The capitalist and socialist societies of the 20 century assigned firms different roles within their economic systems. Enterprises transforming themselves from socialism to market economies thus face fundamental organizational restructuring. Many former state-owned firms in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe failed, so far. Firms pursued primarily defensive downsizing, rat...

This study examined the influence of the social impact of organisational restructuring on employee workplace attitudes. A sample of 725 employees drawn through stratified random sampling technique from four (4) manufacturing organisations which had been involved in an intensive restructuring process participated in the study. Questionnaire was the major instrument employed for data collection. ...

A methodology for modifying VHDL descriptions is the core of this paper. Modifications are performed on general RTL descriptions composed of a mix of control and computation, that is, the typical type of description used for designing at the RT level. Such VHDL descriptions are automatically partitioned into a reference model composed of a controller driving a data-path. We call this transforma...

Corporate restructuring has recently faced widespread criticism due to its low-turnaround success rate and the sharp increase in insolvency filings. Our analysis extends beyond this discussion by investigating the inherent complexity of restructurings as a critical success factor with a particular focus on portfolio restructuring. Based on theoretical findings, we develop a System Dynamics mode...

This paper discusses the restructuring of inheritance hierarchies of classes and introduces a method of restructuring multiple hierarchies of class inheritance, which removes duplicated methods and creates inheritance hierarchies without overridden methods while preserving the behavior of objects. This paper formulates a restructuring problem for 0–1 integer programming and presents a network-b...

Over the past decade, 14 countries have undertaken a total of 18 debt restructurings. Concerns surrounding some of these restructurings have led policymakers and capital market participants to review their policies and practices on restructuring sovereign debt. in particular, court rulings as a result of litigation against Argentina have raised fears that a small minority of creditors could blo...

We have identified two levels of restructuring in the re-engineering of objectoriented legacy systems: high-level restructuring is concerned with improving the overall architecture of the system, whereas low-level restructuring deals with repairing local problems which are symptoms of bad style. We propose to characterize these low-level problems as patterns of dependencies between classes as a...

Abstract: We present an experience of applying an extension of Formal Concept Analysis to UML class model restructuring. The Relational Concept Analysis (RCA) mines potentially useful abstractions from UML classes, attributes, operations and associations and therefore outscores competing restructuring techniques which usually focus exclusively on classes. Nevertheless, the complexity and the si...

Array restructuring operations obscure arrays. Our work aims on java source code obfuscation containing arrays. Our main proposal is Classes with restructured array members and obscured member methods for setting, getting array elements and to get the length of arrays. The class method definition codes are obscured through index transformation and constant hiding. The instantiated objects of th...

We analyze a distressed firm indebted to many creditors. The firm’s owners have the option of choosing the sequence of restructuring negotiations with the creditors. We show that sequencing flexibility is beneficial to firm owners, and that the optimal sequencing of restructuring negotiations involves exploiting the firm’s liabilities to some creditors so as to moderate the demands of others. M...