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Third Stream Activities: Company Formation - Issues, Challenges and Implications
(Irish Academy of Management, 2007)
How well are Europe's rural businesses connected to the digital economy?
(Taylor and Francis, 2004-09)
As economic activity becomes increasingly globalized, partly by means of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), one of the key expectations of European policy-makers was that businesses in rural regions, ...
Evaluation of a Human Factors Analysis and Classification System as Used by Simulated Mishap Boards
(2011)
O'CONNOR P, WALKER P. Evaluation of a Human Factors Analysis and Classification System as used by simulated mishap boards. Aviat Space Environ Med 2011; 82:44-8.Background: The reliability of the Department of Defense Human ...
Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
(Wiley, 2008)
For some, Ireland¿s pursuit of an exogenous-led development model has proved to be the cornerstone of recent economic success. Others point to recent high-profile closures and argue that foreign-owned operations are attracted ...
Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island - Helsinki, Tel Aviv and Dublin and the new economy GPN
(Elsevier, 2004-06)
Hyper-capitalism in global information and communication technology (ICT) markets during the late 1990s created a new global production network, shaped by multinational corporations, international capital flows, and a ...
The U.S. Navy's aviation safety program: a critical review.
(2007)
Safety research has shown that human error, as opposed to mechanical failure, is a major causal factor in accidents in high reliability organizations. In U.S. Naval aviation, human error accounts for more than 80% of ...
Methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of CRM training: A survey of UK aviation operators.
(2002)
This study examines the techniques which UK aviation operators are employing to evaluate crew resource management (CRM) training. A questionnaire designed to elicit information on the methods used in industry to evaluate ...
Identifying and addressing the limitations of safety climate surveys.
(Elsevier, 2011-06)
There are a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools for measuring safety climate. However, questionnaires are by far the most commonly used methodology. This paper reports the descriptive analysis of a large sample ...
Exploiting information and communication technologies for rural development
(Elsevier, 1992-07)
This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ...
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
(Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)
From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ...