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"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
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"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide … range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power …, information aggregation or when confronting large-scale social dilemmas. However, as Ostrom (1998) reminds us, game theory also …
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Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...
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"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
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subjectivity matters and we use a labour process theory framework to address subjectivity; primarily, Michael Burawoy´s concept of … was that productivity increased in a situation where management control over daily operations was diminishing. Managers …
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As expatriate managers continue to be a viable means for exercising control over foreign operations, they can have a … expatriate managers. Each stage is discussed in terms of the successes as well as problems/failures associated with the … necessity to create new and/or enhance current practices relating to the development of expatriate managers' maximum global …
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Like those in other sectors, managers in community-based organisations face an uncertain and challenging future … community sector managers. While some reflection on the implications for managers of current economic and social policy contexts … is crucial for this sector, research effort needs to be focused on understanding how third sector managers construe their …
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on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …
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managers may be less influenced than senior women managers by the gender of the speaker in evaluating whether specific …-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies …
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. Hence logistics operations require managers with a broad range of skills to cope with the challenges these supply chains … survey of 54 Chinese logistics managers are compared and contrasted with four case studies of European logistics managers to …
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