Journal articles: '"win - win situations"'

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Koerner, Dianna K., and Terry S. Siek. "Internships: Win-win-win situations." Nursing Management (Springhouse) 36, no. 3 (2005): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006247-200503000-00006.

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Will, Matthias Georg. "Successful organizational change through win-win." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 11, no. 2 (2015): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-06-2013-0056.

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Purpose – This paper aims to show new ways of overcoming resistance during organizational change by applying insights from New Institutional Economics. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper that adapts findings from New Institutional Economics. Findings – The paper highlights the relevance of interactions between managers and employees for value creation processes: interactions can generate either win–win or lose–lose situations. By altering the restrictions on managers’ and employees’ behavior, change managers can create mutual benefits for the staff and the firm. The paper thus explicitly considers the individual interests of employees and managers and highlights an approach to link individual interests with the collective interests of the firm by means of appropriate interactions. Additionally, the paper elaborates the relevant factors that determine the success of classical change management measures, like communication or participation, to overcome resistance during organizational change. Research limitations/implications – The developed framework also indicates important conditions where approaches inspired by management, psychological and sociological theories can be successfully applied and where change management will benefit from being complemented by New Institutional Economics. Practical implications – Change managers can optimize inter-organizational competition or cooperation to generate a win–win situation by means of appropriate formal or informal restrictions (like incentives or binding mechanisms). Originality/value – This paper applies insights from New Institutional Economics to show how organizational change can be facilitated by producing mutual benefits. This paper postulates that organizational change often fails or, at the very least, meets with stiff resistance due to dysfunctional interactions within the company. However, such interactions actually contain great opportunities for change managers: by shifting the focus of these interactions, they can generate the potential for win–win situations. In this approach, mutual benefits are a decisive factor in increasing the acceptance to organizational change and overcoming resistance.

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Lindström, John, Andreas Dagman, and Magnus Karlberg. "Functional Products Lifecycle: Governed by sustainable Win-Win Situations." Procedia CIRP 22 (2014): 163–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2014.06.154.

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van der Veen, Jack A. A., and V. Venugopal. "Win–Win Situations in Supply Chain Partnerships: a Tutorial." OR Insight 13, no. 3 (2000): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ori.2000.14.

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Åge, Lars-Johan, and Jens Eklinder-Frick. "Goal-oriented balancing: happy–happy negotiations beyond win–win situations." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 32, no. 4 (2017): 525–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-12-2015-0237.

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Purpose This paper aims to suggest a dynamic model incorporating the important dimensions that exist in negotiation processes. Design/methodology/approach To produce a general and conceptual theory of negotiation, the grounded theory methodology is deployed. Findings The core process in this model is dubbed “goal-oriented balancing” and describes how he negotiator is continuously balancing opposing, and seemingly contrasting, forces in a situation specific and dynamic manner to reach agreements. Based on these findings, this study also suggests a concept to describe negotiations that is focused on collaboration and that is not an oxymoron as is the concept of “win–win”. Practical implications This conceptual model can be used by managers and practitioners to navigate in a negotiation process. Originality/value This is the first grounded theory study in negotiation research and attempt to describe negotiation processes as dynamic events in which different dimensions are managed simultaneously.

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Hofmann, Erik, and Stefan Zumsteg. "Win-win and No-win Situations in Supply Chain Finance: The Case of Accounts Receivable Programs." Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal 16, no. 3 (2015): 30–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2015.11716350.

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Muñoz, Lucio. "Paradigm Evolution and Sustainability Thinking: Using a Sustainability Inversegram to State Paradigm Death and Shift Expectations under Win-Win and No Win-Win Situations." British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade 12, no. 4 (2016): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/bjemt/2016/24697.

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Taylor, Charles R. "Creating win–win situations via advertising: new developments in digital out-of-home advertising." International Journal of Advertising 34, no. 2 (2015): 177–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650487.2015.1021132.

