We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator’s choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in the traditional regulatory capture paradigm. When incumbent resource users have weak property rights,...

A simple model is formulated in which the growth of a consumer population is regulated by the diversity, quantity, and quality of alternate environmental resources. Equilibrium population size is dependent not only upon these resource characteristics, but upon the pattern of resource exploitation by the consumer. It is proven that in many circumstances, an exploitation pattern in which each ind...

act — In this paper we describe two tools that form an ed environment which can be successfully used for ment and exploitation of linguistic resources. Both the d the resources were developed within the University of e Human Language Technology Group. The tools we are WS4LR, a software tool that has been developed d for solving different tasks within the Group, and a lication named WS4QE, accom...

Balancing exploration and exploitation is a critical challenge that is particularly difficult for smaller, nascent organizations that lack the resources, capabilities, and experience necessary to successfully implement ambidexterity. To better understand how small and medium-sized enterprises achieve ambidexterity, we develop theoretical arguments that link organizational performance to strateg...