the purpose of this study is to extend the existing knowledge of inter-firm knowledge transfer research and provide a deeper understanding of knowledge transfer practice in an alliance context, as well as the reasons for such a practice. this study reports on relevant results derived from semi-structured interviews with 16 top managers in a chinese international joint venture (ijv) formed by tw...

interpretations of the qur'an have always been regarded as the most widespread and diverse ground for expression of religious and epistemological thoughts; that is because the understanding of any interpreter of the blessed verses of the revealed book is normally different from his other counterparts. on the other hand, the study of the qur'an's interpretations and the accurate e...

We study strategic communication when the sender's multi-dimensional messages are given an interpretation by sender himself or a proxy. Interpreting involves provision of some data about their statistical state-dependence. Interpretation can be selective: different kinds interpret sets message components. The receiver uses this to decipher messages, yet he does not draw any inferences from kind...

The XML documents that represent legal resources contain information and legal knowledge that belong to many distinct conceptual layers. This paper shows how the Akoma Ntoso standard keeps these layers well separated while providing ontological structures on top of them. Additionally, this paper illustrates how Akoma Ntoso allows multiple interpretations, provided by di erent agents, over the s...