a Environmental Change Institutue, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom b School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, United States Engineering Management Program, System Development and Maturity Lab, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States d Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Central de Ve...

Industrial system of economy largely determines its national identity, orientation on innovations, and susceptibility to the development of high-tech industries. There are different points of view on the understanding of the industry as a system. In particular, the industry of the world is reviewed as a «complex, hierarchically organized, polystructural system», as a «set of interrelated elemen...

We present a novel approach to establishing the variational principle for Gibbs and generalized (weak and almost) Gibbs states. Limitations of a thermodynamic formalism for generalized Gibbs states will be discussed. A new class of intuitively Gibbs measures is introduced, and a typical example is studied. Finally, we present a new example of a non-Gibbsian measure arising from an industrial ap...

D. Mintzopoulos, L. G. Astrakas, A. Khanicheh, A. A. Konstas, M. A. Moskowitz, B. R. Rosen, and A. A. Tzika NMR Surgical Laboratory, MGH & Shriners Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, MA, United States, Medical Physics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, United States, Mechanical and Industr...

In industrial districts social norms are as important as formal institutions in coordinating actors’ behaviour. While the literature on agro-industrial districts has generally stressed the role of trust, the paper states that power can be as effective as trust in solving coordination problems stemming from contract incompleteness and opportunistic behaviours. The paper presents the results of a...