agencies
- This paper is based on a series of discussion held in the energy, multimedia and telecommunications sectors in three countries namely the Philippines, Malaysia and South Africa, in the period 2001-3. The objective of the research was to identify the critical internal components that are an inherent part of the...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Human Resource Management: A Complexity Perspective
- In this paper, one presents preliminary findings from an empirical study that seeks to address the question of how HRM Human Resource Management can contribute to organisational success by adopting a complexity theory approach. By viewing organisations as non-linear systems, focusing on interconnections between points in the system, and stressing...
- White papers 2004-09-09
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