City University London

About: City University London is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5735 authors who have published 17285 publications receiving 453290 citations.

The Influence of Technological Knowledge Base and Organizational Structure on Technology Collaboration

Abstract: This study investigates how an incumbent company's internal characteristics influence its propensity to form learning alliances. A firm may be reluctant to enter a research alliance when it has deep knowledge in a certain technological field due to concerns about knowledge leakage and the low possibility of being able to learn much from collaboration. On the contrary, when the firm has a broad knowledge base, it may have high propensity to enter alliances due to more self-confidence in its ability to learn fast from partners. In addition, we argue that when a firm concentrates its R&D at a central location, this neutralizes the positive and negative influences of the two knowledge base features on alliance formation. We tested and found support for the hypotheses using a database of 1550 alliances undertaken by 78 large incumbent pharmaceutical, chemical, and agro-food companies active in the biotechnology sector during 1993–2002.

Financial innovation: The bright and the dark sides

Abstract: Based on data from 32 countries over the period 1996–2010, this paper is the first to assess the relationship between financial innovation, on the one hand, and bank growth and fragility, as well as economic growth, on the other hand. We find that different measures of financial innovation, capturing both a broad concept and specific innovations, are associated with faster bank growth, but also higher bank fragility and worse bank performance during the recent crisis. These effects are stronger in countries with larger securities markets and more restrictive regulatory frameworks. In spite of these seemingly ambiguous findings, our evidence points to a positive net effect of financial innovation on economic growth: financial innovation is associated with higher growth in countries and industries with better growth opportunities.

Family‐Friendly Management in Great Britain: Testing Various Perspectives

Abstract: Five main perspectives on family-friendly management are differentiated by their conceptions about the nature of such management and not just by its assumed predictors Multivariate analysis of the relationships among a set of family-oriented practices shows that some but not all are used in a systematic way Regression analysis reveals that employers’ adoption of family-friendly approaches is explained by factors that span all five perspectives, but overall, the organizational adaptation perspective fares best

An econometric model of the world market for dry cargo freight and shipping

Abstract: (1989). An econometric model of the world market for dry cargo freight and shipping. Applied Economics: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 339-356.

Phase-winding solutions in a finite container above the convective threshold

Abstract: An analysis is presented of the steady states of two-dimensional convection near threshold in a laterally finite container with aspect ratio 2L [Gt ] 1. It is shown that the allowed wavevectors which can occur in the bulk of the container are reduced from a band |q| ∼ [(R − R0)/R0]½ in the laterally infinite system to a band |q| ∼ (R − R0)/R0 in a system with sidewalls (R is the Rayleigh number and R0 its critical value in the infinite system). The analysis involves an expansion of the hydrodynamic equations in the small parameter [(R − R0)/R0]½, and leads to amplitude equations with boundary conditions, which generalize to higher order those previously obtained by Newell & Whitehead and Segel. The precise values of the allowed wavevectors depend on the Prandtl number of the fluid and the thermal properties of the sidewalls. For certain values of these parameters all the allowed wavevectors are less than the critical value q0. The applicability of the results to convection in a rectangular container is briefly discussed.