Intangible capital has arguably become an important component of corporate value. However, it is still an open question whether uncertainty associated with investment in intangible capital is higher or lower than physical capital. We estimate the value of intangible capital in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model that features capital adjustment costs, investment-speci c technological...

Our IO approach links optimal effective corporation tax rates to the nature of sunk costs within industries. Theory predicts that optimal effective corporation tax rates will be negatively related to industry specific sunk cost, and hence industry concentration. Governments should tax industries with monopolistic power softly. Evidence suggests that this Schumpeterian (1942) principle of corpor...

In forecasting the operation of the manufacturing industry in the 21st century, the authors recently proposed “science SQC” as a demonstrative-scientific methodology and discussed its effectiveness on the basis of verification studies conducted by Toyota Motor Corporation. This study outlines a new SQC principle “science SQC”, as a demonstrative-scientific methodology, which enables the princip...

This article offers a rhetorical design perspective on persuasive technology design, introducing Bitzer’s method of the rhetorical situation. As a case study, knowledge workers in an industrial engineering corporation are examined using Bitzer’s method. Introducing a new system, knowledge workers are to be given the task of innovating and maintaining business processes, thus contributing with c...

This article provides an overview of development outcomes from the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) in extractive industries. Drawing on the author’s experience of working as a geographer around the mines in Papua New Guinea and the global literature on the subject, the economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of mining and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific regi...

The effect of telematics technology on public transport use is analyzed on the basis of a theoretical model. Two possible mechanisms (reduction of uncertainty and a better choice of bus options, based on a general cost-minimization assumption) that may stimulate bus use are distinguished. The model is empirically tested by using microdata from the Southampton Stopwatch telematics project, which...

OF A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL 2014 DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR BENYUAN LIU, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DISSERTATION MEMBER CINDY CHEN, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SC...