To the best of our knowledge, the international marketing literature has been examining performance exclusively as a dependent variable. In this paper we argue that performance should be investigated as an independent variable. Using survey data of over 400 managers responsible for the main export ventures of Portuguese SMEs (Small and Medium Exporters), this paper shows that past performance p...

Most nonlinear problem solvers use a leastcommitment search strategy, reasoning about partially ordered plans. Although partial orders are useful for exploiting parallelism in execution, leastcommitment is NP-hard for complex domain descriptions with conditional effects. Instead, a casual-commitment strategy is developed, as a natural framework to reason and learn about control decisions in pla...

Many scheduling scenarios involve altering or repairing an initial, candidate schedule, sometimes as a result of unexpected changes to the problem. Given a constraint satisfaction problem and an initial assignment of values to variables that violates some constraints, we consider the problem of finding a solution which differs minimally from the initial state. We consider two search spaces for ...

We here provide examples that demonstrate how the model in "When Does Competition Foster Commitment" can be extended to cases in which 1) strategy-speci…c investments improve pro…tability by increasing demand rather than by reducing costs or 2) commitment also serves as a coordination device. Contacts: Ferreira, LSE, Department of Finance, and Kittsteiner, RWTH Aachen University, School of Busi...

This paper begins with a detailed computational introduction to a classic ACE model: an evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma. The paper presents a simple but fully coded object oriented implementation of this model. (We use the Python programming language, which is shown to be a natural ally for ACE research). Using these tools, we demonstrate that player type evolution is affected by cardinal payof...

The impact of the Human Resource (HR) capability on the firm’s performance and its involvement in developing business strategies are becoming increasingly important particularly in high tech Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Not surprisingly, the main debate in HRM, particularly in SMEs, is nowadays concerned with the relationship between HR capabilities and the firm’s overall performa...

This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches, punitive consequence and logical consequence, to change employees’ non-work related computing (NWRC) behaviors in the workplace. Employees’ affective commitment to change (change by desire), normative commitment to change (change by obligation), and continuance commitment to change (change by cost-benefit comparison) were compared. A betw...