Research on technological aspects of information security risk is a well-established area and familiar territory for most information security professionals. The same cannot be said about the economic value of information security investments in organisations. While there is an emerging research base investigating suitable approaches measuring the value of investments in information security, i...

BACKGROUND With massive investment in health-related research, above and beyond investments in the management and delivery of healthcare and public health services, there has been increasing focus on the impact of health research to explore and explain the consequences of these investments and inform strategic planning. Relevance is reflected by increased attention to the usability and impact o...

Traditional methods of evaluating transmission expansions focus on the social impact of the investments based on the current generation stock which may include firm generation expansion plans. In this paper, we evaluate the social welfare implications of transmission investments based on equilibriummodels characterizing the competitive interaction among generation firms whose decisions in gener...

Based on institutional theory, I extend research on the regulative role of national government in society, and suggest that government exerts important influences on firms‘ actions through the diffusion of norms. I suggest that by instituting the Council on Ethics which publicly ―censors‖ and ―certifies‖ the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund‘s cross-border investments, the Norwegian government co...

Nowadays, agricultural R&D provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. During recent years, improving agricultural productivity is affected by not only domestic R&D investments but also foreign countries R&D investments. Nowadays, according to new growth models, R&D is the base of productivity. Recent economic theories consider agricultural research ...

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

ID: 164 John V. Farr United States Military Academy Email: [email protected] Jacqueline A. Harris United States Military Academy Email: [email protected] Gregory J. O’Conner Program Executive Office Ammunition, Picatinny Arsenal Email: [email protected] Address: Center for Nation Reconstruction and Capacity Development, Department of Systems Engineering, United States Mil...

Over the past century, medical advancements have resulted in tremendous health gains for Americans. Although the federal government has played a prominent role in ensuring that new treatments are safe and effective, questions about which medical treatments work best under which circumstances have largely remained unanswered. Thus, the federal government's recent major investments in comparative...