abstract: after the collapse of the soviet :union:, and the geopolitical changes in the region, which caused emergence of four new states, the outlook to the caspian sea and it's issues have changed. dealing with numerouse oil contracts with multinational companies and the entrance of transnational states and organizations, aggrevated the political and economic competitions and increased t...

The emergence and persistence of a market requires a broadly accepted framework or schema for the evaluation of product offerings. In many markets, critics play an important role in the elaboration of these schemas. However, sociologists lack a systematic method for comparing critical schemas and consequently lack a systematic method for assessing how critics play their respective roles. In thi...

Unique, and certainly complex, networks of suppliers, clients, and operators (end users), characterize the supply chain in the aerospace manufacturing industry. With the emergence of e-commerce and enterprise information systems, a number of processes, locations, and partners can be linked globally—and in real time. Motivated by the need to achieve global integration, a Canadian aerospace manuf...

On the markets for technology (MfT) we currently observe a sizable growth, observe that firms still face immanent transaction obstacles and the emergence of technology market intermediaries (TMI). Why TMIs emerge and how they attempt to facilitate transactions however is not yet sufficiently understood. For these two questions we propose theoretical explanations within this paper building prima...

Purpose The emergence of new media has changed the way how airlines interact with the public. This study analyzes how airlines use one of the most popular new media platforms, Facebook, to manage public relations, communicate with customers and diversify their sales channels. This topic has not been covered by scientific literature so far. Methods This paper uses content analysis to identify ty...

This work is devoted to a brief exposition of experimental foundations to assume the new type of X-ray propagation through a narrow extended slit. It is experimentally shown that the high intensity of its emergent beam is not connected with the mechanism of free radiation propagation and with multiple total reflection of the beam. This type of X-ray passing we associate with the waveguide-reson...

nnovation does not necessarily proceed linearly from basic scientific research to product development; it is an iterative process of both matching market needs to technological capabilities and conducting research to fill gaps in knowledge, whether during product conception, product design, manufacturing, marketing, or other phases of the innovation process. Commercial success depends as much o...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to examine how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may affect knowledge capabilities that enable organizational improvisation. Drawing upon research into knowledge integration, improvisation and communities of practice, a new concept, minimal structures of knowledge, is introduced. In jazz improvisation, minimal structures (e.g., jazz chord prog...

The present article is taken up with the dynamics of economic organization. In particular, it critically discusses much recent work which has asserted that economic organization—notably, the boundaries of firms, internal organization, and corporate governance—will undergo major transformative changes as a result of the emergence of the so-called “knowledge economy,” a term much fancied by busin...

The impact of mobile text messaging is re-interpreted as an emergent technology that has accidentally been instrumental in the configuration of new social networks on a global scale. Using the unintended consequences of this implicit revolution in interpersonal communication as a catalyst for the generation of ideas, the argument is advanced that this is a manifestation of a new type of creativ...