We appropriate Rogoff’s (Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context, 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) Sociocultural studies of mind, 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided participation implies facilitating access to shared...

Assimilation of a standard ERP system to an organization is difficult. User involvement seems to be the crux of the matter. However, even the best intentions for user involvement may come to nothing. A case study of a five-year ERP implementation process reveals that a main reason may be that the perception of usefulness of the system in any given phase of the implementation is heavily dependen...

Community mobilisation among sex workers is recognised as an important HIV/STI prevention strategy. However, factors such as poverty and stigma often negatively influence participation in activities that attempt to mobilise around a common identity of 'sex workers'. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the relationship between social identity and participation among 24 sex workers enrol...

We study costly voting as a dynamic mechanism design problem and identify three characteristics of any optimal mechanism in a highly stylized setting: (1) sequential participation decisions, (2) interpreting non-participation as a vote for some default, and (3) delegating the vote to a committee that excludes some voters.

In this paper a computationally practical simulation estimator is proposed for the twotiered dynamic panel Tobit model originally developed by Cragg (1971). The log-likelihood function simulated through procedures based on a recursive algorithm formulated by the Geweke-Hajivassiliou-Keane simulator is maximized. The simulation estimators are then applied to study the labor supply of married wom...