hypotheses that examine first, how a firm’s choice of contract—whether fixed price, time & materials, or performance …-based—is shaped by its partnering strategy; and second, how this choice subsequently affects the levels of partner integration and … partner performance observed in a project. Our results indicate that the choice of contract is a function of a firm …

, who are then used as a staff resource. The main factor contributing to the development of WPK is communication, especially … of systems-level information. Cultural information-sharing is an essential pre-condition for the development of WPK in …

. Collaboration with an academic institution can assist in overcoming this dilemma. This process is not without its difficulties and …

Firm growth is almost universally portrayed as a good thing, and is commonly used as a measure of success. Applying … decreased risk of ending up performing poorly on both performance dimensions. The results suggest that academics, managers …

, companies first integrated their information systems to speed up transactions such as ordering and billing. Later collaboration … flux. Globalization and the Information Technology (IT) revolution are perhaps the main contributing factors to this … organizational boundaries (Coad and Cullen, 2006). ----- ----- ----- The Information Technology (IT) revolution of the late 1990’s …

integrated care for young people. Methods: Two years after its establishment, an evaluation of the headspace Barwon collaboration … and a review of the health-care and management literature on agency collaboration were conducted. The principal findings …

optimality of a bank's risk-reward trade-off. Conventional accounting-based performance measures such as return on assets and … return on equity do not incorporate the risk effects as part of the performance assessment. Risk-adjusted performance …-adjusted performance measurement process. Matched-Term Funds Transfer Pricing system isolates the business units from the effects of …

market. This can be attributed to better transportation, communication and information systems. This new development has … have to introduce new information, communication and transportation systems to compete with their global counterparts. This … had to be investigated. The following key elements were identified and investigated: Information and communication …

In the energy arena, the greatest data needs concern the costs and performance of demand-side management (DSM) programs … utilities, and energy-efficiency and load-management programs, the need will increase for comprehensive and accurate information … between the information available on these two types of resources. 49 refs., 15 figs., 11 tabs. …

Psychic distance, as described in the Uppsala internationalization model, is based on the impediments to information …