The authors consider a two-period game of conflict between two factions, which have a desire for revenge. It is shown … that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the desire for revenge need not lead to escalation of the conflict. The subgame …€™ aggregate effort below the level exerted in the no-revenge case. This paradox of revenge is more likely, the more elastically …

The relationship between conflict and individual life-cycle artistic output is ambiguous, both a priori and in terms of …

computations, the likelihood of two paradoxes of committee elections, the Leaving Member paradox (Staring, 1986) and of the Prior … Successor Paradox which occur when an elected candidate steps down from a two-member committee. …

This paper discusses the social media paradox in the context of innovation. Innovation is defined as a knowledge … opportunities but also poses new threats. It is a paradox involving contradictory forces. Despite growing interest among academics … interaction as intrinsic to innovation activity, complexity thinking opens the paradox of being in charge but not in control. …