The usual focus in authorship studies is on authorship attribution, i.e. determining which author (of a given set) wrote a piece of unknown provenance. The usual setting involves a small number of candidate authors, which means that the focus quickly revolves around a search for features that discriminate among the candidates. Whether the features that serve to discriminate among the authors ar...

Investments in IT have become a dominant part of the capital budgets of many organizations. While the costs seem readily identifiable, many of the benefits are elusive. As a result decision makers are faced with difficult questions: How should IT investments be designed and managed to ensure alignment with corporate strategy? How should such investments be prospectively justified? What more (th...

Information technology (m infrastructure investments are a major component of firm investment in information technology. Becausethese investlnents are frequentlymade in anticipation of business developments, their subsequent benefits can be difficult to track andquantify(Grossman and Packer 1989). Infrastructure investments are often viewed only from a cost perspective, as any gains com...

A solid business case is highly dependent upon a strategic and intelligent technology research and development plan, or portfolio, in the early phases of product design. The embodiment of a strategic technology development plan is the identification and subsequent funding of high payoff technology areas that can maximize a company’s return on investment, which entails both performance and econo...

Previous research (cf. B. M. Staw, Academy of Management Review, 1981, 6, 577-587) has found that when managers are given negative feedback on an initial individual investment decision, they allocate more additional funds to that investment if they, rather than another member of their organization, made the initial allocation decision. Justification is thought to underlie this phenomenon. This ...

Recent empirical work in public finance uses the housing price response to public investment to assess the efficiency of local durable public good provision. This paper explores the theoretical justification for this technique. It points out that the logic justifying the technique for evaluating non-durable public good provision does not translate to the durable case. A model in which investmen...

morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. the overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...