A Property Rights Perspective on the Emergence of Publicly Owned Transit Systems in the United States

Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Business School. The University of Sydney

A Property Rights Perspective on the Emergence of Publicly Owned Transit Systems in the United States

Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Business School. The University of Sydney

Redesigning the Commercial Organization of CSX: An Organizational Portfolio Analysis

In 2001, CSX Corporation (CSX) reorganized the structure of its merchandise commercial group from separate groups managing each commodity-based line of business to a more functionally structured organization. The move was intended to provide greater controls and expertise required to compete successfully in a new, post-merger environment. This paper details the former and redesigned organizational structure of CSX’s railroad business. It also describes the study and analytic techniques used to support the change. Organizational Portfolio Analysis is used to examine the interconnections among the external markets and the performance fluctuations of each line of business, in order to better comprehend management's challenges, as well as to examine the internal interconnections among the lines of businesses to distinguish between areas of autonomy and synergy

Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence from the US States

The literature on voter turnout focuses on the determinants of the electorate’s vote supply. There is growing recognition, however, that the demanders of votes—candidates, political parties, and interest groups—have strong incentives to invest resources in mobilizing support on Election Day. The authors test the hypothesis that corruption rents increase the value of holding public office and, hence, elicit greater demand-side effort in building winning coalitions. Analyzing a pooled time-series data set of public officials convicted of misusing their offices between 1979 and 2005, we find, after controlling for other influential factors, that governmental corruption raises voter turnout rates in gubernatorial elections

Restructuring a railroad engineering economics model : responding to management needs

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989.Includes bibliographical references.by Larry Alan Shughart.M.S

Atoms for Peace: Now what?

Sixty years ago this December, President Dwight D. Eisenhower turned a dangerous situation around. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly at the height of the Cold War, he made a commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. That commitment is now being threatened: by activists who oppose building a storage depository for nuclear waste and by energy policies that favor any alternative to fossil fuels except a nuclear one.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1115/thumbnail.jp

Think Ethanol is Environmentally Friendly? Think Again

America\u27s prairies are disappearing at the fastest rate since the 1930s\u27 Dust Bowl.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1087/thumbnail.jp

How a Goat-Farming Immigrant Changed Everything

In the dozens of articles and obituaries written about George Mitchell, who died late last month at 94, the Texas oilman, entrepreneur and philanthropist was remembered mostly as the father of the fracking boom, whose innovations led to the shale-gas revolution.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1140/thumbnail.jp