This paper challenges the growing consensus in the literature (Stone, 2005; Dodds, 2007) that medieval English peasants and manorial managers were price responsive in their production decisions.  Using prices of and acreages planted with wheat, barley, and oats of 49 manors held by the bishop of...

Design in the 1980s is big business, but relatively few organisations seem to appreciate the nature and breadth of its potential contribution. To the extent that design has been absorbed into corporate thinking, it has primarily related to product design. There has been little done to...

As with most programming languages, there can be multiple ways to do a task in Stata. Using modern CPUs with adequate memory, most Stata data processing commands run so quickly on small- or moderate-sized data sets that it is impossible to tell whether one command performs more efficiently than...

This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.’s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen’s (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for...

Stata has a variety of flexible commands for graphing in two dimensions; however, it has few options for graphing in three dimensions. The user-written surface command by Adrian Mander, available from SSC, attempts to fill this gap, providing both 3D wire-frame plots and dropline plots. However,...

Despite the hype surrounding the value-added potential of e-business for contemporary firms, the recent technology downturn was marked by poor customer satisfaction from investment in e-business initiatives. An apparent mismatch between customer expectations and vendor offerings suggested a lack...

Despite growing research interest in the internationalisation of professional service firms, little research has investigated the implications of home market business positioning for network positioning in professional service firm internationalisation strategy. This paper develops theory in the...

Process mapping and benchmarking are becoming widely recognized as important management tools for understanding how value is delivered for customers, and their use in the construction industry is growing rapidly. Influenced by research on design project management, and the requirements of...