Difference and diversity are phenomena existing from the very first days human communities have been formed. Under such condition, what provides for necessity of coexistence between different individuals and groups to become possible is tolerance. On the other hand, wide range development in terms of communication and providing information are going on in today’s world. This evolution called by...

The concept of celebrities has shaped societies throughout history. This work addresses the problem of celebrity identification from social media interactions. “Celebritiness” is a characteristic assigned to persons that are initially based on specific achievements or lineage. However, celebritiness often transcends achievements and gets attached to the person itself, causing them to capture po...

Kin selection is thought to drive the evolution of cooperation and conflict, but the specific genes and genome-wide patterns shaped by kin selection are unknown. We identified thousands of genes associated with the sterile ant worker caste, the archetype of an altruistic phenotype shaped by kin selection, and then used population and comparative genomic approaches to study patterns of molecular...

I develop the ‘surrogate motherhood’ model of entrepreneurship and network evolution. This model suggests that incumbent firms may gestate new spin-off firms by entrepreneurial employees when certain firm-specific and network conditions apply. Additionally, I suggest that the spin-offs keep their cohesive ties to the ‘surrogate mother’ firm well beyond resource dependence arguments would convey...

Based on reviewing resource theory, social capital theory, organizational learning, and technological evolution and related theories, and analyzing of environments that auto mobile enterprises in China face, the authors put forward a conceptual framework of competitive advantage and technology catching up of Independent Brand automobile enterprises in China. The model indicates that market iden...