This paper argues that two different types of a firm's own extreme performance experiences—success and recovery—and their interactions can generate survival-enhancing learning. Although these types of experience often represent valuable sources of useful learning, several important learning challenges arise when a firm has extremely limited prior experience of the same type. Thus, we theorize that a certain threshold of a given type of experience is required before each type of experience becomes valuable, with low levels of experience harming the organization. Furthermore, we propose that success and recovery experience will interact to enhance each other's value. These conditions can help overcome learning challenges such as superstitious learning or learning from small samples. We investigate our ideas using a sample of the U.S. commercial banks founded between 1984 and 1998. Our results indicate that both success and recovery experience of a firm generate survival-enhancing learning, but only after a certain level of experience is reached. Furthermore, success and recovery experience enhance each other's learning value, consistent with the theories that emphasize the importance of richer and contrasting experience in providing useful knowledge. Our framework advances organizational learning theory by presenting a contingent model of the impact of success and recovery experience and their interaction.

We investigate the mass spectra of the lowest-lying singly heavy baryons, based on the selfconsistent chiral quark-soliton model. We take into account the rotational 1/Nc and strange current quark mass (ms) corrections. Regarding ms as a small perturbation, we expand the effective chiral action to the second order with respect to ms. The mass spectra of heavy baryons are computed and compared with the experimental data. Fitting the classical masses of the heavy baryon to the center mass of each representation, we determine the masses of all the lowest-lying singly heavy baryons. We predict the mass of the Ω * b baryon to be 6081.9 MeV, when the second-order ms corrections are included.

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The energy–momentum tensor (EMT) for a spin-3/2 baryon is related to seven mechanical quantities. In this work, we provide the general form of the gravitational form factors (GFFs) for a spin-3/2 baryon by using the multipole expansion and interesting relations between the EMT densities and the GFFs. To verify those general relations, we study the nucleon and the $$\Delta $$ Δ GFFs within the SU(2) Skyrme model based on the large $$N_{c}$$ N c limit.

We investigate the electromagnetic form factors of the baryon decuplet within the framework of the SU(3) self-consistent chiral quark-soliton model, taking into account the 1/Nc rotational corrections and the effects of flavor SU(3) symmetry breaking. We first examine the valence-and sea-quark contributions to each electromagnetic form factor of the baryon decuplet and then the effects of the flavor SU(3) symmetry breaking. The present results are in good agreement with the recent lattice data. We also compute the charge radii, the magnetic radii, the magnetic dipole moments and the electric quadrupole moments, comparing their results with those from other theoretical works. We also make a chiral extrapolation to compare the present results with the lattice data in a more quantitative manner. The results show in general similar tendency to the lattice results. In particular, the results of the M 1 and E2 form factors are in good agreement with those of lattice QCD.