Theoretical Legitimacy of ‘Strategic Entrepreneurship’: How does a firm engage in entrepreneurial exploration as well as strategic consolidation?

Theoretical legitimacy of ‘strategic management’ has not yet been established. This exploratory theoretical paper revisits the connection between entrepreneurship and strategy. Examining data of decisions in two firms across their initial years, one of which sold to a larger buyer and the other did not, this paper attempts to trace the firms’ path in navigating the tension between entrepreneurial exploration necessary for initial growth on the one hand, and strategic direction, on the other, through building efficiency routines necessary for profitable exploitation. Preliminary results and implications are discussed

Error analysis of bit-flip qubits under random telegraph noise for low and high temperature measurement application

Achieving small error for qubit gate operations under random telegraph noise (RTN) is of great interest for potential applications in quantum computing and quantum error correction. I calculate the error generated in the qubit driven by $\pi$, CORPSE, SCORPSE, symmetric and asymmetric pulses in presence of RTN. For a special case when pulse acts in x-direction and RTN in z-direction, I find that for small value of noise correlation time, $\pi$-pulse has small error among all the other pulses. For large value of noise correlation time, possibly white noise, symmetric pulse generates small error for small energy amplitudes of noise strength, whereas CORPSE pulse has small error for large energy amplitudes of noise strength. For the pulses acting in all the three directions, several pulse sequences were identified that generate small error in presence of small and large strength of energy amplitudes of RTN. More precisely, when $\pi$ pulse acts in x direction, CORPSE pulse acts in y direction and SCORPSE pulse acts in z-direction then such pulse sequences induces small error and may consider for better candidate in implementing of bit-flip quantum error correction. Error analysis of small energy amplitudes of RTN may be useful for low temperature measurements, whereas error analysis of large energy amplitudes of RTN may be useful for room temperature measurements of quantum error correction codes.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure

Reading Globalization from the Margin: The Case of Abdullah Munshi

In this essay I argue that the global perspective, established in the era of modernEuropean imperialism, is given institutional expression as a way of seeing that is engaged—both by ruler and ruled— as the frame of adequate representation. Briefly outlining how this frame operates in historical and cultural studies today, I examine its deployment in mid-nineteenth-century Melaka and Singapore through a reading of the Hikayat Abdullah, a seminal Malay-language text composed by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir. Although Abdullah self-consciously sets about reproducing the global perspective, I show how this mode of thematization is interrupted and displaced as it brings about an encounter between the diverse and uneven contexts of the native and European worlds

Universal correlations in random matrices: quantum chaos, the 1/r21/r^2 integrable model, and quantum gravity

Random matrix theory (RMT) provides a common mathematical formulation of distinct physical questions in three different areas: quantum chaos, the 1-d integrable model with the $1/r^2$ interaction (the Calogero-Sutherland-Moser system), and 2-d quantum gravity. We review the connection of RMT with these areas. We also discuss the method of loop equations for determining correlation functions in RMT, and smoothed global eigenvalue correlators in the 2-matrix model for gaussian orthogonal, unitary and symplectic ensembles.Comment: 26 pages, LaTe

Miquel dynamics for circle patterns

We study a new discrete-time dynamical system on circle patterns with the combinatorics of the square grid. This dynamics, called Miquel dynamics, relies on Miquel's six circles theorem. We provide a coordinatization of the appropriate space of circle patterns on which the dynamics acts and use it to derive local recurrence formulas. Isoradial circle patterns arise as periodic points of Miquel dynamics. Furthermore, we prove that certain signed sums of intersection angles are preserved by the dynamics. Finally, when the initial circle pattern is spatially biperiodic with a fundamental domain of size two by two, we show that the appropriately normalized motion of intersection points of circles takes place along an explicit quartic curve.Comment: 34 pages, 24 figures. Final version to appear in Int. Math. Res. Notice