This paper develops a property rights-based view of strategy (the “PRV”). A property right (or economic right) is an individual’s net valuation, in expected terms, of the ability to directly consume the services of an asset (including, e.g., a monopoly position) or consume it indirectly through exchange. Resources expended on exchanging, protecting and capturing such rights are transaction cost...

This paper investigates the effects of inter-organizational collaboration on the effectiveness of U.S. municipal fire departments. Almost all U.S. fire departments engage in the reciprocal exchange of fire services with neighboring departments. However, there is substantial variety in these relationships. First, some departments exchange help with greater frequency than others. Second, some dep...

This article addresses the issue of file sharing from the music industry ́s specific point of view – and with a strong economic approach. Following the property rights theory we model the problem of file sharing systems for the music industry as a trade-off between negative external effects caused by uncompensated exchange of music files and transaction costs to internalize these effects. The ag...

Data exchange has been widely used in big data era. One challenge for data exchange is to identify the true cause of data errors during the schema translation. The huge amount of data and schemas make it nearly impossible to find “the” correct solution. Vagabond system is developed to address this problem and use best-effort methods to rank data exchange error explanations base on the likelihoo...

Parties cooperating in hostile networked environments often need to establish an initial trust. Trust establishment can be very delicate when it involves the exchange of sensitive information, such as affiliation to a secret society or to an intelligence agency. Two mechanisms, Secret Handshakes and Secure Matchmaking, have tackled this problem, coming up with solutions for secure initial excha...

investigation of soil properties like cation exchange capacity (cec) plays important roles in study of environmental reaserches as the spatial and temporal variability of this property have been led to development of indirect methods in estimation of this soil characteristic. pedotransfer functions (ptfs) provide an alternative by estimating soil parameters from more readily available soil data...