This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm’s centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager, as an equilibrium outcome, “interpersonal authority” over employees (in a setting with differing priors). The role of low-powered incentives is both to minimize the employees’ temptation to disobey and to co-locate income and control. The role of the manager controll...

We propose design patterns as a new mechanism for expressing object-oriented design experience. Design patterns identify, name, and abstract common themes in objectoriented design. They capture the intent behind a design by identifying objects, their collaborations, and the distribution of responsibilities. Design patterns play many roles in the object-oriented development process: they provide...

MEDIAWATCH: Rejection of scientific advice by the writers of a BBC thriller based on the consequences of genetic modification of wheat with an antibiotic-resistance gene renders the plot absurd, writes Bernard Dixon.

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

In this paper, we describe our work in progress in the scope of web-scale information extraction and information retrieval utilizing distributed computing. We present a distributed architecture built on top of the MapReduce paradigm for information retrieval, information processing and intelligent search supported by spatial capabilities. Proposed architecture is focused on crawling documents i...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

This paper argues that metrics can be generated from search transactional web logs that can help evaluate search engine effectiveness. Search logs from the BBC website were analysed and metrics extracted. Two search metrics – the time lapse between searches and the number of searches in a session – were developed to see whether they could measure search success or satisfaction. In all, 4 millio...

This article focuses on Barbara Bray, an English woman of letters who worked for several decades with the BBC as a translator and adaptor plays novels radio, but also critic scriptwriter. Evidence found at Written Archives Centre reveals that Bray was very vocal about her rights multitasking cultural agent: when she didn’t fight better fees, demanded variety skills involved in work intercultura...

One area where, along with other UK broadcasters, the BBC has been seen to consistently fail make headway is in its inadequate representation of minority groups within British society. This study fills a gap literature understanding black programming on BBC. It assesses this through qualitative analysis views 94% those who produced current affairs programme Black Britain. reviews some material ...