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Resource dependence theory
About: Resource dependence theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2732 publications have been published within this topic receiving 184871 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a combination between agency theory and resource dependence theory was used to find that directors' capital may have an effect on R&D strategies. But only if the resources acquired by directors through their experience and connections positively influence research intensity, but only if directors can carry out their monitoring activity adequately.
Abstract: Taking a combination between agency theory and resource dependence theory, we point out that directors' capital may have an effect on R&D strategies. A sample of both high-tech and low-tech industries for the period 2007–2011 is used. The results indicate that, regardless of the type of industry and the specific expertise on R&D intensive companies, board members with multiple directorships influence R&D corporate strategies. The resources acquired by directors through their experience and connections positively influence R&D intensity, but only if directors can carry out their monitoring activity adequately. This evidence implies a step forward in the understanding of the role of board of directors in corporate strategy, thus having significant implications for academics, companies and regulators, which are both theoretical and practical.
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TL;DR: In an attempt to reconcile past modality research, Leigh (1991) used multiple resource theory while emphasizing the role of audio/visual congruency and task difficulty as mentioned in this paper, and provided an alternative interpretation by reviewing Multiple Resource Theory from an involvement perspective.
Abstract: In an attempt to reconcile past modality research, Leigh (1991) used Multiple Resource Theory while emphasizing the role of audio / visual congruency and task difficulty This paper provides an alternative interpretation by reviewing Multiple Resource Theory from an involvement perspective Past modality studies are organized and integrated based on the level of consumer involvement in the stimulus ad Empirical findings are shown to be highly consistent with this approach Suggestions for future modality research are presented
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TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of resource dependence on district level income in a rare within-country study for Indonesia, one of the largest resource producing countries in Asia, and found robust evidence across all models that dependence as measured by mining's share of output is positively associated with district real per capita income.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that forging tighter links between gut physiology and foraging ecology will lead to greater understanding and predictability of diet selection and its ecological consequences.
Abstract: We develop mathematical and graphical models of diet selection incorporating recent advances in digestive physiology – that is, the adaptive modulation of active nutrient transport and gut retention time in response to changes in diet composition – into an explicitly ecological context based on consumer–resource dynamics and optimal foraging theory. The models indicate that gut modulation causes the consumer to treat two resources that are perfectly substitutable (the benefit derived from consumption of one resource is a constant fraction of the benefit derived from consumption of the second resource) as if they are antagonistic resources (the benefit derived from consumption of either resource alone is greater than the benefit derived from joint consumption of both resources). This will tend to favour diet switching and specialization, and also suggests a definitive (laboratory or field) test of the models. The models also suggest that modulation ultimately leads to more efficient use of resources, although it incurs an initial cost. We further cast gut modulation in three ecological scenarios. In the first, the consumer species does not deplete its resources and the optimal modulation strategy is determined by the standing crop of resources. In the second, a fixed population size of consumers results in resource depletion and the standing crop of resources results from a dynamic equilibrium between resource renewal and resource consumption. Under this scenario, the optimal gutmodulation strategy is determined by this dynamic equilibrium between renewal and consumption. In the third, we let resource renewal, depletion and consumer population sizes equilibrate. In this last scenario, the optimal gut modulation strategy emerges from the combined effects of resource renewal and the intersection of the depletion trajectory with the consumer’s zero net growth isocline. We conclude that forging tighter links between gut physiology and foraging ecology will lead to greater understanding and predictability of diet selection and its ecological consequences.
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