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Santos-Martín, F., P. Zorrilla-Miras, M. García-Llorente, et al. "Identifying win–win situations in agricultural landscapes: an integrated ecosystem services assessment for Spain." Landscape Ecology 34, no. 7 (2019): 1789–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00852-5.

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Dong, Jing, Huizhang Shen, and Jidi Zhao. "Sustainable Development Mechanism of Avoiding Group Conflict and Symbiosis: A Study on Labor Disputes." Complexity 2019 (November 3, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9670135.

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Group conflict is one of the main human conflicts in the history of human development and results in various forms such as competition, fight, riot, or war in extreme cases and compromise, negotiation, or cooperation in other cases. The inner essence of the group conflict is competitors vying for resource control. If the conflict ends up at a situation where one party overwhelms the other, it will actually bring destructive results to both sides. Is there a solution to avoid fierce conflicts and to achieve a win-win situation? Is there a unified model by which different forms of conflicts can be interpreted and studied? The purpose of this paper was to address these problems and attempt to establish such a unified model and to use it to analyze the dynamic relationship between the employees and their employers in the viewpoint of group conflict and symbiosis. By changing coefficients of the unified model, the two sides, employers and employees, could be in different situations such as employer win, employee win, lose-lose, and win-win. Keeping other coefficients unchanged, we found and proved that there is a win-win strategy space of the payoff rate. Two parties chose strategy within the space can achieve optimal status in long run.

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SHAANKER, R. UMA, K. N. GANESHAIAH, SMITHA KRISHNAN, et al. "Livelihood gains and ecological costs of non-timber forest product dependence: assessing the roles of dependence, ecological knowledge and market structure in three contrasting human and ecological settings in south India." Environmental Conservation 31, no. 3 (2004): 242–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892904001596.

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Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) constitute the single largest determinant of livelihoods for scores of forest fringe communities and poor people in the tropics. In India over 50 million people are believed to be directly dependent upon NTFPs for their subsistence. However, such human dependence on NTFPs for livelihood gains (win) has most frequently been at a certain ecological cost (lose). If livelihoods are to be maintained, the existing ‘win-lose’ settings have to be steered to a ‘win-win’ mode, otherwise, there could be severe erosion of the biological resources and loss of livelihoods (‘lose-lose’). Examining the dependence of forest fringe communities on NTFPs at three sites in south India with contrasting human and ecological settings, three key factors (extent of dependence on NTFPs, indigenous ecological knowledge and market organization) are likely to constrain reaching the win-win situation. How these factors shape the ecological cost of harvesting NTFPs at the three sites is examined. Within the parameter space of these factors, it is possible to predict outcomes and associations that will conform to win-win or win-lose situations. Empirical data derived from the three study sites demonstrate the causality of the observed associations. The key for long-term livelihood gains lies in reducing the ecological cost. Certain interventions and recommendations that could optimize the balance between livelihood gains and ecological cost are proposed.

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Ott, Jack A. "Who's Going to Win the Playoff?" Mathematics Teacher 78, no. 7 (1985): 559–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.78.7.0559.

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A continuing challenge in teaching high school mathematics is finding interesting but accessible examples to illustrate the usefulness of the topic being studied. This dilemma seems especially acute in the area of probability, since the material taught stays quite elementary, but many applications use complex theories of statistical inference. As a result, exercises are often about colored balls in urns and tossed coins, not really the stuff of everyday situations.

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Puppim de Oliveira, Jose A., Christopher N. H. Doll, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Yong Geng, Manmohan Kapshe, and Donald Huisingh. "Promoting win–win situations in climate change mitigation, local environmental quality and development in Asian cities through co-benefits." Journal of Cleaner Production 58 (November 2013): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.011.

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Riesch, Hauke, Clive Potter, and Linda Davies. "Combining citizen science and public engagement: the Open AirLaboratories Programme." Journal of Science Communication 12, no. 03 (2013): A03. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.12030203.

