MIS researchers have developed a number of models for studying the software utilization choices of end users, including the Task-Technology Fit Model and the Technology Acceptance Model. We are exploring the similarities and differences among these models with a goal of developing combined models with more explanatory power. This paper proposes a model that extends the task-technology fit model...

Project management software packages are increasingly used by companies. These tools require a substantial financial investment, hence the importance of identifying the real contribution of project management software packages to the realisation of projects. However, studies on the impacts of software packages on the performance of engineering project management are rare and mostly based on per...

Land use change is a major threat to global biodiversity. Forest species face the dual threats of deforestation and intensification of forest management. In regions where forests are under threat, rural landscapes that retain structural components of mature forests potentially provide valuable additional habitat for some forest species. Here, we illustrate the habitat value of traditional wood ...

The author is looking for an opportunity to analyze the nature of a historical event, free from deterministic and constructivist premises scientifical thinking, not reducible logic pragmatics structuralist narrativist approaches. It starts Heidegger’s understanding it as “un-overpassed” (das Unumgängliche) scientific historiography so-called “unhidden” truth (aletheia). Since within Heideggeria...

The volatility of its share price reflects the volatility of the market value of a bank’s assets. We present data for the volatilities of individual banks’ shares that are implied by the prices of options on the banks’ shares. We present evidence that implied volatilities (IV’s) better forecast actual, future volatilities of share prices than historical volatilities do. Banks’ IV’s are correlat...

We analyze the decision to announce an open market share repurchase and the share price reaction to the announcement. We use a conditional estimation approach which takes into account that the repurchase decision is made rationally and that, consequently, there is a potential selection bias. This approach requires a ‘non-event sample’ of firms that could reasonably be expected to announce a rep...

Employing a unique sample of 2,849 tariff imposition announcements by and against the United States (U.S.) over period from 2018 to 2019, this study analyzes impact recent on share prices 859 U.S. companies. We provide evidence for negative (cumulative) average abnormal stock returns due during symmetric three-day event window. suggest that market investors expect adverse impacts impositions, e...

The effects of water erosion (including long-term historical erosion and single erosion event) on soil properties and productivity in different farming systems were investigated. A typical sloping cropland with homogeneous soil properties was designed in 2009 and then protected from other external disturbances except natural water erosion. In 2012, this cropland was divided in three equally siz...

Abstract Dominic M Bowman and the ECN Committee share their perspective of RAS Early Career Network's first career event: postdoctoral advice from community