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Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research
Control and coordination efforts are at the heart of MNE functioning. Yet, our review reveals that the literature on MNE control and coordination lacks conceptual clarity, which may hamper the development of t...
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Managerial negative interpretation and environmental CSR: Evidence from China
This study takes a managerial cognition perspective and investigates how managerial negative interpretation of the external environment influences firm engagement in environmental CSR. We also explore how owne...
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Open AccessDoes the height to entrepreneurship nexus have two stages? New evidence from 27 nations
We examine the association between height and entrepreneurship in 27 nations, finding that the relationship between height and entrepreneurship can be considered to be a two-stage process. During the first sta...
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A privacy protection method for health care big data management based on risk access control
With the rapid development of modern information technology, the health care industry is entering a critical stage of intelligence. Faced with the growing health care big data, information security issues are ...
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The China-West divide on social capital: A meta-analysis
The mixed empirical results on the impact of social capital call for a better understanding of the conditioning effect of contextual differences. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess whether and how social c...
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Syndication through social embeddedness: A comparison of foreign, private and state-owned venture capital (VC) firms
This paper explores the different syndication behavior in various types of Chinese venture capitals (VC), in particular it focuses on foreign, private-owned and state-owned VC firms and these firms’ behavior w...
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Adapting and sustaining operations in weak institutional environments: A business ecosystem assessment of a Chinese MNE in Central Africa
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) sometimes pursue opportunities in largely uncharted, distinctive institutional environments. How do these firms sustain operations in such settings? We explore how MNEs tailor ...
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Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research
Good Laboratory Practice has been a part of non-clinical research for over 40 years. Optimization Research, despite having many papers discussing standards being published over the same period of time, has yet...
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Solving non-linear portfolio optimization problems with interval analysis
Estimation errors or uncertainities in expected return and risk measures create difficulties for portfolio optimization. The literature deals with the uncertainty using stochastic, fuzzy or probability program...
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A path-oriented encoding evolutionary algorithm for network coding resource minimization
Network coding is an emerging telecommunication technique, where any intermediate node is allowed to recombine incoming data if necessary. This technique helps to increase the throughput, however, very likely ...
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Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art
Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search problems. An underlying strategi...
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Innovation through collaborative partnerships: creating the MSN News for iPad app at VanceInfo Technologies
This teaching case focuses on a collaborative project between a major software and services outsourcing company in China (VanceInfo Technologies) and one of its major Western clients (Microsoft Inc.). VanceInf...
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Meta-heuristic algorithms for wafer sorting scheduling problems
Wafer sorting is usually regarded as the most critical stage in the whole wafer probing process. This paper discusses the wafer sorting scheduling problem (WSSP) with total setup time minimization as the prima...
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An effective heuristic algorithm to minimise stack shuffles in selecting steel slabs from the slab yard for heating and rolling
Steel production is a multi-stage process. A slab yard serves as a buffer between the continuous casting stage and the steel rolling stage. Steel slabs are stored in stacks in the yard. Shuffling is needed whe...
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An Algorithm for Minimizing the Range of Lateness on a Single Machine
This paper considers the problem of minimizing the range of lateness on a single machine. All the algorithms in the literature for solving this problem are based on the branch-and-bound approach, which has an ...
