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Coordination between different United Nations (UN) departments, funds, agencies, and programmes has become an issue of … coordination from a theoretical perspective. Informed by organization theory ; a framework for interorganizational coordination is … interorganizational coordination and in lieu of trying to become one streamlined hierarchical organization ; the United Nations should …
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The sustainable development indicators are often considered as planning tools allowing to command and control a social-ecological system. This approach is not in accordance with either the complexity of the decision processes or the individual cognitive capacities. In order to imagine some...
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This paper provides a formal analysis on the investment coordination problem in a vertically separated electricity … decisions of network and power plants need to be coordinated. In unbundled markets, firm-internal coordination no longer applies …. We develop a formal approach to examine whether simple information exchange (“cheap talk”) could restore coordination. We …
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emerging market opportunities. There are no formal control and coordination mechanisms employed by the classical hierarchical … performance. Coordination/Matching problems are likely to arise among game theoretically coordinating parties in a virtual … could achieve efficiency and better coordination among parties. …
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In recent years, there has been an increase in research on conventions motivated by the game-theoretic contributions of the philosopher David Lewis. Prior to this surge in interest, discussions of convention in economics had been tied to the analysis of John Maynard Keynes's writings. These...
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coordination focuses on enhancing network efficiency, and stability issues are largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider a two … sharing based coordination mechanism. Our non-cooperative game theoretic model shows that a unique subgame perfect Nash … costs, number of players and parameters of the coordination mechanism. In particular, we obtain ranges for cost, number of …
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Forecast sharing is studied in a supply chain with a manufacturer that faces stochastic demand for a single product and a supplier that is the sole source for a critical component. The following sequence of events occurs: the manufacturer provides her initial forecast to the supplier along with...
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to signal her forecast information. We show that channel coordination is possible even under asymmetric forecast …
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Marcoux argues that job candidates ought to embellish non-verifiable information on their résumés because it is the best way to coordinate collective action in the résumé ‚game’. I do not dispute his analysis of collective action; I look at the larger picture, which throws light on...
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This study reports a laboratory experiment wherein subjects play a hawk-dove game. We try to implement a correlated equilibrium with payoffs outside the convex hull of Nash equilibrium payoffs by privately recommending play. We find that subjects are reluctant to follow certain recommendations....
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