This chapter first of all reviews the organizational theory of new institutional economics in order to pave the way in literature and methodology for the study of water governance structure. Then, it proceeds with the basic implications of water governance and finds that the most important output of water governance is to ensure water security. The collective actions for this purpose result in ...

We discuss the modelling of corporate bank accounts using a proprietary dataset. thus offer principled treatment genuine industrial problem. The in our study constitute spare, irregularly-spaced time series that may take both positive and negative values. builds on previous models where underlying is real-valued. describe an intra-monthly effect identified by practitioners whereby account uncer...

Knowledge is the fundamental resource that allows us to function intelligently. Similarly, organisations (i.e., enterprises) typically use different types of knowledge to enhance their performance. Task ontology modelling is the key to corporate knowledge management via modelling shareable and reusable knowledge bases. The mapping between the domain specific task ontology, and the domain indepe...

Making effective project selection decisions in an enterprise requires a clear idea of where the enterprise is in the current state, what its vision for the future is, and how to make a transition to its desired future state possible. A strategic plan is a document that encompasses this information and is produced as an output of corporate strategic planning. In this paper we examine business m...

The observation that the Open Source Software development style is becoming part of corporate software development, raises questions about its compatibility with traditional development processes. Particular compatibility questions arise where the existing corporate development style is in the agile tradition. These questions are identified and discussed. Measures that can be taken to avoid cla...