Purpose-There is no consensus on the indicators that assess a construction company's financial performance projects undertaken. There is also a dearth of concepts on the financial performance indicators for construction companies in South Africa and indeed, the wider continent of Africa. This...

Franklin and Edwards state that concentrated poverty is the problem, and that a holistic, neighborhood based solution that is specific to the circumstances is the essential response. Citing Purpose Built’s successful work in Atlanta, Franklin and Edwards say the response must be integrated,...

Effective and efficient management of suppliers within a supply chain is an essential requirement for improving organisational performance within construction companies. However, factors inherent within the supply chain of supplier-buyer exchanges such as culture, politics, dependence and trust...

This paper presents the R package gRapHD for efficient selection of high-dimensional undirected graphical models. The package provides tools for selecting trees, forests, and decomposable models minimizing information criteria such as AIC or BIC, and for displaying the independence graphs of the...

ToSIA (Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment) offers a transparent and consistent methodological framework to assess impacts of changes (technological, policy, management, <i>etc</i>.) in the forest-based sector. This tool is able to facilitate the decision making process within and between diverse...