Making decisions in an ever-changing environment - A research agenda

Location decisions in a changing labour market environment

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument (fear of employees leaving for a...

A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for Understanding Vaccine-Related Decisions

There is increasingly broad global recognition of the need to better understand determinants of vaccine acceptance. Fifteen social science, communication, health, and medical professionals (the "Motors of Trust in Vaccination" (MOTIV) think tank) explored factors relating to vaccination decision-making as a step to building a multidisciplinary research agenda. One hundred and forty seven factor...

Parasite Diagnostics, an Ever-Changing World

Evolving Information Systems: Meeting the Ever-changing Environment

To meet the demands of organisations and their ever changing environment, information systems are required which are able to evolve to the same extent as organisations do. Such a system has to support changes of all timeand application-dependent aspects. In this paper, requirements and a conceptual framework for evolving information systems are presented. This framework includes an architecture...

Making smart investment decisions in clinical research

UNLABELLED A recent trial in rheumatoid arthritis found an inexpensive, but infrequently used, combination of therapies is neither inferior nor less safe than an expensive biologic drug. If the trial had been conducted over 10 years ago, arguably 100's of millions of dollars since spent on biologics could have been released to other, more effective treatments. Given the ever increasing number o...