Electronic business (e-business) brings many new opportunities as well as several challenges to business organizations. Many organizations have turned to customer relationship management (CRM) to leverage their market orientation, customiz e their products and services, and build loyalty programs. However, capitalizing on the opportunities will require organizational investments in information ...

Refractive and absorptive optical nonlinearity can be distinguished using a pump-probe interferometric technique with picosecond time resolution. The method is applied to both resonant and nonresonant nonlinearities in optical fibers and reveals marked differences between the relaxation behavior of the refractive and absorptive nonlinearity in certain cases. A monomode fiber doped with CdS(x)Se...

Supply chain resilience (SCR) is often seen as a dynamic capability that enables firms to effectively cope with disruptions and unforeseen events in the business environment. However, empirical research focusing on influencing factors SCR still limited. Based resource-based view (RBV) capabilities theory (DCT), we examine if absorptive capacity (AC) does fact moderate relationship between entre...

The corona crisis caused discontinuity within the financial sector, which has further increased importance of innovation for sustainability and capability to manage discontinuity. aim this research is investigate how affected relationship between sustainability-oriented innovation, sustainable entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity in sector. Empirical was carried out Dutch sector dur...

The pre-absorptive cephalic phase of insulin secretion is elicited during the first ten min of a meal and before glucose levels rise. Its importance for insulin release during the post-absorptive phase has been well documented in animals but its presence or importance in man has become increasingly controversial. We here examined the presence of an early cephalic phase of insulin release in 31 ...

Plant roots typically vary along a dominant ecological axis, the root economics spectrum, depicting a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation. For absorptive roots, which are mainly responsible for resource acquisition, we hypothesized that root economic strategies differ with increasing root diameter. To test this hypothesis, we used seven plant species (a fern, a conifer, and f...

Abstract Although human capital has been recognized as playing important role in spurring productivity growth, its empirical effect remains ambiguous due to the possibility of latent heterogeneity. To reveal impact this driver economic we propose an alternative methodology, robust frontier non parametric location-scale models for accommodating simultaneously problem model specification uncertai...