Alter, S., Gal, U., Lipien, D., Lyytinen, K., and Russo, N. L., 2008, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 267, Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21 Century, eds. Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Middleton, C., and DeGross, J. (Boston: Springer), pp. 349-352. 26 INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE SERVICE ECONOMY: A Multidimensi...

Ankur Sinha [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Pekka Malo [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Kalyanmoy Deb [email protected] Department of Electrical and Computer ...

Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the most important and active research topics within Grid technology. But the emerging transformation from a product oriented economy to a service oriented economy establishes a new scenario where actual QoS mechanisms need to be enforced and new QoS mechanisms needed. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are considered the cornerstone born to fulfill those require...

In her article, “Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy,” Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels enact a poetics of work for present moment—not just at level narrative but also in kind language used to describe service economies his characters are doomed inhabit. best-known novels, clinical, bureaucratic, even glorifying lexicon “donations,” “completions,” “substitutions,” “lifting” ...

This study extends Baumol’s (1967) two-sector (manufacturing and services) unbalanced growth model to analyze a situation in which, first, services are used for both final consumption and intermediate inputs into manufacturing production, and second, the productivities of the manufacturing and services sectors endogenously evolve. By using this model, we examine the conditions under which the e...

Evidence is presented that the reciprocal exchange of social services among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) rests on cognitive abilities that allow current behavior to be contingent upon a history of interaction. Food sharing within a captive colony of chimpanzees was studied by means of 200 food trials, conducted on separate days over a 3-year period, in which 6,972 approaches occurred among the...