This article proposes a ‘min-max’ strategy of definition applicable to all concepts intended for general usage … minimal definition identifies the bare essentials of a concept with traits sufficient to bind it extensionally while … maintaining all non-idiosyncratic meanings associated with it. An ideal-type definition includes all attributes that together …

in the world. This is not going to be easy. How can innovations help in not only surpassing the existing benchmarks but … also creating the new ones? How culture of cooperation can reinforce the capability to compete at the firm and the network … enterprises as a basis of regional revitalization in south Italy and several other parts of the world. [IIMA WP No. 2007-08-03]. …