A growing body of studies emphasizes the discovery of opportunities and the decision to exploit them as the essence of entrepreneurial activity. Following this stream of research, the paper presents a study that examines entrepreneurs' preferences for causal and effectual reasoning in the new venture creation process. The dominating view...
This paper brings together two different threads of work: investigating the relationship between usability and software architecture that has generated a number of usability scenarios with implications for software architecture and developing an architecture design assistant, Architecture Expert ArchE. One key element of ArchE is that quality attribute knowledge can...
A complex system is a system with many components and interconnections, interactions, or interdependencies that are difficult to describe, understand, predict, manage, design, or change. Complex technical systems are characterized by the level of complexity and uncertainty. Uncertainty appears mainly in system behaviors and the ways different aspects of a...
Intelligent Decision System IDS is a window-based software package that has been developed on the basis of the Evidential Reasoning ER approach, a development in handling hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis MCDA problems with uncertainties. In this paper, the evidential reasoning approach will be briefly described first, and its major...
Competitive pressures drive companies towards the implementation of process-aware information systems. In order to support a broad spectrum of business processes a Process Management System PMS must be flexible at run-time. This includes the support of ad-hoc deviations from the predefined process model, their memorization and reuse, and the support...
The Script Concordance SC test is an assessment tool that measures capacity to solve ill-defined problems, that is, reasoning in context of uncertainty. This tool has been used up to now mainly in medicine. The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of the test delivered on the...
The aim of this study is to investigate general practitioners' diagnostic reasoning about patients with suspected chronic heart failure in comparison with recommendations in European guidelines. Some implications of this study reveals that general practitioners need more information about how to utilize echocardiography when diagnosing chronic heart failure, guidelines ought...
This white paper in detail explains about Advice as a mechanism used by advanced object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming languages to augment the behavior of methods in a program. The paper aims at defining a formal system for reasoning about the observational equivalence of programs under advice, which can be used...
This white paper report investigates modular reasoning in the presence of aspects through TinyAspect, a small functional language that directly models aspect-oriented programming constructs. The paper in detail defines Open Modules as a module system for TinyAspect that enforces Reynolds' abstraction theorem, a strong encapsulation property. Aspect-oriented programming AOP is...
In many areas of the medical domain, the decision process i.e. reasoning, involving health care professionals is distributed, cooperative and complex. Computer based decision support systems has usually been focusing on the outcome of the decision making and treated it as a single task. In this paper a framework for...
This paper deals with Case-based Reasoning CBR as a support technology for sales promotion SP decisions. CBR-systems try to mimic analogical reasoning, a form of human reasoning that is likely to occur in weakly-structured problem solving, such as the design of sales promotions. In an empirical study, it finds evidence...
This paper highlights some of these issues, and illustrates the role and benefits of proper legal analysis in corporate transactions, and the convergence of corporate financial analysis and legal analysis and tax/accounting analysis. It also presents reasons for changes in the disclosure and accounting requirements for intangible assets, regulatory approval...
Projects have to handle a dynamic context with a lot of unexpected events. The more experienced project members are, the more likely it is that they can make the right decisions within critical situations. They can draw on experiences collected within similar situations in the past. By considering knowledge about...
Decision-making is the exploration of a suitable solution to a problem. It is the process of evaluating alternative solutions to a given problem and choosing the most suitable solution from amongst them. Decision-making, essentially, involves making suitable choices based on external and internal environmental conditions. The paper examines decision-making and...
Literature in management and marketing, beginning with the work of Zajac and Bazerman (1991), has made a strong conceptual case that decision-makers often do not effectively conjecture about competitors’future behavior, particularly rivals’ reactions to the decisionmaker’s own moves. The literature in marketing suggests that firms know far less about competitor...
Although prescriptive models of strategic decision-making abound, little is known about how managers actually reason about competitors when they make decisions. Recent empirical research describes how/why rivals react to a firm's past actions, but stops short of examining whether managers attempt to predict such reactions. This paper suggests that when...
The practice and sociology of theorising is one of the marketing discipline's most marginal specialties, yet its epistemological and methodological underpinnings including the morphology of explanations have very substantial bearing upon the nature and scope of marketing theory in general. While much of the use of philosophy of science was...
By analyzing two American contract law decisions, the paper illustrates the usefulness of economic analysis in framing the inquiry. The cases have a common feature, unrecognized by the courts: they both deal with the production and transfer of information regarding the sale of an asset of uncertain value. One involves...
This paper proposes a leadership model that combines Bandura's social cognitive theory with the causal reasoning perspective. The model suggests that leader causal reasoning processes affect leader perceptions of goals, self-efficacy, and leadership task schema that, in turn, affect the leader's selection of strategies and enactment of behaviors. Each leader...
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