Before a strategy can be developed, the problem it is supposed to address needs to be formulated. We establish the microfoundations of strategic problem formulation by developing a theory that predicts a core set of impediments to formulation that arise when complex, ill-structured problems are addressed by heterogeneous teams. These impediments fundamentally constrain and narrow problem formul...

The nature of the impediments to trade and investment in the international air transport markets are discussed. The treatment of these impediments in the May 2001 US Plurilateral Agreement are examined, and compared to a benchmark based on the principles for an open club. The conclusion of this comparison is that the US Plurilateral will not lead to a genuine liberalising outcome. r 2003 Elsevi...

Goal To devise a theoretical framework for understanding the impacts of demographic and environmental variation on evolutionary branching.

Botswana remains one of the countries with high prevalence of HIV infection with a population prevalence rate of 17.6 in 2008. In 2009, the Ministry of Health launched male circumcision as an additional strategy to the already existing HIV preventive efforts. The purpose of this paper is to share what the participants of a survey to evaluate a short-term male circumcision communication strategy...

Two key impediments for the commercial success of model-based diagnosis (MBD) include (a) a failure to integrate diagnostics modeling within the requirements and design phase, and (b) a high degree of diagnostic ambiguity during run-time. This article addresses both of these impediments by providing a formal framework that integrates requirements-based design with MBD modeling. The proposed fra...

The benefits of collaborative purchasing are many, yet in the healthcare sector, in particular at hospitals, it is still uncommon. In this paper we identify major impediments for collaborative purchasing, resulting in a first component of our proposed collaborative e-purchasing model for hospitals; as a second component it contains a collaborative purchasing typology. After analysis of a first ...

;\ PORTION of the research for my recently Dcompleted doctoral dissertation consisted of a questionnaire directed to 80 vice presidents (or directors) ofresearch in industry and 78 people occupying as similar a role as I could find at the campuses of the 48 United States members of the Association of American Universities. The questionnaire set forth a list of 15 assorted impediments to univers...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is seldom more difficult than during disaster relief efforts. As these supply chains quickly form, the lack of information flow presents a major hindrance to coordinating the flow of resources necessary for disaster relief efforts. This paper identifies impediments to the flow of information through supply chains following large scale and catastrophic disasters. Gi...