Arjan van Rooij, Building Plants. Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM's Fertiliser Business, 1925-1970

Robert van Rooij 1

Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups

Business groups are important in many countries. Several studies have looked at the performance and behavior of firms that are members of a business group. This paper looks at the issue in more detail and tries to answer some related questions. First, do business groups really have internal capital markets and do they provide efficient resource allocation (in a view of the controlling sharehold...

Cloud Computing Technology Algorithms Capabilities in Managing and Processing Big Data in Business Organizations: MapReduce, Hadoop, Parallel Programming

The objective of this study is to verify the importance of the capabilities of cloud computing services in managing and analyzing big data in business organizations because the rapid development in the use of information technology in general and network technology in particular, has led to the trend of many organizations to make their applications available for use via electronic platforms hos...

Beriberi, vitamin B1 and world food policy, 1925-1970.

Beriberi has long been recognized as being of special significance among the avitaminoses. It was not the first disease to be associated with a specific nutritional deficiency, but the researches of Christian Eijkman into polyneuritis in the early years of this century, and Casimir Funk's apparent isolation of an anti-beriberi factor in 1911, led to the discovery and identification of vitamins ...

Building Business from Technology: The Sandia Experience

This paper describes New Ventures, a new initiative at Sandia National Laboratories that encourages the creation of new businesses based on laboratory technology as a timely, eficient means of technology transfer Sandia’s New Ventures program has shown that a dedicated effort can produce significant results. In the three years prior to this program’s launch, just two ventures per year on averag...