It is widely agreed that there has been a move within the United Kingdom away from one welfare state as traditionally understood towards a mixed economy of welfare, in which public, private, voluntary, and not-for-profit sectors are expected to work together. How the new mixed economy is...

Japanese information systems (IS) research and the activities and foci of Japanese IS academic societies remain relatively unknown outside of Japan. A number of obstacles including structural and linguistic factors inhibit the smooth transfer and exchange of knowledge between Japanese IS...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become an increasingly important issue for industry, government and academic research. Supply chain managers are being required to respond to the challenges of new legislation, standards and regulations; changing customer...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become an increasingly important issue for industry, government and academic research. Supply chain managers are being required to respond to the challenges of new legislation, standards and regulations; changing customer...

Government funded assistive technology (AT) supply schemes in Australia operate at less than optimal levels. Not only are they failing to make best use of limited resources, they are also contributing to detrimental outcomes for AT users. Detriments are caused either by delaying the supply of...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become one of the major concerns to the industry and researchers. However, supply chains still have to deal with the challenges of effectiveness and cost efficiency. RFID is one of the contemporary technologies which have...

This paper is concerned with the estimation and simulation of a model of aggregate private sector non-residential investment. Its interest in investment centres on two main issues: the first is the role of the equity market in the transmission mechanism, while the second is the possibility of...