Nowadays, companies are spending more time and money to enhance their innovation ability to respond to the increasing market competition. The pressure makes companies seek help from external knowledge, especially those from academia. Unfortunately, there is a gap between knowledge seekers (companies) and suppliers (researchers) due to the scattered and asymmetric information. To facilitate shar...

The nature of competition in the United States’ communications sector changed significantly over the past two decades. Before the 1990s, ‘‘competition’’ referred to the fight among providers of discrete services, such as the contest among AT&T, MCI, and Sprint over the longdistance slice of the communications pie. Today, competition is much more likely to describe the fight over the entire pie,...

Let Ln be the length of a longest increasing subsequence in a random permutation of {1, ..., n}. It is known that the expected value of Ln is asymptotically equal to 2 √ n as n gets large. This note derives upper bound on the probability that Ln − 2 √ n exceeds certain quantities. In particular, we prove that Ln − 2 √ n has order at most n1/6 with high probability. Our main result is an isoperi...

In recent years, the meaning of e-commerce increased not only for IT companies but also for traditional organizations, not originating from IT environments. Because of the increasing stress of competition, coupled with the need to reduce costs continually, it is most important for companies to develop new business areas and to cooperate with potential business partners. Electronic product catal...

Interfirm collaboration among knowledge intensive firms is increasing as a result of accelerating competition, falling regulatory barriers, and rising customer expectations. Resource dependency theory is used to position knowledge as the key resource for the knowledge-based enterprise (KBE) and to examine the suitability of alliances as a mode of knowledge acquisition and exchange, contrasted p...

Market saturation, increased competition, change in tastes and needs of customers have made Iranian companies, especially canned industries, face various challenges in relation to consumers. Under such conditions, cannery companies with the ability for proper use of available facilities and equipment such as design and development of new products, supplying high-quality and economic products an...

Due to globalization, advanced information and communication technology has fuelled competition, and building and sustaining of competition advantages are major concerns of companies. Developing dynamic core competency has become a new competition strategy and an important way to help companies remain flexible and able to respond quickly to unpredicted changes in the environment. The developmen...

Nowadays the competition among companies, joined to the environmental protection rules, is so compelling that they should not only be on the top of technology in they area, but also run their business according to life-long models. The emphasis on the product post-sale life is common for these models. The most popular model is Product Lifecycle Management, for manufacturing companies, or Servic...