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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Opportunism"”.
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Multi-agent opportunism
… we present a framework for multi-agent opportunism that is applicable to open systems of heterogeneous planning agents. The contributions of our research are both theoretical and practical. On the theoretical side, we provide an analysis of the critical issues that must be addressed in …
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The Religious Reforms of Augustus: Innovation & Opportunism
… how, through a process of innovation and opportunism, the Princeps successfully appropriated the institutions and offices of the religious estate for the benefit of himself and his family. Augustus states he restored 82 temples in his sixth consulship alone. Such claims imply a wholesale …
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Infrastructural opportunism inhabiting the Los Angeles hinterland
… used as the testing ground for infrastructural opportunism and edge expansion; but while Palmdale acts as producer, staging ground, and dormitory for Los Angeles, it will not be defined by this adjacency. Instead, Palmdale and its neighbors are re-imagined as a collective of edge cities that …
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Explaining Buyer Opportunism in Business-to-Business Relationships
… significance to buyer-supplier relationships is opportunism. Opportunism is defined as behavior that is self-interest seeking with guile. It is manifested in behaviors such as stealing, cheating, dishonesty, and withholding information. Opportunism negatively impacts relational exchange tenets …
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CEO Equity-Based Incentives And Managerial Opportunism Behavior
… CEO stock-based incentives and managerial opportunism behavior for the sample of CEOs of firms announcing layoffs during 1997-2006. I investigate two issues. First, I measure the extent of CEO stock selling in the year of the announcement of employee layoffs. CEOs may want to avoid negative …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
This thesis presents three studies on managerial opportunism in hedging activities. The first study examines whether the implementation of mandatory derivative disclosures under Financial Accounting Standard No. 161: Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (FAS 161) altered …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
This thesis presents three studies on managerial opportunism in hedging activities. The first study examines whether the implementation of mandatory derivative disclosures under Financial Accounting Standard No. 161: Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (FAS 161) altered …
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Principles, opportunism and seeing in design : a computational approach
This thesis introduces elements of a theory of design activity and a computational framework for developing design systems. The theory stresses the opportunistic nature of designing and the complementary roles of focus and distraction, the interdependence of evaluation and generation, the …
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The effect of technological opportunism on the performance of SMES: A dynamic capabilities perspective
… looks at the effect that technological opportunism has on the performance of SMEs in Namibia. In addition, the dissertation looks at the mediating role of dynamic capabilities on the relationship between technological opportunism and SMEs. The study draws from the dynamic capabilities …
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Revisiting cooperation dynamics: implications for opportunism and value creation when firms compete and cooperate simultaneously.
… is dominated by a widespread assumption that opportunism, a core behavioral assumption of transaction cost economics, hinders value creation and requires formal safeguards in coopetition. The assumption of heightened opportunism in coopetition is at odds with rising adoption in practice, which …
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The PPTA and the State: from militant professionals to bargaining agent : a study of rational opportunism
… and are an example of Offe's concept of rational opportunism
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The anatomy of opportunism: the interplay between formal and relational approach to contracts in public private partnerships.
The occurrence of opportunism has been a subject of numerous studies due to its pervasive and corrosive impact on project bottom lines. This research sought to investigate the phenomenon of opportunism as typified in Public Private Partnerships frameworks in National Hospital Service (NHS) in …
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"It's no problem" : using reverse bargaining to manage the threat of second-order opportunism in social exchange
Social exchange is paradoxically characterized by actors who expect reciprocity (Blau 1986), yet vigorously downplay these expectations using language we refer to as reverse bargaining. For example, responses to thanks such as "it's no problem" and "the pleasure was all mine" are ubiquitous in …
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The 'Little Man' in Quest of Survival: The Opportunism, Dialectics, and Passive Resistance of The Comic Antihero in Modern Fiction
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Bad Apples, Bad Barrels, and the Structure of Marketing Channel Relationships: Analyses of the Propensity for Opportunism and Opportunistic Behaviors
… governance structure for constraining opportunism within marketing channels. These approaches generally assume that marketing channel managers are opportunistic, and only economic constraints deter opportunism in exchange relationships. However, some empirical studies have shown that …
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Vendor Firm Characteristics and Buyers' Perceptions of Transaction Costs and Relationship Governance
… vendor firm attributes as antecedents to the opportunism and uncertainty constructs thereby extending the transaction cost research. Specifically, Essay 1 examines how vendor firm size and reputation influence organizational buyers’ a priori perceptions of vendor opportunism and …
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Goodwill Indemnity in Franchising: The European Goodwill Recoupment Doctrine as a Framework for American Franchise Relationships
… contractual power can lead to franchisor-opportunism, in particular through wrongful terminations and nonrenewal, onerous transfer restrictions, and so on. Accordingly, federal government and some state legislatures have enacted specific franchise laws in order to balance potential power …
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Marketing channels and transaction cost analysis: the role of transaction specific investment
… between transaction specific investment and opportunism with guile. This dissertation investigated this relationship during and after the negotiation process with a focus on contractual safeguarding. It was hypothesized that the pattern of the level of anticipated investment in transaction …
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Examination of the level of adoption of opportunistic behaviors in the supply chain in the food sector : Relationships between multiple retailers and suppliers
… is to investigate potential multiple retailers’ opportunism in the supply chain in the Greek food sector. For this reason a conceptual model describing the creation of multiple retailers’ opportunism was developed. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods was applied in …
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