Why do similar economic reforms often produce dissimilar outcomes? We examine the impact of institutional environment on reform outcomes, exploiting a particular moment of institutional change: the 2004 Orange Revolution, which resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power among regions in Ukraine. Using a unique panel dataset of over 7,000 Ukrainian manufacturing enterprises, we estimat...

Renewable energy resources are widely being utilised in remote area power supply (RAPS) systems. The capacity value of renewable energy resources in a RAPS system indicates the ability of renewable energy resources to serve the load demand in the RAPS systems. In this paper, the impact of capacity value of renewable resources on energy management of a RAPS system, while maintaining system relia...

The European Union (EU) is facing the challenge of enlargement to almost double its size; which has strong implications for the balance of power among member states. Building on the work of Shapley (1977) and Owen (1972), we present a measure of power that is based on players’ preferences and number of votes. We apply this measure to the Council of Ministers to see who wields power now and who ...

Why did the nation-state proliferate across the world over the past 200 years, replacing empires, kingdoms, city-states, and the like? Using a new dataset with information on 145 of today’s states from 1816 to the year they achieved nation-statehood, we test key aspects of modernization, world polity, and historical institutionalist theories. Event history analysis shows that a nation-state is ...

This research reports on the findings of a mail consumer survey conducted in Finland to (i) build an understanding of the rationales for adopting or rejecting the Internet and ecommerce by consumers, and to (ii) explore the relationship between e-commerce adoption decisions and perceived channel value, seen as the balance of power between the overall benefits that are likely to accrue by using ...

Rapid advances in technology profoundly affect the way businesses are conducted and the way industry structures evolved. The air travel distribution industry experienced two major technology waves in its evolution, the Computer Reservations System (CRS) and electronic commerce. This paper considers various frameworks used to explain structural features of the US air travel distribution industry...

This article reviews the recent decision by Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences to submit scholarly articles to the University’s institutional repository prior to (or in lieu of) publication in a journal. The remarkable decision, the first of its kind in the United States, reverberated quickly across the open access landscape, making many wonder which universities will follow Harvard’s lead. T...

As stray load losses are the most unknown element of the balance of power in induction machines a number of theories how to calculate and to measure these losses exist. The following intends to describe, compare and criticise a number of different measuring methods performed with the same machine. By discussion of the theoretical background of additional losses the deficiencies of the different...

The paper uses grounded theory to analyse the discourse on Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the South African government. Within this discourse, ICT is perceived both as a threat to African identity, through its potential facilitation of homogenisation and a potential ally, through its perceived potential to assist in the recording and dissemination of indigenous knowledge. The institutional...

The role and in uence of information systems/information technology (IS/IT) professionals in organizations and the balance of power between the ‘IT world’ and the management profession has been a topic of interest for some time. The antagonistic elements in this relationship have been analysed by some as a problem of a lack of integration between business managers and IT people. Others suspect...