Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bottle Imp: A strategic analysis

Grail: a functional form for imperative mobile code

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel [31], Dr Jekyll is a well-regarded member of polite society, while his alter ego Mr Hyde shares the same physical form but roams abroad communing with the lowest elements. In this paper we present Grail, a well-behaved first-order functional language that is the target for an ML-like compiler; while also being a wholly imperative language of assignments that tr...

Integrated solutions in the IT industry: The Key Role of Alliance Managers 23rd IMP Conference (2007)

The emergence of network forms of organization on many business markets has led to the development of new management activities. One core activity is the management of a company's relationships with partners in strategic alliances. Responsibilities for alliance management are increasingly attributed to a new type of formal position, the alliance manager. Based on empirical data from the IT sect...

STRATEGIC INTERACTION ONLINE: A COMPARISON OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE THE USE OF SCENARIOS AS A DISTANCE LEARNING EXERCISE ON THE INTERNET by

Nerve and behavioral responses of mice to various umami substances.

Food contains various taste substances. Among them, umami substances play an important role with regard to the perception of the taste of food, but, few studies have examined the taste characteristics of representative umami substances other than monosodium L-glutamate (MSG). By conducting mouse behavioral studies (the 48-h 2-bottle preference test and the conditioned taste aversion test) and a...

Common Territory

The IMP research tradition has always been open to the cross-fertilisation of ideas with other social science disciplines that study similar phenomena. Recent years have seen a growing interest among IMP researchers in phenomena such as regional strategic networks, spatial clusters and innovation and new business development in networks. IMP papers published on these topics are increasingly cit...