Proximity, Vicarious Learning, and Location Choice for New Outlets in Spatially-dispersed Industries

Proximity, Vicarious Learning, and the Location of New Outlets in the Texas Drug Store Market, 1992-1997

Turnover Events, Vicarious Information, and the Reduced Likelihood of Outlet-Level Exit Among Small Multiunit Organizations

Akey question for organizational learning research is to identify opportunities and constraints for firms to gain useful information from the activities and performance of other firms. We argue that market-level turnover events generate and release vicarious information that small multiunit organizations can use to enhance their likelihood of survival. We focus on two specific turnover events, ...

The Role of Location on Exploitation of Agricultural Businesses in Mazandaran Province (Case Study: Agricultural Processing Industry)

hoosing the appropriate site is important in the construction of units such as agricultural processing industries. In this study, we try to determine the factors affecting the exploitation of the agricultural processing industries and measure the share of location as one of the important issues in locating research. The 2572 data were collected from the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Mazand...

Vicarious Learning in New Product Introductions in the Early Years of a Converging Market

T developments combine previously distinct technologies that result in converging markets. In converging markets, firms from different industries compete against each other, often for the first time. We propose that firms introducing new products in converging markets will learn vicariously from other firms in the market. Further, we propose that this learning will vary across the dual-technolo...

New Stilling Basins Designs for Deep Rectangular Outlets

The experimental study reported here is intended to evolve new designs of stilling basins for deep and narrow openings used as outlets. Several appurtenances such as grid, Impact wall, stepped wall, weir wall, sloping end sill and wedge shaped blocks are used to study their influence on the hydraulic performance of the stilling basins with an aim to propose efficient stilling basin models. All ...