The Unfulfilled Promise: Completing the Balkan Enlargement

IS Research Relevance Revisited: Subtle Accomplishment, Unfulfilled Promise, or Serial Hypocrisy?

The topic of “IS research relevance” is receiving increasing attention from the IS research community. In this article, based on a panel discussion at the 2001 International Conference on Information Systems, three arguments are explored in connection with IS research relevance. The first argument, called “subtle accomplishment”, suggests that IS research is relevant, but in a subtle way. The s...

The Growth of Institutional Stock Ownership: a Promise Unfulfilled

The unfulfilled promise of public health: déjà vu all over again.

Many complain about public health's weak infrastructure and poor capacity to respond to threats of bioterrorism. Such complaints are but the anxiety-heightened expression of a periodic rediscovery of the deficiencies and unfulfilled promise of U.S. public health. An overview of more than two centuries suggests that where we are now with public health has been shaped by our earlier, limited, and...

The Unfulfilled Promise of Usability Engineering

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Agricultural Support: Consequences of the Eventual Accession of the Balkan Countries to the Eu1

The author estimates the potential impact of the accession of seven Balkan countries (Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) to the EU on the agricultural direct payments and rural development expenditures disbursed from the EU budget. The estimation is based on the assumption that the agricultural support to GDP ratios are similar across member stat...