Purpose: We propose in this paper to analyze what are the factors that influence knowledge transfer both intra and intergenerational in family firms. The main objective is to establish a framework that can be used later in empirical research, although we maintain a completely theoretical approach in this paper Design/methodology/approach: This study, which is a comprehensive framework character...

A functional approach for the study of the random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) is proposed. Under fairly general assumptions on the random walk and on the random scenery, functional limit theorems are proved. The method allows to study separately the convergence of the walk and of the scenery: on the one hand, a general criterion for the convergence of the local time of the walk is provided...

Zufiria’s higher-order Boussinesq type equations are studied by transforming them into solvable ordinary differential equations. Various families of their travelling wave solutions are generated, which include periodic wave, solitary wave, periodic-like wave, solitonlike wave, Jacobi elliptic function periodic wave, combined non-degenerative Jacobi elliptic function-like wave, Weierstrass ellip...

Surfing the Web has become an important daily activity for many users. Discovering and understanding web users’ surfing behavior are essential for the development of successful web monitoring and recommendation systems. To capture users’ web access behavior, one promising approach is web usage mining which discovers interesting and frequent user access patterns from web usage logs. Web usage mi...

Many railway companies in Europe operate periodic timetables. Yet, most timetables are not entirely periodic but have a mixture of different periodicity and many exceptions to cope with changing demand. Current approaches for automatic timetable generation are not able to deal with such partially periodic structure, but consider only fully periodic inputs. We therefore introduce the periodic Se...