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In this thesis, I present my study on the impact of multi-group network structure on the performance of consensus building strategies, and the preliminary mathematical formulation of the problem on improving the performance of the National Airspace system (NAS) through long-term investment. The first part of the thesis is concerned with a structural approach to the consensus building problem in multi-group distributed sensor networks (DSNs) that can be represented by bipartite graph. Direct inference of the convergence behavior of consensus strategies from multi-group DSN structure is one of the contributions of this thesis. The insights gained from the analysis facilitate the design and development of DSNs that meet specific performance criteria. The other part of the thesis is concerned with long-term planning and development of the NAS at a network level, by formulating the planning problem as a resource allocation problem for a flow network. The network-level model viewpoint on NAS planning and development will give insight to the structure of future NAS and will allow evaluation of various paradigms for the planning problem.

The present study was an attempt to provide data which would serve as a basis for distinguishing between group patterns of winning and losing basketball teams, in terms of personality profiles and interpersonal group structures.

We examine the effect of tax burden differences between organizational forms on multinationals choosing an organizational form for a newly established foreign affiliate. Analyzing micro-level data on inbound foreign direct investment relations in Germany, we find that a higher tax burden on foreign income earned in a corporate subsidiary significantly increases the tendency of a multinational to choose a non-corporate flow-through. Income-shifting opportunities, industry-specific risk, country-level differences in regulatory quality, and host-country experience moderate this effect and thus shape the cost-benefit relation of organizational forms in cross-border settings. In addition, we document that multinationals establishing a new affiliate as a flow-through on the basis of a tax benefit invest less in that affiliate and exhibit a more complex group structure. Taken together, our results provide evidence on how tax rules shape group structures of multinationals and suggest that an asymmetric taxation of organizational forms has economic consequences. / Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series

Jag kommer i denna uppsats använda min egen upplevelse och mitt eget perspektiv för att kunna återberätta det som kan vara avgörande för att ett fotbollslag ska klara alla hinder framför sig. Vad det kan innebära för otränade individer att sättas i en grupp och försöka fungera som en grupp. Vad ledarskapets roll kan betyda för en grupp eller vad det kan orsaka för problem om den som blir ledare inte vet hur en ledare ska vara eller vad dess roll innebär inom fotboll.vad det innebär att vara i en grupp och vad som krävs att en grupp ska fungera som ett lag. / I will in this paper to use my own experience and my own perspective to retell that which can be crucial to a football team must clear all obstacles in front of him . What that might mean for untrained individuals to be in a group and try to act as a group . What leadership role mean for a group or whatever it may cause problems if that becomes the leader does not know how a leader should be or what its role is in fotboll.vad it means to be in a group and what it takes to a group to work as a team.

I denna uppsats återberättar jag min upplevelse och mitt perspektiv på vad som kan vara avgörande för att ett fotbollslag ska klara av hinder framför sig. Uppsaten fokuserar på hur skilda individer kan skapa en tillhörighet och gemenskap när de försätts i ett sammanhang där de delar ett utanförskap i samhället. Denna gemenskap i utanförskap kopplas till teorier kring etniska grupper och gruppstrukturer. / In this essay i will retell my experience and my view on what can be crucial for a soccer team to clear all obstacles in front of a team. The paper focus on how different individuals kan create a unity and kinship when they share a context when they are viewed as outsiders in the society. The unity in the exclusion connects to theories about ethnic groups and group structures.