Strategic management literature suggests that especially in young and dynamic industries Virtual Corporations are more likely to emerge, as this type of organization is flexible enough to deal with rapidly changing environments. This paper challenges the proposition that environmental uncertainty and technological change lead to organizational adaptation towards virtual structures. We analyzed ...

We dwell on how a definition of a theoretical concept of an operating system, suitable to be incorporated in a mathematical theory of operating systems, could look like. This is considered a valuable preparation for the development of a mathematical theory of operating systems .

Island coalescence during Volmer–Weber thin film growth is generally accepted to be a source of tensile stress. However, the stochastic nature of unpatterned film nucleation and growth prevents meaningful comparison of stress measurements taken during growth to that predicted by theoretical models. We have overcome this by systematically controlling island geometry using selective growth of Ni ...

The purpose of the article is to analyze upgrading by looking at the design of fashion garments. To that end, I use the theoretical concept of contextual knowledge to understand the problems faced by firms, and their staff, that want to upgrade through design. Contextual knowledge combines a general knowledge of fashion with the lifeworld that actors use for interpretation of fashion. Lifeworld...

– further our understanding of the hydrodynamical interactions between polar oceans and sea ice; – develop new theoretical models and numerical methods with applications to other areas of science; – model attenuation and directional wave propagation within and in the waters adjoining the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using the conservative multiple wave scattering approach in a medium with random ge...

The origin of cosmic rays is one of the major unresolved astrophysical questions. In particular, the highest energy cosmic rays observed possess macroscopic energies and their origin is likely to be associated with the most energetic processes in the Universe. Their existence triggered a flurry of theoretical explanations ranging from conventional shock acceleration to particle physics beyond t...