Drawing from research on strategic choice, this study investigates the relationship between market turbulence and firms’ sustainable behavior, in the context of sustainabilityrelated institutional adversity. It argues that the relationship between market turbulence and sustainability is mediated by network embeddedness, and this mediating role in turn is moderated by a firm’s innovative orienta...

We address the challenges of evaluating the fidelity of AI agents that are attempting to produce human-like behaviors in games. To create a believable and engaging game play experience, designers must ensure that their non-player characters (NPCs) behave in a human-like manner. Today, with the wide popularity of massively-multi-player online games, this goal may seem less important. However, if...

This paper deals with the identification of effective entrepreneurial behaviors in hostile environments. Extant contributions argue that entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon, which needs to be addressed in a multidimensional perspective (i.e. strategic posture, behavioral attitudes, economic performance, and so forth). Drawing from fifteen streams of research in the entrepreneurship domain,...

Advances in molecular biology and the reduced costs in genetic modifications promoted the emergence of systems and synthetic biology over the last decade. In principle, these approaches can be applied on system level design for specific biological behavior through rewiring natural connectivity in the regulatory network. However, reality suggests otherwise: even for simple gene circuits, design ...

The trust and reputation models were introduced to restrain the impacts caused by rational but selfish peers in P2P streaming systems. However, these models face with two major challenges from dishonest feedback and strategic altering behaviors. To answer these challenges, we present a global trust model based on network community, evaluation correlations, and punishment mechanism. We also prop...

Social and economic systems consist of complex interactions among its members. Their behaviors become adaptive according to changing environment. In many cases, an individual’s behaviors can be modeled by a stimulus-response system in a dynamic environment. In this paper, we use the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) game, which is a simple model to deal with complex problems for dynamic systems...

The potential for human resource management to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. life insurance companies has received little attention in the past. Our evidence suggests that U.S. life insurance firms give little attention to consciously aligning their human resource systems with the requirements of their competitive strategies. We also find evidence suggesting that care in preserving relati...

The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. We argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does have consequences for their attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately, unit performance. Drawing on the strategic HR literature, we propose a typology of five HR-Attribution dimensions. Utilizing data collected fr...

Natural selection designs some social behaviors to depend on flexible learning processes, whereas others are relatively rigid or reflexive. What determines the balance between these two approaches? We offer a detailed case study in the context of a two-player game with antisocial behavior and retaliatory punishment. We show that each player in this game-a "thief" and a "victim"-must balance two...

Recent studies have suggested that current agent-based models are not sufficiently sophisticated to reproduce results achieved by human collaborative learning and reasoning. Such studies suggest that humans are diverse and dynamic when solving problems socially. However, despite their relevance to problem-solving, these two behavioral features have not yet been fully investigated. In this paper...