"This book aims to identify what makes companies that work in organizational chaos and in a chaotic economic environment perform better than companies that are well organized while also presenting management techniques and sustainability strategies for handling disruptive situations in corporate...

Indian economy is based on the unorganised sector. The mayhem created to the daily earner on the streets of Delhi. Once it was considered that the street vending was one of the easiest occupations for the survival of the people living in the lowest ladder in the economy. Anyone who does not have...

This essay, invited by the editors, provides a retrospective overview of Robert Gephart's career using qualitative research methods to study disasters, and disseminating findings from the research in important management and organizational journals. Dr Gephart's work is associated with many...

We propose using ETF returns as proxies for tradable risk factors in hedge fund performance evaluation, identifying contemporaneously relevant risk factors from the entire universe of ETFs. Our model provides more informative estimates of alpha and beta coefficients for predicting hedge fund...

How do cluttered, chaotic environments – such as messy kitchens – influence snacking behavior? How does one's mindset help prevent unwanted snacking from occurring?101 female undergraduate students participated under standard kitchen conditions or in a chaotic kitchen condition. Participants...

During recent years, Latin-American countries have initiated the creation of space policies in order to find a place on the global list of countries which already have activities in space. Recently, countries such as Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela have joined Brazil and Argentina in their interest...

We analyse an extended version of the dynamical mean-field Ising model. Instead of classical physical representation of spins and external magnetic field, the model describes traders' opinion dynamics. The external field is endogenised to represent a smoothed moving average of the past state...