OBJECTIVES To assess the current culture of cooperation between healthcare providers (HCPs) and the healthcare industry (HCI) in the domain of Health-IT and Engineering (HITE) and identify possible strategies for improvement. METHODS Based on reports in the literature and personal experience, major challenges were identified, the current ways of cooperation defined and their relation to each ...

Direct reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation based on repeated interactions. When individuals meet repeatedly, they can use conditional strategies to enforce cooperative outcomes that would not be feasible in one-shot social dilemmas. Direct reciprocity requires that individuals keep track of their past interactions and find the right response. However, there are natural b...

The theory and research existing on relationships between competitors concentrates either on competitive relationships or on cooperative relationships and broadly argues that one relationship type harms or threatens the other. However, what do we really understand about progress in the literature on the strategic triad— cooperation, competition, and coopetition? Through bibliometric analysis, w...

In this paper we show Case-based Decision Theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler, 1995) can explain the aggregate dynamics of cooperation in the repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, as observed in the experiments performed by Camera and Casari (2009). Moreover, we find CBDT provides a better fit to the dynamics of cooperation than does the existing Probit model, which is the first time such a result has been fo...

Exploring the potential transition from strategic technology partnering to mergers and acquisitions This paper studies a number of research topics derived from the basic question: do inter-firm partnerships with different intermediary modes of company organization change over time as one of the companies that were previously cooperating becomes integrated by its partner? As such this contributi...

Kenya is China’s comprehensive strategic and cooperative partner. In recent years, under the common concern guidance of two heads state, China-Kenya relations have entered best period in history, with political mutual trust deepening practical cooperation leading way China-Africa cooperation. gradually building developing its own oil storage transportation infrastructures. Meanwhile, Chinese co...

For a large homogeneous population, where individuals rely on the availability of resource for survival, we introduce continuous time model in and each individual. In this framework, cooperation is defined as mutual insurance mechanism, aimed at covering shortages group members. We explore essential questions regarding importance cooperation: what are characteristics populations valuable, versu...

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its ‘social capital’, i.e. a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. Agents play repeatedly an idiosyncratic Prisoner’s Dilemma with their neighbors. The social network specifies not only the playing partners but, crucially, also determines how relevant strategic information diffuse...