TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM AND COMPANY PERFORMANCE IN BIG COUNTRIES VS SMALL COUNTRIES

So far, there has been little research related to the impact of globalization on corporate governance,particularly the internationalization of the board of directors of international orglobal companies. Besides that, there has been little attention to the nationality compositionof top management. In connection with such a condition, this study attempts to investigatehow the Nationality Diversity in Top Management Team (TMT) affects Company Performancein big countries in Europe versus small countries in Europe. The research data weremanagement boards of companies in 111 companies: 30 in Germany, 38 in France, 25 in theNetherlands, and 18 in Belgium. The whole dataset was provided by Van Veen and Marsman(2008) and derived from this study on nationality diversity. The study provides several results.First, there is a positive relationship between the nationality diversity of TMT membersand company performance. Second, the size of the companies depends on the size of thecountry; companies in the big countries have more employees than those in the small countries.Third, the result of company performance in the big countries and the small countries isnot significant, so the performance of the companies in the big countries is not better thanthat of the companies in the small countries

A Step Beyond the Bounce: Bubble Dynamics in Quantum Phase Transitions

We study the dynamical evolution of a phase interface or bubble in the context of a \lambda \phi^4 + g \phi^6 scalar quantum field theory. We use a self-consistent mean-field approximation derived from a 2PI effective action to construct an initial value problem for the expectation value of the quantum field and two-point function. We solve the equations of motion numerically in (1+1)-dimensions and compare the results to the purely classical evolution. We find that the quantum fluctuations dress the classical profile, affecting both the early time expansion of the bubble and the behavior upon collision with a neighboring interface.Comment: 12 pages, multiple figure

Growth and application of WSe

Tungsten di-selenide (WSe2) belonging to the family of layered transition metal di-chalcogenides (TMDCs) is at present widely used in optoelectronic devices due to their adequate energy band gap suitable for photosensing applications. In the present investigation, WSe2 single crystals are grown by direct vapor transport (DVT) technique in a dual zone horizontal furnace maintaining a temperature difference of 50 K between source zone (SZ) and growth zone (GZ). The crystals thus obtained were thin, shiny and with an average thickness of 30 mm. The surface topography of crystals studied by optical microscope revealed hexagonal spirals on the crystal surface which seemed to arise due to screw dislocation defect. The structural properties of the as grown crystals studied by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) elucidated good crystallinity, hexagonal structure and confirmed the orientation of crystals along crystallographic c-axis. P-type semiconductor nature of the crystals was affirmed by thermoelectric power (TEP) measurement. Optical and vibrational properties of the grown crystals were studied by UV–Visible, photoluminescence (PL) and Raman spectroscopy. An optical direct band gap of 1.41 eV was determined for the crystals which were micromechanically exfoliated upto few layers. The excitonic mechanism of the grown WSe2 crystal was explained by PL spectroscopy. The results of Raman spectroscopy disclosed A1g and E2g vibrational modes present in the crystals. The current–voltage characteristics of nSnSe/pWSe2 hetero-structure studied using Keithley 2400 SMU showed rectification behavior at low bias voltage in dark and illuminated conditions. The diode parameters like ideality factor and barrier potential were determined to be 2.54 and 0.4 eV, respectively, by following conventional lnI–V method. The photodetection properties of the fabricated device were studied using a Laser source (670 nm) having an intensity of 3 mWcm−2at different bias voltage ranging from 0.3 V to 3 V. Parameters such as responsivity, detectivity and external quantum efficiency (EQE) were calculated to substantiate the excellent detection properties shown by the prepared photodetector using time resolved pulsed photoresponse. Value of responsivity and EQE increased from 42.22 mA W−1 to 533.77 mA W−1 and 7% to 95%, respectively, with increase in bias voltage from 0.3 V to 3 V. Also, detectivity values were found to be of the order of 107 Jones