the present study aimed at determining the relationship between learning styles and the effect of random and blocked practices on learning of badminton serve skills.  in this quasi-experimental study, 48 female high school students were randomly placed in four groups: 1. convergent learning style with random practice, 2. convergent learning style with blocked practice, 3. divergent learning sty...

This paper studies a simple model of dynamic coordination with learning under incomplete information. We show that strategic asymmetry arises where the predecessor’s strategy is a strategic substitute for the successor’s while the latter is a strategic complement for the former. The role of dynamics and learning is identified by comparing the strategic interactions in the coordination games wit...

An Australian institutional case study is presented on the evaluation approach being adopted for the implementation of a new online learning environment. Well conceived and inclusive evaluation is seen as essential for the quality management of online learning environments. The focus is on identifying and reconciling the informational needs of various stakeholder groups in the institution, and ...

It is reasonable to anticipate that rational agents who are subject to classification by a principal using a discriminant function might attempt to alter their true attribute values so as to achieve a positive classification. We explore this potential strategic gaming and develop inference methods to determine better discriminant functions and show that this strategic behavior results in an alt...

The study aims to analyze the IT architecture management practices associated with their degree of maturity and the influence of institutional and strategic factors on the decisions involved through a case study in a large telecom organization. The case study allowed us to identify practices that led the company to its current stage of maturity and identify practices that can lead the company t...

High performance work practices (HPWPs) are human resource management practices aimed at stimulating employee and organisational performance. The application of HPWPs is not widespread in small organisations. We examine whether the implementation of coherent bundles of HPWPs (aimed at employee ability, employee motivation or at the opportunity to perform) depends on the scarcity of resources, a...

This paper extends the application of institutional theory to electronic human resource management (e-HRM), and strategic information systems (IS) more generally, in a multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiary setting. By adopting Scott’s (2001) institutional theory perspective, this paper explores the effects of host-country institutional factors on strategic e-HRM practices in foreign subsid...

We study learning in Minority Games (MG) with multiple resources. The MG is a repeated conflicting interest game involving a large number of agents. So far, the learning mechanisms studied were rather naive and involved only exploitation of the best strategy at the expense of exploring new strategies. Instead, we use a reinforcement learning method called Q-learning and show how it improves the...

Cette communication a pour objet de montrer la cohérence entre l’architecture du SI et le positionnement stratégique de la firme. Elle est basée sur la confrontation de deux monographies présentant et mettant en perspective les pratiques d’urbanisation des applications de deux entreprises de taille moyenne et leur stratégiques. Finalement, cet article insiste sur l’ouverture de l’architecture (...