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Open Innovation Alliances in Technology Colonies
A gap between basic research and production characterizes a technology colony. An open innovation alliance gives low-wage countries the chance to...
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Ant colonies: building complex organizations with minuscule brains and no leaders
Thus far the articles in the series JOD calls the “Organization Zoo” have employed the notion of a “zoo” metaphorically to describe an array of human...
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History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice
In this study, we argue that European countries’ extensive relationships with former colonies represent a location factor that attracts foreign...
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Introduction
Migration from, within and to Europe is hardly a new phenomenon. Migration from Europe could be perceived as constitutive of the modern-colonial...
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GTIACO: energy efficient clustering algorithm based on game theory and improved ant colony optimization
Recently, wireless sensor networks have been widely used for environmental and structural safety monitoring. However, node batteries cannot be...
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Theoretical Foundations: Management—Information Systems—Complexity
This chapter answers fundamental questions regarding the design of the artifact—the managerial method Denica for tactical management. Maybe the...
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An improved artificial algae algorithm integrated with differential evolution for job-shop scheduling problem
For the past decades, practitioners and researchers have been fascinated by the job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) and have proposed many pristine...
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Debt financing and fiscal illusion: evidence from Caribbean states
This original study constructs a fiscal illusion index to investigate the usefulness of democracy as a fiscal illusion indicator. Two key questions...
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US Natural Gas Consumption Analysis via a Smart Time Series Approach Based on Multilayer Perceptron ANN Tuned by Meta-heuristic Algorithms
Today, balancing energy supply and demand due to limited resources has become one of the most important concerns of governments. Therefore,...
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Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: Is There a Colonial Legacy?
To provide new understanding of the effect of historical ties in the field of international business, through the lens of institutional theory and...
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Foreign ownership, bank information environments, and the international mobility of corporate governance
This paper investigates how foreign ownership shapes bank information environments. Using a sample of listed banks from 60 countries over 1997–2012,...
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Supply Chains, Supply Chain Management and Management Accounting
This chapter defines the key concepts of management accounting, logistics, supply chains, and supply chain management (SCM) and discusses the...
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Computational Intelligence
Implementing systems that can exhibit human-like and more biological capabilities (e.g., learning and summarizing information) is a current...
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Development of International Trade and Investment in Services
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
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Ecosystems and Agile Organizations: The Transition to Spontaneous Order
This article provides a novel analysis in the field of management and business organization. The innovation lies in evidencing the remarkable...
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Data Engineering in Action
For data engineers, the main task is to collect, organize, and process meaningful information that can be extracted from the plethora of data...
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Construction Learning
The first basic ingredient of heuristics is to build a solution. So, a first metaheuristic approach is to improve the process of building solutions....
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Sociology of the Professions and Accounting
Professions represent social groups formed within a wider social context by skilled individuals around their common economic interests. In...
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Robotics and AI: How Technology May Change the Way We Shape Our Bodies and What This Does to the Mind
In this chapter, Kirchner explores some of the exciting recent developments in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) and the barriers to control...
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Dynamic migratory beekee** route recommendation based on spatio-temporal distribution of nectar sources
Due to the lack of scientific guidance, most migratory beekeepers currently arrange their migratory beekee** routes by experience. The production...
