With the increasing announcement of green IT initiatives by firms, there is a need to investigate the financial impact of these announcements on a firm’s market value. Invoking the resource-based view, this study analyzes the impact of specific types of green IT announcements on a firm’s market value using the event study methodology. Our sample comprises 160 news reports of green IT initiative...

Back-sourcing is the practice of bringing a once outsourced process back to the originating firm. Prior research have established that the opposite of back-sourcing, outsourcing, has generated positive market reactions. This study uses event study methodology to examine market reactions to back-sourcing. The results strongly support the idea that back-sourcing is a good strategic decision.

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BACKGROUND We describe the evaluation process and outcomes of Move & Improve, a worksite wellness program in Maine. The evaluation process was based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health and community-based participatory research principles. Innovative approaches are required to address burgeoning chronic disease trends and risk fa...

This study investigates the market value impacts of IT-enabled supply chain systems using event study method. The authors examine abnormal stock returns to investments in IT-enabled SCM systems announced by 346 firms from 2001 to 2004, and find significant, positive abnormal returns for two, three, and five day periods surrounding the event date. Further, the authors employ organizational integ...

This paper examines the two extremes of hard and soft systems methodologies and discusses the merits of each approach. It then suggests how the better attributes of the two approaches can be realised with a third way combining the elements of both. The advent of more powerful computing technologies allows a more broadly based approach to decision processes than a strict algorithmic one. Areas o...

In a foreword to Shaping the Future of Care Together, Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that a care and support system reflecting the needs of our times and meeting our rising aspirations is achievable, but 'only if we are prepared to rise to the challenge of radical reform'. A number of initiatives will be needed to meet the challenge of improving social care for the growing older population. B...

Mixed methods research is the use of quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or series of studies. It is an emergent methodology which is increasingly used by health researchers, especially within health services research. There is a growing literature on the theory, design and critical appraisal of mixed methods research. However, there are few papers that summarize this methodo...

In this article, the authors propose a new framework for understanding and studying heuristics. The authors posit that heuristics primarily serve the purpose of reducing the effort associated with a task. As such, the authors propose that heuristics can be classified according to a small set of effort-reduction principles. The authors use this framework to build upon current models of heuristic...