Purpose – Using a bottom‐up, model‐free approach when building robots is often seen as a less scientific way, compared to a top‐down model‐based approach, because the results are not easily generalizable to other systems. The authors, however, hypothesize that this problem may be...

<title/> This article provides early results from a long-term evaluation of the turnaround strategies by poorly-performing local authorities in England. The history and theory behind central government interventions into local government is reviewed, focusing on the Comprehensive Performance Assessment...

We use the NYSE industrial index, the NYSE utility index, and the NASDAQ industrial index to examine the relationship between short-run and long-run volatility. We establish that the NASDAQ index has substantially more daily volatility than the NYSE indices. The initial examination shows that...

type="main" <title type="main">Objective</title> <p>Natural resource policy has been a constant source of conflict between “Aboriginal” and “non-Aboriginal” stakeholders in Canada. We employ a historical institutionalist analysis to examine the extent to which changes to the Canadian Constitution in 1982 and...</p>