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A Lifetime Portfolio of Risky and Risk-Free Sexual Behaviour and the Prevalence of AIDS
Levy, A. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000
A lifetime portfolio of risky and risk-free sexual activities is conceptually constructed in this paper. People's time allocation between risky and risk-free sexual activities affects, and is affected by, the prevalence of AIDS. A small satisfaction differential between risky sex and risk-free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005515454
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From Hotelling to Backstop Technology.
Levy, A. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000
Hotelling's conceptual framework is expanded to incorporate the effects of a backstop technology on the planning …-trivial case, the presence of a backstop technology shortens the planning horizon of the suppliers of the exhaustible resource in … accordance with the resource suppliers' rate of time preference, backstop technology's rate of irnprovement and ratio of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005515460
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The effect of expected income on individual migration decisions
Kennan, J.; Walker, J.R. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005443521
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Contemporary methods for evaluating complex project proposals
Thamhain, Hans J. - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 9 (2013), pp. 1-14
The ability to evaluate project proposals, assessing future success, and organizational value is critical to overall business performance for most enterprises. Yet, predicting project success is difficult and often unreliable. A four-year field study shows that the effectiveness of available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551817
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Factores de gestión del conocimiento en entidad pública del sector de tránsito y transporte
Orozco Acosta, Erick; Ortiz-Ospino, Luis; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 32 (2021), pp. 99-111
From a systemic perspective, knowledge management affects the decision-making process in organizations that, in a globalized environment, must propose strategies that make it possible to increase competitiveness and productivity. The objective is to determine the knowledge management factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494406
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Contemporary methods for evaluating complex project proposals
Thamhain, Hans J. - In: Journal of industrial engineering international 9 (2013), pp. 1-14
The ability to evaluate project proposals, assessing future success, and organizational value is critical to overall business performance for most enterprises. Yet, predicting project success is difficult and often unreliable. A four-year field study shows that the effectiveness of available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225057
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Factores de gestión del conocimiento en entidad pública del sector de tránsito y transporte
Orozco Acosta, Erick; Ortiz-Ospino, Luis; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 32 (2021), pp. 99-111
From a systemic perspective, knowledge management affects the decision-making process in organizations that, in a globalized environment, must propose strategies that make it possible to increase competitiveness and productivity. The objective is to determine the knowledge management factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796090
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Managing selection of wind power generation technologies
Tamošiūnas, Andrius - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 19 (2018), pp. 309-321
The article presents the principled model for managing the selection of wind power generation technologies enabling business organizations to transform rationally their fossil fuel-based business models towards greater renewable energy reliance. The model is aimed at complex improvement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019378
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Technology choice, adaptation, and diffusion in privately and state-owned enterprises in India.
AB, Deolalikar; Sundaram, A. K - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
ILO pub-WEP pub. Comparison of choice of technology, adaptation and technology transfer by public enterprises and … development, productivity, etc.; finds that foreign owned multinational enterprise subsidiarys do not sell technology; considers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966481
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Multinational enterprises, transfer of managerial know-how, technology choice and employment effects: a case study of Kenya.
I, Gershenberg - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on local level technology transfer, choice of … technology and employment creation, comprising a case study of Kenya - based on a sample survey, finds that subsidiaries provide … management development for local managers, who exercise appreciable decision making autonomy over capital and technology which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966600