Implementation Cycles

Implementation Cycles, Investment and Growth

We develop a model of “intrinsic” cycles, driven by the decentralized behaviour of entrepreneurs and Þrms making continuous, divisible improvements in their productivity. We show that when the introduction of productivity impovements is endogenous, implementation cycles arise even in the presence of reversible investment and consumption—smoothing. The implied cyclical equilibrium is unique with...

Implementation Cycles in the New Economy

Noisy Implementation Cycles and the Informational Role of Policy

Macroeconomic models of fluctuations based on self-fulfilling equilibria require that expectations and beliefs are common knowledge to all economic agents. If instead we assume that there is some noise in the firms' perception of the fundamentals then the results change significantly, even if the noise is small. Using Shleifer's (1986) implementation cycle model, we show that, in the presence o...

Vicious and virtuous cycles in ERP implementation: a case

41 ERP implementations are complex undertakings. Recent research has provided us with plausible critical 42 success factors (CSFs) for such implementations. This article describes how one list of CSFs (Somers & 43 Nelson, 2001) was used to analyse and explain project performance in one ERP implementation in the 44 aviation industry. In this particular case, poor project performance led to a ser...

Progress in Implementation of International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles

The International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) [1] has a broad range of missions and activities. Initially concentrating on technological innovation, i.e. R&D, and a methodology to assess Innovative Nuclear Energy System (INS) against criteria for sustainability the focus of INPRO became broader over the years. INPRO and the IAEA cooperate with the Generation I...