While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the children’s own investments. Information on how children use their time separately from parents is probably little informative for babies and toddlers, but it becomes more and more important in later stages of life, such as adolescence, when children start to ...

Recent research has found that children who attended pre-kindergarten programs in childhood were more likely to be healthy as adults. One intuitive way of improving population health and longevity may therefore be to invest in pre-kindergarten programs. However, much of the research linking pre-kindergarten programs to health is very recent and has not been synthesized. In this paper, I review ...

The business value of investments in Information Systems (IS) has been, and is predicted to remain, one of the major research topics for IS researchers. However, the fundamental question of the causal relationship between IS investments and firm performance still remains unexplained. We argue that this lack of causal explanations is one of the main reasons why the IS community still lacks a the...

As IT spending continuously increased over the past years, it nowadays accounts for a significant amount of total corporate spending. However, firms require the ability to transform these investments into daily operations. Research shows that the organizational IT capability is the key to leverage IT investments and achieve desired outcomes. Research on IT capability thereby evolved as a major ...

The business value of investments in Information Systems (IS) has been, and is predicted to remain, one of the major research topics for IS researchers. However, the fundamental question of the causal relationship between IS investments and firm performance still remains unexplained. We argue that this lack of causal explanations is one of the main reasons why the IS community still lacks a the...

Over the years, substantial investments in agricultural research have been made in sub-Saharan Africa. The few studies on research investments show impressive returns that are comparable to those achieved in developed countries. However, problems such as recurrent hunger, poverty, food insecurity and natural resource degradation continue to plague the region. Agricultural development arena is c...

The emergence of radical technologies presents a significant challenge to incumbent firms. We study firms’ management of radical technological change by separating their actions into upstream research (the “R” of R&D) and downstream development (the “D” of R&D). We introduce two contingencies to explain when incumbents’ research investments in radical technologies translate into product develop...