This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude oncompetitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approachconsiders contractors as individual entities competing with each other for common jobopportunities, and competition as an...

According to the advocates of a Generalized Darwinism (GD), the three core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and retention (or inheritance) can be used as a general framework for the development of theories explaining evolutionary processes in the socio­economic domain. Even though...

Biofuel production from the tropical plant Jatropha curcas L. has recently attracted a great deal of attention. Some anticipate substantial social and environmental benefits from its cultivation, while at the same time expecting sound profitability for investors. Others are more doubtful,...