This paper reports findings on employee participation in decision making from a cross‐section of employees in the public, private and local government sectors in Western Australia. A contextual model of participation relevant to the prevailing industrial climate was developed, then tested...

FastDer++ is a C++ class library for automatic differentiation designed for use in situations where a set of dependent variables and their gradients are to be evaluated in a large number of points. Typical settings constitute non-linear systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) and ODEs....

We present modelling software developed under MATLAB in which parameter estimations are obtained by using non-linear regression techniques. The different parameters appear in a set of non-linear algebraic and differential equations representing the model of the process. From experimental data...

Proposed projects whose financing will cause capital structure to change across time cannot be accurately evaluated by the ordinary Weighted Average Cost of Capital‐Net Present Value technique. The required rate of return on a new project depends on the firm’s capital structure through the...

This study chooses the content perception perspective to develop a theoretical model portraying the psychological activities of Web surfers exposed to content Web sites. After collecting 549 empirical observations in a controlled lab environment, tests the theoretical relationships by using the...

Empirical research on quality improvement in service organisations has been growing in recent years but it still lags behind the developments observed in manufacturing. It has been generally recognised that more research is needed in the field, especially with regard to the application of...

Political economy views economic issues through the lens of political organisation. In today's world, it must focus on the roles of markets and of democracy, two concepts which are driving revolutionary changes in the political organisation of both Europe and Asia. There are two main paradigms...

Global sensitivity indices for rather complex mathematical models can be efficiently computed by Monte Carlo (or quasi-Monte Carlo) methods. These indices are used for estimating the influence of individual variables or groups of variables on the model output.

More than 25 years after the discovery that the equilibrium point of a general equilibrium model is not necessarily either unique or stable, there is still a need for an intuitively comprehensible explanation of the reasons for this discovery. Recent accounts identify two causes of the finding...

The paper explores the impacts of resource export policies on major macro variables of the exporter and the importer economies. There are two regions, North and South, trading resources for industrial goods. Each region consumes two goods (basic consumption goods and industrial goods) and...