Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneous pursuit of exploitation and exploration, has become a very important topic in the study of organizations. Yet, as a recent and comprehensive review notes, “Despite the rapidly expanding number of studies referring to organizational ambidexterity, empirical tests of the ambidexterity–performance relationship remain scarce.” The contributi...

Strategic positioning is a decisive part of the team play within a soccer game. In most solutions the positioning techniques are treated as a constituent of a complete team play strategy. In a comprehensive overview we discuss the team play and positioning methods used within RoboCup and extract the essential requirements for player positioning. In this work, we propose an approach for strategi...

This paper investigates how contract structure influences interfirm dispute resolution processes and outcomes by examining a unique dataset consisting of over 150,000 pages of documents relating to 102 business disputes. We find that the level of contract detail affects the type of dispute resolution approach that is adopted when conflict arises, and that different approaches are associated wit...

Selecting the appropriate acquisition mode for a required technology, is one of the critical strategic decisions in formulating a technology strategy. Although a number of factorswere found to be influential in the choice of technology acquisitionmode, it still remains a void in the literature how tomake a strategic decision, based on a huge set of those factorswith the help of a systematic app...

An important criterium for social choice methods is their resistance against various types of strategic behavior. Seminal results in the social choice literature indicate that absolute resistance is in many cases impossible. For this reason, it has often been argued that computational intractability could be used as an obstruction for strategic behavior for different procedures. In this paper, ...

Higher education often lags behind industry in the adoption of new or emerging technologies. As competition increases among colleges and universities for a diminishing supply of prospective students, the need to adopt the principles of business intelligence becomes increasingly more important. Data from first-year enrolling students for the 2006-2008 fall terms at a private, master’s-level inst...