Flexibility – the possibility to react swiftly to others’ choices – facilitates cooperation by reducing the gains from defection. With imperfect monitoring, however, flexibility may also hinder cooperation by inducing punishment after too few noisy signals. In theory, the interplay of these forces should generate an inverse U-shaped effect of flexibility on cooperation. To test this subtle pred...

vacuum of power was one of the most important consequences of ussr collapse. regional and trans-regional countries have been pulled to south caucasus to extend their influence on this region. turkey and israel thought alliance with azerbaijan constitute east-west pivot. this cooperation threatens common interests of russia and iran. reaction of tehran and moscow creates north-south axis thought...

We study a system in which N agents have to decide between two strategies θi (i ∈ 1 . . . N), for defection or cooperation, when interacting with other n agents (either spatial neighbors or randomly chosen ones). After each round, they update their strategy responding nonlinearly to two different information sources: (i) the payoff ai(θi, fi) received from the strategic interaction with their n...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship between supply-demand coordination and performance of Logistics Service Supply Chain (LSSC) and help managers to understand which factors make significant influence on the performance of LSSC. In this paper, a correlation model for supply-demand coordination and performance analysis is presented, and then the survey method is adopted to c...

Working relations between the Pan- American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Brazilian health institutions accumulated a long history of cooperation with mutual benefits, which in many cases were shared with other nations under various cooperation frameworks among countries for health development. A milestone in this relationship is the technical cooperation provided...

We develop an integrated real options and industrial organization framework to quantify the strategic option value of technology investments. Strategic investments (e.g., R&D, capacity expansion or strategic acquisitions) are difficult to analyze based on standard approaches. Yet, it is these decisions that determine a firm’s competitive success in a changing technological and competitive lands...

Transnational crime, sometimes called international crime or multinational systemic crime, is more than an extension of domestic crime. In the context of globalization, transnational organized crime groups respond to market incentives and operate with cooperative relationships, which makes the multinational criminal systems become more efficient and powerful. As a result, no single country has ...

the knowledge of public administration which is considered as an inter-disciplinary field is one of the most important fields of human sciences, which focuses on the study of organizing governments. this field and its curriculum will highly affect many of the human beings and their future. this field has resulted in a requirement for using the collaboration and cooperation of several scientific...