This article employs new growth theories and resource advantage/dynamic capabilities research to explain how the process of economic liberalization in transition economies (TEs) redefines the bases of competition and engenders strategic and organizational change. The changes are described in terms of existing types of organizations and new firms emerging after economic liberalization. The manuscript draws a number of propositions concerning the drivers of competitive dynamics and of marketing innovation. The propositions center on overarching regularities in the dynamic interface between market-oriented institutional reforms and changes in marketing behavior across a broad spectrum of regions and income levels and thus transcend the traditional focus on development of low-income countries per se. The manuscript first explains, from a new growth theories perspective, how institutional reforms affect the TE environment. This is followed by resource advantage/dynamic capabilities explanation of firm-level responses and the relationship between those responses and subsequent institutional changes.
Abstract:In the single-user scenario of data communications, the identification and equalization of the channel can be accomplished blindly (i.e., without training sequences) using second-order statistics (SOS) if suitable diversity in the received signal is exploited. Diversity can be temporal, spatial, or both. In this paper one well known SOS-based method for blind identification and equalization (BIE) of communication channels is extended to the multi-input scenario. It is shown that the application of this SOS-BIE procedure reduces the system to a problem of blind source separation (BSS) of instantaneous linear mixtures. The users' signals can then be recovered in a second stage through appropriate BSS techniques, typically requiring higher-order statistics.
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