The payoffs from investment in Information and Technology (IT) and the organisational, managerial and technological requirements necessary to bring about successful performance have proved difficult to find since the advent of the IT era. In this chapter, we investigate the levels of IT investment undertaken, and the subsequent performance benefits found in a number of Irish organisations. The ...

Capital One has exploited an innovative approach to targeted marketing, based on customer profitability analysis, to achieve impressive performance as a leading credit card issuer. It is sustaining its advantage through investment in infrastructure and personnel, and through constantly improving its expertise through a practice known as test-and-learn. Moreover, it is attempting to generalize t...

The need to maintain national security while deriving the benefits of global economic liberalization presents a significant challenge for governments attempting to privatize critical infrastructure assets. In the post September 11, 2001 world, the notion that foreign direct investment positively contributes to an economy is being tempered by the realization that it can pose a threat to national...

The need to maintain national security while deriving the benefits of global economic liberalization presents a significant challenge for governments attempting to privatize critical infrastructure assets. In the post September 11, 2001 world, the notion that foreign direct investment positively contributes to an economy is being tempered by the realization that it can pose a threat to national...

Kinder and Shanks report simulations aimed at describing a single-system model of the dissociation between declarative and non-declarative memory. This model attempts to capture both Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) and recognition memory with a single underlying representation. However, the model fails to reflect an essential feature of recognition memory - that it occurs after a single expos...

Credit constraints and a need to invest in host country-specific human capital may lead immigrant couples to adopt a family investment strategy. Researchers attempting to evaluate this family investment hypothesis, however, face severe data limitations, because standard data sources often identify the foreign born, but typically provide no information about the migrating unit or the immigration...

The study of memory for event duration in pigeons has, for the most part, centered on an unusual behavioral phenomenon and an interesting theoretical explanation for it. A typical experiment on memory for event duration involves trials initiated by a sample stimulus that is either short or long in duration (e.g., 2 vs. 10 sec of houselight) and that is later followed by the simultaneous present...