A Critical Review of Contractor Performance: How Good AreContingent Workers at the Professional Level - Radabaugh

A paper titled Contractor Performance: How Good Are Contingent Workers at the Professional Level is critically reviewed in this individual report

Technology Selection in Brownfields Redevelopment

Executive Summary: Introduction: Sustainable redevelopment of contaminated “Brownfields” properties offers many economic and social benefits. However, due to the uncertainties of potential clean up cost, the practicality of available technologies, time constraints, community concerns, as well as additional costs associated with development of Brownfields sites, many developers forgo Brownfields development. These same uncertainties cause lending institutions to hesitate in making loans for development of projects proposed for contaminated sites. This paper develops a general decision making model that can be utilized in the technology selection for decision makers on proposed Brownfields site clean ups. To accomplish this, the project team utilized a Hierarchical Decision Model with pairwise comparison, and then tested the model by applying it to the clean-up technology selection for a local Brownsfields site

Conducting Business in the Philippines and Singapore: A Studyof Socio-Culture Issues, Governments, Economic Conditions andInfrastructures

This paper examines essential conditions that affect a company doing business in the Philippines and Singapore. The research project focuses on comparing and contrasting attributes of the Philippines and Singapore, especially governments, economic conditions, infrastructures, and socio-cultural issues in relationship to the attractiveness and feasibility of an American company conducting business there

Strategic and Policy Issuesin Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian countries have experienced very fast economic growth in the last two decades. Much of this growth has been seen within the countries that make up the union known as Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN. In considering the Strategic and Policy Issues (S&PI) which affect Southeast Asia, this paper will focus on ASEAN countries. The research was conducted from the perspective of a high-tech U.S. company considering initial or expanded investments in Southeast Asia. The paper includes a brief history of ASEAN, it\u27s role in the world economy, the current Asian Economic Crisis, as well as its social and political characteristics that make it an attractive investment destination for US companies