Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although … well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm results from uncertainties surrounding defense matters and the need to … launching new programs, hence a high level of defense R&D. This explains both an overinvestment in technology, resulting in the …

This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their … determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming …

) to formalize and to teach these techniques? This argumentation will try to show that the concept of technology is …

Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. Some of this experience on foresight analysis is also been transferred to other …

explain the relationship between the objective and concrete features of technology and the subjective and shifting nature of … the people and organisation within which that technology is deployed. At the cultural and linguistic level the paper will …

agents affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational asymmetries generate inefficiency. In an environment where principals … principals. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the relative …

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … frontier methodology.The econometric results corroborate our proposition: the technical efficiency of urban public transport …