The conventional wisdom suggests that blue-green coalitions can be challenging and often dissolve into class tensions that appear to force unions to choose between job security and environmental health. This digest describes the strategies, such as bridge building and constructing a coalition frame based on the precautionary approach, used by coalition leaders to unite different stakeholders wi...

In employment interviews, individuals use impression management tactics to present themselves as suitable candidates to interviewers. However, not all impression management tactics, or the interviewees who employ them, are effective at positively influencing interview scores. Results of this study indicate that the relationship between impression management tactic usage and interview success is...

We consider the problem of computing effective coalition structures in situations where the coalitions that can be formed and the value of these coalitions is determined by a social network, indicating the strength of relationships between agents. We assume that a central organizer desires to build coalition structures to carry out a given set of tasks, and that it is possible for this central ...

The Metro Boston REACH 2010 HIV Coalition needs to develop innovative processes aimed at overcoming a history of distrust that has led to limited cooperation from the Haitian community. Among the key elements being implemented are the development of a community vision through a community mobilization process; the development of an innovative working group process, in which coalition members wor...

We study the formation of supplier coalitions in the context of a buyer-centric procurement market. Considered under a second-price descending seal-bid auction, we propose a two-stage auction mechanism that allows suppliers to form coalitions with one another. Building on the foundations of core games and bidding-rings, we explore the idea of “managed collusion” which provides a means to enhanc...

This work summarises the key points that can be drawn from extensive body of literature associated with fire risk indexing methods. A comprehensive definition is provided and sometimes opaque mechanics are described in detail. Issues arising methods explored, variety terminology this method clarified. It also explored how development operation entangled issues reliable expert elicitation profes...

Over the next two decades the United States is likely to see an increase in the number of asymmetric threats from nonstate sponsored terror organizations (e.g. al-Qaeda). As US and Coalition operations in Afghanistan draw to a close, current tactics used in the War on Terror will inevitably shift from primarily kinetic to non-kinetic. Currently, US forces have a wide variety of tools at their d...