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Course work plagiarism among university students is often attributed to ignorance about plagiarism or an assignment's level of difficulty. Students submit other people's work when they are unable to solve an assignment themselves. This study, based on 233 student responses from four cultural regions, investigates three aspects of academic dishonesty. First, the study identifies students' preferred strategies for managing perceptually too difficult course work. Second, students' preferences for responding to help from fellow students are investigated. Finally, the study measures students' preferences for choosing side in ethical conflicts. Seven strategies for managing difficult course work, six strategies for responding to requests for help, and five key parties in ethical conflicts are studied using a pair-wise comparison method. The results show that students prefer to collaborate and use the Internet. The impact of the teacher is smaller than expected. Factors including cultural origin, gender, level of study, and field of study have limited impact. Index Terms--Course work plagiarism, ethics, pair-wise comparison method, student collaboration, student cooperation.

High-tech firms are facing multiple challenges in a competitive market. Among the multiple challenges, scheduling nervousness has been a critical issue concerning the high-tech manufacturers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the various schedule nervousness determinants (relationships with business partners, internal operation) and to study the impacts of schedule nervousness on the individuals dealing with scheduling issues in the supply chain (i.e., collective efficacy), among the high-tech manufacturing firms in the region (Hong Kong and Taiwan). A research framework linking schedule instability and contributors (suppliers/customers and internal operation) and individuals (perceived efficacy) is applied. The study sheds light on the relationships between scheduling instability and various determinants in the supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Byline: Kris M.Y. Law, K.B. Chuah This paper presents the empirical data obtained from a four-year case study on the implementation of a Project-Based Action Learning (PAL) framework. The study explores the correlation between performance and the various actors within the PAL setting. It extends the research on team learning and Organisational Learning (OL) beyond its boundaries through a four-year study in a real case company. The anticipated impacts of this research are twofold: to justify how a PAL approach is used as an OL driver and explore the various actors in the PAL setting who contribute to the PAL team's performance.

Byline: Kris M.Y. Law, Nyoman Pujawan Schedule instability has been a major problem in the manufacturing industries. This study is to investigate how the various influencing factors affect the schedule instability experienced by manufacturing companies. A research framework is developed by hypothesising the effect of the key factors (relationships with the supplier and customers, and internal operation) on schedule instability and the correlation between collective efficacy on performance and schedule instability. The results obtained indicate that the internal operations of manufacturing companies and relationships with customers have significant impacts on the degree of collective efficacy perceived, while internal operations are significantly correlated to customer relationships.