The research on social networks and collaborative strategies has highlighted from the mid of 1980 which has contributed to the success and development of firms. The relationship and communication with trade partners in overseas help success of firms in entering to foreign markets and improve new partners and new markets abroad. Doing firm internationalization in foreign countries faces some ba...

â â â  â â â â â  abstract â  the research on social networks and collaborative strategies has highlighted from the mid of 1980 which has contributed to the success and development of firms. the relationship and communication with trade partners in overseas help success of firms in entering to foreign markets and improve new partners and new markets abroad. doing firm internationalization in fo...

the purpose of this research is to predict knowledge sharing through dimensions of social capital. knowledge sharing occurrence depends directly upon tendency of knowledge holder to sharing as well as knowledge receiver to take it from holders. in other side, social capital is defined as linkage among people and their unifying factors such as trust. in this research, social capital is conceptua...

In this paper we develop the concept of relational quality as a proxy for relational trust. Exploration of data from 67 alliances confirms that relational quality is composed of three elements: initial conditions, partner interactions, and external events. We offer propositions on the relative importance these elements take depending on the different roles relational trust may play in strategic...

The \Boom hierarchy" is a hierarchy of types that begins at the level of trees and includes lists, bags and sets. This hierarchy forms the basis for the calculus of total functions developed by Bird and Meertens, and which has become known as the \Bird-Meertens formalism". This paper describes a hierarchy of types that logically precedes the Boom hierarchy. We show how the basic operators of th...

With XML adopted as technology trend on the Internet, and with investment in the current relational database systems, companies must convert their relational data into XML documents for data transmission on the Internet. In the process, to preserve the users’ relational data requirements of data constraints into the converted XML documents, we must define a meaningful root element for each XML ...

This chapter introduces a fuzzy object-relational database model including fuzzy extensions of the basic object-relational databases constructs, the user-defined data types, and the collection types. The fuzzy extensions of these constructs focus on two main flexible aspects, a way to flexibly compare complex data types and an extension of collection types allowing partial membership of its ele...

Data clustering techniques aim at eliciting hidden structures of a data set by partitioning it into groups of similar elements. In the case of relational clustering, the similarity is based on the relations that exist between elements rather than on intrinsic features of each element. However, applying relational clustering tools to the context of Multicriteria Decision Making requires caution ...

The ability to perceive, comprehend and reason about relations (i.e., relational thinking) is central in human cognition. Relational thinking is powerful because it is structured. Specifically, relational thought allows inferences and generalizations that are constrained by the roles that elements play, rather than strictly the properties of the elements themselves. The role of relational compa...