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A Partnership Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons
Schott, Stephan - 2001
"This paper introduces a management regime that would maintain common property rights by allowing resource users to harvest on their own but to share their extraction outcome with a given number of other resource users. The developed partnership approach makes use of the shirkingincentives in...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002
." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to …
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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field
Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002
"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...
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Cross-Function and Same-Function Alliances: How Does Alliance Structure Affect the Behavior of Partnering Firms?
Amaldoss, Wilfred; Staelin, Richard - 2010
Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...
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Modeling Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks Using Game Theory
Kamhoua, Charles A. K. - 2011
cooperation, a community enforcement mechanism was used, whereby selfish nodes that drop packets were punished not only by the … cooperation. This scheme also eliminated the need to infer the private history of other nodes. Moreover, it simplified the …. A range of simulations was carried out that showed improved cooperation between selfish nodes when compared to older …
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Trust Based Security Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks
Crosby, Garth Valentine - 2007
lightweight trust-based security mechanisms and a cooperation enforcement protocol for wireless sensor networks.This dissertation ….The dissertation also addresses non-cooperation problems in multi-user wireless sensor networks. A scalable lightweight enforcement … algorithm using evolutionary game theory is also designed. The effectiveness of this cooperation enforcement algorithm is …
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Government Services Information Infrastructure Management
Cavallini, J.S.; Aiken, R.J. - 2009
The Government Services Information Infrastructure (GSII) is that portion of the NII used to link Government and its services, enables virtual agency concepts, protects privacy, and supports emergency preparedness needs. The GSII is comprised of the supporting telecommunications technologies,...
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Audit unto others{hor_ellipsis}
Maday, J.H. Jr. - 2008
My first encounter with a quality assurance auditor is reminiscent of an old Dodge commercial. You remember? The old sheriff, masked in mirrored sunglasses, paunch hanging over his gun belt, prophesying, ``You`re in a heap o` trouble boy!`` Well, my auditor could have been kin to the sheriff; they...
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United States -- Mexican joint ventures: A case history approach
Moore, N.L.; Chidester, R.J.; Hughes, K.R.; Fowler, R.A. - 2008
Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...
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