• Meta-analysis of 34 studies including 5,488 SME observations. Exploration, exploitation, and ambidexterity all increase SMEs’ performance. SMEs benefit more from exploration or exploitation than ambidexterity. Property rights protection prevents knowledge spillovers imitation. reduces benefits in SMEs. We tailor theory on the relative performance implications exploration, to unique characteri...

taknar deposit is located about 28 km to the north-west of bardaskan in the khorasan-e-razavi province, which is situated in the north-eastern part of iran. this deposit is unique, formed within the taknar formation in the ordovician time. as a result, it is of much interest to many researchers working in this field. by choosing the lithogeochemical study performed to recognize new exploration ...

Sequential decision tasks with incomplete infor­ mation are characterized by the exploration prob­ lem; namely the trade-off between further exploration for learning more about the environ­ ment and immediate exploitation of the accrued information for decision-making. Within artificial intelligence, there has been an increasing interest in studying planning-while-learning algorithms for these ...

The aim of this study is to know the meaning, for the family, of the daily contact with a member user of crack. This is a qualitative, descriptive and phenomenological study, whose empirical data collection was based on phenomenological interviews with two families of crack dependents in a Psychosocial Care Center on Alcohol and other Drugs. The analysis and categorization of experiential descr...

A request from a powerful customer to exchange information electronically is an important external stimulus to the business strategy of a supplier. Prior research indicates that sub-optimal benefits, if any, are the typical result of such a stimulus. In this research, B2B ecommerce alignment between business strategy and IT strategy is proposed as a determinant of enhanced business benefits fro...

In forecasting how Homo Economicus would evolve into Homo Sapiens, Thaler (2000) predicted that he would gradually " begin losing IQ " , but warned at the same time against simply " making [him] dumber ". He recommended instead that economists pay closer attention to the actual processes of human cognition, which psychologists have shown to be subject to a number of specific imperfections and b...

Reaching high levels of artistic creation in a society requires institutions that facilitate the sorting of the most talented individuals of each generation and the development of their skills across artistic careers. The impact of long copyrights is not straightforward in this respect. This paper takes a professional career approach to analyzing how copyright regulation affects artistic creati...