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The Impact Of Sustainability Exploration And Sustainability Exploitation Practices On The Organisational Performance: A Cross-Country Comparison, Matjaz Maletic, Damjan Maletic, Bostjan Gomiscek

University of Wollongong in Dubai - Papers

Corporate sustainability challenges organisations with tensions between complex economic, environmental, and social issues. We draw on concepts in the innovation literature-namely exploration and exploitation-to examine corporate sustainability practices as well as the ensuing tensions between efficiency and innovativeness in achieving organisational performance. In particular, this paper draws upon institutional theory to enhance the understanding of sustainability-related phenomena, mainly from a perspective that has not yet been widely investigated in prior empirical studies. Therefore, the paper addresses the research question of whether sustainability exploitation and sustainability exploration practices are characterized by an organisation's country of origin. The target respondents of a …

Patterns And Performance Benefits Of Sustainability Practices: A Cross-Country Comparison, Matjaz Maletic, Damjan Maletic, Jens Dahlgaard, Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park, Bostjan Gomiscek

University of Wollongong in Dubai - Papers

This paper aims to explore the relationship between sustainability practices and organizational performance. In particular, this paper draws upon institutional theory whit the aim to enhance the understanding of sustainability-related phenomena, mainly from the perspective which has not yet been widely investigated in prior empirical studies. Therefore, the paper addresses the research question whether sustainability practices as conceptualized within the framework of exploitation and exploration notions are characterized by organization's country of origin. The target respondents of a large scale web-based survey were manufacturing and service industries distributed across five countries: Germany, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain. Multiple regression with …

Comparison Of Different Distance Measures On Hierarchical Document Clustering In 2-Pass Retrieval, Azam Jalali, Farhad Oroumchian, Mahmoud Reza Hejazi

University of Wollongong in Dubai - Papers

Hierarchic document clustering has been applied to search results (query-specific clustering) on the grounds of its potential improved effectiveness compared both to that of static clustering and of conventional inverted file search (IFS).

In this paper we review and compare the effects of seven different measures of similarity among docwnents in hierarchic query specific clustering. We have conducted a number of experiments using OHSUMED document collection. The Experiments seems to indicate that the choice of similarity measure effects positively or negatively the quality of clustering.