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A Formal Study of Distributed Meeting Scheduling
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-05)
Automating routine organizational tasks, such as meeting scheduling, requires a careful balance between the individual (respecting his or her privacy and personal preferences) and the organization (making efficient use of ...
Search reduction in hierarchical distributed problem solving
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
Knoblock and Korf have determined that abstraction can reduce search at a single agent from exponential to linear complexity (Knoblock 1991; Korf 1987). We extend their results by showing how concurrent problem solving ...
Entry into new market segments in mature industries: endogenous and exogenous segmentation in the U.S. brewing industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-04)
I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource-partitioning, that could independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries. The niche formation argument focuses on environmental ...
Uncertainty in the transaction environment: an empirical test
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-01)
Previous studies examining the relationship between uncertainty and vertical integration have produced a conflicting set of results. To clarify this puzzle we drew on the literature to conceptualize three distinct forms ...
ARMADA Middleware and Communication Services
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-05)
Real-time embedded systems have evolved during the past several decades from small custom-designed digital hardware to large distributed processing systems. As these systems become more complex, their interoperability, ...
Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1996-12)
This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios, we ...
Somebody Out There Doesn't Like Us: A Study of the Position and Respect of Business Ethics at Schools of Business Administration
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-11)
This article is the result of a survey taken to determine the respect and position of Business Ethics as a field of study within Schools of Business Administration. 379 questionnaires were delivered to individual, not ...
Model integration and a theory of models
(Elsevier, 1993-01)
Model integration extends the scope of model management to include the dimension of manipulation as well. This invariably leads to comparisons with database theory. Model integration is viewed from four perspectives: ...
Teaching Business Ethics: Theory and Practice
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-09)
Business ethics teaching can be improved when ethicists integrate the ethical theories they apply to business with the organizational design of the course. By utilizing three techniques – implementing a Total Quality ...