Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these investments within and among national forests remains a challenge, partly because a comprehensive assessment that establishes the current wildfire risk...

Business and information systems professionals continue to struggle to address the complex issues involved in determining payoffs from information technology (IT) investments in e-business environment. The business value returned by IT investments in E-business environment is being viewed with increasing skepticism by researchers and practitioners. Quantifying the IT investments payoff has alwa...

Time-varying risk premia (TVRP) is one of the four sources of stock return autocorrelation. TVRP arises in a securities market equilibriumwhen the equilibrium expected returns of the available investments vary over time; in particular, the presence of TVRP does not indicate pricing inefficiency. This paper provides equilibrium upper bounds on TVRP, as a function of the return period, the time h...

This paper investigates the degree of risk aversion exhibited by Irish fund managers. Assuming a mean-variance optimising manager, we employ the dynamic conditional correlation specification (Engle, 2002) of the multivariate GARCH model to estimate the coefficient of relative risk aversion. We find that fund managers whose remit is to “aggressively” manage their portfolios have coefficients lyi...

In recent years the possibility of applying knowledge management to logistics and to logistics planning has been put forward in literature. Despite of these discussions knowledge management has not been implemented in logistics in large scale. To draw a clear picture of the current state-of-implementation and understand the impact knowledge management activities have on a company’s logistics pe...

44 The goal of “medical management,” an emerging discipline within the health care sector, is to integrate the distinct processes of case management, disease management and utilization management, thereby achieving better clinical outcomes and reduced costs. We offer insight into a disciplined, structured approach that will help give health care providers a clear, integrated medical management ...

This report summarizes the current status of infrastructure development in China and the infrastructure construction demand for infrastructure development. The optional investments on infrastructure are described based on the poverty alleviation goal and economic trade goals. The finance investment mechanism for infrastructure in China is also depicted. The key issues in relate with infrastruct...

budget of many organisations in both the service and manufacturing sectors. As a result decision-makers are faced with difficult questions: How should IT investments be designed and managed to ensure alignment with corporate strategy? How should such investments be justified prospectively, and how can success be measured retrospectively? What more (than technology) is needed to realise the full...

By way of critically examining the nexus between electronic government (e-government), service transformation and knowledge management, this paper explores the potential for better public sector governance and strengthened levels of relational trust between citizens and governments. Within such a context A specific objective of this paper is to examine strategies and mechanisms for knowledge ma...

At first sight, the idea of investing internationally seems exciting and full of promise because of the many benefits of international portfolio investment. By investing in foreign securities, investors can participate in the growth of other countries, hedge their consumption basket against exchange rate risk, realize diversification effects and take advantage of market segmentation on a global...