The competitive scenario in recent decades has imposed increasing levels of complexity and interdependence to companies, which try to respond to this challenge providing some organizational changes, such as collective arrangements. This article aims to understand the emerging collective competencies based on the mobilization of different working groups to make the turnaround maintenance (TM) po...

We document heterogeneity in the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) across household characteristics relevant understanding heterogeneous agent models and monetary policy transmission. find a strong negative relationship between liquid wealth MPC. show that predicts MPC closely for every other characteristic we look at. use new empirical method overcomes sources of bias found existing literat...

The demands for mobile communication services are growing rapidly. In heavily populated areas, cell splits are unavoidable to increase the capacity of the cellular system. Cell splitting makes a cellular system have mixed cell sizes. For cell planning, it is necessary to analyze the reverse link capacity of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) cellular system with mixed cell sizes. In this pa...