Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or “collectivist”) explanation that is utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management ⎯ which implies a neglect of micro-foundations ⎯ is incomplete. There are no mechanisms that work solely on the macro...

This paper investigates the reasoning process in unprecedented strategic situations. It proposes a new experimental design that allows to obtain an incentivised, written account of individual reasoning. Those reveal that the reasoning of the large majority of participants is structured as conjectured by the level-k model. We estimate that around one third of the participants play non-strategica...

This empirical study of organisational e-business adoption, utilising both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, examines four major factors influencing adoption in multiple e-business process domains. Support is found for the proposition that factors influencing e-business adoption behaviour have different levels of impact across different e-business process domains. Different ...

Information security is mainly a topic that is considered to be information technology related. However, to successfully implement information security, an organization’s information security program should reflect the business strategy. Nowadays information security is in many companies enforced by the information technology department, based on what they think should be in place to protect th...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a concept has been a subject of debate in the management cycle for decades. However, the incorporation of CSR, competitive advantage and strategic management into top management decision making processes, forms a set of new alliances that are beginning to gain attention. This paper examined the strategic alliances of these highly volatile but significant...

Agents that exist in an environment that changes over time, and are able to take into account the temporal nature of experience, are commonly called incremental learners. It is widely known that incremental learning systems suffer from order effects, a phenomenon observed when differently ordered sequences of examples lead to different results. The goal of this paper is presenting INTHELEXback,...

Cloud service level agreement negotiation is a process of joint decision-making between cloud clients and providers to resolve their conflicting objectives. With the advances of cloud technology, operations such as discovery, scaling, monitoring and decommissioning are accomplished automatically. Therefore, negotiation between cloud clients and providers can be a bottleneck if it is carried out...

Resumen. To make automated negotiation widely used in real scenarios, it is necessary to develop advanced software systems that are able to carry out such negotiation in those scenarios. However, although much work has been done in automated negotiation, most of these efforts have been focused on the development of negotiation protocols and strategies and only a few are centred on software fram...

Supply chain management is a new and evolving paradigm for enterprises to cope with international competition and to improve global logistics efficiency. The suppliers’ performances affect not only supply chain execution results but also the profit capability and business survivability. However, suppliers’ performance assessment always involves a large dimension of supplier behaviors. Informati...

Typical spring and summer conditions offshore of California consist of strong northerly low-level wind contained within the cool, well-mixedmarine boundary layer (MBL) that is separated from the warm and dry free troposphere by a sharp temperature inversion. This system is often represented by two layers constrained by a lateral boundary. Aircraft measurements near Point Conception, California,...