Abstract Senior managers play a fundamental role in organizations. They shape organizational strategy and culture, set the mission, including opportunities for new markets, construct business models. Their commitment to organization is vital performance, yet research on personality traits of senior their organizations limited. Drawing self-affirmation theory, we investigate consequences manager...

Asymmetric information regarding project prospects causes dilution, leading to adverse selection and inefficiencies in the market for new investments. However, if the market obtains information about the firm over time, issuing callable convertible securities with restrictive call provisions is optimal. Even when the market’s information is noisy, such securities can be designed to make the pay...

Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. Such government rent-seeking activity leads to a typical hold-up problem. Government ownership serves as a second-best commitment mechanism, through which the government agency will restrain itself from the rent-seeking activity and may even offer the manager assistance in the ...

This short paper is aimed to discuss the challenges for location-based services and proposes our framework, which makes it possible to obtain information from heterogeneous sources, and further set up the collaboration between Data Repositories and derived Top Hits Repository to improve the request-response efficiency. In our framework, the Data Handler, Profile Manager, Data Repository and TOP...

Nowadays, modern commercial relational database management systems (RDBMS) enable functionality to store, query and update XML data. One of the key problems is efficient handling of concurrent access to XML data stored in RDBMS. In this paper, we present an efficient concurrency control method for XML data stored in RDBMS. Our approach is based on Grabs et. al. work on XMLTM, an XML transaction...

This paper presents a WEB-based manager tool for layout generation. Layout generators for MEMS, digital and analog circuits are provided. This manager allows the user to choose a particular device and set respective specific parameters for the automatic layout construction. Besides the top view layout illustration, such tool offers visualization features such as two-dimensional (2D) cross-secti...

We argue that general context data distribution can be achieved by establishing a network of context managers. The context managers have a uniform core which is surrounded by the appropriate functionality to make it deployable in applications, user and organizational infrastructure, and on top of sensors. When access to the context manager is mediated and policed, we say that it is a context se...