The sharing of knowledge within teams is critical to team functioning. However, working with team members who are in different locations (i.e. in virtual teams) may introduce communication challenges and reduce opportunities for rich interactions, potentially affecting knowledge sharing and its outcomes. Therefore, using questionnaire-based data, this study examined the potential effects of dif...

Outsourcing is becoming increasingly relevant as a means to respond to rapid changes and reduce investments in noncore competencies (Apte et al., 1997). As traditionally conceived, it is solely based on formal contractual mechanisms, set at an inter-firm level and mainly designed to reduce opportunistic behavior presuming an unbalanced relationship between the client and the supplier (Lacity an...

Incomplete Block Designs were introduced by Yates (1936) with a restriction on the block size that all treatments are not present in blocks k < v, which eliminating heterogeneity to greater extent when number of is large. Several researchers made attempts existence and constructions This paper presents new series construction Balanced Design using Partially incomplete Designs.

In this paper, we consider balanced ternary designs, BTDs, in which every block contains one element singly and the rest doubly. We call these packed BTDs, and we investigate three aspects of these designs: existence, nestings and signings. Construction methods generate classes of packed BTDs that are nested with balanced (BIBD) or partially balanced (PBIBD) incomplete block designs. Some of th...