The authors describe a self-serving asset built on an intelligent, self-aware agent platform that maximizes its service life by contacting, selecting, and procuring service providers autonomously.

Industrialists have few example processes they can benchmark against in order to choose a multi-agent development kit. In this paper we present a review of commercial and academic agent tools with the aim of selecting one for developing an intelligent, self-serving asset architecture. In doing...

The effectiveness of the maintenance scheduling decision depends on the availability of information regarding the remaining useful life of the asset in addition to the asset operating schedule and spares and resources required to carry out the maintenance action. In this paper, we illustrate an...

While the concept of dynamic managerial capabilities was initially developed to understand top managers' strategic decisions, we theorize that it can explain how middle managers successfully contribute to functional outcomes. In this paper, we apply the dynamic managerial capabilities...

Although chief executive officers (CEOs) are the primary decision‐makers in their firms, there has been little research on how CEOs' decision styles affect firm performance. This study explores the relationships between firm performance and two key dimensions of CEO decision style, namely the...