This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology, to facilitate a shift away from linear work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. To approach such a change, by focusing on the technologies aspect to the detriment of a regard on managerial, technologica...

In 2021, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will celebrate its 20-year anniversary. Transformed from “Shanghai Five” mechanism on settlement of border disputes and confidence-building between four ex-soviet republics Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan China, into full-fledged organization in 2001, has been become one important players Eurasian region. Since then SCO made signif...

Academic inbreeding is a phenomenon that has been studied mostly from the standpoint of its association with research productivity. The focus on knowledge creation outputs and outcomes, while little to no attention given academic strategies processes in academia. This article focusses latter, confirming detrimental aspirations, innovativeness, risk-taking, multidisciplinarity engagement academi...

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline’s frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of competing airlines. A positive reaction function slope is found in some cases, indicating the presence of str...