Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India

We propose the individual-level microfoundations of subsidiary CEOs in emerging markets as antecedents of the strategic agility of multinational enterprises, and subsidiary embeddedness as a key organizational-level moderator of these relationships. Combining quantitative data on subsidiary CEOs operating in India with qualitative interviews with Italian HQ counterparts, our results suggest that subsidiary CEOs’ tenure in emerging markets, along with their overall experience, affects MNE strategic agility positively. Similarly, CEOs’ cognitive characteristics - problem solving and reasoning, and language and communication skills (individual-level microfoundations) - affected strategic agility positively, while subsidiary embeddedness moderated these relationships in different ways, leaving space for fresh managerial and theoretical considerations.</p

A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s

Particle physics has an ambitious and broad experimental programme for the coming decades. This programme requires large investments in detector hardware, either to build new facilities and experiments, or to upgrade existing ones. Similarly, it requires commensurate investment in the R&D of software to acquire, manage, process, and analyse the shear amounts of data to be recorded. In planning for the HL-LHC in particular, it is critical that all of the collaborating stakeholders agree on the software goals and priorities, and that the efforts complement each other. In this spirit, this white paper describes the R&D activities required to prepare for this software upgrade.Peer reviewe

Preparation of beta-amino or alpha ,beta-diamino esters derived from serine

The invention relates to the prepn. of esters R1R2NCH2CH(Nu)CO2R3 (R1-R3 are protecting groups and Nu is a nucleophilic group) by reaction of R1R2NCH(CH2-Y)CO2R3 (Y is a leaving group) with a nucleophile. Thus, treatment of (R)-Bn2NCH(CH2O3SMe)CO2Me with NaN3 in MeCN afforded 90% (S)-Bn2NCH2CH(N3)CO2Me. [on SciFinder (R)