Pace,rhythm, and scope: process dependence in building a profitable multinational corporation

Many potential benefits of foreign expansion have been identified in the literature, yet empirical support that multinational firms perform better than domestic firms is mixed. This paper takes a longitudinal perspective and argues that how much a firm benefits from having foreign subsidiaries depends on its process of internationalization. We argue that a firm's capacity to absorb expansion is subject to constraints: some expansion patterns increase profitability less than others, owing to diseconomies of time compression. We hypothesize that the speed of internationalization, the spread of the geographical and product markets entered, and the irregularity of the expansion pattern negatively moderate a firm's increase in profitability resulting from international expansion. Model estimations based on panel data raised strong support for these predictions. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Socio-technical challenges in the development of digital multimedia broadcasting: A survey of Korean mobile television development

This paper examines the prospectus of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting from the technical, economic and regulatory issues. This paper attempts to gain a better understanding of how DMB will evolve and stabilize in next generation network environments. Two research questions guide this study: (1) How does DMB trigger a change in policy, market and industry structure? (2) What are the driving forces of the rapid DMB development in Korea? As these questions involve socio-technical issues, this study uses a socio-technical perspective to investigate the complex relations between the social and technical aspects of DMB by highlighting the co-evolving nature, diversity, and interface between different driving forces and policy. The finding is that Korean DMB is the outcome of a proactive strategy of a telecom carrier and the Korean government's industrial policy to support such strategy. Among the push-oriented trajectory, however, non-technical issues such as users, market and regulation are left behind, which reveals the disjunction of the DMB development in terms of the socio-technical system perspective. The development of DMB sheds light on the growing challenges in the dynamics of industry, regulation, and technology.     

海面低仰角数字微波通信系统性能及体制分析

本文介绍了海面低仰角数字微波通信系统的特点，对海面电波多径衰落进行了理论计算，指出了通信系统抗衰落的方法和手段，并给出了一种抗衰落通信系统在海面通信试验中的测试数据。     

高速数字信号处理采集数据的存贮

本文针对高速数字信号处理技术中存在的数据接口问题,分析了几种数据存贮结构,在此基础上给出了一种性能/价格比较优的总线隔离的数据存贮器直接存贮数据接口结构。     

码移键控系统的性能分析

讨论了码移键控(CSK)基本原理、基于数字匹配滤波器(DMF)的快速捕获结构和用相关乘法器代替数字匹配滤波器的快速捕获结构,并对CSK系统的接收性能进行数学分析,得到了数据码错误率公式。     

Superhighway patrolman

This fictional prototype explores two of the future's major societal challenges: the delivery of healthcare to an increasingly ageing society; and the policing of a society, in which digital surveillance may predominate. It contrasts the author's vision of what life could be like in the United Kingdom in a decade's time (just as he contemplates retirement) with the simpler values of the 1980s, when he began his postgraduate career. The lyrics of the poignant 1982 Bruce Springsteen song, “Highway Patrolman” are used to bridge the epochs¹. The prototype relocates the two main ‘middle-America’ characters, brothers Joe and Frank Roberts, in London in the year 2025. Much has already changed politically and socially in ‘Western societies’ in the intervening period up to 2012, driven by the inexorable advances of technology. As further scientific advances drive us to an anticipated paradigm change,² one can only speculate on how society will advance, posing serious ethical dilemmas. Many of the changes will be positive. However, the story explores the potential negative consequences to the ageing population, in what appears to be a successful economy. Although somewhat pessimistic in outlook, a hopeful conclusion is that the ‘ties that bind’ will still predominate.     

电子商务中的信息安全及应对方法

随着互联网的全面普及，基于互联网的电子商务应运而生。它的高效率、低成本等优点越来越受到社会的认可。而作为一种全新的商务模式，信息安全的保障是电子商务实施的前提。     

对LZ77图象压缩算法进行改进的C语言实现

本提出了一种用于无损灰度图象数据压缩新的编码方法-一种基于对LZ77压缩方法的改进以及对图象元素预测误差的估计为基础的字典压缩方法，并给出了该方法的C语言程序实现。     

一种利用短时DFT分析实现全数字2DPSK接收机解调的新算法

本文提出了一种简单而实用的利用短时DFT（ST-DFT）分析实现全数字2DPSK接收机的解调算法。该算法对由多谱勒效应引起的时变频率漂移具有鲁棒性。由于该算法是通过检测在载频处的瞬时能量谱的跳变来实现2DPSK信号的解调，所以该算法不需要进行专门的载波相位恢复、符号定时，且具有较好的抗噪性能，实现起来简单。     

直接数字频率合成技术实现调频

本文阐述了ＤＤＳ的基本原理，语音信号的采样，如何用ＤＤＳ实现调频，并提供了试验结果。