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When Does Top Management Team Diversity Matter in Large Organizations?

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Top management teams (TMTs) drive strategic leadership, but there is little clarity on when the composition of these upper echelons most impacts organization performance. Drawing from the categorization‐elaboration model, we study an 18‐year sample of approximately 4500 organizations and over 32 000 executives and find a positive relationship ...
Frances Fabian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Portfolio Entrepreneurs' Strategic Responses to the COVID‐19 Outbreak: The Role of Adaptation, Decision‐Making, Temporality, and Coordination

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the immediate responses of portfolio entrepreneurs (PEs) in the Netherlands to the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Employing a longitudinal design, real‐time data were collected from 21 PEs through verbal interviews and open‐ended questionnaires, capturing their initial entrepreneurial reactions.
Tobias Kutzewski, Ingrid A. M. Wakkee
wiley   +1 more source

SOLVING FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS USING A DISCRETE AFRICAN WILD DOG ALGORITHM [PDF]

open access: yesICTACT Journal on Soft Computing, 2013
The problem of m-machine permutation flowshop scheduling is considered in this paper. The objective is to minimize the makespan. The flowshop scheduling problem is a typical combinatorial optimization problem and has been proved to be strongly NP-hard ...
M. K. Marichelvam, M. Geetha
doaj  

A Data Structure Boosting The Performance of Local Search For CSP Solving [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceThis paper is concerned with local search techniques (LS) for solving CSPs (Constraint Satisfaction Problems). An e cient data structure is presented that allows the performance of LS to be boosted.
Grégoire, Éric   +2 more
core  

Two Tales of Uncertainty: Calibrating Overprecision With Self‐Regulated Entrepreneurial Learning

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial success strongly depends on decision‐making under uncertainty. Uncertainty is particularly pronounced when entrepreneurs are confronted with novel situations characterized by an absence of information. While cognitive biases, such as overprecision, can have a negative impact on decision‐making processes by distorting ...
Julian Kolbe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Relational View of Uncertainty

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue.
Daniel Leunbach
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Visible Differences: An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Cognitive Diversity Awareness in Shaping Team Dynamics

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between team composition and organizational outcomes is a critical topic in many managerial and business contexts. In this study, we utilize an experimental research method to examine the impact of cognitive diversity on team dynamics.
Jantunen Ari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The crew-scheduling module in the GIST system [PDF]

open access: yes
The public transportation is gaining importance every year basically due the population growth, environmental policies and, route and street congestion.
Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço
core  

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