In this paper, we propose a new strategic and tactic reasoning for agent communication. This reasoning framework is specified using argumentation theory combined to a relevance theory. Strategic reasoning enables agents to decide about the global communication plan in terms of the macro-actions to perform in order to achieve the main conversational goal. Tactic reasoning, on the other hand, all...

Knowledge technologies, the software products that support all aspects of knowledge processing and exchange, are the subject of permanent interest for software engineers at research organizations, as well as, for market analysts in commercial organizations. In order to clarify the role of knowledge management solutions in an enterprise business process, in this paper we survey the market of kno...

This paper adds to the economic-psychological research on tax compliance by experimentally testing a simple auditing rule that induces strategic uncertainty among taxpayers. Under this rule, termed the bounded rule, taxpayers are informed of the maximum number of audits by a tax authority, so that the audit probability depends on the joint decisions among the taxpayers. We compare the bounded r...

Placed in the context of China’s transitional economy, this paper studies the role of different economic, institutional and managerial factors in accelerating or hindering hightechnology firms’ pace of strategic adaptation toward a higher level of technology orientation. Drawing on a unique longitudinal data of firms in the Zhongguancun Science Park (China’s Silicon Valley) from 2000 to 2003, w...

One stated purpose of electronic human resource management (eHRM) is to make the entire HRM function more strategic. The goal of this paper is to examine recent research in e-HRM to evaluate the cumulated evidence on the relationship between strategic HRM and e-HRM, and to provide evidence-based guidance to practitioners and researchers. Specifically, we examine evidence of a relationship betwe...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a methodology for figuring out what types of information shall be shared via strategic level communication to support cyber-security. With this methodology the key development issues required to create relevant strategic messages can be sorted out. The paper follows the system modeling approach and considers the cyber world as a complex adaptive system. F...

conclusions due to the correlation between strategic thinking and productivity, we recommend educating and training managers in the use of strategic thinking, and that they understand its importance to productivity. managers should understand that increasing efficiency in a competitive environment today is a necessity for survival. background using different methods of strategic thinking is ess...

vital decisions made at the strategic level in an organization are not only intricate but also costly to alter. it is therefore important to find a comprehensive approach to deal with such a possibility. one of the major problems of a common balanced scorecard (bsc)-based model in strategic management is lack of a ranking system for strategic objectives in order to enable prioritization of the ...

Strategic flexibility is increasingly gaining currency as a key element of strategy to manage corporate performance in rapidly changing, complex, and unpredictable business environments. This paper traces the conceptual development of strategic flexibility and presents an integrative theoretical model relating technology-and market-based strategic flexibility to enhanced firm level innovative c...