Marketing-mix plays an essential role in the competitive business environment. Marketing decision makers constantly need to monitor changes in the environment and organization to make necessary changes. Therefore, a knowledge management system is required to acquire, store, retrieve and use up-to-dated knowledge. Corporations also tend to look for systems assisting them in knowledge management....

This paper studies both theoretically and empirically hierarchies’ role in organizing the division of labor. We develop an equilibrium model of the depth and breadth of knowledge individuals acquire and of the organizational implications of these choices. We show that as the size of the economy increases, the value of the arbitrage between fields performed by generalists declines, and this lead...

Introduction More than 20 million cases of infection with Hepatitis E (HEV) are registered every year all over the world. By now it is known that chronic Hepatitis E develops in immunosuppressed individuals, including individuals infected with HIV. Studies regarding coinfection of HIV and HEV are limited. Some studies have suggested that patients with HIV may acquire HEV infection more frequent...

Successful innovation depends on the management of a firm’s knowledge base. This paper empirically investigates the determinants of knowledge regulation. Using a unique survey dataset, the analysis suggests that R&D managers do not leak knowledge randomly, but rather regulate knowledge consciously. We find that the source and the channel of knowledge inflows impact knowledge regulation. The fin...

Two studies investigated the psychological underpinnings of racial nonbias, defined as extremely low or null bias on measures of implicit and explicit racial attitudes. In Study 1, racially nonbiased Whites showed differential susceptibility to affective conditioning compared with subjects with greater bias. A significant two-way interaction emerged, indicating that nonbiased individuals were s...

The law of the few refers to the following empirical phenomenon: in social groups a great proportion of individuals get most of their information from a very small subset of the group. This small set has many more connections than the average of the group. In some situations these few individuals acquire information as well as they convey it to others, while in other settings they act as pure c...

The introduction of new technologies into small remote communities can alter how individuals acquire knowledge about their surrounding environment. This is especially true when technologies that satisfy basic needs, such as freshwater use, create a distance (i.e., diminishing exposure) between individuals and their environment. However, such distancing can potentially be countered by the transf...

Situation assessment, i.e. the process of achieving situation awareness, is common in environmental monitoring, where assessment occurs predominantly on sensor data and awareness is for the state of environmental phenomena. For a particular location, an environmental monitoring system may measure and compute mean hourly PM2.5 concentration to acquire knowledge for situations of unhealthy exposu...