Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that can be used by marketing educators to evaluate the appropriateness of case studies for inclusion in a course. Design/methodology/approach – This viewpoint paper represents the views of the author alone. Findings – Selection...

This report summarizes 39 detailed ETLA case studies of global value chains (GVCs). The findings suggest that the value added in global value chains is less tied to their tangible aspects than what conventional wisdom suggests. Intangible aspects of GVCs tend to be more important, but their poor...

The objective of this paper is to highlight similarities and differences across various case study designs and to analyze their respective contributions to theory. Although different designs reveal some common underlying characteristics, a comparison of such case study research designs...

This exploratory paper examines the drivers and obstacles to construction innovation. It is based on a large-scale survey of nearly 400 businesses in the Australian construction industry conducted in 2004, and twelve in-depth case studies of innovation on Australian construction projects between...

Firms began outsourcing information system functions soon after the inception of electronic computing. Extant research has concentrated on large organizations and large-valued outsourcing contracts from a variety of different industries. Smaller-sized firms are inherently different from their...

Investment appraisal techniques (TAT) range from quantitative (financially based)techniques to qualitative (non-financially based) techniques, and represent tools thatmay be applied during IT/IS evaluation to assess the impact (value, worth or usefulness) of information systems on the...

The overpopulation problem in Sumatra, and the subsequent devastation of the environment due to logging, the planting of oil palm and rubber trees, and oil drilling, has caused elephants and humans to compete for available natural resources. Deprived of their indigenous forest, elephants destroy...

Based on a marital study in Hong Kong, this book examines changes that occur in the marital relationship today. The author concludes that as 'affective individualism' is used to characterize modern marriages in the West, 'affective familism' is a more appropriate character of marriages among the...