opportunities, attract customers, and endure unanticipated business environmental pressures. Using information collected on Nucor …

"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of … formation. As opposed to previous findings in the CPR literature we observe that full information disclosure significantly … changes individual behaviour and aggregate use of the common property. Groups that had complete information about other …

to collect, process, and share information about their own status and about their environment, has attained a high degree … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … gain relevance. The comprehensiveness of collected pieces of information which can be stored arbitrarily long and …

each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in a large number of defaults several years later. BP, the oil … push low quality software into production in order to meet that deadline. Similarly, I have seen incentives (for meeting … budget numbers on a project) influence managers to eliminate planning and quality assurance in order to lower the cost of …

increases in fees, not decreases, which suggests that quality-based advertising took place, and not price-based advertising. In …

is Fruit Bundling Fruitless' Sorting, Bundling and Disposal When Quality Information is Asymmetric,' considers the …This dissertation includes three essays that consider the role of quality variation within agricultural production when … consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for quality. The first essay, 'The Welfare Benefits of USDA Beef Quality …

Total Quality Management (TQM) is widely adopted in industry and well studied in academe. It includes a philosophy and … transforms the supply management landscape by presenting various tools for organizations to select and manage suppliers … suppliers, while others enhance supplier relationships. Drawing upon strategic contingency theory, we hypothesize that TQM …

Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring the quality of an ontology. It enables us to answer the following main … question: How to assess the quality of an ontology for the Web? In this thesis a theoretical framework and several methods …

comprised of two major components - Newsbase and Special Databases, which provide archival Malaysian information. NSTP Online is … the trade name of the online database available commercially and internally to the organisation.Quality issues are … acknowledged by database producers but are often overlooked due to resource, technology and human constraints. The key quality …