US joins Soviet venture

How the US responded to disaster in the Soviet Union.

Pioneering in Asia With the US Venture Capital Model

LIP-BU TAN IS the President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., as well as Founder and Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm. Design & Test’s Erik Jan Marinissen met with Mr. Tan in May 2012 at the Cadence user event CDNLive! EMEA in Munich, Germany, to talk about his personal background and arrival to the United States, the EDA market, venture capital, and education. Li...

Faster Joins , Self - Joins and

We propose a new algorithm, called Stripe-join, for performing a join given a join index. Stripe-join is inspired by an algorithm called \Jive-join" developed by Li and Ross. Stripe-join makes a single sequential pass through each input relation, in addition to one pass through the join index and two passes through a set of temporary les that contain tuple identiiers but no input tuples. Stripe...

“ They Pretend to Pay Us . . . . ” The Wage Arrears Crises in the Post - Soviet States

fter the first round of the Russian presidential election last summer, exit polling was conducted in which Russian voters were asked, among other things, what was the most important issue in their vote decision. Their answer might surprise those of us whose primary source of news about Russia is the Western media. For most Russian voters, it was not Boris Yeltsin’s health, or the war in Chechny...

IS Change Agents in Practice in a US-Chinese Joint Venture

This chapter presents a case study that documents how information systems (IS) principals in China strategically shifted to different change agent roles to accommodate various IS implementation contingencies in the organization. The case concerns a USChinese joint venture, located in China. The change agent models hypothesized by Markus and Benjamin (l996) serve as a lens to interpret the case....