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- Offshore Outsourcing: Capitalizing On Lessons Learned A Conference For Thought Leaders
- This paper discusses literature on outsourcing relative to what seems to be happening in China as China proceeds with her historic transformation of sustained high growth and deep integration into the world economy. It argues that the terminological debates in the literature as to how outsourcing is to be defined,...
- White papers 2006-10-26
- Robustness Of Productivity Estimates
- Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths and weaknesses. The authors have compared the robustness of five widely used techniques, two non-parametric and three parametric: in order: Index numbers; Data Envelopment Analysis DEA; Stochastic frontiers; Instrumental Variables GMM; and semiparametric estimation....
- White papers 2006-10-16
- Social Network Approach To Understand The Ethnic Economy: A Theoretical Discourse
- This paper suggests how social network analysis, in contrast to looking at physical space, can be used to trace the social and economic location of ethnic enclaves. Taking skilled workers immigrating to Canada from China as an example, the authors analyze critically how split labor market theories describe materialist and...
- White papers 2006-10-14
- The Sensitivity Of Productivity Estimates: Revisiting Three Important Debates
- Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This paper compares productivity estimates and evaluates the extent to which the conclusions from three important productivity debates in the economic development literature are sensitive to the choice of estimation method. Five...
- White papers 2006-08-15
- Construction Prequalification Using Data Envelopment Analysis
- Contractor prequalification is essential in most construction projects, and the process has been performed by many different methods in practice. Data Envelopment Analysis DEA had been recognized as a useful technique to prequalify contractors by assigning relative efficiency scores. Data envelopment analysis, however, usually requires a large amount of data...
- White papers 2006-07-26
- Democratizing Decision-Making and Achieving Sustainability?
- Environmental protection has long been established as an important state goal by countries across the globe. Nonetheless, the extent to which states have actually and effectively integrated environmental concerns across all government activity appears to be partial at best. This paper inquires into the sources of success and failure of...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Process Modeling Initiatives In The Construction Domain
- The concept of intent has only been handled by the COMMIT model. The concept of performance is not common among the sample models. Few models have presented the evolution of entities through phases and life cycle stages. GEPM Generic Construction Process Modeling Method and CONCUR (Concurrent Engineering in Building and...
- White papers 2006-05-28
- A Semantic Architecture For The Management Of Highway Construction Supply Chains
- This paper presents an architecture for the use of industry standards such as ebXML and BPEL to develop a semantic supply chain in highway construction. Semantic supply chains support the integrated exchange of project development processes in addition to traditional product and resource data (e-procurements). In this type of supply...
- White papers 2005-10-20
- Value-Added Tax Treatment of Public Sector Bodies and Non-Profit Organizations: A Developing Country Perspective
- The application of the value-added tax to public sector bodies, non-profit organizations and charitable organizations substantially departs from full taxation in most VAT regimes around the world. The problems with the mostly exempt regime for those organizations are reviewed. Options to modify or replace the regime are reviewed and assessed...
- White papers 2005-07-14
- ERP's Best Practices and Change: An Organizational Memory Mismatch Approach
- Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems implementations undertaken all over the world have resulted and continue to result in significant organizational change. Organizations adopt ERP systems to benefit from the underpinning allegedly best practices, the suppliers' or sometimes consultants' "Recipes" for conducting successful business. Such practices are said to lead to...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- The Interregional Incidence of Public Budgets in Federations: Measurement Issues, Evidence From Canada, and Policy Relevance
- In this paper, one examines the issue of the incidence of central government budgets in federal countries. In Section 1, one discuss a number of reasons why the picture painted of reality by even the best fiscal flow analysis is inevitably partial and hence inherently flawed to an unknowable extent....
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Changing With the Times: Success, Failure and Inertia in Canadian Federal Arrangements, 1945-2002
- In this paper, following an introductory section setting out some salient characteristics of the country and its key institutions, one examines three aspects of Canada's federal arrangements over the last half century. One have chosen these three examples to illustrate, first, an instance in which successful changes were gradually made...
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Validity Vs Reliability: Implications for Management
- As the modern economy has evolved, business has increasingly used management science and information technology in an attempt to generate reliability - predictable outcomes on a consistent basis. Examples from recent business history include Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems, which keep track of corporate data in a single database and...
- White papers 2005-01-07
- Teams Vs. Individual Accountability: Solving Multi-Task Problems Through Job Design
- Many organizations are structured so that workers are jointly accountable for performance; even though alternative organizational structures are available that would align incentive compensation more closely with each worker's tasks. One develops a multi-task agency model that demonstrates that such organizations may be optimal when multi-task problems are severe and/or...
- White papers 2005-01-06
- Reformulating the Tax Incentive Program in Jordan: Analysis and Recommendations
- The primary objective of this paper is to assist Jordan's Minister of Industry & Trade and Minister of Finance to formulate a new program of investment incentives, based on international best practice, to be used as the basis for regulations to support "The Investment Law of 2003" (hereafter The Investment...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Revenue Manipulation and Restatements by Loss Firms
- This paper investigates the relation between the extent of the firm's past and expected future losses and the ex ante probability that it will manipulate revenues. When a firm has a string of losses and/or negative cash flows, traditional valuation models do not yield reliable estimates of firm value, and...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Residual Model for Futures Prices
- This paper studies the modeling of the term structure of futures prices from commodities. A factor-model for the term structure of futures prices is presented aimed at providing flexibility on the drivers. This model allows a good fitting of curve movements as for example changes in slope and concavity. It...
- White papers 2004-10-24
- Hedging Human Capital
- This white paper article argues that many of the insurance decisions that the clients face during their life can be phrased in terms of risk, return and most importantly the hedging motive, a.k.a. "the correlations". It also reveals that investments are bought not only because it is expected from them...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Landscape Preferences and Patterns of Residential Development
- This paper analyzes a model of residential location choice where people derive utility from their proximity to open space. When people have such landscape preferences then the equilibrium residential development is mixed with undeveloped land, equilibrium land price gradients depend sensitively on how land markets are organized, are not generally...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- The Potential Demise of Another Natural Monopoly: New Technologies and the Future Administration of Copyright
- This paper critically analyzes this natural monopoly argument. It argues that the case for PROs is not as straightforward as it is assumed to be. It shows that many of the underlying cost efficiencies that are attributed to PROs are usually simply assumed, and in many cases could be equally...
- White papers 2004-07-01
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