I Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to better understand how national culture influences the choice of control modes and mechanisms in captive offshoring and offshore outsourcing projects. Design / methodology / approach – Control theory with prior literature on ISO and national culture formed the theoretical foundations. Six national culture dimensions (i.e., power distance, indi...

In this paper I argue that cross-linguistic grammatical comparison cannot be based on grammatical categories, because these are language-specific. Instead, typology must be (and usually is) based on a special set of comparative concepts that are specifically created by typologists for the purposes of comparison. Descriptive formal categories cannot be equated across languages because the criter...

The aim of the book is to give a non-technical introduction to statistical learning theory at undergraduate level. Statistical learning theory is concerned with the reliability of rules for classifying a new case—e.g., diagnosing a disease in a new patient—on the basis of other features of the case and a large stock of past cases and their features and classifications. The book is based on a co...

Pour mise en ligne sur Épisciences. The process of writing history in Moldova, as many ex-Soviet countries, is still a source political conflict on memorial background. This difficult context presumes the use sources factor impartiality. However, picture becomes clouded if document also participates differences opinions that confuse past and present. communism marked by Party’s desire to contro...

Dilettante speculation has given currency to the notion that the English common law was not received by our several states until after the Revolution. According to this notion, there prevailed during the colonial period "a layman law, a popular, equitable system," 1 fostered by frontier conditions.2 Such views have infected even serious legal scholars, who have asserted that the common law in t...

Abstract Among Lester Salamon’s early theoretical contributions was the introduction of “Voluntary Failure” concept. In a series articles published in second half 1980s (Salamon, L. M. 1987a. “Of Market Failure, Voluntary and Third-Party Government: Toward Theory Government-Nonprofit Relations Modern Welfare State.” Journal Action Research 16 (1–2): 29–49. Reprinted Salamon (1995): 33–49, Salam...

Abstract Geopolitics describes the interaction of states, civilizations, peoples, and economies within geographical spaces. Geopolitical dynamics assume that there is a universal pattern state behavior, based on Westphalian system rules. However, recent developments in international relations theoretical discourses highlight universalism particularism geopolitics, especially with respect to for...