Disruptions to supply chains come in many forms. There are natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and disasters perpetrated by humans, such as terrorist attacks. And there are dislocations that have more to do with the nature of business. Globalisation is stretching supply chains internationally at a time when market volatility is increasing, exposing companies to greater uncerta...

Conventional academic discourse, within both law and political science tells the story of how the European Court of Justice, though its judgments and judicial practices has ‘constitutionalised’ the EC Treaty, reformatting an intergovernmental bargain into a federal legal order. Many accounts have presented the Court as the heroic champion of integration, pushing the integrationist agenda forwar...

Kuhn’s account of the development of science, together with its associated concepts of paradigm, normal science an scientific revolutions, has been the focus of intensive debate ever since its first publication in 1962.2 As a subsidiary issue in this debate the question has been raised as to the applicability of Kuhn’s theory or of Kuhn’s concepts to the history of individual scientific discipl...

The Britishness agenda found in political speeches, reporting and opinion editorials is here posited as a form of ‘new racism’, as it emphasises the difference between ‘them’, Muslims, and ‘us’, non-Muslim Britons, and uses that difference as a defining demarcation. Twenty-first-century political discourse invested in the Britishness agenda works to eradicate distinctions between British Muslim...

This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation where the issues are indivisible, there are time constraints in the form of deadlines and discount factors. The issues are negotiated using the package deal procedure. The set of issues to be negotiated is called the negotiation agenda. The agenda is crucial since the outcome of negotiation depends on the agenda. This paper therefore looks a...

agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of africa, nigeria inclusive. but the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. an understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

This paper assesses the congruence between the initiatives for regulatory reform known as ‘better regulation’ and the recently re-formulated ‘growth and jobs’ Lisbon agenda of the European Union. To do that, better regulation is re-conceptualised as metaregulation sets of rules on the process of rule-formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. Meta-regulation has both structural and ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare can cause avoidable serious harm to patients. Primary care is not an exception, and the relative lack of research in this area lends urgency to a better understanding of patient safety, the future research agenda and the development of primary care oriented safety programmes. OBJECTIVE To outline a research agenda for patient safety improvement in primary care in Europe ...

We model competition among news providers as a contest where each firm chooses to publish on a topic from a large pool of topics with different prior success probabilities. If a topic is successful, firms that chose to publish on it share a fixed reward. We explore how increased competition (as measured by the number of firms and/or the share-structure of the reward) and the prior distribution ...

On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda sets out 17 aspirational objectives, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), associated with 169 targets, which will serve governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society to chart the path of human advancement over the next 15 year...