Our team tendered for and was contracted to undertake an evaluation of the implementation and outcomes of the twoyear pilot phase of the KMI. In this paper we set the scene by outlining some of the initial issues and questions generated as we first examined the request to tender for the evaluation. The national initiative, involving 101 schools, is an ambitious project, requiring an equally amb...

Roderick J. Ørner, who was President between 1997 and 1999, traces the phoenix-like origins of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) from an informal business meeting called during the 1st European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS) in 1987 to its emergence into a formally constituted society. He dwells on the challenges of tendering a trauma society within a continent w...

This paper reports from a case study of an IT innovation consortium in the field of elderly home healthcare. The circumstance of the consortium we studied includes that it was comprised of small-to-medium sized enterprises and targeted a public sector oriented market. We present six institutional constraints facing the heterogeneous innovation collective in the innovation creation process: proc...

The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing devices. It transforms the metacomputing environment into a computational market wherein one can solve problems by renting computational power, storage, and special services from idle resources (comput...

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...

The presence of social media has encouraged the merger online communication between government and community. This phenomenon provides an opportunity for researchers to simultaneously understand process offline by using interpretive case study approach. aims demonstrate use a qualitative approach explain effectiveness local with business people in context regarding implementing e-tendering syst...