scholarly journals Entropy and Equilibria in Competitive Systems

Entropy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Klimenko
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Systems

scholarly journals The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse

Resources ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Patrizi ◽  
Valentina Niccolucci ◽  
Riccardo Pulselli ◽  
Elena Neri ◽  
Simone Bastianoni
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Product System ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
Competitive Systems ◽  
The Status ◽  
Resource Accounting ◽  
Selection Of

One of the main goals of any (sustainability) indicator should be the communication of a clear, unambiguous, and simplified message about the status of the analyzed system. The selected indicator is expected to declare explicitly how its numerical value depicts a situation, for example, positive or negative, sustainable or unsustainable, especially when a comparison among similar or competitive systems is performed. This aspect should be a primary and discriminating issue when the selection of a set of opportune indicators is operated. The Ecological Footprint (EF) has become one of the most popular and widely used sustainability indicators. It is a resource accounting method with an area based metric in which the units of measure are global hectares or hectares with world average bio-productivity. Its main goal is to underline the link between the (un)sustainability level of a product, a system, an activity or a population life style, with the land demand for providing goods, energy, and ecological services needed to sustain that product, system, activity, or population. Therefore, the traditional rationale behind the message of EF is: the larger EF value, the larger environmental impact in terms of resources use, the lower position in the sustainability rank. The aim of this paper was to investigate if this rationale is everywhere opportune and unambiguous, or if sometimes its use requires paying a special attention. Then, a three-dimensional modification of the classical EF framework for the sustainability evaluation of a product has been proposed following a previous work by Niccolucci and co-authors (2009). Finally, the potentialities of the model have been tested by using a case study from the agricultural context.

scholarly journals Permanence and universal classification of discrete-time competitive systems via the carrying simplex

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1621-1663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Gyllenberg ◽  
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Jifa Jiang ◽  
Lei Niu ◽  
Ping Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Competitive Systems

Research on Growth of Professional Manager and Sustainable Development of Family Enterprise: A Review Based on Trust Expansion

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 3166-3169
Author(s):  
Jie Lu ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Yan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Trust Mechanism ◽  
Competitive Systems ◽  
Integrate Management ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
Professional Manager ◽  
Family Regulation ◽  
Effective Integration

Family enterprise needs to absorb and integrate new management resource continuously and has unique trust mechanism; In the process of retaining professional managers, there exists the absence of trust entertainment, mechanism, and ideal and so on. It is effective to adopt pan-family regulation to integrate management resource, expand the trust space of family enterprises and retain multiple competitive systems to restrain professional executives. Consequently,effective integration of professional managers,trust and family enterprises will come true.

Outsourcing and Information Systems Development

2008 ◽  
pp. 1866-1876
Author(s):  
Julie E. Kendall ◽  
Kenneth E. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Quality Systems ◽  
Executive Information Systems ◽  
Partner Relationship ◽  
Competitive Systems ◽  
Types Of Information

Many firms outsource creation of program code for management information systems, but not all experiences are successful. Although some researchers and practitioners are quick to blame failures on differing country cultures, this does not appear to be the reason. Rather it is the compatibility or differences in corporate cultures between the client company and the outsourcing partner that may help or hinder the development of quality systems. In this chapter we examine the metaphors found in the language of client corporations and outsourcing partners and explain how to look for compatibility when designing various types of information systems including traditional MIS, decision support systems, expert systems and AI, executive information systems, cooperative systems, and competitive systems. We explain how the development of certain types of systems can benefit from situations where more positive metaphors exist and offer some guidelines for the MIS practitioner, thereby minimizing risk and increasing the likelihood of a more successful client company-outsourcing partner relationship.

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