Logistics section is one of the most important industrial sections to contribute to European economy. To improving efficiency and energy efficient of logistics, European Commission call new research theme ‘smart, green and integrated transport' in its H2020 program. The paper presents a...

This study analyses the emergent network features of the upstream connectivity structure of three mobile broadband providers in the area included between the cities of Kancheepuram and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, from an original end-users perspective. This perspective is based on using a...

The mobile provision of social networking services including integrated voice, pictures and music over IP lead to the success of companies such as Snapchat, Skype WhatsApp, Twitter or Spotify.. Understanding the rapid international diffusion of these companies' mobile integrated services,...

Internet Service Providers compete for customers while exchanging traffic flows to provide a complete, end to end, service to final users. This requires reliable interconnections among competitors that form multiple Global Supply Chain Networks (GSCNs) for the delivery and exchange of Internet...

In this paper the decision of adopting of new technologies is studied trought a multistage model. It incorporates multiple sequential technological innovations and the possibility of implementing that have already been discovered. It is shown how such decision is effected by the relevant...

In this paper we study the choice of competing technologies with increasing returns occasioned by learning-by-doing and learning-by-using phenomena. We study under what circumstances one technology can achieve a monopoly and eventually take the whole market by formulating a firm's optimal...

Dynamical systems of self-reinforcing mechanisms tend to possess a multiplicity of asymptotic states or possible "emergent structures".

This paper examines the equilibrium adoption patch for two innovations when there are "network externalities". We show that the existence of significant increasing returns in system-scale can give the result that one variant will drive out the other one and so emerges as the unique standard for...

We consider the possibility of switching between two technological standards when there are network externalities and imprecise market information. Multiple equilibria in terms of market shares can arise. The main result is that lock-in to one of multiple equilibria is not a permanent out- come...

This paper developes an evolutionary model to discus the issue of efficiency in non-profit organisations. The ideological commitment that characterizes most of them is depicted through the introduction of a role for moral and social norms. It comes out that attracting motivated employees can be...