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The Corporate Governance of Business Groups first summarizes how the existing body of literature has defined and studied business groups (BG). It then discusses the arguments for why BGs exist and persist. To provide a contextual understanding of BGs, the authors present the worldwide distribution and structure of these organizations. Gaining an overview of BGs' and their affiliated firms' characteristics allows one to disentangle the various dimensions of their corporate governance, particularly focusing on identifying what we know about how they are governed and where future research should continue. The authors adopt a traditional corporate governance framework based on financial economics to discuss BGs' corporate governance mechanisms. This financial perspective is complemented by incorporating an organizational and sociological lens to better understand how ties among the affiliate firms influence BG governance. Overall, the monograph argues that BG corporate governance is a fruitful path for scholars to continue to examine because many internal and external governance mechanisms remain understudied and the specificities of BGs generate differences in how these mechanisms are understood in these organizations, resulting in gaps in the literature ripe for future research.

Alfonso Farina, one of the world's leading experts on RADAR, provides a personal reflection on the major leading technical advancements during his distinguished career in academia and industry. Ultimately the author is looking to find beauty at the intersection of mathematics and engineering. He coins the term algolet as a small algorithm that he has used in his career which can be used to produce an illustration suitable for printing on a T-shirt. In doing so, he uses the 700-plus publications he has authored as his source.In the first of a 3-part series he looks at the major developments in Adaptive Arrays for RADAR and Tracking Algorithms. He puts historical context around the findings and highlights some of the most successful techniques and their applications.The reader is treated to a gentle stroll through the career of a leading researcher whose quest has been to help humanity improve its quality of life on earth through engineering and technology. An ambitious goal that he is still pursuing.