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Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We fuse research on incumbents' adaptation to discontinuous technologies with board capital theory to investigate how heterogeneity in incumbent firms' adoption of discontinuous technologies may be affected by what we label as outside director incumbency capital—the specific subset of social capital and human capital that outside directors ...
Simon Hensellek +4 more
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Pige Kexue Yu GongchengObjectiveTo improve the efficiency of digitally transforming traditional patterns of the Ruyuan Yao people into modern footwear design, this study establishes a systematic analytical framework and innovative design methods to explore pathways for ...
Wenshuang ZHU +3 more
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Do International Shocks Affect Small Wholesalers and Retailers? [PDF]
Previous research has suggested that the smallest firms are those most vulnerable to international competition, as measured by exchange rate fluctuations and import shares.
Robert M. Feinberg
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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
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Internationalization of SMEs in Portugal: focus on the shoe manufacturing industry of Portugal
, 2019 Due to economic conditions currently in place in the domestic markets, and to the fact that the vast majority of companies in Portugal being micro, small and medium enterprises, there is the need to differentiate from the competition which leads to the international market.
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Understanding Productivity Levels, Dispersion and Growth in the Leather Shoe Industry: Effects of Size and Informality [PDF]
In this case study performed on the industrial sub-sector of manufacture of leather shoes in Bolivia, we use the Hsieh and Klenow model (2008) to determine the differences between productivity of larger and formal companies and productivity of smaller ...
Carlos Gustavo Machicado +1 more
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When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Endeavoring to avoid the pitfalls of being too trusting of regulated entities' compliance claims, regulators sometimes create regulatory systems with elaborate requirements for verification. But as these accountability and verification regimes attempt to circumvent one set of problems, they may inadvertently create others.
Carol A. Heimer
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Hybrid system of expert system and artificial neural networks for objective evaluation of product sensuous quality [PDF]
, 2001 Basic problems and the bottleneck of current approaches for objective assessment of product sensuous quality (PSQ) are discussed. As a solution, a new approach, an expert system (ES) based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) is proposed, in which the ES
Su, D, Su, Z
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt +4 more
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Prolonged exposure to weightlessness leads to loss of muscle and bone mass. Therefore, astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) currently perform mandatory daily exercises. ISS missions usually last 6 months, and future missions will become significantly longer when going, for example, to Mars.
Jonas Böcker +6 more
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