Applications of game theory—and an alternative strategic theory called “theory of moves”—as well as social-choice theory to a wide variety of strategic situations, principally but not exclusively in politics, will be examined. Uses of strategy in voting in committees and elections, in political campaigns, in the defense and deterrence policies of nations, and in bargaining and coalition-buildin...

Deception is a core component of human interaction and reasoning, and despite its negative connotation, it can be used in positive ways. We present our formalization behind strategic deception, one such potentially positive form of deception. We use the Cognitive Event Calculus (CEC) to model strategic deception, building on prior formalizations. First, we provide a brief overview of deception’...

COVID-19 threatens the livelihood and lives of people all over world. Presently, disease presents a major health concern in Egypt Evaluating built physical environment is one solutions to reduce epidemic impact before developing its medications (as “prevention”). Epidemics have altered usage our because infection fear. As result, urbanism architecture will never be same after epidemic. However,...

Purpose By the view of attention-building activities as “tools power,” authors investigate impact subsidiary involvement in on strategic influence subsidiaries within multinational corporations (MNCs). Design/methodology/approach The study is based survey data from 110 international located Sweden. Five hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling with linear relations. Findings sh...

This paper reviews some of the recent advances in our understanding of the determinants of firms’ choices between trade and foreign direct investment (fdi) as means by which to serve their overseas markets. Over the past two decades, fdi has grown much more rapidly than trade flows. The great majority of these investment flows have been between developed countries with similar factor endowments...