Although normal distributions and related current quantitative methods are still relevant for
some organizational research, the growing ubiquity of power laws signifies that Pareto …

The purpose of this book is to provide a fairly detailed introduction to the analysis and
applications of heavy-tailed distributions in a number of important problems in economics …

Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing
challenge. In this paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with …

Technology transfer is a conscious knowledge transfer and diffusion, which can promote the
coordinated configuration and balanced development of technological innovation elements …

Abstract" Each individual will adopt a course of action that will involve the expenditure of the
probably least average of his work." This statement was named" the principle of least effort" …

Emerging countries are held to be subject to more frequent and more pronounced external
and internal shocks than their developed counter-parts. This suggests that key variables …

Recent empirical evidence based on extensive databases shows that firm size distributions
(FSD) vary with the sample. This paper analyses the effect of sample size on the FSD of …

We study a system of self-propelled agents with the restricted vision. The field of vision of
each agent is only a sector of disk bounded by two radii and the included arc. The inclination …

The paper explores the frequency and size distributions of firm-size in a novel dataset for the
mid-Victorian era from a recent extraction of the England and Wales population censuses of …

This article investigates Pareto power law (PPL) behavior at the top of the Canadian wealth
distribution. To this end, Canadian Business data on the wealthiest 100 Canadians for the …