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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 article, the authors used meta-analytic techniques to reconcile the contradictory findings of information asymmetry and opportunistic behaviors in exchange relationships and found that the negative relationship between information sharing and opportunism is weaker in relationships that are 6 + years old.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the interrelationships between antecedents of importers' trust and commitment to their foreign suppliers in an Asian country, and found that cultural similarity, effective communication, knowledge and experience, opportunism and environmental uncertainty are vital antecedent of trust.
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TL;DR: In this article, the societal repercussions of neoliberal policy and reform in terms of moral economy remain understudied by analysing moral economy characteristics and dynamics in neoliberalised communities, as perceived by traders in Uganda and sex workers in Kenya, and the interview data reveal perceived drivers that contributed to a significant moral dominance of money, self-interest, short-termism, opportunism and pragmatism.
Abstract: Neoliberal restructuring has targeted not just the economy, but also polity, society and culture, in the name of creating capitalist market societies. The societal repercussions of neoliberal policy and reform in terms of moral economy remain understudied. This article seeks to address this gap by analysing moral economy characteristics and dynamics in neoliberalised communities, as perceived by traders in Uganda and sex workers in Kenya. The interview data reveal perceived drivers that contributed to a significant moral dominance of money, self-interest, short-termism, opportunism and pragmatism. Equally notable are a perceived (i) close interaction between political–economic and moral–economic dynamics, and (ii) significant impact of the political–economic structure on moral agency. Respondents primarily referred to material factors usually closely linked to neoliberal reform, as key drivers of local moral economies. We thus speak of a neoliberalisation of moral economies, itself part of the wider proce...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a host of antecedents that can spur and/or facilitate such opportunistic pursuits in members of a strategic network, and they postulate that the problem can be resolved by securing an alignment in partners' interest which together with alignment in actions contributes to the bottom line through an integrated response to the adaptation requirements stemming from disturbances in networks' environment.
Abstract: In the Strategic Management literature, the problem of cooperation arising from conflicts of interest has been described as the problem of motivation. Under assumptions of self-interest, or its stronger forms (such as opportunism), collectively beneficial outcomes do not result for because of the actions motivated by the self interests of individual members. In this paper, the author presents a host of antecedents that can spur and/or facilitate such opportunistic pursuits in members of a strategic network. The influence of these antecedents has been reflected in the ex-ante and ex-post phases of network life cycle. It is postulated that the problem can be resolved by securing an alignment in partners’ interest which together with alignment in actions contributes to the bottom line through increased ability to yield an integrated response to the adaptation requirements stemming from disturbances in networks’ environment. A detailed discussion been administered on how opportunism can be controlled through formal measures like contracts, TSIs, vertical integration and game theoretic stipulations, and the informal controls like relational norms, identification, and culmination of trust and commitment.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on incentive alignment between parties to information transactions and on empirical proof of opportunistic behavior in the Dutch and French electricity industries and show that when a context aligns incentives, contracting parties do not behave opportunistically.
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