Knowledge is seen as a source of competitive advantage in organizations. The need to cater to global market places, competitive pressures and to avail the best resource possible has given rise to distributed form of working, which is further enabled by technological advances. The prime advantage of distributed form of working is access to diverse sources of knowledge, and hence sharing of knowl...

Prior to the late 1960s, Canadian Olympic teams did not consistently include a physician or a health care team. The thirty-six medical personnel accompanying Canada’s 265 athletes at the 2004 Olympics games in Athens represent the growth of the sports medicine field in both Canada and at the Olympic games. This paper chronicles and analyzes the changing composition of the Canadian Olympic teams...

This paper outlines how the theory of contests is applied to professional team sports leagues. In the first part, we present the traditional Tullock contest and explain some basic properties of the equilibrium. We will then extend this static contest to a two-period model in order to analyze dynamic aspects of contests. In the second part, we will present applications of contest theory in sport...

In today’s competitive environment, successful organizations that are able to utilize advanced information technology to establish a dynamic form to adapt to the ever-changing landscape and customer requirements always gain a competitive advantage in global competition (Porter & Lilly, 1996). The virtual team has become one of the building blocks of a successful organization. In this article, a...

In this research, we describe the evolutionary training of artificial neural network controllers for competitive team game playing behaviors by teams of real mobile robots (The EvBots). During training (evolution), performance of controllers was evaluated based on the results of competitive tournaments of games played between robots (controllers) in an evolving population. Competitive tournamen...

This study investigated movement synchronization of players within and between teams during competitive association football performance. Cluster phase analysis was introduced as a method to assess synchronies between whole teams and between individual players with their team as a function of time, ball possession and field direction. Measures of dispersion (SD) and regularity (sample entropy -...

During the process of starting a business, in an entrepreneur team, there’s not only collaborative relationship among team members, there’re also competitions between them. To avoid consequence output reduction caused by competitive behavior members to fight for rights and interests, it’s necessary figure out influence Competitive-Complementary Relations (CCR) on performance so this paper aims ...

Monitoring the development of weightlifting in Ukraine requires taking into account effectiveness individual and team performance indicators national international competitions for weightlifters different ages. Research by experts indicates a fragmentary consideration competitive activities regions National Team Ukraine. The goal is to determine activity all ages at starts 2021. To solve this g...

the player’s expected output and contribution to team success. From a managerial perspective, the goal is to pay top talent as little as possible to maximize overall team talent. Recognizing rising performers, signing them to a cheap initial contract, and then capitalizing on their rise to stardom a major method of achieving such results. This requires expertise and managerial skill; each NFL t...