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Pham, Quan; Reid, Jason F.; McCullagh, Adrian; Dawson, … - 2008

Delegation is a powerful mechanism to provide flexible and dynamic access control decisions. Delegation is particularly … federation. Although many delegation schemes have been studied, current models do not seriously take into account the issue of … delegation commitment of the involved parties. In order to address this issue, this paper introduces a new mechanism to help …

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Changes in unrecognised deferred tax accruals from carry-forward losses: Opportunism or signalling?

Herbohn, K.; Tutticci, I.; Khor, P. S. - 2008

This study examines whether changes in the amount of unrecognised deferred tax assets from carry forward losses, determined in accordance with AASB1020 ‘Accounting for Income Taxes’, reflect managers’ incentives to opportunistically manage financial statements, or communicate private...

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Managing Perceived Risks through Supply Chain Relationships: An Empirical Study of the UK Beef Sector

Hornibrook, Susan A.; Fearne, Andrew - 2006

This study offers an alternative to the traditional Transaction Cost Economics view of the treatment of information by viewing co-ordinated supply chains as a series of Principal-Agent relationships, and draws on Perceived Risk Theory to explain both consumer and organisational behaviour. Using...

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Knowledge and the boundaries of the firm : design and permeability

Galvin, Peter; Tywoniak, Stephane; Sutherland, Janet - 2007

Organisational boundaries can be analysed via a variety of lenses – organisational design principles, transaction cost economics, property rights and agency theory, amongst others. We review these before taking a knowledge-based perspective to firstly explain how the boundaries of the firm are...

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The prisoners' dilemma: A game theoretic approach to vehicle safety

Tay, Richard S. - 2000

This paper assessed the policy implications of the changing demand for passenger vehicles in Australia and debunked the myth that bigger vehicles are safer. In particular, we examined the increasing demand for small cars and four-wheel drive using the classic prisoners' dilemma framework in game...

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The Economics of Developing Security Embedded Software

Wright, Craig S; Zia, Tanveer A - 2010

Market models for software vulnerabilities have been disparaged in the past citing how these do little to lower the risk of insecure software. In this paper we argue that the market models proposed are flawed and not the concept of a market itself. A well-defined software risk derivative market...

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Enlargement of Trade Blocs: National Welfare Effects If Trade Is Liberalized

Glebe, Thilo W.; Salhofer, Klaus - 2006

Small countries may benefit from the formation of a trade bloc, since their combined market power will enable them to manipulate the terms of trade. The question of interest is whether countries will benefit from the enlargement of a trading bloc, if trade liberalization induces countries to...

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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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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons

Schott, Stephan - 2010

"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...

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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995

"Laboratory experiments have generally supported the fundamental theorem that, in classical property rights environments, noncooperative behavior in large group markets yields efficient social outcomes. Experiments, however, regularly fail to support the game theoretic prediction of...

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