Conventional theory says that innovations first diffuse slowly, then at faster paces, and finally at asymptotically declining rates. Economists and others explain such behavior with a variety of logistic models. Early models like the contagion model derive their predictive power from reliance on...

The island of Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, has witnessed an intermittently-bloody conflict since the latter part of the twentieth century. This island has over the past fifty years turned into a battle ground between the Greek and Turkish ethnic groups....

In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward strangers? Research on the neural substrates of decisions suggests that some choices are hormone-dependent....

The business environment is highly intense and every corporate is seeking for strategies for survival and positioning the value proposition in a proper manner. Besides, the human factor is considered as vital in this regard. Properly selected, recruited, trained, motivated and performing...

The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...

In Albers & Albers (Spring, 2013) we demonstrated that the historic development of U.S. real GNP, 1869-present, may be structured in recurring 14-year periods. A steady-state rate of growth of 3.4969% is thereby calculated, generating an increase in real GNP proportional to the famous “Golden...

Purpose: The objective of the paper is to find trends of research in relic tourism-related topics. Specifically, this paper uncovers all published studies having latent issues with the keywords "relic tourism" from the Web of Science database. Methods: A total of 109 published articles...

Wissen immer dort, wo es benötigt und immer dann, wenn es benötig wird,bereitzustellen, ist das Ziel des Wissensmanagements. Dabei kann die Informationstechnologie(IT) einen gewichtigen Beitrag leisten. Wissensmanagementkann im Unternehmen durchaus ohne IT-Unterstützung stattfinden,...

Seit ihrer Erkenntnis und Formulierung im Rahmen der Ausarbeitung derThermodynamik zeigte sich, dass der Geltungsbereich der sog. Hauptsätzeweit über die Grenzen der Thermodynamik im engeren Sinne herausreicht –sie sind offenbar das Fundament aller materiellen Prozesse. Unverständlichbleibt...

Wenn das Thema „Welt“ nicht nur naturwissenschaftlich-analytisch, sondernals ein Projekt „Welt“ auch technikwissenschaftlich-synthetisch betrachtetwird, dann ist ein neuartiges und diskutierbares Gesamtbild vom Entstehen,Bestehen und (Nicht-)Vergehen unserer Welt entwickelbar....