Integrating Acquired Capabilities: When Structural Integration Is (Un)necessary

Integrating Acquired Capabilities: When Structural Integration Is (Un)necessary

Acquirers who buy small technology-based firms for their technological capabilities often discover that postmerger integration can destroy the very innovative capabilities that made the acquired organization attractive in the first place. Viewing structural integration as a mechanism to achieve coordination between acquirer and target organizations helps explain why structural integration may b...

When is Acceleration Unnecessary in a Degradation Test?

Acceleration is widely used in reliability tests to yield sufficient reliability information within a short time frame. From the statistical point of view, the cost of acceleration is that additional parameters are needed to link the accelerating variables to the failure process. When the increase of statistical information is insufficient to compensate the introduction of additional parameters...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

When every $P$-flat ideal is flat

In this paper‎, ‎we study the class of rings in which every $P$-flat‎ ‎ideal is flat and which will be called $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎Von Neumann regular rings‎, ‎hereditary rings‎, ‎semi-hereditary ring‎, ‎PID and arithmetical rings are examples of $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In the context domain‎, ‎this notion coincide with‎ ‎Pr"{u}fer domain‎. ‎We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for‎...

Integrating New Capabilities into NetPIPE

The performance of the communication network can greatly affect the ability of scientific applications to make efficient use of the computational power available in high-performance computing systems. Many tools exist for analyzing network performance, but most concentrate on a single layer in the communication subsystem or on one type of network hardware. NetPIPE was developed to provide a com...