improves the ability of the client to learn about the R&D firm's ability and the alliance project's quality. The model …

uniformly selected to initiate an alliance and to invite collaboration partners. These decide about acceptance based on an … individual threshold that is compared with the utility expected from joining the current alliance. The benefit of alliances … cost of an alliance reflects its coordination effort. Two free parameters ac and a1 scale the costs and the individual …

This article performs a systematic review of the research literature on the forms of collaboration among small and …

collaborative agency mobilized through engaged social interaction. After briefly reviewing the emerging practice tradition in … leadership studies, the article turns to the inseparable connection between leadership and agency and discusses how structure may … pacify but, under dialogic conditions, release agency. Acknowledging the cultural constraints against collaborative agency …

alliance formation due to social cues from the photographs being used as a coordination device to facilitate faster alliance …

The paper introduces a welfarist approach to the national safety of a nation with membership in a defense alliance as … insurance devices, the domestic military budget and the incremental safety provided by the membership in the alliance. The … commitment of the alliance in the creation of safety is, however, imperfect. A sufficient condition is stated for the non …

designed to limit the potential anticompetitive effects of cooperation by alliance partners in hub-to-hub markets, where they … provide overlapping nonstop service. While the paper shows that carve-outs are beneficial when the alliance does not involve … imposed on a joint-venture alliance. A JV alliance involves full exploitation of economies of traffic density on the hub …

internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance … more likely. Third, higher differences in the alliance players' contributions to alliance effort lead to more internal …

and 2 have the opportunity to form an alliance to share their endowments of a one-dimensional resource (e.g., troops … transfers of the resource are allowed. Once these transfers take place, each alliance member maximizes his payoff in his … transfers take place within the alliance. That is, one player gives away resources to his ally, who happily accepts the gift …