The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...

Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...

This doctoral thesis draws on the financial economics, strategic management, product innovation, and health technology literatures to investigate and explain conditions under which corporate acquisitions in the medical device industry have enhanced or eroded shareholder wealth and financial...

The research in this thesis focuses on the pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. The two primary hypotheses I test are that: (1) capital market imperfections in the market for pharmaceutical R&D finance impart a lower cost of capital to internal funds relative to external debt and equity, and...

BACKGROUND: The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It...

Australia's health care financing arrangements under Medicare involve Commonwealth subsidisation of private fee-for-service (FFS) medical services produced both in- and out-of-hospital. The Medicare institution, including those subsidy arrangements, operates in a uniform manner across...

This study presents a normative framework of the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector. It was motivated by the lack of socio-technical studies on the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector and the need for existing and potential RFID project managers to have an...