While most studies argue that, relational embeddedness, one facet of social capital, facilitates the obtaining process of scarce resources, our study cautions that it may exert negative impacts. This study examines the underlying process about how shared cognition influences new business...

This paper investigates a single machine scheduling problem with deteriorating jobs. By a deteriorating job, we mean that the processing time is an increasing function of its execution starting time. Job deterioration is described by a function which is proportional to a linear function of time....