Assessment task design plays a major role in influencing how students engage with their studies. This paper uses a case study approach to explore the assessment practice of five award-winning teachers across five different disciplines. The research method involved ethnographically-oriented classroom observations and multiple interviews with participants. Four key features of assessment task des...

• Business-to-business and business-to-consumer exchange of tangible or intangible goods. • Financial services, such as e-banking, e-investment, or e-insurance. • Information services, like e-publishing (newspapers, magazines, e-books etc). • Entertainment services, such as games, e-travelling (electronic reservation of tickets, accommodation etc). • Personal services, like e-education, e-learn...

Companies whose missions are to empower individuals to take control of some aspect of their lives will face technological challenges to provide Secure, Privacy-aware, and ContExtual (SPACEd) solutions which scale to tens of millions of potential mobile customers in emerging markets. The authors present some promising human-centered solutions to these future technological challenges for online f...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

Bank customers are not financial experts, and yet they make high-stakes decisions that can substantively affect personal wealth. This raises questions about how non-experts actually make financial decisions. How do investors search for information? How does the information they look up map into decisions? Using data collected from financial advisors and bank customers at several branches of an ...

This study’s purpose was to analyze the influence of financial literacy, personal interest s , and digital investment application services on Millennial's in Bibit Application, a Mutual Fund Investment platform for beginners. Using 100 samples multiple linear regression analysis shows that partially, both interests sevices have significant impact investing this platform. Furthermore, all variab...

Resource systems with enforced rules and strong monitoring systems typically have more predictable resource abundance, which can confer economic and social benefits to local communities. Co-management regimes demonstrate better social and ecological outcomes, but require an active role by community members in management activities, such as monitoring and enforcement. Previous work has emphasize...

Research into customer satisfaction of advisory services provided by financial service providers (FSPs) indicates a history of problems that originated well before the current financial crisis. As part of a research program into the design of advisory processes and supporting IT tools, we conducted a survey of affluent Swiss investors that was focused on their information search behavior when p...

Article history: Received 7 January 2010 Accepted 13 August 2010 Available online 21 August 2010 This paper simultaneously analyses optimal dividend, debt and investment policy within a conventional multi-period DCF framework, and takes account of differential personal taxation over both investors and types of income, the effect of dividends and interest on the level of share issues and hence s...