Strategic uncertainty is the disparity between what one knows, and what one needs to know in order to make a responsible decision; it permeates defense decision-making. Because of strategic uncertainty, planners must maximize the robustness against surprise in striving to achieve critical goals. This article describes the decision methodology known as “robust-satisfying” and the integration of ...

Noncooperative game theory combines strategic thinking, best-response, and mutual consistency of beliefs and choices (equilibrium). Hundreds of experiments show that in actual behavior these three forces are limited, even when subjects are highly motivated and analytically skilled (Camerer, 2003). The challenge is to create models that are as general, precise, and parsimonious as equilibrium, b...

We study costless pre-play communication of intentions among inexperienced players. Using the level-k model of strategic thinking to describe players’beliefs, we fully characterize the e¤ects of pre-play communication in symmetric 2 2 games. One-way communication weakly increases coordination on Nash equilibrium outcomes, although average payo¤s sometimes decrease. Two-way communication further...

This study examined within-group shifts in the motivation beliefs and regulatory processes of second-year medical students as they engaged in a diagnostic reasoning activity. Using a contextualized assessment methodology called self-regulated learning microanalysis, the authors found that the 71 medical student participants showed statistically significant and relatively robust declines in thei...

Tactical Management is an area where businesses can pursue competitive advantage. Lately, it has been under-addressed and even ingested by operational and strategic trends in Management and Information Systems. It needs adaptability as managerial way of thinking and acting along with proper information requirements recognition, in order for the person performing the tactical management function...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to discussion on the apparent dichotomy between traditional marketing theory/concept and the world of small business management practice. The paper commences with summary consideration of the predominantly unknowable, unpredictable external operating environment with which contemporary small businesses must cope if they are to survive and prosper. The util...

This research-in-progress article reports on an ongoing investigation that explores the transition from RFID-enabled transactional systems to RFID-enabled strategic systems in healthcare settings. By adopting a comparative case study approach and a process oriented perceptive, this research explores the underlying causal mechanisms that shape transition processes in this ever important industry...

Good performances of food companies depend more and more on the organizational ability of the whole sector to promote common strategies. At the EU level national food sectors are oriented on the same strategic direction by common legislative acts. A new ex-ante regulations’ impacts assessment methodology is proposed as part of a decision support system for the policy maker in charge of the sect...

The strategic use of information systems has been identified as vital to continuing organisational success. However, it is important to enable managers not only to be aware of information systems opportunities but also to free them from their 'old thinking' about current information systems and the current role of information systems in the organisation. A structured and effective learning proc...

Automated information and production technology has been implemented widely at sawmills during the last 5-8 years. Sawmills have become information-intensive companies. The interest of the author is, how does the concept driven communicative development meet the technical rationality of a modern enterprise. In the project ‘Development network at sawmills’ we used the communicative action resear...