4,697 research outputs found
A Conceptual Framework for B2B Electronic Contracting
Electronic contracting aims at improving existing business relationship paradigms and at enabling new forms of contractual relationships. To successfully realize these objectives, an integral understanding of the contracting field must be established. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for business-to-business contracting support. The framework provides a complete view over the contracting field. It allows positioning research efforts in the domain, analysing them, placing their goals into perspective, and overseeing future research topics and issues. It is the basis for drawing conclusions about basic requirements to contracting systems
Full Costing of the WINNN Programme: Operations Research and Impact Evaluation
This report presents the findings of the ORIE economic evaluation on the costs of the WINNN programme. The aim of the work is to assess the costs of delivering the WINNN outputs over the programme duration (2011â2017). The level at which the output is focused determines the scope and the perspective of the costing. All outputs are costed from a programme perspective, which considers the expenditure of the WINNN programme.UK Department for International Developmen
Full Costing of the WINNN Programme - Summary Report: Operations Research and Impact Evaluation
This report summarises the findings of the ORIE economic evaluation on the costs of the WINNN programme. The aim of the work is to assess the costs of delivering the WINNN outputs over the programme duration (2011â2017). The level at which the output is focused determines the scope and the perspective of the costing. All outputs are costed from a programme perspective, which considers the expenditure of the WINNN programme.UK Department for International Developmen
Activating Knowledge Through Electronic Collaboration: Vanquishing The Knowledge Paradox
Electronic collaboration has become a driver for productivity as organizations develop linkages
for the planning, sourcing and execution of goods and services. These organizations require
mechanisms to harness the diverse and personalized intellectual resources that are distributed
across the world. While electronic collaboration technologies have made it possible to harness
intellectual resources across space and time, knowledge management is locked in a
paradox of perception â the more valuable a knowledge resource is seen to be the less it is
shared. This paper develops framework for the activation of knowledge that relies on a view of
knowledge-as-identity. The analysis of a case study reveals âactivation effectsâ that delineate
processes in which electronic collaboration technologies can be most effective. This has
implications for the creation of collaborative work environments that enhance activation in
organizations
Parabolic groups acting on one-dimensional compact spaces
Given a class of compact spaces, we ask which groups can be maximal parabolic
subgroups of a relatively hyperbolic group whose boundary is in the class. We
investigate the class of 1-dimensional connected boundaries. We get that any
non-torsion infinite f.g. group is a maximal parabolic subgroup of some
relatively hyperbolic group with connected one-dimensional boundary without
global cut point. For boundaries homeomorphic to a Sierpinski carpet or a
2-sphere, the only maximal parabolic subgroups allowed are virtual surface
groups (hyperbolic, or virtually ).Comment: 10 pages. Added a precision on local connectedness for Lemma 2.3,
thanks to B. Bowditc
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