Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …

Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes … ownership interrelates with power relations and processes in the company. Moreover, some overarching patterns were derived from … the analysis finally resulting in seven propositions about how employee ownership and power are linked to each other. …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to … the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …

one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise this power by … satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise … this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders … choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model we axiomatize satisfaction and power …

prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that both notions are conceptually distinct, and discuss their … canonical set-up of a simultaneous decision-making mechanism as it is predominant in the voting power literature. However, we …

The predominantly positivist approach in economics towards the object of study is not able to grasp power and …, there is a lack of conceptualizations that are sensible to questions of power. The work reveals such deficits and offers a … introductory chapter discusses fundamental aspects of power in the context of structure and agency. The common positivist approach …