Restructuring, firm performance and control mechanisms

Restructurings are the order of the day. Various major companies have just experienced or are in the midst of a major restructuring. This paper presents an overview of the literature on restructuring, firm performance and control mechanisms. To study the phenomena coherently, the concept of an overall restructuring process is presented. Theoretically restructuring has not yet been defined in the framework of the restructuring process formula. Neither have different forms of restructuring found their places within such a structure. Empirically several issues of the process have been studied but on a rather partial basis and mainly in statistical approaches only. Attention for all-inclusive case studies came from Donaldson (1984, 1994). This paper aims at laying the foundation of doing case study research studies with respect to Dutch firms in the 1990s.Corporate Control;Corporate Performance;Organizational Structure;business economics

How specific is synchronous neuronal firing? : Poster presentation

Background Synchronous neuronal firing has been discussed as a potential neuronal code. For testing first, if synchronous firing exists, second if it is modulated by the behaviour, and third if it is not by chance, a large set of tools has been developed. However, to test whether synchronous neuronal firing is really involved in information processing one needs a direct comparison of the amount of synchronous firing for different factors like experimental or behavioural conditions. To this end we present an extended version of a previously published method NeuroXidence [1], which tests, based on a bi- and multivariate test design, whether the amount of synchronous firing above the chance level is different for different factors

The effects of a school-based physical activity intervention programme on children's executive control: The Health Oriented Pedagogical Project (HOPP)

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