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Dev Dutta , Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, travels to India
Professor Dev Dutta traveled to Hyderabad, India, at the end of December 2007 to present a conference paper. Following the conference, he visited companies in Chennai and Mumbai
Devkamal Dutta Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, PAUL, travels to India & Hong Kong
Thanks in part to the support of a CIE International Grant for Development and Engagement I was able to travel to India and Hong Kong earlier this summer for my research and international outreach activities
Path Dependence, VRIN Resource Endowments, and Managers: Towards an Integration of Resource-Based Theory and Upper Echelons Theory
Path dependencies associated with the firm’s evolving resource endowments lead to redundancies, which makes it sub-optimal to attain sustainable competitive advantage based on these resource bundles. In this context, managers can play a proactive role by ensuring that resource endowments continue to remain beneficial for their organizations. By suggesting such a linkage and the enabling role of managers, I provide a way to integrate core arguments of two of the foremost organizationaltheories in vogue: resource-based theory (RBT) and upper echelons theory (UET)
A Simple Testable Model of Baryon Number Violation: Baryogenesis, Dark Matter, Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation and Collider Signals
We study a simple TeV-scale model of baryon number violation which explains
the observed proximity of the dark matter and baryon abundances. The model has
constraints arising from both low and high-energy processes, and in particular,
predicts a sizable rate for the neutron-antineutron () oscillation
at low energy and the monojet signal at the LHC. We find an interesting
complementarity among the constraints arising from the observed baryon
asymmetry, ratio of dark matter and baryon abundances, oscillation
lifetime and the LHC monojet signal. There are regions in the parameter space
where the oscillation lifetime is found to be more constraining
than the LHC constraints, which illustrates the importance of the
next-generation oscillation experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures; minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Lett.
How Do Entrepreneurial Growth Intentions Evolve? A Sensemaking-Sensegiving Perspective
In this paper, we develop a process model to explain how growth intentions evolve over the venture's life cycle. Adopting an inductive approach, we use case study data from 30 small and medium enterprises (SME) with an explicit focus on venture growth over five years. Three waves of data were collected from the same set of lead entrepreneurs in these firms to identify if and why their intentions to grow their businesses changed over the timeframe. Using grounded theory development, we formulate a model characterizing entrepreneurial growth intentions. The model incorporates a sensemaking-sensegiving perspective and is recognized in terms of its constituent 3Ps (Precursors, Process and Product), serving to capture the essential dynamic of the entrepreneurial growth intention process over time
Inquiring into Entrepreneurial Orientation: Making Progress, One Step at a Time
As we think through the four papers that comprise this special issue, we cannot help but be elated at the progress made by entrepreneurial orientation (EO) scholarship over the past few decades. Indeed, it seems safe to contend that EO defies the description of entrepreneurship research as a “hodgepodge” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), and instead serves as a good example of how a cumulative body of knowledge should develop in organizational science
The potential link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness:Evidence from IT firms in the UK
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough empirical investigation of the potential link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness in the context of the UK IT industry. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses a panel of 216 UK IT firms for the period from 2000 to 2016. The sample data for this study were extracted from the Worldscope, extracted from the Datastream database from Thomson Reuters. For the analysis of the data, the generalised method of moments model is applied. Findings: The results of this study provide empirical evidence that there exists a strong, positive link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness. Such evidence further reinforces the common view in the current literature of strategic management that because of the nature of their business, firms in the IT industry need to enhance their innovative capacities on a continual basis because of their critical role on these firms’ success and survival. Also, it is found that when the proxies for corporate innovations are lagged by two periods, their impact on corporate competitiveness becomes relatively more significant. However, when they are further lagged, i.e. by three periods, such an impact turns out to be relatively less pronounced. Research limitations/implications: The data gathered for this paper was restricted to IT-oriented firms in the UK. Using a secondary database (Datastream), the paper considered the period of 2000-2016. Originality/value: The research makes a significant contribution to the current debate on the relationship between information technology, innovation and performance, referred to in the literature as the productivity paradox, by studying the problem in the IT industry. It supports organisations from the sector in their efforts to deal with the dynamic nature of technological innovations and of the context where they operate. Methodologically, the way the study has measured the concepts of innovation and performance and the lessons learned from their analysis has also brought value to the research
Effects Of Phytochemicals on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus -A Short Review
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most prominent cause of mortality globally. It is a severe metabolic disorder marked by high blood glucose levels and insufficient insulin generation and activity. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) prevalence has risen dramatically due to population aging, obesity, and modern lifestyles. T2DM is distinguished by impaired beta pancreatic cell function and insulin production. Numerous studies have found that diabetes mellitus is related to increased free radical production and decreased antioxidant potential. Phytochemicals are essential in improving insulin sensitivity, which has free radical scavenging and antioxidant properties. Several phytoactive compounds, such as flavonoids, prophenylphenols, vicine, charantin, lignans, glycosides, and karavilosides, are also found to combat the complications of diabetes. The primary focus of this research will be the connection between T2DM and the preventative roles of several phytochemicals on diabetes through their antioxidant characteristics. These phytochemicals and photo sourcesmay be employed to discover and create novel anti-diabetic medicine
Anomalous Tau Neutrino Appearance from Light Mediators in Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
We point out a new mechanism giving rise to anomalous tau neutrino appearance
at the near detectors of beam-focused neutrino experiments, without extending
the neutrino sector. The charged mesons () produced and focused
in the target-horn system can decay to a (neutrino-philic) light mediator via
the helicity-unsuppressed three-body decays. If such a mediator carries
non-vanishing hadronic couplings, it can also be produced via the
bremsstrahlung of the incident proton beam. The subsequent decay of the
mediator to a tau neutrino pair results in tau neutrino detection at the near
detectors, which is unexpected under the standard three-flavor neutrino
oscillation paradigm. We argue that the signal flux from the charged meson
decays can be significant enough to discover the light mediator signal at the
on-axis liquid-argon near detector of the DUNE experiment, due to the focusing
of charged mesons. In addition, we show that ICARUS-NuMI, an off-axis near
detector of the NuMI beam, as well as DUNE, can observe a handful of tau
neutrino events induced by beam-proton bremsstrahlung.Comment: 8 pages, 1 table, 3 figure
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