Research in a number of fields has shown that brokerage is typically fragile while creating consequential outcomes. However, little work has examined the conditions under which brokerage ends, and furthermore, whether and when it terminates with closure in a closed triad that includes the...

Extant strategic management studies usually couple the intensification in the globalization of best business practices to the growing of the specific capabilities needed to transfer business knowledge between or among firms and to implement those practices locally (Hansen, 1999, 2002; Kostova, 1999;...

We use minority game model to investigate evolutionary dynamics in complex networks of adaptive agents competing for limited resources. We show that the dynamics and the associated phase structures critically depend on the underlying network organizations, and evolution is a key mechanism for...

As distributing centres of trade and transportation network, ports play an important role in the development of the national economy. With the changing of the global business environment, the port enterprise operation environment is continuously changing, and growing problems are becoming...