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Citizen Science (or “Public Participation in Scientific Research”), has attracted attention as a new way of engaging the public with science through recruiting them to participate in scientific research. It is often seen as a win-win solution to promoting public engagement to scientists as well as empowering the public and in the process enhancing science literacy. This paper presents a qualitative study of interviews with scientists and communicators who participated in the “OPAL” project, identifying three potential flashpoints where conflicts can (though not necessarily do) arise for those working on citizen science professionally. We find that although participation in the CS project was generally valued, it does not seem to overcome continuing (and widely reported) concerns about public engagement. We suggest that enthusiasm for win-win situations should be replaced with more realistic expectations about what scientists can expect to get out of CS-style public engagement.

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González Boubeta, Iván, Mar Fernández Vázquez, Pablo Domínguez Caamaño, and José Carlos Prado Prado. "Economic and environmental packaging sustainability: A case study." Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 11, no. 2 (2018): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.2529.

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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze the suitability of the packaging strategy of an important Spanish agro-food company, regarding to economic and environmental sustainability.Design/methodology/approach: Three different types of packaging are analyzed to obtain a diagnostic of the initial situation. In this process, cost and carbon footprint are calculated in order to measure the economic and environmental impacts, respectively. Then, a new packaging allocation logic is proposed with the aim of improving both aspects.Findings: The results show that the carbon footprint is strongly and positively affected by the cost reduction, showing the viability of a win-win relationship between both aspects.Research limitations/implications: The strength of this win-win relationship may be conditioned by the input values considered in this case study. Conversion factors used to calculate carbon footprint vary a lot among researchers, showing the need of standardization in this topic.Practical implications: Since the existence of a positive relationship between economic and environmental sustainability has been demonstrated, organizations should find this kind of situations in themselves to satisfy their own stakeholders.Originality/value: This article shows the potential of unite waste elimination with eco-friendly activities with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of companies. This paper also contributes to the knowledge of economic and environmental sustainability and reinforces theoretical aspects, paving the way for further research on these topics.

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Hambler, Andrew. "A No-Win Situation for Public Officials with Faith Convictions." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 12, no. 1 (2010): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x09990354.

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This article considers two recent high-profile employment cases to investigate the peculiar dilemma faced by certain public officials who are called upon to implement public policy in situations where their consciences are made uneasy due to their faith-based convictions. Such officials face, among other options, the dilemma of choosing between an appeal to rational objections, based on ‘public reasons’ that are non-religious in character, or citing their own faith-based conscientious objections. In McClintock v Department of Constitutional Affairs, by initially basing his objections on a form of public reason, McClintock arguably muddied the waters for his subsequent unsuccessful claim of religious discrimination. In Ladele v Islington Borough Council, however, the appeal to conscience alone also failed as religious convictions were ‘trumped’ by the superior claims of particular policy objectives. This article thus concludes that the ‘religious’ public official may, ultimately, have nowhere to turn except either to silence conscience and acquiesce or to exercise that ‘minimum’ employment right under ECHR case law – the right to resign.

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Kumar, Neelesh. "Social Business Model and its Efficacy: A Case Study on Agroforestry in the Indian Context." Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies 6, no. 1 (2020): 195–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393957519899568.

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This article aims to discuss how social impact and social value creation (SVC) happen in a social enterprise. It attempts to understand the efficacy of social innovation through the lens of different stakeholders within a social enterprise with special reference to the beneficiary and the social entrepreneur. The article uses a case study research method within qualitative research with the emphasis on intrinsic and instrumental case research. An inductive, interpretivist approach has been used for drawing propositions. Through six propositions, the article understands the phenomenon of social innovation, the barriers and bottlenecks in the same which ultimately has to lead to higher levels of social impact and SVC resulting in a win-win-win situation for all the stakeholders. The biggest limitation is that it is difficult to generalise the phenomenon occurring in case of this case research, which may be exactly replicated in other organisational settings/situations/circumstances. The case study has been developed after having taken permission directly from the founder and co-founders of the enterprise. Due permission had been sought from the social entrepreneur(s) before going ahead with the writing and construction of this research article.

