A new approach is developed to examine potential causality between merger activity and industrial production. The proposed method combines an information criterion based approach to lag optimisation with joint maximum likelihood estimation of an autoregressive distributed lag model and GARCH(1,1) specification. Application to UK data provides significant evidence in support of causality between...

Management scholars traditionally rely on the review of journals and empirical data for information used in research projects and in the classroom. However, there is also a vast amount of material that remains virtually untapped by many management researchers the artifacts, pictures, and remains of industrial and commercial organizations. Industrial archeologists specialize in studying organiza...

Monthly climatologies of satellite-derived sea-surface temperature (SST, from AVHRR) and ocean color (from Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner and Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor) around the Gal! apagos Archipelago are used to estimate the mean seasonal cycle of these properties and their relationship to the equatorial circulation in this oceanographically complex region. Harmonic analysi...

Empirical studies are important in software engineering to evaluate new tools, techniques, methods and technologies in a structured way before they are introduced in the industrial (real) software process. Within this PhD thesis we will develop a framework of a consistent process for involving students as subjects of empirical studies of software engineering. In concrete, our experiences with s...