Much of the alliance literature assumes, often implicitly, the firms with power will apply that power to structure alliance terms to their benefit. Drawing on the transaction value literature, we propose that firms with greater alliance experience often choose not to apply that experience to shape alliance structure to their advantage. Rather, they accept a governance structure more relevant to...

Since March 2018 Turkey and allied Syrian actors have controlled the Afrin region of northern Syria. The subsequent five years been marked by acts criminality infighting incidents between dozens Turkish-backed militias in region, an insurgency campaign, terrorism, dramatic demographic changes to detriment region’s indigenous Kurdish population. This paper examines outlines Turkish-installed loc...

This article is about the institutional collaboration in the management structure of a city-region. To achieve this purpose, corporate limits of Qazvin are studied as the city is becoming a region.  The possible institutional cooperative in the centralist governmental structure is planned based on the new regionalism theory and its governance pattern, new institutionalism theory and its emphas...

Health officials often lack information about characteristics that predict which water systems are most likely to be placed on and to persist on drinking water advisories (e.g. health warnings offering advice or information). This study uses data collected by the Interior Health Authority in British Columbia to characterize water systems on advisory for microbiological threats and to identify t...

The stakeholder management literature is dominated by the 'shareholder value ' and 'inclusive stakeholder' views of the corporation. Each views the governance problem in terms of inter-functional conflicts between stakeholder groups, such as between investors and managers or managers and employees, and rests on the assumption of an idealized corporate structure characterized by the separation o...