Due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. Recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. Fortunately, in recent years, ma...

The adoption of technology is a subject of perennial interest in information systems. Post-adoption continuance has recently been an area that has attracted interest. However the adoption of technologies within projects is an understudied area. This paper proposes to examine the reasons for technology adoption in projects where there is some experience with the technology from previous projects...

This article proposes a novel fuzzy technology to support the investment decisions. While choosing among competitive investment projects, this technology provides the selection of projects with minimal crediting risks, makes ranking of chosen projects and then allows to optimally allocate investment amounts between several of them. The technology combines two fuzzy-statistical methods and solut...

The Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program is the sole discretionary research and development (R&D) investment program at Sandia. LDRD provides the opportunity for our technical sta to contribute to our Nation's future, to our collective ability to address and nd solutions to a range of daunting scientic and technological challenges. The results of their work will shape the...

the study compared economic efficiency among smallholder farmers who practiced low external input technology [leit] and high external input technology [heit] agriculture in a harsh macroeconomic environment typified by inadequate fertilizer subsidy in imo state, nigeria. cross sectional data generated from 160 smallholder farmers randomly selected from 2 out of the 3 agricultural zones in imo s...

Since the appropriate technology movement of the 1970s, technology and engineering from developed countries have played a role in international development. In recent years, universities have created graduate-level programs that look to engage students to solve challenges faced by resource-constrained communities globally by leveraging technology and innovation. These projects must balance the ...

High technology organizations are increasingly facing survival and growth challenges. Whereas the investment in R and D projects is increasing; the development of the new product is decreasing in the biopharmaceutical sector [1]. The pressure for the productivity and emerging opportunities from changing institutions as well as from the advent of enabling information and communication technologi...