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Knowledge management issues in fast growth SMEs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

Settled equilibria

When people recurrently interact in familiar settings, social conventions may develop so that people tend to disregard alternatives outside the conventional norm. For rational players to usually restrict attention to a block of conventional strategies, no player should prefer to deviate from the block when others are likely to act rationally and conventionally inside it. We explore concepts tha...

Nationalism in Settled Times

Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to shift the focus of this scholarly field toward the study of nationalism not only as a political project but also as a cognitive, affective, and discursive category deployed in daily practice. Integrat...

Settled Polynomials over Finite Fields

We study the factorization into irreducibles of iterates of a quadratic polynomial f over a finite field. We call f settled when the factorization of its nth iterate for large n is dominated by “stable” polynomials, namely those that are irreducible under post-composition by any iterate of f . We prove that stable polynomials may be detected by their action on the critical orbit of f , and that...

Hayfever--practical management issues.