As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...

This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a...

Using a landscape simulation model, we examined ecological and economic implications of forest policies designed to emulate the historical fire regime across the 2 x 10⁶ ha Oregon Coast Range. Simulated policies included two variants of the current policy and three policies reflecting aspects...

The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international...

For three decades a handful of giant American Corporations dominated the world computer industry. In the late 1980s a host of relatively small firms seized industry leadership. Many saw in this astounding reversal of fortune the birth of an open, progressive, highly competitive and democratic...

The issue of income inequality was neglected in the recent economic literature until perhaps the last two decades or so. The reason for this neglect may stem from the deterministic and mechanical way the issue has been treated in the works of the neoclassical economists. However, the classical...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is essential in international business and FDI in China has experienced rapid growth in the past three decades. The objective of this thesis is to analyze the political, economic, and cultural influences on FDI development at four stages of China's economy growth:...

The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of thiswork is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technologyas such, since that has changed radically many times. Instead, the stress is on the steady growth...

This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...