A comprehensive and useful understanding of human occupation requires research methods that capture its individual dimensions while permitting analyses within and across groups. In this article we describe the construct of personal projects and the research method of personal projects analysis. Both have their origins in studies of personality and have been used successfully to link individual ...

This article presents findings from five repertory grid interviews conducted in early 2001 to identify attributes of information as an asset. Repertory grid is a technique developed by George Kelly based on his theory of personal constructs. Personal construct theory (PCT) assumes that individuals are their own ‘personal scientists’ who mentally represent the world around them. The method was u...

Work is currently in progress on the following projects: What do experts/novices know about programming. T1 The objective here is to develop a plan-based theory of programming knowledge and to test it empirically with novice and expert programmers. We are also using this theory to study the bugs and misconceptions of novice programmers. Cognitively appropriate programming language constructs.’ ...

Like other constructivist approaches, Personal Construct Theory (PCT) views human activity as a meaning creating process. What human organisms do, is informed by the way they construe events, and in turn assign meaning to those events. Symptoms are a rare, but legitimate part of their activity. They challenge our everyday conceptions regarding human behaviour. From a personal construct perspect...

It is known that every class-regular symmetric μ,m -net is tactical. Also it is known that all μ,m nets with m 2 or μ 1 are tactical. In the work of Al-Kenani and Mavron 2003 , it is proved that every symmetric net with m 3 is tactical if and only if it is class regular. In this paper, we construct 2, 4 -net and show that it is class regular and therefore tactical. New necessary and sufficient ...

The standard real–options model predicts that increased uncertainty discourages investment. When projects are large and take time to build, however, that prediction can be reversed. We investigate the investment/uncertainty relationship empirically using historical data on opening dates of new U.S. copper mines — large, irreversible projects with substantial construction lags. Both the timing o...

Various issues concerning spatial organisation as a theoretical construct are discussed in this paper. Some basics of the theoretical background and a literature review on the subject matter, not aspiring to completeness, are provided. Three thematicallyrelated research projects, which are currently underway in conjunction with several Czech academic and scientific institutions, are then presen...

This paper investigates whether a bank regulator should terminate problem banks promptly or exercise forbearance. We construct a dynamic model economy in which entrepreneurs pledge collateral, borrow from banks, and invest in long-term projects. We assume that collateral value has aggregate risk over time, that in any period entrepreneurs can abscond with the projects but losing the collateral,...

Prior to the implementation of CO2 injection EOR projects, the screening evaluation of candidate reservoirs will promote the economic benefits of CO2 injection. Currently, a uniform screening method for CO2 miscible flooding does not exist. Based on more than 112 successfully implemented CO2 miscible flooding reservoirs, which was referred in 2010 Worldwide EOR Survey, and CO2 miscible flooding...

Controlling IS offshoring projects is a great challenge because of the inherent uncertainty of such projects. In such settings, informal controls are assumed to become increasingly effective. However, still little is known about the factors that influence the effectiveness of informal controls. We argue that the vendor manager’s power distance orientation—a key cultural construct that reflects ...