Recently there has been a renewed interest in the study of firm size distributions and firm growth rate distributions. The stochastic firm growth approach builds on the assumption that firm growth rates are independent identically distributed and size is determined by a first order autoregressive process leaving the size distribution log-normal. This paper analyzes these distributional patterns...

This paper tries to bring new insights on the dynamics of inter-firm by focusing on cognitive and organisational dimensions. We consider the knowledge bases created inside the agreement and the characteristics of such knowledge bases (such as tacitness, level of generality, degree of centralisation...). The nature of assets for supporting this creation is also essential for the redeployability ...

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Mixed-integer rounding (MIR) is a simple, yet powerful procedure for generating valid inequalities for mixed-integer programs. When used as cutting planes, MIR inequalities are very effective for mixed-integer programming problems with unbounded integer variables. For problems with bounded integer variables, however, cutting planes based on lifting techniques appear to be more effective. This i...

ion? Does it supplant the real or is there, in it, reality itself? Like so many true things, this one doesn't resolve itself to a black or a white. Nor is it gray. It is, along with the rest of life, black/white. Both/neither." {John Perry Barlow 1995, p. 56) 1. What Is Infrastructure? People who study how technology affects organizational transformation increasingly recognize its dual, paradox...

the general purpose of this research was survey and recognizes the positive and negative effects of industrial site of eshtehard rural development in eshtehard region statistical populations were two groups’ namely rural people and master of industrial area. the size of the sample was 150 villagers and 70 masters of industrial units. (using stratified proportionate random sampeling technique an...