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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Strategic competition"”.
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
… three cases of American SFA in a previous era of strategic competition: South Korea before and during the Korean War, Turkey in the aftermath of World War II, and Iran under the Shah. This study hypothesizes that two factors are primarily responsible for shaping the recipient's battlefield …
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Strategic Competition and Escalation Management in the 21st Century: Russian Hybrid Warfare and China’s Rise
… States. The NDS states specifically, “Long-term strategic competitions with China and Russia are the principal priorities for the Department [of Defense].”<sup>1</sup> This paper focuses on the strategic challenges that these two nations pose and provides recommendations for U.S. strategy and …
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Voluntary Environmental Initiatives, Pollution Prevention and Product Quality: The Role of Strategic Competition, Consumer Information and Regulation
The empirical analysis shows that TQEM adoption and innovativeness differ in the extent to which they promote different types of P2. Additionally, TQEM adoption and innovativeness operate as substitutes in promoting raw material, process and product modification types of P2. Strong location-based …
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Getting rivals to back off? Biasing sales forecasts to reduce competition
I examine the effect of strategic competition on management sales forecast bias. Strategic complement firms react to a rival’s action by moving in the same direction (e.g., increasing their own sales in response to a rival’s sales increase). Strategic substitute firms react to a rival’s action by …
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CHINA–PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR'S IMPACT ON EXTREMIST SAFE HAVENS IN BALOCHISTAN: BOOM OR BUST?
… of CPEC in Balochistan while balancing broader strategic competition with China in South Asia.
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SINO–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: 1959–1976
… in the PRC or Latin America, as well as strategic competition among great powers, have the potential to dramatically alter the trajectory of future Sino–Latin American relations.
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Are relative performance measures in CEO incentive contracts used for risk reduction and/or strategic interaction
… RPE has the additional role of motivating strategic interaction between own-firm and peer-firm managers, as industrial organization theory predicts, and whether the two objectives of RPE are mutually exclusive. Using data from the U.S. airline industry, I first document empirical support …
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Red lines and faits accomplis in interstate coercion and crisis
… this dissertation conceives of each crisis as a strategic competition between a challenger seeking to make gains unilaterally by fait accompli and its adversary's countervailing efforts to set red lines to deter these faits accomplis. After clarifying the neglected concepts of "red line" and …
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Essays on Innovation
… approach to the real options analysis under strategic competition, and I find that a higher probability of success does not mean higher value for the firm since the preemption behaviour lowers the value of the investment opportunity.
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Two essays in microeconomics
… of two essays. The first essay is a study of strategic firm competition in a differentiated product environment. We develop a tractable spatial model of oligopolistic competition in which firms endogenously determine both franchise/product locations and prices. Remarkably, we find that firms …
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Navigating great power competition: The Maldives as a democratising small state
This thesis evaluates how great power competition systematically constrains democratisation in small states when geo-strategic interests intersect with domestic political processes. Using the Maldives as a case study, it demonstrates that democratic consolidation is constrained by mechanisms …
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An Exploration Of Middle School Science Teachers' Understandings And Teaching Practice Of Science As Inquiry
… and Waiting for Sputnik: Basic Research and Strategic Competition (Lewis, 2005). Consensus of data in these reports indicates that the U.S., as compared to other industrialized nations, does not fare very well in science achievement and STEM degree attainment. For example, on the 2003 Program …
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A regional approach to American foreign policy : the South Asian experience.
… have been dictated by their geopolitical, strategic competition for power and influence among the lesser states. Geopolitical conflict has been superimposed on regional conflicts around the globe. South Asia's tragic legacy of strife has deep historical roots and the injection of …
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A METHODOLOGY FOR THE MODULARIZATION OF OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATION
… including dealing with reemergence of long-term, strategic competition over destabilizing effects of rogue regimes, and the asymmetric non-state actors’ threats such as terrorism and international crime. The military forces are expected to handle increased multi-role, multi-mission demands because …