Nowadays users consumption style for video and multimedia applications is strongly changing. Users are consuming content through multi-screen and are heavily counting on wireless and mobile devices for video streaming and interactive video and multimedia applications. This necessitates more intelligence in the service and the network infrastructure to better suit a differentiated users consumpt...

Con uence of orthogonal rewriting systems can be proved using the Finite Developments Theorem. We present, in a general setting, several adaptations of this proof method for obtaining con uence of `not quite' orthogonal systems.

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Strategy Dynamics (Warren, 2008) provides a quantitative, resource-based approach to understanding a firm’s performance over time. This paper describes a strategy analysis of Starbucks Corporation using Strategy Dynamics. It demonstrates the usefulness of this approach in addressing business performance issues for a realworld company. The strategic architecture, a key artifact of the approach, ...

This paper presents a model of the stakeholder corporation and analyzes the equilibrium of an economy with stakeholder firms. The analysis is based on a model of a production economy that differs from the standard approach where uncertainty is modeled by an exogenous probability distribution over states of nature. The property that differentiates it from the standard model (which justifies the ...

Currently the issue of sustainability is at heart debate on corporate governance business companies. In Europe, an intense activity revising and updating European rules applicable to financial markets company law has started. Italy, such became more after legal transplant US benefit corporation model in late 2015. The Italian società allows, through a voluntary choice founding members or shareh...