In supply chain relationship governance, trust is considered as an important governance mechanism to decrease opportunism. Trust provides commitment, improves transaction efficiency, and implements the supply chain information system. The paper constructs a three-stage dynamic model based on the impact of trust governance on supply chain information system investment. It analyzes supply chain o...

In this paper, we respond to calls by previous researchers to clarify the function of decentralized institutions by analyzing the strategic motives of individual actors. We investigate an important type of decentralized institution – certified management standards – and theorize that firms will use these institutions to reduce problems that might arise with exchange partners that lack informati...

Taking the panel's title as a starting point, knowledge management does not need to justify its role in relation to transient fashionable interest areas, but it does need to distinguish itself from the opportunism and hype that accompanies any perceived "next big thing". As long as organisations make informed decisions using knowledge and experience, "knowledge management" will be needed, and t...

Using the resource-based view of the firm, the authors hypothesize that differences in adoption of radical technoloqies among firms can be attributed to a sense-and-respond capability of firms with respect to new technologies;which is termed technological opportunism. Using survey data from senior managers in business-to-business firms. the authors studv the adootion of e-business. a radical te...

We survey basic garbage collection algorithms and variations such as incremental and generational collec tion we then discuss low level implementation consid erations and the relationships between storage man agement systems languages and compilers Through out we attempt to present a uni ed view based on abstract traversal strategies addressing issues of con servatism opportunism and immediacy ...