AIMS Regulatory requirements for new drugs have increased. Special approval procedures with priority assessment are possible for drugs with clear 'unmet medical need'. We question whether these Exceptional Circumstances (EC) or Conditional Approval (CA) procedures have led to a higher probability of serious safety issues. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was performed of new drugs approve...

This study examines tacit knowledge sharing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. There is often a large gap in knowledge among ERP implementation personnel because of ERP’s cross-functional nature. An underlying assumption of knowledge sharing is that individuals can share the knowledge they have. Although this is a valid assumption for explicit knowledge that can readily be ex...

Methodologies of affect and embodied materiality are key components the second-hand embued in clothing fabrics. These ideas unspoken, hidden areas tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge is seen as raw data research, which reveals itself strands; it visible driven by its transparency, such predictions for growth markets over next five years. Making a component knowledge, making where can be made em...

Research on entrepreneurialism and strategic thinking has taken a cognitive and constructivist turn in recent years. Such a turn is to be welcomed. However, what remains relatively unexplored, even within this 'softer' approach to entrepreneurial strategising, is a sustained focus on the underlying perceptual mechanisms shaping the processes of cognition and sensemaking. This paper seeks to ext...

We compare experimentally two contest designs. In the between-group design (BGD), cohorts compete with one another in stage 1 and a single cohort is then advance to stage 2. In stage 2, members of this cohort compete for a single prize. In the withingroup design (WGD), the order of the competition is reversed. Our findings support the theoretical conclusion that the WGD is superior to BGD in ge...

President Evan R. Collins at his Monday afternoon conference with students announced reasons for the deferment of accreditation for the School of Social Welfare on 221 Ontario Street. He explained that the Council for Social Work on Education announced that there will be a deferment of accreditation for the School of Social Welfare. The relative short existence of the „ school was cited as the ...

The organizational routine—defined here as a coordinated, repetitive set of organizational activities—is an important element of organizational learning and knowledge management. Some scholars even consider routines to be the only source of sustainable strategic advantage for firms. Yet we know little about the actual operation of routines, particularly what makes them work well. This study hel...