It is often claimed that information technology has the potential to transform entire industries. However, we find that very little IS research has been conducted at the industry level. Moreover, the small amount of research that has been conducted on IT and industries has been based largely on just one perspective of industries. Given the scale and potential impact of the changes that are happ...

This review paper provides researcherwith a comprehensive information about the Carbon Nano tubes and the catalyst parameters that influences theproduction and morphology of the of Carbon Nano tubes.Carbon nanotubes, referred to as CNTs, are one of the most important materials used in electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical and textile industries. Since discovery of CNTs in 1991, many scienti...

This article develops the decomposition of the dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator into dynamic technical change, dynamic technical inefficiency change and dynamic scale inefficiency change in the dynamic directional distance function context using Data Envelopment Analysis. These results are used to investigate for the Spanish food processing industry the extent to which dynamic p...

Crystallization processes are used across the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. In the chemical industry, the potash and caustic industries use crystallization as a means to produce bulk chemicals and also as a separation technology for purification. The fine chemical and specialty chemical industries use crystallization processes to produce various high-value organic compo...

The paper has studied the structure and extent of value addition in different agro-processing units in Himachal Pradesh. It has also examined the financial viability of agro-processing industries in the state. The break-even analysis has shown enough leverage for processing units to stay in the business even at low capacity utilization. The extent of value addition has been about 53 per cent in...

We show that discrete tomography (DT) is suitable to increase the possible inspection size of single material oblong objects compared to filtered back projection (FBP) in non-destructive testing (NDT) with 2D X-ray computed tomography (CT). For such objects which are in one dimension larger than the maximum detectable material thickness limited view angles occur and FBP is not suitable for reco...

In fish schools the density varies per location and often individuals are sorted according to familiarity and/or body size. High density is considered advantageous for protection against predators and this sorting is believed to be advantageous not only to avoid predators but also for finding food. In this paper, we list a number of mechanisms and we study, with the help of an individual-based ...

Companies across all sectors with increasingly smaller size rely on alliance relationships to bolster revenues during times of economic uncertainty. When forming alliances, large firms typically hire vendors such as investment banks to help identify potential alliance partners. However, small businesses with intention to build alliance find difficulties to search desired partners especially on ...

This study considers the effect of an industry's network topology on its systemic risk contribution to the stock market using data from the CSI 300 two-tier industry indices from the Chinese stock market. We first measure industry's conditional-value-at-risk (CoVaR) and the systemic risk contribution (ΔCoVaR) using the fitted time-varying t-copula function. The network of the stock industry is ...