A firm’s development of innovation in products and services are critical for sustaining a competitive advantage but new product development failure rate in various industries still remains relatively high. New processes emerge during product development due to the uncertainty of the requirements and the diversity of the product development team. Unstructured processes emerge through the social ...

This study examined how collegiate E-sport athletes conceptualize the process of their own competitive game play as situated between work and play. Using interviews guided by Stebbins’ (2007) serious leisure perspective, 12 active, competitive, collegiate E-sport players described how they experience their gaming as work or play, how belonging to a collegiate E-sports team has shaped their iden...

Perfectionism is a personality characteristic that has been found to predict sports performance in athletes. To date, however, research has exclusively examined this relationship at an individual level (i.e., athletes’ perfectionism predicting their personal performance). The current study extends this research to team sports by examining whether, when manifested at team level, perfectionism pr...

Recent experimental results indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men. This paper presents an experimental design giving participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the te...

It is often found that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do (Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), Booth (2009)...). This research studies the gender differences in competitiveness in the case of team competition. While women do not enter the tournament significantly more often when it is team-based, men enter significantly less when they are part of a team rather than alone. ...

Having introduced Competetive Team Based Learning (CTBL), my innovative approach to teaching, this paper presents a cogent and critical analysis comparison of CTBL with other popular methods /approaches in the arena Education general Language Teaching particular, terms their distinguishing features characteristics. Among such approaches are Communicative (CLT), Collaborative (ColL), Interactive...

ALTITUDE TRAINING—WHAT USE IN TEAM SPORTS? To date, most altitude training research is oriented towards individual endurance athletes, while the potential benefits for team sports remain largely unexplored. Hence, the safety and equality aspects of competitive football matches held above 2500 m have been passionately debated for over two decades. In 1993 this debate was invigorated when Brazil ...