Large-scale venues for exhibitions and events are important public infrastructure. Developing venues have captured much of governments' attention due to the potential benefits the industry would bring to the community. However, venue development requires considerable capital and operating costs, unique standards of design and complicated operational issues. Public–Private Partnerships were intr...

This pilot study of a school-based telepractice pilot project in a rural, remote county of North Carolina investigated the satisfaction of parents/caregivers, teachers, and administrators with a year-long telespeech therapy program delivered by a university clinic. Upon completion of the almost year-long project, a satisfaction survey incorporating a 5-point equal-appearing Likert scale (1= str...

Capital flow analysis is used to investigate IS projects in a developing economy with the view that it can also be used as a diagnostic tool for understanding project success or failure and anticipating problems. The capital flow analysis is based on ecosystem theory. Cases were taken from a developing economy for further empirical understanding. Data collection was done via interviews, observa...

In our 2014 Annual Perspective, titled False Precision and the Illusion of Accuracy, we shared our view of how increasing levels of detail in project budgets and schedules have given owners a false sense of confidence in the accuracy of their work volume measures and the resultant schedules. This combination of false confidence and rationalized optimism has been reinforced by reference to early...

This paper discusses the problem of capital budgeting in the situation where only some model parameters are well described by their past data and therefore are specified by random variables, whereas the remaining model parameters can hardly be predicted by historical data and therefore they are described by means of fuzzy variables. In order to be able to process such hybrid data, a model of th...