Truthful revelation of preferences has emerged as a desideratum in the design of school choice programs. Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance mechanism is strategy-proof for students but limits their ability to communicate their preference intensities. This results in ex-ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are broken randomly. We propose a variant of deferred acceptance mechanism wh...

to suceed in sport arena, provinces should have plans parallel with national sport plans. khorasan razavi province as one of the provinces that has played a vital role in iran sport lacks a comprehensive plan in sport and sport activities are follwoed randomly. therefore, this study aimed at developing the strategic plan of sport and youth organization of khorasan razavi in sport and physical e...

A decade after the establishment of the Saudi regime Riyadh and Washington constructed a strategic alliance between themselves in 1945. On the other hand, given the “Pivot to Asia” doctrine adopted by the Obama and Trump Administrations, the decline of Washington's dependence on Saudi oil, as well as some important events such as the murdering of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Riyadh offic...

This is a position statement for the workshop on strategic directions in computing research held at MIT in June 1996.

We explore interactions between an organization’s strategic position, economic performance, and vulnerability to ecological pressures. We posit that (1) high profitability buffers an organization from density-driven competitive pressure and (2) this effect is moderated by an organization’s strategic positioning choices. Our empirical tests, relying on longitudinal data from the U.S. for-hire tr...

Sourcing is evolving into a strategic process for organizing and fine-tuning the firm’s value chain. Companies need to strategic sourcing in order to survive within the industry, particularly hospitals which are facing rapidly competition to provide high quality services in healthcare. Healthcare organizations need to leverage the right capabilities from the right source, and the right shore, a...

Nash Equilibrium is a central concept in game theory. It has been argued that playing Nash Equilibrium strategies is rational advice for agents involved in one-time strategic interactions captured by non-cooperative game theory. This essay discusses arguments for that position: von Neumann/Morgenstern’s argument for their minimax solution, the argument from self-enforcing agreements, the argume...

Mobile business is a young promising industry created by the emergence of wireless data networks. Similar to other emerging industries, it is characterized by a large number of uncertainties at different levels, in particular concerning technology, business strategy and consumer demand. This paper focuses on the strategic uncertainties, where a large number of actors are trying a number of stra...