This paper proposes a framework for agents in globally collaborative supply chain by applying the concept of coalition formation, a cooperation game in game theory. This framework provides mutual benefits to every party involved buyers, sellers and logistics providers. It provides a common gateway that allows individual parties to locate the right partners, negotiate with them, and form coaliti...

The changing climate in supply chain management, driven by technological trends, increased competition , demand pressure, globalization and outsourcing has led companies to be more receptive to forming coalitions while taking a broader strategic view of the marketplace. The structure of a transport coalition is an important issue influencing the life cycle of such relationships. This structure ...

Despite high expectations for the value of e-business in healthcare, its adoption remains poorly understood and under-researched. The adoption and effective utilization of e-business in the healthcare industry can potentially lead to many benefits, such as: an increased accessibility to healthcare providers, improved work-flow efficiency, a higher quality of healthcare services, decreased sched...

Social scientists draw important lessons for modern development from the medieval Maghribi traders who, it has been argued, lacked effective legal mechanisms for contract enforcement and instead relied on informal sanctions based on collective ostracism within an exclusive coalition. We show that this claim is untenable. Not a single empirical example adduced as evidence of the putative coaliti...

To support dynamic communities of interests in coalition operations, new architectures for efficient sharing of ISR assets are needed. The use of blockchain technology in wired business environments, such as digital currency systems, offers an interesting solution by creating a way to maintain a distributed shared ledger without requiring a single trusted authority. In this paper, we discuss ho...

Trade prospered in absence of law in California during the 1830s and 1840s. Merchants, through intermerchant trade and the partnerships they organized to buy goods abroad, played a central role in trade. This article examines the privateorder institution that facilitated intermerchant trade. The hypothesis is that a particular type of private-order institution, a coalition, governed agency rela...

For the past three years, I have written this column on green healthcare, but this will be my last one. My work now has moved on – or back, to be more precise – to focus on public health services, away from green healthcare. In this final column, I want to reflect on the progress we have made and the challenges ahead. When we began the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care in 2000, the topic...

background a model of quality management called strategic collaborative quality management (scqm) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. the purpose of this stu...