The implementation of industrial control applications typically introduces complexities like sampling jitter and control jitter, which have usually not been considered at the design stage. Consequently, the system behaves in a non-periodic manner and the real performance is degraded with regard to the expected response. This paper proposes a hybrid task model to reduce the impact of the scheduling

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The paper investigates the role of mobile entrepreneurs in spatial diffusion process of a rapidly expanding industry using the case of the knowledge-intensive ICT-services in Sweden over 1990-2010. The main contributions of this study are twofold. On the one hand, paper contributes to entrepreneurship research by showing that the spatial origin of an entrepreneur should be analysed not only in ter

Previous studies have convincingly argued that firms’ ability to efficiently utilize their resources is linked to the effectiveness of their routines and resources for pricing. The ability to appropriate value and achieve a more efficient resource utilization relative to competitors through routines and resources for pricing has been named pricing capability. If an effective pricing capability cou

This paper discusses whether the Western democracy promotion project of exporting civil society to the Balkans is a form of colonialism. In particular, it deals with they system of project life, and project culture which has structured Western development interventions. Examples come from the author's own work as consultant in Bosnia, Albania and Romania in the field of civil society/NGO developme

In this paper, design and measurements of a fully integrated power amplifier (PA) are presented. The PA consists of two amplifying chains each having a driver and a power stage. A low loss on chip power combiner combines the outputs from two amplifying chains, and also performs impedance transformation and differential to single-ended conversion. To linearize the PA, the driver stage is biased in

Panel Presentation on ethnographic approaches to U.S. Aid, using the concept of "Aidland" as a place one studies and the ideas of Marcel Mauss looking at donors as giftgivers, explicating the discourse of "partnership" when the donors and recipients are unequal. Based on the author's work as democracy consultant in Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Romania.

Observations from three case studies of public sector reforms are reported. These observations concern managerial attitudes to personnel resistance, and they reveal how management talks of resistance either as an emotional reaction or as a personality trait with certain employees. Based on these assumptions it is considered legitimate to disregard employee objections. Personnel were invited to the