We present a framework of maturity indicators that can be used to assess the maturity of a company in terms of e-learning and to promote new approaches to corporate e-learning. This framework is the result of a study that included semi-structured interviews with prime companies of several sectors such as banking, insurance, retail, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage,...

This paper describes the preliminary work aimed to develop a model for learning process maturity based on the concepts and ideas of the Capability Maturity Model. In developing the learning process maturity model, the principles behind the Capability Maturity Model are explored and a mapping to a learning process maturity model is developed. The model is to be used within the normal teaching cy...

This paper concerns the effects of macroeconomic announcements on the covariance structure of US government bond returns for six different maturities; the study shows that the conditional variances, covariances, and correlation coefficients are significantly greater on announcement days. On non-announcement days, the correlation coefficients are relatively large and are greater the closer the b...