Рассматриваются теоретические аспекты сущности бизнес-процессов. Представлены точки зрения российских и западных авторов на понимание сущности...

The developing countries have lately experienced a surge in mobile phone adoption. New investment into the telecom sector has enabled network roll-out, and increasingly innovative business models have driven down network operation costs and customer acquisition & retention costs, enabling...

In recent years a great deal of attention has been paid to patent reform. This debate is exemplified by recent popular publications (Jaffe and Lerner, 2004; Bessen and Meurer, 2008), as well as publicized patent litigation such as the NTP v. Research-in-Motion patent litigation (the Blackberry...

Brett Frischmann has developed an intriguing general theory of fundamental infrastructure resources, arguing that they should be managed through open and nondiscriminatory access, with no private property-based right to exclude. He relies on the difficulty of developing accurate demand side...

I study delays and congestion patterns in U.S. hub airports during periods of high flight volume. I find that these periods are longer when the share of flights operated by the hub airline is greater, and these longer periods exhibit shorter delays. These results lend support to recent...

Non-recurrent congestion is frequently caused by accidents and other incidents. We estimate the causal effect of incident duration on drivers’ time losses through changes in non-recurrent road congestion on Dutch highways. We demonstrate that incident duration has a strong positive, but...