Recent research has shown that companies face considerable difficulties in implementing a value-based management of their IT portfolios. This paper therefore presents an approach for measuring and managing the business value of IT investments. To ensure practicability, our approach is derived from a set of practice-based requirements extending previous empirical work. In our conceptual model we...

The problem studied in this paper consists the fact that social and financial risks of investments innovations are managed isolation, which leads to limited results (reduces certain but raises other risks). This is devoted search for a new strategy managing innovations, would allow balancing interests business employees aimed at developing framework systemic management all based on corporate re...

Agency Theory as the dominant view of Corporate Governance disregards that the key task of firm governance is to generate, accumulate, transfer, and protect firm specific knowledge. Three different foundations to the theory of the firm which underpin different concepts of corporate governance are discussed: The traditional view of the firm as a nexus of contracts, the view of the firm as a nexu...

The economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the ineffectiveness banks in their disbursement mortgages which caused spread Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) with underlying real estate. With methods stated by Basel III agreements, aimed at improving capital requirements and determining an adequate regulatory capital, without skills required have difficulties applying rigid weighting coefficients struc...

An option-pricing model is developed to rank investments that might improve water quality. The model presumes that two investment options exist that have the potential to alter the stochastic drift of a pollutant. The investments have capital and operating costs and are irreversible once constructed. The stochastically evolving pollutant induces stochastic damage. An option-pricing model provid...

In already installed fieldbus instrumentations, a configuration-free and manufacturer-independent access to field device information sets is still missing. Due to the lack of suitable and simple models, as well as of interaction patterns of field devices in various information worlds of process control engineering, the practical use made of device novelties is rather complex. This affects high ...

BACKGROUND Strengthened national health systems are necessary for effective and sustained expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART and its supply chain management in Uganda are largely based on parallel and externally supported efforts. The question arises whether systems are being strengthened to sustain access to ART. This study applies systems thinking to assess supply chain management...

Traditional methods of evaluating transmission expansions focus on the social impact of the investments based on the current generation stock which may include firm generation expansion plans. In this paper, we evaluate the social welfare implications of transmission investments based on equilibriummodels characterizing the competitive interaction among generation firms whose decisions in gener...