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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS

MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - 2014

The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons behind the rapid growth and apparent dynamism of Zimbabwe’s small-firm industrial clusters. The hypothesis behind the study was that these small-firm clusters are emergent phenomena. The study analysed the capital utilisation techniques of...

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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS

MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - In: EcoForum 3 (2014) 2, pp. 6-6

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Towards a vernacular aesthetics of liking for information studies

Klimaszewski, Cheryl - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2023) 5, pp. 1220-1235

Purpose Personal museums provide the conceptual catalyst for liking as a research approach and inclusivity around “idiosyncratic” knowledges within information research. An adapted research paper format echoes the approach of personal museums: as a commentary on the limits of institutional...

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The spontaneity of social network: a possibility for re-enchanting network study?

Accard, Philippe; Assens, Christophe - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 27 (2014) 6, pp. 995-1007

on this knowledge, are able to influence the emergence of network structures. Agents thus spontaneously contribute to the … emergence of a network, to its growth, and its decline. Originality/value – This new conception of network focusses on the …

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Co-evolutionary processes and positive feedbacks in the growth of the ultimate fighting championships

Ford, Simon James - In: Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 5 (2015) 1, pp. 31-49

participation and viewership. Originality/value – The emergence of new sports and sports organisations such as the UFC with global …

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Beyond a common title: the formation of a professional identity among energy advisers

Granath, Malin; Westelius, Alf - In: Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting 16 (2012) 3, pp. 210-234

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore if and how a professional identity can be formed in the wake of the foundation of a new public service. In the article, the authors focus on how different forces, regulative and emergent, interact and contribute to a development of a coherent...

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Multi-Agent Simulation Collision Avoidance of Complex System: Application to Evacuation Crowd Behavior

Chennoufi, Mohammed; Bendella, Fatima; Bouzid, Maroua - In: International Journal of Ambient Computing and … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 43-59

In this work, we present a collision avoidance technique for a crowd robust navigation of individuals in evacuation which is a good example of a complex system. The proposed algorithm is inspired from the Reynolds model, with the addition of several individuals' behavioral criteria as well as a...

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Understanding Games Through Complexity Thinking Approach

Deghedi, Ghada Ahmed - In: International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated … 10 (2018) 3, pp. 41-56

The complexity theory and the concept of emergence is a theoretical framework that offers a vocabulary and tool for … complexity and emergence at three levels of a game system: the design level, play level and metagame level. This explanation is …

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The Past, Present and Possible Future for Systems

Minati, Gianfranco - In: International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 4 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9

In this article, the author briefly summarise the characteristics of the science of complexity or post- Bertalanffy General Systems. The author discusses the shift from considering systems as acquiring properties due to their explicit or supposed design, to self-organised, emergent systems....

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Digital platform ecosystems in flux: From proprietary digital platforms to wide-spanning ecosystems

Nerbel, Jan Frederic; Kreutzer, Markus - In: Electronic Markets 33 (2023) 1

infrastructures. Although DPEs are researched extensively among management scholars, shortcomings in formalizing their emergence … remain. Particularly re-occurring patterns and temporal dimensions of emergence continue to be relatively unexplored. We … review existing literature in an integrative manner and shed light on DPE emergence by deriving a framework comprising four …

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