During the past 30 years, the U.S. economy, along with the economies of other industrialized countries, has experienced several noticeable trends: an economic slowdown, a tremendous increase in the amount of information technology investment, and a increasing flow of workers from production to information sectors. With slow economic growth and fast IT capital accumulation, the so-called “inform...

New ways of working have to be explored to ensure learning and knowledge become prime foci in the Knowledge Economy. One approach would be to re-engineer conventional processes to centre on knowledge rather than on tangible deliverables and their production activities. This paper demonstrates that strategy, by proposing radical new theories of projects and project management. Project management...

BACKGROUND Adult smoking has its roots in adolescence. If individuals do not initiate smoking during this period it is unlikely they ever will. In high income countries, smoking rates among Indigenous youth are disproportionately high. However, despite a wealth of literature in other populations, there is less evidence on the determinants of smoking initiation among Indigenous youth. The aim of...

In Krawczyk and Kim (Macroeconomics, 2009), we studied the problem of setting monetary policy in a closed economy using viability theory. Policies derived from the application of viability theory are ‘good enough’, rather than ‘optimal’. In this paper, we extend the analysis to a small open-economy model where the exchange rate becomes an additional channel for the transmission of monetary poli...

Over the last decade, the Republic of Ireland has emerged as a hotbed of software development activity. The software industry was one of the leading sources of employment growth in the Irish economy during 1990s. Although foreign direct investment has been part of the story, it is the emergence of a vibrant indigenous software industry that is particularly notable. The indigenous industry prese...

BACKGROUND In recent decades many indigenous communities, policy makers and researchers worldwide have criticized the academic community for not being aware of the specific challenges these communities have faced and still are facing with regard to research. One result of the decades of discourse in indigenous communities is the development in many Western countries of indigenously sensitive et...