The paper explores the management of customer–supplier relationships through the adoption of a set of practices supporting integration in interface processes. A classification of relevant integration techniques (i.e. decisions on how to manage interface processes) and tools (i.e. assets or resources that support the adoption of techniques) is provided: techniques are grouped into the operations...

Technological upgrading and increases in capital intensity have been championed in the organized manufacturing sector in India on the grounds that such measures improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. In a developing economy, these are costly propositions. Also, the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels must be estimated before implementing such pol...

The relationship between technological change and environmental policy has received increasing attention from scholars and policy makers alike over the past ten years. This is partly because the environmental impacts of social activity are significantly affected by technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions themselves create new constraints and incentives that a...

The exponential dependence of the soft-error rate (SER) with critical charge in CMOS circuits, empirically proposed by Hazucha and Svensson, is derived framework diffusion-collection approach. A full analytical formulation established, linking SER physical technological parameters, notably circuit supply voltage, carrier diffusion coefficient ion characteristics.

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the Open Source Software (OSS) research by a comprehending study of the factors that determine OSS diffusion, as well as the economic and social impact of this diffusion. The research focuses on the process of diffusion over time and assesses cause and effect relationships of the phenomenon. Firstly, it identifies and assesses the factors determining t...

The macroscopic laws of diffusion were laid down for the case of liquids by Adolf Fick 150 years ago who realised the analogy of diffusion and heat conduction. 100 years ago Einstein and Smoluchowski put up the equation named after these scientists teaching us how to trace down the motion of a single diffusing particle and thus to understand long time unexplained Brownian motion as a fluctuatio...

The smartphone plays a significant role in media convergence, and smartphone photography is reconstructing the way we communicate and think. This article aims to explore the smartphone photography practices of urban Chinese smartphone users and images produced by smartphones from a techno-cultural perspective. The analysis consists of two types of data: One is a semi-structured interview of 21 ...

Adaptation in changing environments requires organizations to exploit existing capabilities while developing new ones. Yet this need for complex organizational capabilities has coincided with a wave of managerial practice focused on process management. We hypothesize that the increased routinization associated with process management leads to increases in exploitative technological innovation a...

This work presents techniques, theory and numbers for multigrid in a general ddimensional setting. The main focus is the multigrid convergence for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). As a model problem we have chosen the anisotropic diffusion equation, on a unit hypercube. We present some techniques for building the general d-dimensional adaptations of the multigrid componen...