Unions and industrial improvement projects: Building a common momentum

Evaluation and Improvement for Large Industrial Projects

The high non-functional requirements on mobile telecommunication applications call for new solutions. An example of such a solution can be a software platform that provides high performance and availability. The introduction of such a platform may, however, affect the development productivity. In this study we present experiences from research carried out at Ericsson. The purpose of the researc...

Trade-diverting Customs Unions and Welfare Improvement: a Clarification

Reconcile sequence improvement projects

Introduction This document describes the strategies for reconciling a GEP sequence improvement project that has been improved by multiple students. The reconciliation process seeks to generate the most accurate sequence assembly possible by comparing the multiple assemblies. Discrepant regions among the different assemblies can help the reviewer identify problematic regions in the assembly that...

Economic Evaluation of Industrial Projects

This paper deals with the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Some traditional techniques, which have been used by practicing managers or advocated by academics, become questionable in the face of modern developments in finance theory. The objective of this paper is to examine how these modern developments in finance theory are applied to project evaluation. The paper is divided into tw...

Trade Unions and Industrial Injury in Great Britain

Anecdotal evidence suggests that trade unions succeed in ameliorating workplace health and safety, but no attempt has been made to link specific workplace injury rates with a respective union presence. Relying on WERS98, this paper establishes a cross-sectional link between trade unions and occupational injury rates, revealing that unions gravitate to accident-prone workplaces and react by redu...