The use by consumers of the internet as a means of purchasing products and services seems to have fallen short of expectations that arose with consumer access to the internet. Evidence from online sales continues to show low conversion ratios, from enquiry to sale, in many online buying...

Research into how organizational capabilities develop has focused upon specific types of capability and particular processes for capability development. Yet, to develop and survive, an enterprise must put in place an integrated system of organizational capabilities deploying multiple development...

The last three years have seen explosive growth in the variety and sophistication of interactive online graphics. These are mostly implemented in the web language JavaScript, with the D3 (Data Driven Documents) library being the most popular and flexible at present. Leaflet is a mapping library...

Background: Random effects are commonly modeled in multilevel, longitudinal, and latent-variable settings. Rather than estimating fixed effects for specific clusters of data, "predictions" can be made as the mode or mean of posterior distributions that arise as the product of the random effect...

The centrality of knowledge to the global arena has allowed scholars in this area to play a leading role in developing the knowledge-based view (KBV) of the firm. Although the KBV has developed as a view rather than a self-standing theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE), it provides a...

Much interest has been focused on animated graphical displays of data in recent years, although this mostly involves some expertise with specialized software and programming. There is a lack of simple tools for data analysts to use to produce animations. In this presentation, I will show how...

The last three years have seen explosive growth in the variety and sophistication of interactive online graphics. These are mostly implemented in the web language JavaScript, with the Data Driven Documents (D3) library being the most popular and flexible at present. Leaflet is a mapping library...

Residual confounding is a major problem in analysis of observational data, occurring when a confounding variable is measured coarsely (censored, heaped, missing, etc.) and hence cannot be fully adjusted to obtain a causal estimate by usual means such as multiple regression. The analysis of...

We are in desperate need of an EU Energy Policy. The facts are that, yes, there is indeed an EU Energy Policy. It is a policy based on a vision, a vision with three components. The policy is aiming for “markets, competition and efficiency”, it is equally focussing on “a sustainable energy...