This paper studies the scheduling of jobs of different families on parallel machines, where not all machines are qualified (eligible) to process all job families. Originating from semiconductor manufacturing, an important ...

Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending decisions then ...

Throughout the last decades, breeding in the plant sector, husbandry and aquaculture has come under the ownership control of multinational, investor-owned firms. Breeding in these sectors is risky business, but can be ...

Electoral agency models suggest that government e¢ ciency is better when voters penalize poor performance, and party competition is balanced. Uncertainty in the electoral mechanism dillutes the incentive to produce e¢ ...

There is no unified view as to what partnering in construction actually is. Particularly the relationship dimension of the concept is unclear. The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature in order to identify the ...

In federal countries, voters’ ability to evaluate the performance of their leaders might be reduced when different levels of government shape policy outcomes. This can blur political accountability. In this article, we ...

In an attempt to manage a looming revenue crisis in their transition from print to digital, many local newspapers have implemented user payment (paywalls) in their online editions. This paper asks what the business and ...

EUs personvernforordning, GDPR, trådte i kraft 20. Juli 2018 og skal sikre at regler om personvern overholdes, og sørger for at data ikke misbrukes. Ny teknologi utfordrer personvernet dersom det ikke settes grenser. ...

Denne bacheloroppgaven handler om samlokaliseringsprosjektet Østre Rosten 8, der de to bilfirmaene Motor-Trade og Prøven Bil har flyttet inn under samme tak. Dette prosjektet er unikt i norsk sammenheng i følge interessentene. ...