Global channels of successful immigrant entrepreneurs illustrate the constructal law

The disintermediation of the furniture supply chain. Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs at the global-local nexus

Successful entrepreneurs minimize risk

Many scholars see entrepreneurs as action-oriented individuals who use rules of thumb and other mental heuristics to make decisions, but who do little systematic planning and analysis. We argue that what distinguishes successful from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is precisely that the former vary their decisionmaking styles, sometimes relying on heuristics and sometimes relying on systematic analy...

Climate change, in the framework of the constructal law

Climate change, in the framework of the constructal law M. Clausse, F. Meunier, A. H. Reis, and A. Bejan Laboratory of Chemical Engineering applied to Environment, Energy and Health (LGP2ES-EA21), Conservatoire National des Art et Metiers (CNAM), case 331, 292, rue St Martin, 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France Department of Physics and Evora Geophysics Centre, University of Évora, Ramalho, 59, 7000-6...

The constructal law of design and evolution in nature.

Constructal theory is the view that (i) the generation of images of design (pattern, rhythm) in nature is a phenomenon of physics and (ii) this phenomenon is covered by a principle (the constructal law): 'for a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) it must evolve such that it provides greater and greater access to the currents that flow through it'. This law is about the necessit...

Constructal Law of Vascular Trees for Facilitation of Flow

Diverse tree structures such as blood vessels, branches of a tree and river basins exist in nature. The constructal law states that the evolution of flow structures in nature has a tendency to facilitate flow. This study suggests a theoretical basis for evaluation of flow facilitation within vascular structure from the perspective of evolution. A novel evolution parameter (Ev) is proposed to qu...