A new link between price format and consumer preferences is introduced in the context of transactions related to multicomponent goods. Multicomponent goods combine a focal object or service (an item of clothing, theater tickets, etc.) with one or more infrastructural elements that fulfill some essential, subordinate role (shipping and handling, booking service, etc.). In this context firms need...

Marco Trubian Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione Università degli studi di Milano 20135 Milan, Italy Phone:+39 02 503 16230, Fax:+39 02 503 16253 [email protected] Abstract Multiple combinations of hardware and network components can be selected to design an information technology (IT) infrastructure that satisfies performance requirements. The professional criterion to deal with thes...

Abstract Selective promotion entails the exploitation of resources offered by individual complementors to improve a proprietary platform’s competitive position. However, as governance decisions endorse particular complementor are made unilaterally, such is less suitable for shared platforms that ultimately owned and managed an ecosystem heterogeneous, autonomous complementors. We explore compat...

Social competence and emotional intelligence have become popular phrases in the current educational scenario. It is a kind of social that includes ability to monitor one's feelings emotions, discriminate among them, utilize information guide thinking action. Emotional variety non-intellectual capacities, capabilities, abilities impact coping with environmental demands pressure. Education essent...

As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure its relationship social, political, economic, ecological processes. We contribute this discussion by highlighting emergence a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within geographies – labour. identify key theoretical anchors that...

Multiple case studies in India, The Gambia, and Nigeria are the background for an empirically grounded framework of knowledge management (KM). Cultural diversity and gaps in the provision of infrastructure make managing knowledge challenging but necessary in developing countries. These environmental factors interact with organisational variables and technology to enable or constrain knowledge m...

Recent studies on collaborative practices in large infrastructural projects address the importance of discursive strategies and power relations in dynamic project arenas [1]-[3]. This paper focuses on the coping narratives developed by contract team members during the building phase of a large-scale infrastructural project. Coping narratives relate to the management based grand narrative of the...