Large firms tend to overlap their boundaries in unstable environments and create strategic alliances and collaborations with their suppliers, customers and partners. In the automobile sector, firms are extended enterprises continuously innovating and creating new products through their dynamic capabilities. A large automotive company seeks to leverage its relationships with its customers and su...

INTRODUCTION Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba, Limnanthaceae) was domesticated and commercialized in Oregon under a series of circumstances that allowed local grower participation before the first commercial sale of product. Growers had the opportunity to organize and to transfer skills, knowledge, and germplasm (Fletcher 2002) from Oregon State University (OSU) to their farms. They also had the opp...

This paper analyzes the public healthcare expenditure of Middle Eastern countries in relation to different exogenous explanatory variables, through a panel study involving twelve (12) Middle East countries. More specifically, the study methodology uses panel cointegration, and panel-based error correction models derived from annual data covering the period of 2000 to 2010. The empirical results...

Since the 1990s, there have been growing discussions of internet activism and how new media have been used effectively by a variety of political movements (Best and Kellner, 2001; Couldry and Curran, 2003). The early adoption and successful use of the internet in the early 1990s by the indigenous EZLN Zapatista movement in the Chiapas region of Mexico quickly dramatized how new media and grass ...

Duringpast two decades, “Pass through a democratic status” gave attention by mostMiddle East analysts. In fact, since the early 1980s, The Middle East and TheNorth of Africa affected by third wave of democratization effects and bothstate and society felt its impacts. Since, civil society has been promoting andstrengthening, from one hand, and sovereign governments gradually withdrawalhas begun,...