Previous empirical studies have not paid enough attention to the effect of adult mortality rate, which is defined as probability dying between ages 15 and 60, on differences in educational attainment among countries. We hypothesise that rate negatively affects because a lower surviving after retirement discourages human capital accumulation youth. conducted an analysis using cross-country panel...

Information technology (IT) impacts almost every business unit inside the enterprise. However, the role of the IT organization as an enabler of growth and driver of business innovation is mostly ignored. In this paper we introduce six nonIT companies which asses IT innovations as important for their strategy and competitive advantage. Four companies already created formalized structures for man...

A new approach for vague risk analysis based on the ranking of trapezoidal vague sets is proposed. Firstly, a new method for ranking of vague sets is presented. Then, the proposed method is applied to developed a new method for dealing with vague risk analysis problems. This analysis helps us to find out the probability of failure of each components of combustion system, which could be used for...

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This paper proposes a Cross Impact Analysis for supporting critical infrastructures risk analysis. This methodology contributes to decision-makers and planners with analytical tools for modeling complex situations. These features are generally useful in emergency management and particularly within the critical infrastructures scope, where complex scenarios for risk analysis and emergency plans ...

This paper reports the results of a study aimed at understanding and characterising IT management sophistication in small businesses. A multiple-case study approach was therefore used to explore the IT management practices of small businesses. Data collection involved four small-medium chartered accountancy (CA) firms and three IT firms closely associated with the CA industry. The case results ...

Nonprofits' growing reliance on commercial income has aroused wide concern that commercialization discourages nonprofit engagement in policy advocacy to promote positive social changes. Despite this concern, empirical studies relationship are lacking and existing evidence is mixed. This research note proposes the between curvilinear, following an inverted U-shaped pattern. Specifically, as a no...

The risks posed by management are neither addressed by risk analysis nor included in safety cases. Yet they have been shown to be significant contributors to accidents. This paper argues for more attention to be paid to them and for the development of a risk-analysis method to address them. The paper examines the aspects of management risk that it might cover and offers a set of proposals for i...

This paper discusses some models of Imprecise Probability Theory obtained by propagating uncertainty in risk analysis when some input parameters are stochastic and perfectly observable, while others are either random or deterministic, but the information about them is partial and is represented by possibility distributions. Our knowledge about the probability of events pertaining to the output ...