Prior studies have shown that the IT innovation capability, a company's ability to innovate systematically with IT, is not easily replicated (persistent), and the persistence tends to be more pronounced during periods when economy-wide IT budgets are declining (hard IT budgets), such the post-Y2K period. Building on resource based view we argue that companies that systematically innovate with I...

Award Number: W81XWH-08-1-0108 TITLE: The role of eIF4E activity in breast cancer PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Thomas A Hughes CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9-0000 REPORT DATE: August 2010 TYPE OF REPORT: Annual PREPARED FOR: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT:  Approved for public release; distribution ...

We examine the state of game theory. Many important questions have been answered, and game theoretic methods are now central to much economic investigation. We suggest areas where further advances are important, and argue that models of learning and of social preferences provide promising routes for improving and widening game theory’s predictive power, while preserving the sucesses of existing...

The Day of Epiphany is one of the seven principal celebrations of the church year, right up there with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saints’ Day, but because it rarely falls on a Sunday, it doesn’t get the same attention as those other holidays. The word “epiphany” means “to manifest” or "make known," and during this Epiphany season, all of our readings will, in some way, reveal the true...

Ultimately, we will look to the readership to suggest or even to post debate topics of their own choosing. Some degree of moderation will inevitably be necessary , but will be kept to a minimum. As full details of this new undertaking become available, they will be distributed in a press release and e-mailed to the 2000 or so registered users of the journal's Web site at www.current-oncology.co...

As we usher in the 29th year of publishing JTI, it is a fitting time to reflect on the past year of the journal and to look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead in the coming year. In 2013, we strategically published the largest annual number and variety of cardiopulmonary imaging review articles in the journal’s history. With this issue, we continue this trend with the publication of se...