Current claims by government, major IT companies and educational institutions in the UK that IT skills offer enhanced inclusion into the new economy, are attracting women to the field of information systems. The needs of one social group – lone women parents – that IT skills initiatives seek to include will be analyzed in the light of another policy trend, the ‘work life balance’. Using narrati...

The circular economy has attracted the interest of business leaders, policy makers and academics alike for its potential to contribute a more resilient, prosperous resource-efficient economy. transition towards requires new models that challenge linear logic value creation is still endemic across most industries. In turn, from involves rethinking strategic decision-making processes development ...

A function f is d-resilient if all its Fourier coefficients of degree at most d are zero, i.e. f is uncorrelated with all low-degree parities. We study the notion of approximate resilience of Boolean functions, where we say that f is α-approximately d-resilient if f is α-close to a [−1, 1]-valued d-resilient function in `1 distance. We show that approximate resilience essentially characterizes ...

It is widely recognized that a Share Economy (SE) Pareto-dominates a FixedWage Economy (FWE) if unions care about employment. This begs the question, why profit sharing is less than ubiquitous. In this paper, we offer a solution to this conundrum by looking at particular transition arrangements from a FWE to a SE. We analytically show that despite the Pareto-dominance of a SE, the changeover fr...

Flood risk in deltaic regions is increasing due to a combination of more economic activities and an increase flooding probability [...]

„ Practices and interventions aimed at increasing resilience in children generally focus on one of three outcomes: building the capacity to be resilient in all children (universal programs); the capacity to be resilient in vulnerable children or those facing chronic adversity; or the capacity to be resilient in children exposed to one-off traumatic events or disasters. KEY MESSAGES Is resilienc...

It is widely agreed that the references of indexical expressions are fixed partly by their relations to contextual parameters such as the author, time, and place of the utterance. Because of this, indexicals are sometimes described as token-reflexive or utterance-reflexive in their semantics. But when we inquire into how indexicals help us to identify items within experience, we find that while...

The affordances introduced by digital technologies are reshaping consumption practices. Individuals are now engaging in networks rather than markets, and ownership-based consumption is giving way to the previously unattractive access-based, collaborative consumption. Such consumption practices produce different relationships between objects and personal identity, on which there is limited resea...