The win/profit maximization debate: strategic adaptation as the answer?

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Strategic Management in the Healthcare Sector: The Debate About the Resource-Based View Flourishes in Response to Recent Commentaries

Strategic planning and performance: Extending the debate

This article extends the debate regarding the relationship between strategic planning and performance. It addresses criticism of previous empirical studies that have largely investigated direct and bi-variate relationships, producing equivocal results. The current study investigates the mediating effects of four types of flexibility on the strategic planning and performance relationship. Flexib...

Machine Vision: the Answer to the Optical Debate?

Machine vision is a branch of artificial intelligence aimed at extracting useful information from images. Vision techniques have typically been applied to images acquired by cameras, but recent research efforts have seen novel algorithms work with paintings. Promising results have been obtained which cast a new light on the debate regarding the way traditional paintings were created. The author...

On Adaptation, Maximization, and

Analysis of choice behavior in iterated tasks with immediate feedback reveals robust deviations from maximization that can be attributed to the effects five distinct properties of the different alternatives. Decision-makers behave “as if” they tend to: (1) explore too much when the payoff variability is high, (2) prefer alternatives with high payoff rank, (3) prefer alternatives with low loss r...