We extend the well-known Shannon decomposition of Boolean functions to more general classes of functions. Such decompositions, which we call pivotal decompositions, express the fact that every unary section of a function only depends upon its values at two given elements. Pivotal decompositions appear to hold for various function classes, such as the class of lattice polynomial functions or the...

small and medium size firms have major influence on job creation. some researchers, believe most of the new jobs are created in existed firms rather than newly established ones. growth management, could be the most important tactic for the firms future success. although it has many advantages for the firm, growth process faces some challenges. in this research, these challenges were identified,...

In this essay, we reflect on the conditions that allow firms to play a leading role in ecological transition process. The essay starts with an analysis of technological and economic features eco-efficient technologies. We argue they are weak levers for transition. As eco-efficiency is based profit-maximising goals, pace unlikely peak quickly. fact, profit motive restrains from fully embedding p...

this paper talks about the measurement of efficiency and productivity of non-life insurance firms in india. this study is focused on twelve private non-life insurance firms and four public sector non-life insurance firms of india in the period 2008-09 to 2012-13. data envelopment analysis (dea) coupled with malmquist productivity index is used in measuring the efficiency as well as productivity...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores play a pivotal role in the strategic design of firms. The literature has demonstrated importance sustainability issues financial performance firms around world. In particular, understanding relationship between cost capital is crucial for determining strategy decision making. We identify an opportunity to analyze this within Latin America (LatA...

This paper explores the leverage determinants across firms’ sizesbased on the two main theories behind the capital structure, the trade-offand the pecking order theories. A panel data is sued to find therelationship between capital structure and the variables that proxy forbenefits and costs of debt during 1990 to 2006. Our findings show thatboth principles help to explain the capital structure...

In knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. Firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal R&D and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). Firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-indus...

Abstract Corporate purpose is everywhere, but will it stay? Is a business revolution or passing fad, destined to go the way of so many concepts? Reliance on good judgment and goodwill corporate leaders justifiable cause for concern, resort often sought instead in apparently safe harbor public regulation. But reliance should not be placed governments regulators alone constrain giants face system...

PivotalR [1] is an R package that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL [2] and all PostgreSQL-like databases such as Pivotal Inc.'s Greenplum Database (GPDB) [3], HAWQ [4] on Hadoop. PivotalR also provides the R wrapper for MADlib [5]. MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and machine-learning al...