A central question in climate policy is whether early investments in low-carbon technologies are a useful first step towards a more effective climate agreement in the future. We introduce a climate cooperation model with endogenous R&D investments where countries protect their international competitiveness via border carbon adjustments (BCA). BCA raises the scope for cooperation and leads to a ...

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) plays an important role in the reduction of costs and the optimization of performance in industrial enterprises. Despite enormous investments in innovation, the health care sector has not experienced fundamental change yet. However, increased market dynamics and the implementation of economic principles will force health service providers to optimize cost ...

Investments in information technology (IT) do not always result in the expected payoffs. The factors which determine the success of IT investments are not well understood. Event studies are one approach to appraising IT investments. In this paper we review major event studies on IT investments, and based on the results of these studies, we propose a conceptual model describing the factors that ...

Within the last four decades, IS and business scholars have shown a growing interest in information technology (IT) investments. As firms continue to make huge investments in IT, it is important to understand how IT provides competitive advantages to the firms. However, the direct effects of IT in creating business advantages are riddled with the productivity paradox. In this research, our goal...

When the epidemic of Marburg hemorrhagic fever occurred in Uige, Angola, during 2005, the international response included systems of case detection and isolation, community education, the burial of the dead, and disinfection. However, despite large investments of staff and money by the organizations involved, only a fraction of the reported number of cases were isolated, and many cases were det...

How do marketing investments (such as price promotions, new product introductions and advertising) contribute to a brand’s revenue premium? Moreover, how do brand and category characteristics moderate the impact of the marketing investments on brand revenue premiums? In this paper, I address these questions with a large-scale econometric analysis of marketing investments and associated brand re...

Very large industrial real investments are different from financial investments and from small real investments, even so, their profitability is commonly valued with the same methods. A definition of a group of very large industrial real investments is made, by requiring three common characteristics. The decision support needs arising from these characteristics are discussed and a summary of ex...

.. Objectives: To compare frequency of complications in open surgery versus laparoscopic surgical management of varicocele among adolescents at a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (RCT) study. Setting: Unit-I Department of General Surgery, Nishtar Medical College and Hospital, Multan. Period: January 2014 to February 2015. Material and methods: Group A was manage...

There has been no systematic examination of issues surrounding pension funds and their tobacco shareholdings. This paper describes two studies designed to document the tobacco investment policies and practices of pension funds, and to assess community and fund member attitudes to pension fund shareholdings in the tobacco industry. Chief executives (n = 282) of Australian pension funds were mail...

Despite the important roles chief information officers (CIOs) play in developing information technology (IT) strategies and carrying out IT plans, prior research has not examined the impact of having a formal CIO position on IT investments and firm performance. Drawing on the upper echelons theory and using data from over 250 US firms over the 1999-2003 period, we address how a firm’s CIO posit...