This paper is about as the title suggests, an overview. It is intended to give readers a general introduction to the statutory procedures that govern contracting by local government agencies and to serve as a "roadmap" through those procedures. It does not provide exhaustive or detailed explanations. For more information,...
CHAPEL HILL -- University of North Carolina Hospitals asked the state for permission to add 68 ... CHAPEL HILL -- University of North Carolina Hospitals asked the state for permission to add 68 beds. The expansion would cost $25 million and bring UNC Hospitals' total number...
InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of embedded enterprise intelligence , today announced that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy IPIT has implemented the company's GenSense workflow-based analytics platform as an integral part of its research to...
Upselling is offering an additional product to a customer who just made a purchase. Most catalogers and online sellers in addition to some traditional retailers use upselling. Thanks to the wealth of customer segmentation data, firms can tailor upsell offers at the individual customer level. Knowing that a customer bought...
This paper examines North Carolina water and wastewater utilities' rates and rate structures and their impacts on utility financial health, customer financial capacity, and resource use. Unlike other studies, this investigation places rate data into a model that calculates residential charges/expenditures for water and/or sewer throughout the state for any...
CHAPEL HILL -- Molly Broad, president of the University of North Carolina system since 1997, will retire at ... CHAPEL HILL -- Molly Broad, president of the University of North Carolina system since 1997, will retire at the end of the 2005-06 school year. The system's...
Coproduction systems, in which multiple products are produced simultaneously in a single production run, are prevalent in many industries. Such systems typically produce a random quantity of vertically differentiated products. This product hierarchy can provide the firm with an opportunity to convert a higher-quality product to a lower-quality product. The...
Drawing upon information economics, this paper investigates firms' decisions to form joint ventures with or acquire newly-public firms. The core issue this paper examines is whether signals sent during IPOs Initial Public Offerings have efficiency implications for organizational governance choices concerning issuing firms. The focus is on issuers' associations with...
Based on a survey of the population of local environmental organizations in North Carolina, this article addresses fundamental questions about how local organizations are structured, their orientation toward strategy and social change, their activities, and their perceived impacts. By comparing subsets of local organizations in terms of their geographic scope,...
Reports and articles substantiate the growing external and internal pressure on most nonprofit colleges and universities to improve institutional performance. Indeed, nonprofit institutions are arguably obligated to improve academic productivity - e.g., to improve core mission performance indicators while reducing or stabilizing unit costs in the process and, thereby, stabilizing...
The Internet has created a new way for companies and customers to interact. Manufacturers who had previously been one or more links in the supply chain away from the end users of their products can now reach their customers directly. Retailers who faced a significant investment to increase their market...
Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, known for its academic excellence, has chosen the Cisco Unified Communications system to meet its campus' evolving needs.
This paper proposes a method of distinguishing between the effect of anticipated and unanticipated changes in oil prices and oil inventories on the US gasoline prices. It shows that gasoline price adjustments are faster and stronger for anticipated changes in oil prices and inventory levels than for unanticipated changes. The...
This paper uses an original data set of 41 European IPOs Initial Public Offerings brought to the market by a top-tier investment bank. It makes it possible for the first time to consider demand and allocation for institutional and retail investors simultaneously and thereby to analyze all agents at all...
AsiaInfo Services 02-19-2007 Lenovo Wins New Contracts from University of North Carolina BEIJING, Feb 19, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China's top PC maker Lenovo obtains a new four-year contract from the University of North Carolina to provid AsiaInfo Services...
A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific case of file sharing and its effect on the legal...
The increasing speed of globalisation has created both opportunities and challenges to many transitional economies. This paper analyses the impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI on the productivity of the State-Owned Enterprises SOEs and concludes that SOE reform is inevitable. The SOEs' obligations to provide social welfare should be removed...
Business-to-business (B2B) e-Commerce technologies and electronic markets are emerging as the critical infrastructure of modern Web-enabled organizations. The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW provides a cost-effective mechanism for organizations to engage in search, negotiation, coordination, transactions and collaboration in their global supply chains. The WWW is increasingly being...
Governments in many developing countries are looking to private concessionaires to improve water and sanitation services in low-income areas. To design pro-poor concession arrangements in the water sector, policy makers must pay careful attention to how the proposed contract and existing or proposed regulations will affect the obligations, ability, and...
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