... mechanisms. It also examines the distinct impacts of historical and industry negative expectation–performance gaps as well as the different moderating roles of absorbed and unabsorbed organizational slack, which have not been explored together before. Management Globalization Organizational structures...

... to the global market, do not possess firm-specific advantages such as brand, technology, R&D and organizational capabilities (Strange, 2018). On the one hand, based on the springboard theory, OFDI by EMNEs to advanced economies with advanced technologies is seen as a “springboard” for developing...

... to control the development of the political sphere. Globalization Complexity Agency theory Institutional evolution Liquid development Political sphere Liquid society Political frames Agency may be seen in terms of complex processes through which collective interactive phenomena emerge...

... in a political landscape. As part of this synergistic process, Bauman’s concept of liquidity is shown to relate to Sorokin’s ideas of socio-cultural change. Development Growth Globalization Complexity Institutional evolution Liquid society This three-part paper is a general exploration...

...Xinxuan Cheng; Guoqing Yang; Longfei Fan Purpose This paper aims to develop an uncertain global supply chain network design (GSCND) model with rules of origin (RoOs) and limited import quotas, and to discuss the international factors’ effects on location decisions. Design/methodology/approach...

... journalism, which is part of a self-reproducing, self-regulating (autopoietic) global journalism system. The authors use both subtle and overt protests over Chinese censorship as evidence for the journalism system’s increasing complexity and autonomy. The authors observe that levels of complexity ratchet up...

... organizations. Fourth, the article provides a conceptual framework (“coin the frame”) around what the author has termed Asplund's “motivation theory” and North's “action theory”. Knowledge management Globalization Cybernetics Business systems Economics Citizenship Systemic innovation theory...

... hypothesis is as follows: H₇. The perceived importance of the scale of a hotel's global (worldwide) operations is positively related with equity. In this sense, the experts consulted indicate that a chain's ability to decentralize operations plays a key role...

...Gaspar Mora; Bhushan Kapoor; Joseph Sherif Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance information systems, research and strategies to manage global human resources. The influx of diversity candidates into the marketplace is driving the wheels of change. With an increase in minorities...

...B.H. Rudall; C.J.H. Mann Purpose This paper aims to review current research and developments with particular reference to some global initiatives. Design/methodology/approach A general review and survey of selected research and development topics is given, and studies of some new projects...

... are followed up and discussed. The first refers to the reflexivity theory of Soros, the second to distinct epistemologies within cybernetics, and the other two specifically to means of global regulation. Practical implications There should be implications for both economic and ecological regulation...

... Globalization Topology You are my neighbour, no matter how far you are (Chinese proverb). The development of a social phenomenon, as well as that of a natural one, may be sometimes demonstrated by means of an adequate mathematical model. The aim of mathematical modelling is not only to bring...

... 1997 Culture Globalization Postmodernism Public sphere Sociocybernetics Those sociologists who still dare to attempt the, by now, outdated and even slightly suspicious task of capturing the Zeitgeist have given it an array of different names: late modernity, risk society...

...Yves Cherruault Introduces new reducing transformation which allows expression of n variables in function of a single one. This allows densification of the space Rⁿ and the quality of the densification can be estimated. Applications to global optimization problems lead...