This longitudinal comparative study using a multidisciplinary approach, applies a processual analysis (Pettigrew, 1985; Pettigrew, 1990; Pettigrew, 1997) from a knowledge sharing perspective, to the implementation of what the literature shows to be a relatively under researched area of Customer...

This research focuses on the Implementation of IT systems and public sector and national ID card projects in particular. Such projects have high expectations but low success rates. The study Investigated the factors contributing to IT projects failure through on extensive review of the existing...

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new broad approach to computing - Empirical Modelling (EM) - and to propose a way of applying this approach for system development so as to avoid the limitations of conventional approaches and integrate system development with business process...

Many medical studies involve modelling the relationship between an outcomevariable and a series of one or more continuous/interval scaled discrete explanatoryvariables. It is common practice in many of these studies for some, or indeed all, ofthe continuous/interval scaled discrete explanatory...

The stopping rules in sequential methods have posed a lot of difficulties inanalyzing the efficiencies of sequential procedures. The exact distributionsof the stopping points and the statistics related to those stopping rules arehardly available explicitly. Woodroofe (1976), (1977), Lai and...

The classical Black-Scholes analysis determines a unique, continuous, trading strategywhich allows one to hedge a financial option perfectly and leads to a unique pricefor the option. It assumes, however, that there are no transaction costs involved in implementingthis strategy, and the stock...

Technological devices such as mobile phones and laptop computers have created an immense demand for efficient and long lasting power sources such as Lithium-ion batteries. Key to improving the current generation of batteries is the understanding of Lithium based materials that are suitable for...

This thesis develops several Generalized Method ofMoments (GMM) estimators for analysing Not Missing at Random (NMAR) data, which is commonly referred to as the self-selection problem in an economic context. We extend the semiparametric estimation procedures of Ramalho and Smith (2003) to...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate Generalised Empirical Likelihood (GEL) and related informational theoretical methods for estimation and inference of parameters of models that satisfy unconditional and conditional moment restrictions. Three topics in this field are studied. Firstly, the...

This thesis is comprised of three pieces of research on moral hazard, reputation and market structure. In particular, following an opening discussion of previous literature, I explore the dynamic interaction between moral hazard and market structure in two distinct game theoretic settings and...