18 research outputs found
Resource reconfiguration: learning from performance feedback
No full textResource reconfiguration enables firms to adapt in dynamic environments by supplementing, removing, recombining, or redeploying resources. Whereas prior research has underscored the merits of resource reconfiguration and the modes for implementing it, little is known about the antecedents of this practice. According to prior research, under given industry conditions, resource reconfiguration is prompted by a firm’s corporate strategy and by characteristics of its knowledge assets. We complement this research by identifying learning from performance feedback as a fundamental driver of resource reconfiguration. We claim that performance decline relative to aspiration motivates the firm’s investment in knowledge reconfiguration, and that this investment is reinforced by the munificence of complementary resources in its industry, although uncertainty
about the availability of such resources limits that investment. Testing our conjectures with a sample of 248 electronics firms during the period 1993-2001, we reveal a clear distinction between exploitative reconfiguration, which combines existing knowledge elements, and exploratory reconfiguration, which incorporates new knowledge elements. We demonstrate that performance decline relative to aspiration motivates a shift from exploitative reconfiguration to exploratory reconfiguration. Moreover, munificence of complementary resources mitigates the tradeoff between exploratory and exploitative reconfigurations, whereas uncertainty weakens the motivation to engage in both types of reconfiguration, despite the performance gap. Nevertheless, codeployment,
which extends the deployment of knowledge assets to additional domains, is more susceptible to uncertainty than redeployment, which withdraws those assets from their original domain and reallocates them to new domains. Our study contributes to emerging research on resource reconfiguration, extends the literature on learning from performance feedback, and advances research on balancing exploration and exploitation
Generative work relationships as a source of direct and indirect learning from experiences of failure: Implications for innovation agility and product innovation
No full textInfinitesimal invariance transformations
No full textThe author considers the infinitesimal invariance of a Lagrangian density up to a divergence. The condition for such an infinitesimal invariance is formulated as a set of differential identities. An example demonstrates the type of calculations involved in applications of these conditions. (8 refs)
Resilience of sustainability- and financially-driven organizations
No full textTo answer key questions concerning how negative and positive financial performance gaps motivate organizations to build more resilient systems, we develop a conceptual process model to reveal the process by which financially- and sustainability-driven organizations can translate these negative and positive financial performance gaps into organizational resilience. We specify the different modes of search behaviors that these organizations pursue when encountering negative and positive financial performance gaps. We then theorize that vicarious search is likely to encourage limiting behaviors whereas internal search is likely to foster promotion behaviors. Finally, we explain how both promoting and limiting behaviors can be helpful in improving organizational resilience. In this way, we hope to advance research that connects and integrates relatively disparate realms and, more specifically, to contribute to the sustainability, resilience, and performance feedback literatures
Engagement in sustainability behaviors in normative social and utilitarian economic-driven organizations
No full textWe delineate a dual-pathway process that links two different types of organizational identity to members’ engagement in sustainability-related behaviors. Specifically, we explain how organizations with a normative social identity and those with a utilitarian economic identity foster such engagement by specifying two distinct human resource management (HRM) practices (commitment- and transaction-based) and demonstrating the different mechanisms whereby this process unfolds. This endeavor informs the community of scholarship and practice on sustainability by opening up new avenues for research and offering implications for policy and practice regarding the ways by which sustainability behaviors of members (employees and managers) in organizations with seemingly opposing identities can be promoted.</p
Status of native species in threatened Mediterranean habitats: The case of Pancratium maritimum L. (sea daffodil) in Lebanon
No full textThe Mediterranean coast of Lebanon is being destroyed by urban expansion and other human activities. Coastal vegetation communities, especially those on prime tourist areas, such as sandy beaches, are under particular threat. This study investigated a native coastal species, Pancratium maritimum L. (Amaryllidaceae), to contribute to knowledge of these highly threatened habitats and investigate possible strategies for their conservation. Ecogeographic surveys, population dynamics and molecular analysis were undertaken. Individual populations occupied areas ranging from 704 and 32,000 m 2 and differed in their structure and reproductive ability. Clump density ranged between 0.002 to 5.6 clumps m -2. Percent fecundity varied significantly between populations and ranged between 0.07 and 57.4percent. In contrast, seedling recruitment and survival were consistently nil or low in all populations. The average Nei's unbiased genetic identity based on RAPD data was 0.09, suggesting that the species is self-pollinated. Cluster analysis indicated that populations did not group according to geographic proximity. F statistics revealed higher variation within than between populations. According to IUCN Red List Criteria at the Regional Level the current status of P. maritimum in Lebanon is Vulnerable [VU B1ab (i,ii,iii,iv,v)+2ab (i,ii,iii,iv,v)]. This could rapidly move to a higher category of threat unless conservation measures are adopted very quickly. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Anderberg M.R., 1973, CLUSTER ANAL APPL; Bartish IV, 1999, MOL ECOL, V8, P791, DOI 10.1046-j.1365-294X.1999.00631.x; Blamey M., 1993, MEDITERRANEAN WILD F; BRYAN JE, 1989, BULBS, V1; DARDAS M, 2000, THESIS AM U BEIRUT; DAVIS PH, 1984, FLORA TURKEY E AEGAE, V8; Dothan N.F., 1986, FLORA PALAESTINA, V4; Gardenfors U, 2001, CONSERV BIOL, V15, P1206, DOI 10.1046-j.1523-1739.2001.00112.x; *IUCN, 1994, PARK LIFE ACTION PRO; IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), 2001, IUCN RED LIST CAT CR; Kent M, 1992, VEGETATION DESCRIPTI; Medrano M, 1999, FLORA, V194, P13; Meikle R. D., 1985, FLORA CYPRUS; *MIN ENV, 1966, MOE LEDO; MOUTERDE P, 1966, FLORE LIBAN SYRIE, V1; *NAT BIOD STUD ACT, 1998, REP LEB MIN ENV; NEHME M, 1977, FLEURS SAUVAGE LIBN, P240; POST G, 1933, FLORA SYRIA, V2; SNEATH PHA, 1973, NUMERICAL TAX; SPSS inc, 2001, SPSS WIND REL 11 0 0; STURTEVANT EL, 1919, STURTEVANTS NOTES ED; TACKHOLM V, 1954, FLORA EGYPT, V3, P94; *UNEP, 1996, BIOL DIVERSITY LEBAN, V9; WILLIAMS JGK, 1990, NUCLEIC ACIDS RES, V18, P6531, DOI 10.1093-nar-18.22.6531; ZOHARY M., 1982, PLANTS BIBLE13131
