Research in the strategy and international business literatures shows that firms often undertake acquisitions to exchange firm-specific resources. The core arguments arise from theories of market failures, where market failures can stem from potential opportunism or from coordination difficulties. We show that the post-acquisition performance of an acquisition varies with the extent of post-acq...

food security has a dynamic notion during the time and may be affected by various domestic and global factors.nevertheless, iranian policy makers consider food security as same as self-sufficiency in agricultural food products, particularly wheat production. however, self-sufficiency can contribute to food security only if it is in coincidences with comparative advantage and sustainable resourc...

recently, the finished cost reduction policy-as an efficient economic policy for competitiveness of domestic products beside foreign competitors-has been paying attention by ministry of commerce of iran. at the fist look, the protection of intellectual property such as inventions increases the finished cost of products; but intellectual property protection can be effective in finished cost redu...

in this paper, a hybrid method for limited resource allocation and leveling in complex multi-stage, multi-product and multi-period production planning problems with aim of lot-size determination and total cost minimization has been proposed. this problem consists of multiple products with sequential production processes that are produced in different periods to meet the customers demand. by det...

Simultaneous optimization of time, cost, and utilized resources in a construction project is vital. This paper presents a GA based model for determination of the best combination of the time, cost, and resources in a multiple resource constraint problem. The proposed model considers both resource allocation and leveling simultaneously. Since the problem is assumed to be resource constraint, res...