Knowledge management as a field continues to receive resounding interest from scholars. While we have made progress in many areas of knowledge management, we are yet to understand what factors contribute to employee usage of knowledge artifacts. A field study of 175 employees in a software engineering organization was conducted to understand factors that govern consumption of explicit knowledge...

We study the performance of a stylized supply chain where multiple retailers and a single producer compete in a Cournot-Stackelberg game. At time t = 0 the retailers order a single product from the producer and upon delivery at time T > 0, they sell it in the retail market at a stochastic clearance price. We assume the retailers’ profits depend in part on the realized path of some tradeable sto...

Describing the relative magnitude and controls of herbivory and decomposition is important in understanding the trophic transference, recycling, and storage of carbon and nutrients in diverse ecosystems. We examine the variability in herbivory and decomposition between and within a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. We also analyze how that variability is associated with differen...

Successful negotiation depends on understanding and responding to participants’ needs. Many negotiation approaches assume identical needs (e.g., minimizing costs) and do not take into account other preferences of the participants. However, preferences play a crucial role in the outcome of negotiations. Accordingly, we propose a negotiation framework where producer agents learn the preferences o...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of struggles over resources by studying a game between a producer that can guard and buy fortifications and a pirate. It is assumed that the returns from defence and raiding depends on the ratio of the resources spent on each activity and that all produced goods can be stolen. It attempts to characterise the traject...

This paper determines the effect that offset payments under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA also known as the “Byrd Amendment”) have on tariff levels that are lobbied for by U.S. producer groups. We derive the optimum antidumping tariff that would maximize the welfare of producers receiving CDSOA offset payments. We compare and contrast this newly derived “optimal antidumpin...

In a global supply chain consisting of one retailer and manufacturer, both from specific countries, when there is time lag between the payments made whilst placing order realized, threat in form exchange rate fluctuation influences optimal pricing quantity decisions. We explain effect underneath Gamma distribution or producer undertakes to share risk demand error modelled multiplicative news ve...

background  and  objectives: pseudomonas  aeruginosa is responsible for devastating nosocomial infections among severely burn patients. class c of cephalosporinase (ampc-β-lactamases) is important cause of multiple β-lactam resistance in p. aeruginosa . the aim of this study was to detect the ampc-β-lactamases producing isolates among carbapenem resistant p.  aeruginosa isolated from burn patie...