Viral Shah
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809889
- eISBN:
- 9781496809926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
The focus of this chapter is Brazil’s Formula One race car driver and champion Ayrton Senna. Senna’s untimely death in his sport in 1994 resulted in three days of national mourning and in many ...
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The focus of this chapter is Brazil’s Formula One race car driver and champion Ayrton Senna. Senna’s untimely death in his sport in 1994 resulted in three days of national mourning and in many respects helps cement his global reputation as an icon in his sport. This chapter examines several aspects of Senna’s career, including rivalries and feuds with other drivers and teams, and his varied and often storied personal relationships.Less
The focus of this chapter is Brazil’s Formula One race car driver and champion Ayrton Senna. Senna’s untimely death in his sport in 1994 resulted in three days of national mourning and in many respects helps cement his global reputation as an icon in his sport. This chapter examines several aspects of Senna’s career, including rivalries and feuds with other drivers and teams, and his varied and often storied personal relationships.
Fabrizio Castellucci and Gianluca Carnabuci
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198785972
- eISBN:
- 9780191831621
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198785972.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
We examine how different kinds of uncertainty affect a firm’s decision to develop critical technologies inside or outside its organizational boundaries. We develop three main arguments. First, firms ...
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We examine how different kinds of uncertainty affect a firm’s decision to develop critical technologies inside or outside its organizational boundaries. We develop three main arguments. First, firms are more likely to incorporate sources of uncertainty by vertically integrating when firm-specific uncertainty is high. Second, firms are less likely to incorporate sources of uncertainty when field-level uncertainty is high. Third, firms are more likely to imitate design solutions adopted by successful firms to reduce competitive interdependence. Using panel data covering the period 1950–2007, we model the probability that car racing constructors participating in the Formula One World Championship decide to control engine production processes by integrating the corresponding activities into their organizational structure. We report results that are generally supportive of our hypotheses.Less
We examine how different kinds of uncertainty affect a firm’s decision to develop critical technologies inside or outside its organizational boundaries. We develop three main arguments. First, firms are more likely to incorporate sources of uncertainty by vertically integrating when firm-specific uncertainty is high. Second, firms are less likely to incorporate sources of uncertainty when field-level uncertainty is high. Third, firms are more likely to imitate design solutions adopted by successful firms to reduce competitive interdependence. Using panel data covering the period 1950–2007, we model the probability that car racing constructors participating in the Formula One World Championship decide to control engine production processes by integrating the corresponding activities into their organizational structure. We report results that are generally supportive of our hypotheses.
David J. N. Limebeer and Matteo Massaro
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198825715
- eISBN:
- 9780191864636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198825715.003.0009
- Subject:
- Physics, Condensed Matter Physics / Materials
Chapter 9 deals with the solution of minimum-time and minimum-fuel vehicular optimal control problems. These problems are posed as fuel usage optimization problems under a time-of-arrival constraint, ...
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Chapter 9 deals with the solution of minimum-time and minimum-fuel vehicular optimal control problems. These problems are posed as fuel usage optimization problems under a time-of-arrival constraint, or minimum-time problems under a fuel usage constraint. The first example considers three variants of a simple fuel usage minimization problem under a time-of-arrival constraint. The first variant is worked out theoretically, and serves to highlight several of the structural features of these problems; the other two more complicated variants are solved numerically.The second example is also a multi-stage fuel usage minimization problem under a timeof- arrival constraint.More complicated track and vehicle models are then employed; the problem is solved numerically. The third problem is a lap time minimization problem taken from Formula One and features a thermoelectric hybrid powertrain. The fourth and final problem is a minimum-time closed-circuit racing problem featuring a racing motorcycle and rider.Less
Chapter 9 deals with the solution of minimum-time and minimum-fuel vehicular optimal control problems. These problems are posed as fuel usage optimization problems under a time-of-arrival constraint, or minimum-time problems under a fuel usage constraint. The first example considers three variants of a simple fuel usage minimization problem under a time-of-arrival constraint. The first variant is worked out theoretically, and serves to highlight several of the structural features of these problems; the other two more complicated variants are solved numerically.The second example is also a multi-stage fuel usage minimization problem under a timeof- arrival constraint.More complicated track and vehicle models are then employed; the problem is solved numerically. The third problem is a lap time minimization problem taken from Formula One and features a thermoelectric hybrid powertrain. The fourth and final problem is a minimum-time closed-circuit racing problem featuring a racing motorcycle and rider.
