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Wireless network operators increasingly deploy WiFi hotspots and low-power, low-range base stations in order to satisfy users' growing demands for context-aware services and performance. In addition to providing better service, such capillary infrastructur ...

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Credit Market Frictions and Capital Structure Dynamics

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We study the implications of credit market frictions for the dynamics of corporate capital structure and the risk of default of corporations. To do so, we develop a dynamic capital structure model in which firms face uncertainty regarding their ability to ...

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Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?

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We find evidence that workforce educational diversity promotes entrepreneurial behavior of employees as well as the formation of new firms, whereas diversity in demographics hinders transitions to selfemployment. Ethnic diversity favors entrepreneurship in ...

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Evidence for a role of oxytocin receptors in the long-term establishment of dominance hierarchies

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Marjan Timmer

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Whose Housing Crisis? Transnational Elites' Residential Strategies in Geneva and the Role of Public Policies

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Trust and forms of capital in business-to-business activities and relationships

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The IMP group's ARA model, with its emphasis on interaction, captures social and economic dimensions of exchanges. We draw on it to compare three cases and assess how actors act in skilful and nuanced ways in mobilizing resources, given the very different ...

Elsevier2010

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements

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Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

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Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

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Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory theory

Margarita Protopappa

Financial flows are often treated in a fragmented and disconnected way from the physical product flow. Managers take decisions from an operational point of view concerning inventory, service level or capacity needs. The implementation of such decisions inf ...

EPFL2009

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control

Ralf Seifert

2008

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