This paper studies how firms reorganize following diversification, proposing that firms use outsourcing, or vertical disintegration, to manage diseconomies of scope. We also consider the origins of scope diseconomies, showing how different underlying mechanisms generate contrasting predictions about the link between within-firm task heterogeneity and the incentive to outsource following diversi...

in this research, the decay resistance of bagasse-polypropylene composite has been evaluated. the scope of research was to assess the effect of different weight percentages of bagasse (40, 55 and 70%) and coupling agent, (mapp) maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (0, 4 and 6%) on the fungal decay of the composite. astm d1413-99 modified test method was used to carry out the decay test, trame...

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements thatmight contribute to the successful ‘‘design’’ and continuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide research evidence to support the design and establishment of a CoP based on systems thinking within this depar...

Diagnostic error is difficult to define, because diagnosis is both a process and the outcome of that process. Furthermore, it is difficult to judge when the process is complete – a physician may have a working diagnosis that seems to be the most likely reason for a given set of symptoms, but often only time will tell if that diagnosis was correct or not. Was his or her original diagnosis wrong,...

Introduction The International scoping study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super-beam Facility (ISS) was established at NuFact 05 to survey the possibilities available for a future complex for precision neutrino physics to succeed the super beam experiments (T2K in Japan and Noνa in the USA) currently under construction. The possibilities centre around developments of the superbeam concept w...

conclusions the incidence and severity of sore throat and hoarseness after tracheal intubation by glide scope were lower than in the macintosh laryngoscope. the incidence and severity of sore throat were increased by intubation and longer operation times. patients and methods three hundred patients were randomly allocated into two groups of 150: macintosh blade laryngoscope or glide scope video...