It's one thing to meet the schedule on a big construction project. It's quite another when failing to do so would mean finding a suitable place to house the Oregon Ducks football team and 54,000 of their most loyal fans. Architects chose glulam for the roof structure in order to...
Do you find yourself avoiding specific tasks or not getting around to things that need to get accomplished? Guilt, though a common reaction, guilt is of little use, and often serves to just discourage you further. If this is an issue for you, try focusing on the ideas explained in...
The intense competition for Foreign Direct Investment FDI by state and local governments within the US has raised concerns amongst some that this leads to the under provision of public services and possibly welfare losses for local communities. Economic analysis of this hypothesis is mixed with little empirical investigation on...
The author developed and estimated a model of spatial competition between grain elevators which is explained in this paper. Grain elevators compete over space for products, which they in turn supply to the market and form the demand for transportation. The author model these supply and corresponding transportation demands as...
This paper surveys the burgeoning literature that empirically examines the Foreign Direct Investment FDI decisions of MultiNational Enterprises MNEs and the resulting aggregate location of FDI across the world. The contribution of the paper is to evaluate what one can say with relative confidence about FDI as a profession, given...
This paper explores the benefits and liabilities of using Radio Frequency IDentification RFID technology in supply chain management operations to support optimization as suggested by Byrnes. Through content analysis, a review of RFID technology benefits is centered on goals relative to the optimization of logistics activities, specifically related to inventory...
This paper discusses the financial health of National Football League. The league has certainly earned its current position on the top of the American sports heap. TV revenue has been the engine driving the league's ascension to the most popular and most-watched sport in America. Another equally important result of...
This paper investigates dynamically optimal risk-taking by an expected-utility maximizing manager of a hedge fund. The paper examines the effects of variations on a compensation structure that includes a percentage management fee, a performance incentive for exceeding a specified high water mark, and managerial ownership of fund shares. The paper...
This report summarizes the research, which analyzes the size, scope, and interrelationships of the Natural Foods Industry in Lane County. This report summarizes the findings. In Lane County, the Natural Foods Industry comprises more than 30 businesses and 30 organic farms. The 15 natural food companies that responded to a...
A work group consists of two or more people who interact regularly to achieve a common objective or goal. A work team is a group of workers hat function as a unit, often with little or no supervision, to perform work related tasks and functions. The paper examines dynamics of...
This article examines what leads controlling families of publicly traded firms to sell their remaining ownership stake. It finds that this exit is best explained in the context of theories of the firm relating to the CEO succession process, optimal risk-bearing, and the separation of ownership and management expertise. It...
The relation between mutual fund returns and trading expenses provides a powerful test of the value of active management, however, the empirical evidence on this relation is mixed. It argues that the inconsistent evidence stems from the use of turnover as a proxy for trading expenses. Turnover captures the frequency...
This paper provides a concise overview of four aspects affecting networking in MCGs. Firstly, networking resources (bandwidth, latency, and computational power) set the technical boundaries within which the MCG must operate. Secondly, distribution concepts encompass communication architectures (peer-to-peer, client/server, server network), and both data and control architectures (centralized, distributed, replicated)....
Difficulties with implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software are widely documented. A review of selected literature published between January 1995 and May 2001 identifies fifteen prerequisite elements that can facilitate successful ERP implementations. These elements are related to specific Project Management problem areas, using grounded theory coding analysis and...
This report examines the effects of disclosure regulation on the production of financial report information by municipal managers. It presents and tests an economic model of the effects of regulation on incentives to disclose information. The tests compare disclosure levels of municipal governments in Michigan, which requires GAAP, with those...
A $250 million capital construction budget request for 2009-11 has been approved by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education to finance the proposed Life Sciences building on Portland's South Waterfront. Funding for the 300,000-square-foot project will come from government bonds, private money and lottery funds. The...
FOOTBALL: University of Utah football season tickets have topped 26,000 for the first time in school history, marking the fourth straight year the Utes have set a new record in season sales. The Utah ticket office confirmed that season sales have gone over 26,750 -- well ahead of the old...
In 1993, the property was considered a prime location for the new Eugene Public Library. But that project finished years ago - on an adjacent parcel of land. So now the vacant, city-owned property that's near the heart of Eugene's downtown, may become either a mixed-use student...
Murray, Smith & Associates Inc. has added principal engineers Kyle McTeague and David Stangel, and controller Celeste Alvarez to its board of directors. McTeague manages water, wastewater, storm water and roadway projects and leads MSA's city/district engineering group. He holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering...
University of Oregon planners are asking the Eugene City Council to relinquish public right-of-way of an alley and a portion of East 13th Avenue in order to construct its new, $200 million basketball arena. The university wants to take right-of-way possession of the alley, which runs between...
