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 (2011–2017). 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 (2011–2017). 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 – 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 “activation effects” 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

Cost Effectivness of the WINNN Programme – Summary Report: Operations Research and Impact Evaluation

This report presents summarises the findings of the ORIE economic evaluation on the cost-effectiveness of the WINNN programme. The aim of this report is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the WINNN-supported infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions and community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme over the WINNN programme duration (2011–2017). The cost-effectiveness of the two interventions is evaluated from both a health services and a societal perspective.UK Department for International Developmen

Cost Effectivness of the WINNN Programme: Operations Research and Impact Evaluation

This report presents the findings of the ORIE economic evaluation on the cost-effectiveness of the WINNN programme. The aim of this report is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the WINNN-supported infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions and community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme over the WINNN programme duration (2011–2017). The cost-effectiveness of the two interventions is evaluated from both a health services and a societal perspective.UK Department for International Developmen

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 $\mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}$).Comment: 10 pages. Added a precision on local connectedness for Lemma 2.3, thanks to B. Bowditc