The design of corporate headquarters (CHQ) is a specialist and important area of organization design. It is important because of the influence that a CHQ has over the portfolio of businesses it owns. A good CHQ can improve the performance of its businesses. A bad CHQ causes its businesses to...

In this thesis, we present a framework to characterize and leverage people movement for improvements of content distribution in mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Particularly, we study twotypical classes of people movement including the Schelling behavior and repetitive behavior. The Schelling...

The design of corporate headquarters (CHQ) is a specialist and important area of organization design. It is important because of the influence that a CHQ has over the portfolio of businesses it owns. A good CHQ can improve the performance of its businesses. A bad CHQ causes its businesses to...

For most organizations, there is a gap between strategies and results. This gap is caused by one of three things: a failure of design, in which insufficient effort or skill is put into designing the operational changes necessary to make the strategy possible; a failure of transformation, in which...

The report comprises five sections: section two describes Solomon Islands Government's (SIG) national and sector policies and strategies, the state of infrastructure and transport, relevant institution and regulatory frameworks activities of development partners involved in the coconut industry;...

China's credit boom is one of the largest and longest running ever recorded. Similar credit booms have typically preceded crises in other countries.This article provides an updated assessment of how a shock to the Chinese economy could affect the UK economy via standard transmission channels -...