This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

Organizational ambidexterity wurde kürzlich als "heisses Thema" innerhalb der Strategieforschung bezeichnet (Birkinshaw and Gupta, 2014: 2). Es definiert sich als die Fähigkeit einer Firma gleichzeitig exploration und exploitation durchzuführen (Gupta et al., 2006) und hat sich als "neues...

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...