Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive

Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive

Service sports include two-player contests such as volleyball, badminton, and squash. We analyze four rules, including the Standard Rule (SR), in which a player continues to serve until he or she loses. The Catch-Up Rule (CR) gives the serve to the player who has lost the previous point—as opposed to the player who won the previous point, as under SR. We also consider two Trailing Rules that ma...

Sports Competitive Intelligence and its Influence on China Competitive Sports

As a kind of strategic resource, competitive intelligence is a kind of information activity of higher level. "Competitive intelligence" and "sports information" "sports competitive intelligence", it is a new understanding and awareness of the old "sports information" in the new period, which belongs to the "intelligence" and "competitive intelligence" the subordinate concept. In this paper, com...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Fish harder; catch more?

Perhaps the most fundamental insight from fishery science is that ecosystems impose important and predictable constraints on food production from the sea. The familiar hump-shaped growth curve implies that the growth rate and carrying capacity of a species limit its production: Once stocks are depleted, further increasing fishing pressure will only lead to decreases in catch. This logic underpi...

Competitive Advantages of the Latecomer Firm: A Resource-Based Account of Industrial Catch-Up Strategies

The resource-based view of the firm provides a satisfactory account of how firms go about sustaining their existing competitive advantages, but it is less successful in accounting for how firms create such advantages in the first place, or overcome incumbent advantages, when the firms start with few resources. The paper utilizes the case of latecomer firms from the Asia-Pacific region breaking ...