The competitive nature of business today requires the knowledge to be able to manipulate process levels in a predictable fashion and to reduce process variation (quality control). This goal can beachieved through the use of experimentation to identify and confirm the effects of the process...

Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...

The paper's research focus is a methodological issue of a relationship between the uncertainty and risks, their co-evolutionary influence on each other. To discuss this, we in details describe the "projectionness" as an available specific property of the economic mechanism. It manifests itself...