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The potential usex of public resources and powers to improve the economic stuius of economic groups (such as industries and occupations) are analyzed to provide a scheme of the demand for regulation. The characteristics of the political process which allow relatively small groups to obtain

Evolutionary computation is becoming common in the solution of difficult, realworld problems in industry, medicine, and defense. This paper reviews some of the practical advantages to using evolutionary algorithms as compared with classic methods of optimization or artificial intelligence. Specific

Abstract. Characteristics of national cultures have frequently been claimed to influence the selection of entry modes. This article investigates this claim by developing a theoretical argument for why culture should influence the choice of entry. Two hypotheses are derived which relate culture

constant marginal cost. Modeling the desirability of variety has been thought to be difficult, and several indirect approaches have been adopted. The Hotelling spatial model, Lancaster's product characteristics approach, and the mean-variance portfolio selection model have all been put to use.3

“Why, after so much promise... has the harvest in the chemical area been so thin? Three basic, interrelated reasons give rise to the shortfall: 1) false expectations, which 2) in turn tended to obscure the inherent limitations in the technology, and 3) led to underestimating the difficulty of competing with the power of organic chemistry and entrenched chemical manufacturing processes.

This paper is an exploratory and tentative study of the specific differentia of medical care as the object of normativeconomics. It is contended here, on the basis of comparison of obvious characteristics of the medical-care industry with the norms of welfare economics,

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in which firms with different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations. We then study the effects of withinsectoral heterogeneity and variations in industry characteristics on the relative prevalence of these organizational forms. I.

This study investigated the relationship between two industry charac-teristics, technology and growth, and organizational culture. We exam-ined this relationship by comparing the cultures of organizations within and across industries. Using 15 firms representing four indus-tries in the service