the relevance and effectiveness of the world health organization’s (who’s) global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel is being reviewed in 2015. the code, which is a set of ethical norms and principles adopted by the world health assembly (wha) in 2010, urges members states to train and retain the health personnel they need, thereby limiting demand for internat...

Positioning moral motivations within the framework provided by Schwartz’ (1992) values theory, we ran three dictator game studies (total N = 256) investigating moral integrity and moral hypocrisy. We adapted Batson’s (et al., 1997; et al., 1999; et al., 2002) landmark research design into the experimental economics laboratory (Study 1), and showed that the behavioral inconsistency – out of 64 d...

This paper presents the issues confronting a large Australian university in revising its curriculum in order to effectively respond to the changing demands of the technical environment and an increasing need to produce graduates who are team players. The paper first defines the outcomes of an IS education at this university and then moves on to defining an IS curriculum for 2005 (the target yea...

In the past decade, companies have increasingly realized that environmental sustainability is critical to their long-term profitability. As global population grows and demand for goods and services increases, companies are challenged to more efficiently use a finite base of natural resources. While many companies are successfully reducing their environmental impacts through a variety of on-the-...

This paper introduces a financial hedging model for global environment risks. Our approach is based on portfolio insurance under hedging constraints. Investors are assumed to maximize their expected utilities defined on financial and environmental asset values. The optimal investment is determined for quite general utility functions and hedging constraints. In particular, our results suggest ho...

BACKGROUND Promoting the social value of global health research undertaken in resource poor settings has become a key concern in global research ethics. The consideration for benefit sharing, which concerns the elucidation of what if anything, is owed to participants, their communities and host nations that take part in such research, and the obligations of researchers involved, is one of the m...

Brand Management has during the 90s become a hot topic, the overriding perspective not only for marketing but also for stock market valuation of the whole company. Brand Managers claim to influence the positioning of the company and/or its products on the market. They also claim to create the identity of the product and to increase customer value. Another claim is to create emotional and symbol...

W focus on destination categories, so named because they have the greatest impact on where households choose to shop and, more generally, on how category positioning (e.g., long-run merchandising policies) affects which store a household chooses. We propose a reduced-form model-based analytical approach to identify categories that fill the destination role. Our approach determines which categor...

From 2005, 12 telecentres were implemented in the rural villages of Samoa as part of the national information and communication technology (ICT) strategy for development. The aim for the telecentres is to ensure the people of Samoa can be connected locally and globally. The telecentres provide access to ICT tools in villages where many have never seen a computer before. For the most, villagers ...