The aim of this practice-based paper is to provide some insight into the drivers of employee loyalty in the IT industry. This paper is the result of more than four years of industry experience in the area of human resources management with different IT companies based in Mumbai, India. The paper argues that although the HR professionals working in the IT industry are trying hard to formulate st...

Collaboration in research continuously gains importance. Recent developments in online collaboration technology, namely social research network sites (SRNS), specifically aim to support research collaboration. SRNS allow researchers to present themselves, to network, to communicate, and to collaborate. Acceptance of this technology by researchers has received little academic attention, a void t...

Sequential Contests with Synergy and Budget Constraints We study a sequential Tullock contest with two stages and two identical prizes. The players compete for one prize in each stage and each player may win either one or two prizes. The players have either decreasing or increasing marginal values for the prizes, which are commonly known, and there is a constraint on the total effort that each ...

This position statement makes the case that, since “exact” data integration is AI complete, we should seriously consider “best-effort” data integration. I will start by briefly summarizing the development of the field of data integration. Next, I discuss best-effort data integration as one of the next logical research directions, then sketch a simple observation that can be leveraged to examine...

The higher the reliability requirements on a product are, the more extensive the test must be to ensure the required reliability. One is often unable to obtain a reasonable amount of test items, when stresses approximate normal operating conditions. To reduce sample-sizes and test duration components are exposed to much higher stresses during the test than within their normal use conditions. Th...

Using questionnaire data completed by 170 men, we examine variation in paternal investment in relation to the trade-off between mating and parenting. We found that as men's self-perceived mate value increases, so does their mating effort, and in turn, as mating effort increases, paternal investment decreases. This study also simultaneously examined the influence on parental investment of men's ...