The globalization stimulates the revolution of market since 1980 in terms of politics, society, culture, technology, and economics. A firm may ally with others owing to strategic reasons and attempt to turn competitors to partners. This research proposes the following research questions: (1) can companies merely focus on service exchange and resource sharing? and (2) how to allocate the generat...

Globalization, the process by which local social-ecological systems (SESs) are becoming linked in a global network, presents policy scientists and practitioners with unique and difficult challenges. Although local SESs can be extremely complex, when they become more tightly linked in the global system, complexity increases very rapidly as multi-scale and multi-level processes become more import...

The forces of globalization have influenced organizations to extend the concept of IT outsourcing to IT-intensive business process outsourcing (eSourcing). Most of the research on managing outsourcing relationships has focused either on legal contracts or on strategic partnerships. Advocating a different viewpoint, researchers like Rousseau (1995) found that in reality everyday working of contr...

Considerable improvements of information technologies (IT) allow consumers to enjoy various forms of multimedia services. Recently, 3D video has been established as a new format that provides more realistic and natural experiences to users by free-viewpoint TV (FTV). One of the main challenges is about rendering continuous viewpoint images using color and depth information. Thus, image interpol...

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

This paper considers the solution of tree-structured Quadratic Programs (QPs) as they may arise in multi-stage Model Predictive Control (MPC). In this context, sampling the uncertainty on prescribed decision points gives rise to different scenarios that are linked to each other via the so-called nonanticipativity constraints. Previous work suggests to dualize these constraints and apply Newton’...

We use data from an on-line market for programming services to assess buyers’ welfare gains associated with the globalization of this service market enabled by the Internet. Our study exploits the design of this market where projects are allocated through multi-attribute auctions, a mechanism that takes into account a seller’s non-price characteristics as well as his bid. We focus on the increa...

This paper reviews international issues in the supply of tobacco and tobacco products, including trade liberalization and globalization. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical foundations for trade and trade restrictions. This is followed by a description of the treatment of tobacco and tobacco products in recent multi-lateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements, as we...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1School of Management, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China 2School of Science, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China Abstract Multi-asset options are created to accelerate investment among countries with the development of globalization and financial market integration. Considering the human uncertainty and the influence of sudden events...

Ever since its launch in 2003, GMS German Medical Science benefits from the expertise of numerous reviewers. Their work is of highest value for the quality of the journal; they contribute anonymously, without remuneration and mostly in their spare time to a scientific open access journal. We would like to appreciate their efforts at least ideally at the beginning of the New Year. The editors, a...