We consider two aspects of the link between apprenticeship and large employers in Britain: the contributions of apprenticeship to employers' supplies of intermediate skills and of employers to the Advanced Apprenticeship programme. Evidence is taken from interviews with managers in twenty-nine...

This paper addresses the problem of the conceptualization of social structure and its relationship to human agency in economic sociology. The background is provided by John Maynard Keynes's observations on the effects of uncertainty and conventional behavior on the stock market; the analysis...

We developed a prototype to support data integration and decision making in Breast Cancer domain, wherein the knowledge management plays a critical role. While the decision making needs to rely on different medical expertise, our system experiments with a system ontology and then a process...

This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...

We consider two aspects of the link between apprenticeship and large employers in Britain: the contributions of apprenticeship to employers supplies of intermediate skills and of employers to the Advanced Apprenticeship programme. Evidence is taken from interviews with managers in twenty-nine...

The purpose of this paper is to set out an alternative method of allowing for late reported claims. To provide an example framework, the paper focuses on the implication of late reported claims in the pricing of group risk benefits in South Africa. Traditionally, in the South African market,...