Sales Forecast Accuracy (SFA) is a critical issue in supply chain management. More and more people have noticed that poor estimates of future demand will lead to low revenue performance caused from high stock out or excess inventory. To achieve an SFA as high as possible, many new methods have...

Recently heightened competition resulting from market deregulation and increased regulatory compliance requirements have demanded greater accountability for decision making in engineering asset management (EAM) organisations. However, the siloed information structure and fragmented business...

Much of IS literature suggests that various factors play pivotal roles in the implementation of an information system; however, there has been little empirical research about the factors impacting the implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems, particularly in engineering asset...

Engineering asset management processes rely heavily on input of data and also produce a large amount of data. Many asset management organisations need to manage their data for a long period of time (e.g. Water supply pipelines data will be kept for more than 100 years in utility companies). Due...

Engineering asset management organisations (EAMOs) are increasingly motivated to implement business intelligence (BI) systems in response to dispersed information environments and compliance requirements. However, the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking...

Social interactions in a community influence perceptions and values of members of the community. Recently Web 2.0 technologies have stimulated rapid growth of online communities, where communications between participants are made much easier. It is important to study how participants' behaviors...

The main objective of this thesis is to identify the reasons why firms choose to issue unit IPOs instead of share-only IPOs. Evidence is found that unit firms are smaller, riskier, with higher level of agency costs and higher levels of information asymmetry than share-only firms and unit IPOs...

Is sovereign borrowing so different from corporate debt that there is no need for bankruptcy-style procedures to protect debtors? With the waiver of immunity, sovereign debtors who already face severe disruption from short-term creditors grabbing their currency reserves are also exposed to...

Two key issues are examined in an integrated framework: the emergence of global imbalances and the precautionary motive for accumulating reserves. Standard models of general equilibrium would predict modest current account surpluses in the emerging markets if they face higher risk than the US...

Two key issues are examined in an integrated framework: the emergence of global imbalances and the precautionary motive for accumulating reserves. Standard models of general equilibrium would predict modest current account surpluses in the emerging markets if they face higher risk than the US...