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Opportunism

About: Opportunism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2030 publications have been published within this topic receiving 97170 citations. The topic is also known as: opportunist.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility and cost of implementing one "trust-but-verify" method in a real-world supply chain using a principle called Benford's Law were evaluated.

16 citations

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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the division between those who see strategic management as a rational planning process and those who view it as an intuitive, adaptive, experimental, entrepreneurial process and stress the importance of finding a practical solution to this conflict.
Abstract: This book is for those required to take the lead in dealing with the impact of change in business. It explores the division between those who see strategic management as a rational planning process and those who see it as an intuitive, adaptive, experimental, entrepreneurial process. The author stresses the importance of finding a practical solution to this conflict, one where both approaches can be applied at the same time. The book's contents include the following: conflicting approaches to management and the nature of change; control by variance - management information and control systems in closed change situations; control by grand design - conventional strategic management; why control by grand design will not work in the 1990s; control by trial and error - what companies actually do in open-ended change situations; resolving control tension - recommendations on organizational structure, culture and management resources. Using many international examples, the book rejects long-term planning and makes recommendations to resolve the tension that results from trying to balance intuition and short-term planning.

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the development of the theoretical approach to a rating of the opportunism between the principals and agents within the framework of the neo-institutional theory and discuss the experimental dependences of an opportunistic level of the agents from a level of wages, level of non-financial stimulus, effectiveness of punishment, share of creative element of labor, and degree of labor specificity.
Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to discuss the development of the theoretical approach to a rating of the opportunism between the principals and agents within the framework of the neo-institutional theory The matrix of the opportunistic forms between the principals and agents designed On the basis of the carried out experimental research of firms of the Ural region of Russia, such opportunistic forms of the agents such as flubbing, negligence, and malversation were investigated The experimental dependences of an opportunistic level of the agents from a level of wages, level of non-financial stimulus, effectiveness of punishment, share of creative element of labor, and degree of labor specificity are defined

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a menu of two-part tariffs can solve the opportunism problem identified by McAfee and Schwartz (1994) in vertical games with sequential contracting, provided the sunk costs incurred by the first firm to invest are not too large.

16 citations

17 Apr 2014
TL;DR: In this article, a new conceptual model of trust incorporating the concept of duration into the process of building trust and commitment within an IOR is proposed, based on the notion that trust serves as a viable means for better comprehension of the underlying dynamics of IORs as it reinforces positive outcomes and abates the complications due to opportunism and uncertainty.
Abstract: Inter-organizational relationships (IORs) have become pervasive in the last quarter of the 20th century. This study is based on the notion that trust serves as a viable means for better comprehension of the underlying dynamics of IORs as it reinforces the positive outcomes and abates the complications due to opportunism and uncertainty. A growing interest of research on trust notwithstanding, studies on the co-evolution of trust, its antecedents, and effects on commitment over time are rather scarce. This study addresses this gap with a new conceptual model of trust incorporating the concept of duration into the process of building trust and commitment within an IOR.

16 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202398
2022182
202168
202097
201991
201871