Overcoming Competitive Inertia: Board Composition And Strategic Persistence

Investigating Strategic Inertia Using OrgSwarm

This study describes a novel simulation model (OrgSwarm) of the process of strategic adaptation. Strategic adaptation is conceptualized as a process of adaptation (search), on a landscape of strategic possibilities, by a population of profit-seeking organizations. Unfortunately, the characteristics that make organizations coherent and viable such as organizational structure and shared organizat...

Strategic and Competitive Information Systems

The Strategic and Competitive Information Systems m ini-track showcases promising, current work on the impact of information systems on business strategy and competitive performance. The m ini-track addresses both broad societal impacts of information technology as well as firm-level competitive implications. The papers within the m iuitrack use a variety of research methodologies, including fo...

Automated glycemic pattern analysis: overcoming diabetes clinical inertia.

The OneTouch® Verio™ IQ Meter with PatternAlert™ Technology has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first self-glucose monitor that can automatically determine glycemic patterns [high and low pre-meal blood glucose (BG)] for health care providers (HCPs) and patients. In this issue of Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Katz and coauthors demonstrate that this d...

Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments

This paper attacks one of the chief limitations of the field of behavioral decision research—the past inability to use this literature to improve decision making. Building on the work of Thompson, Gentner, Loewenstein and colleagues (Loewenstein, Thompson, & Gentner, 1999; Thompson, Gentner, & Loewenstein, 2000; Gentner & Markman, 1997), the current paper finds that it is possible to reduce bia...

Overcoming clinical inertia in the management of hypertension.