234 research outputs found
Thermoplastic Green Machining for Textured Dielectric Substrate for Broadband Miniature Antenna
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65902/1/j.1551-2916.2005.00089.x.pd
Co-Firing of Spatially Varying Dielectric CaâMgâSilicate and BiâBaâNdâTitanate Composite
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65424/1/j.1551-2916.2005.00498.x.pd
The Japanese model in retrospective : industrial strategies, corporate Japan and the 'hollowing out' of Japanese industry
This article provides a retrospective look at the Japanese model of industrial development. This model combined an institutional approach to production based around the Japanese Firm (Aoki's, J-mode) and strategic state intervention in industry by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). For a long period, the alignment of state and corporate interests appeared to match the wider public interest as the Japanese economy prospered. However, since the early 1990s, the global ambitions of the corporate sector have contributed to a significant 'hollowing out' of Japan's industrial base. As the world today looks for a new direction in economic management, we suggest the Japanese model provides policy-makers with a salutary lesson in tying the wider public interest with those of the corporate sector
An evolutionary stage model of outsourcing and competence destruction : a Triad comparison of the consumer electronics industry
Outsourcing has gained much prominence in managerial practice and academic discussions in the last two decades or so. Yet, we still do not understand the full implications of outsourcing strategy for corporate performance. Traditionally outsourcing across borders is explained as a cost-cutting exercise, but more recently the core competency argument states that outsourcing also leads to an increased focus, thereby improving effectiveness. However, no general explanation has so far been provided for how outsourcing could lead to deterioration in a firmâs competence base. We longitudinally analyze three cases of major consumer electronics manufacturers, Emerson Radio from the U.S., Japanâs Sony and Philips from the Netherlands to understand the dynamic process related to their sourcing strategies. We develop an evolutionary stage model that relates outsourcing to competence development inside the firm and shows that a vicious cycle may emerge. Thus it is appropriate to look not only at how outsourcing is influenced by an organizationâs current set of competences, but also how it alters that set over time. The four stages of the model are offshore sourcing, phasing out, increasing dependence on foreign suppliers, and finally industry exit or outsourcing reduction. The evolutionary stage model helps managers understand for which activities and under which conditions outsourcing across borders is not a viable option.
Results suggest that each of these firms had faced a loss of manufacturing competitiveness in its home country, to which it responded by offshoring and then outsourcing production. When a loss of competences occurred, some outsourcing decisions were reversed
Heterogeneous 2.5D integration on through silicon interposer
© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. Driven by the need to reduce the power consumption of mobile devices, and servers/data centers, and yet continue to deliver improved performance and experience by the end consumer of digital data, the semiconductor industry is looking for new technologies for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs). In this quest, power consumed in transferring data over copper interconnects is a sizeable portion that needs to be addressed now and continuing over the next few decades. 2.5D Through-Si-Interposer (TSI) is a strong candidate to deliver improved performance while consuming lower power than in previous generations of servers/data centers and mobile devices. These low-power/high-performance advantages are realized through achievement of high interconnect densities on the TSI (higher than ever seen on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) or organic substrates), and enabling heterogeneous integration on the TSI platform where individual ICs are assembled at close proximity
Testing Meson Portal Dark Sector Solutions to the MiniBooNE Anomaly at CCM
A solution to the MiniBooNE excess invoking rare three-body decays of the
charged pions and kaons to new states in the MeV mass scale was recently
proposed as a dark-sector explanation. This class of solution illuminates the
fact that, while the charged pions were focused in the target-mode run, their
decay products were isotropically suppressed in the beam-dump-mode run in which
no excess was observed. This suggests a new physics solution correlated to the
mesonic sector. We investigate an extended set of phenomenological models that
can explain the MiniBooNE excess as a dark sector solution, utilizing
long-lived particles that might be produced in the three-body decays of the
charged mesons and the two-body anomalous decays of the neutral mesons. Over a
broad set of interactions with the long-lived particles, we show that these
scenarios can be compatible with constraints from LSND, KARMEN, and MicroBooNE,
and evaluate the sensitivity of the ongoing and future data taken by the
Coherent CAPTAIN Mills experiment (CCM) to a potential discovery in this
parameter space.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures. Planned submission for PR
Composition of the Top Management Team and Firm International Diversification
This study investigates the impact of various top management team characteristics on firm international diversification. Relying on data from 126 firms in the electronics industry, we find that certain top management team characteristics are related to international expansion. Specifically, results indicate that lower average age, higher average tenure, higher average elite education, higher average international experience, and higher tenure heterogeneity are associated with firm international diversification. The study reinforces the importance of top management team composition in internationalization decisions and suggests further research in this context.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Internalisation Theory and outward direct investment by emerging market multinationals
The rise of multinational enterprises from emerging countries (EMNEs) poses an important test for theories of the multinational enterprise such as internalisation theory. It has been contended that new phenomena need new theory. This paper proposes that internalisation theory is appropriate to analyse EMNEs. This paper examines four approaches to EMNEsâinternational investment strategies, domestic market imperfections, international corporate networks and domestic institutionsâand three case studiesâChinese outward FDI, Indian foreign acquisitions and investment in tax havensâto show the enduring relevance and predictive power of internalisation theory. This analysis encompasses many other approaches as special cases of internalisation theory. The use of internalisation theory to analyse EMNEs is to be commended, not only because of its theoretical inclusivity, but also because it has the ability to connect and to explain seemingly desperate phenomena
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