Abstract Managers are often faced with the need to choose among multiple satisficing options. We call this situation equifinal choice and argue how it opens an opportunity for managers a new trajectory their firm—an strategic action. Although can exist in any environment, becomes most consequential when uncertainty is high. Uncertainty weakens adherence of organizational members superordinate g...

Abstract This paper investigates strategic entrepreneurial choice between the UK Big 3 platforms–Crowdcube, Seedrs and SyndicateRoom–that exemplify three main equity crowdfunding (ECF) shareholder structures identified in literature. ECF has become a for both entrepreneurs angel venture capital funds as it offers mutually beneficial advantages to both, especially under co-investment model where...

Non-intrusive signal quality assessment in general, and its application to speech signal processing, in particular, builds extensively upon statistical regression models. Commonly, the raw preference scores used for fitting these models belong to a categorical scale. Averaging the scores over a number of test subjects results in smooth, close-to-continuous ratings, thus justifying the use of re...

The purpose of this paper was to design a conceptual model of sustainable outsourcingwith a balanced scorecard using the hierarchical analysis process. In this research, success factors of outsourcing were identified based on previous studies conducted inside and outside of the country. To ensure the validity of the factors, in addition to the content validity and the validity index, the reliab...

Attribution of anonymous texts, if not based on factors external to the text (such as paper and ink type or document provenance, as used in forensic document examination), is largely, if not entirely, based on considerations of language style. We will consider here the question of how to best deconstruct a text into quantitative features for purposes of stylistic discrimination. Two key conside...

Organizational change management is concerned with realizing strategies using models, methods and prescriptions that seek to guide the three key elements of strategic management process: strategic analysis (what is our current configuration?), strategic choice (what is our desired configuration?) and strategic implementation (how to realize the desired configuration?). To address these strategi...

We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy increases the likelihood of being a nascent entrepreneur and creating an operating business. Self-efficacy als...