What Constitutes Career Success? Implications for Employers and Policy Makers

Robotic applications: lessons on what constitutes success

social capital and its effects on health: implications for policy makers

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What constitutes a convention? Implications for the coexistence of conventions

A model of repeated play of a coordination game, where stage games have a location in social space, and players receive noisy signals of the true location of their games, is reviewed. Sugden (1995) suggests that in such a model, there can be a stationary state of convention coexistence only if interaction is non-uniform across social space. This paper shows that an alternative definition of con...

Social Issues in Electronic Commerce: Implications for Policy Makers

The revolutionary development of network technologies launched electronic commerce as a global phenomenon. Consequently, the policy issues that arise from its use create new responsibilities for policy makers worldwide. Apart from the technical (e.g., fast and reliable networks) and regulatory (e.g., legal frameworks and standardization) challenges that need to be tackled, there are a number of...

Student Success: What Research Suggests for Policy and Practice DRAFT

Policymakers and educational leaders increasingly seek answers to a pressing question: how best to ensure that the nation's colleges and universities are effectively addressing their most critical responsibility, the education of undergraduate students. The attention to student success reflects more than a personal concern for students—it also reflects a growing sense that the nation itself is ...