This article spans the literature from organizational learning to knowledge management by indicating out the various combinations in the field. First, it provides an overview of the divergent debates in the field of organizational learning; focusing on the content , agents and proces of...

This paper analyzes the introduction of multiple central cuts in a conic formulation of the analytic center cutting plane method (in short ACCPM). This work extends earlier work on the homogeneous ACCPM, and parallels the analysis of the multiple cuts process in the standard ACCPM. The main...

In this paper we consider a homogeneous analytic center cutting plabne method in a projective space. We describe a general scheme that uses a homogeneous oracle and computes an approximate analytic center at each iteration. This technique is applied to a convex feasibility problem, to...

This paper empirically investigates the causes and immediate consequences of hostile takeovers in the U.S. over the 1990-1995 period. We find no indications of poor target performance over the five years prior to the takeover announcement. However, there is strong evidence that hostile takeovers...

In this paper, we explore a weakness of a specific implementation of the analytic center cutting plane method applied to convex optimization problems, which may lead to weaker results that Kelley's cutting plane method. Improvements to the analytic center cutting plane method are suggested.

Les relations publiques sont le plus souvent presentees parmi les instruments de communication marketing comme un element secondaire. Qu'en est-il en marketing international? Ce texte a donc pour objet de deblayer le terrain et, plus precisement : de preciser la place des relations publiques en...

This paper presents a simulation of a global investment strategy that combines diversification and option strategies, in particular the covered call strategy, on the Swiss Exchange.

In the present contribution , the concept development of competence and capability-related research from its beginnings in the 1950s to the most recent contributions of the 1990s will be illustrated. Common themes in the different approaches will be highlighted and their idiosyncratic...

Since little has been published on this topic, the first objective adressed in the paper is to identify the kinds of situations in which public relations are likely to play an important role in international marketing, the next is to determine the specific communication tasks to be performed in...

In this paper we study special barrier functions for the convex cones, which are the sum of a self-concordant barrier for the cone and a positive-semidefinite quadratric form. We show that the central path of these augmented barrier functions can be traced with linear speed. We also study the...