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Hilfiker, Karin, Claudia Zingerli, Jean-Pierre Sorg, and Ruedi Lüthi. "Market potential and resource management of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the northern uplands of Vietnam | Nichtholzprodukte im nördlichen Berggebiet von Vietnam: Marktpotenzial und Ressourcenmanagement." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 157, no. 2 (2006): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2006.0049.

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Fairly all selected NTFPs of the upland commune Ngo Luong in northwest Vietnam reveal a high market potential including opportunities for sustainable resource management. In order to achieve win-win situations at the research site, management of specific NTFPs through intensification or diversification applied by single households or interest groups is discussed. Apart from better management practices the NTFP producers' position within the market chain should be strengthened by calling for extension trainings on marketing relevant features. These findings base on investigations of household income, NTFP extraction and market chains of economically valuable NTFPs.

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Gvozdenović, Vasilije, and Kaja Damnjanović. "INFLUENCE OF THE PROBABILTY LEVEL ON THE FRAMING EFFECT IN REFERENCE POINT OF LOSS." Primenjena psihologija 9, no. 1 (2016): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/pp.2016.1.83-100.

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Framing effect, which refers to preference reversal due to different descriptions of the same outcome, is examined through risky choice tasks, in which experimental reference point is typically positioned in win-area (situation of lottery). The aim of the conducted study was to examine a framing effect pattern as a function of the level of risk in risky options when experimental reference point is positioned in loss-area (paying a bill). Results show general loss aversion in monetary domain, which is in an accordance with previous studies. Frame influences decisions in the situations when possibility of total loss (level of risk) is perceived as relatively low. Interpretation of these results leads to the conclusion that the probability and reference point determine framing effect. In win-area, frame influences decisions on the highest levels of probability, and, vice-versa, in loss-area, frame influences decisions on the lowest levels of probability. Results confirm notion that risk-aversion is dependent upon a decision-maker’s perception of spending (an investment or a loss). Although observed risk-seeking decisions in negative frame and different decision patterns in loss and win areas can be explained by the model of cumulative prospect-theory, influence of different experimental reference point can not.

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Xue, Musen, and Jianxiong Zhang. "Supply chain encroachment with quality decision and different power structures." RAIRO - Operations Research 54, no. 3 (2020): 693–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ro/2019027.

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This paper studies a supply chain with manufacturer encroachment and different power structures where product quality is an endogenous decision. We investigate the effects of encroachment and power structure on quality and profits for chain members. Employing a game-theoretic approach, we find that, first, in a manufacturer-led supply chain, encroachment makes both manufacturer and retailer better off when the quality investment efficiency is relatively high. And, the manufacturer’s profit exhibits nonmonotonicity with respect to the extent of consumers acceptance on the direct channel in a retailer-led setting. Second, our result shows that the pure equilibrium outcomes are driven by the quality investment efficiency and the extent of consumers’ acceptance on the direct channel. An interesting result is that, for the manufacturer, establishing encroachment channel and occupying the leader position simultaneously are always not the optimal choice. Additionally, the options of encroaching and striving for leader position can lead to lose-win, win-win, and win-lose situations for the manufacturer and the retailer. Finally, a prisoner’s dilemma may occur with a low quality investment efficiency, a moderately fixed encroachment cost and a high extent of consumers’ acceptance on the direct channel when a fixed encroachment cost is considered.

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Trifu, Alexandru. "Mind the Gap of Inequalities Between and Within Countries." Management & Economics Research Journal 2, no. 4 (2020): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.48100/merj.v2i4.121.

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"Mind the gap!" is an expression meaning a visual or audible warning phrase to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the platform. The subject of this paper is to highlight the existing inequalities, even the case East-West, and the necessity that, by political will and concrete economic and social measures, not only by warnings, to mitigate these disparities in the benefit of the parties involved in. This means that, through continuous political awareness of these inequalities, paying attention to this scourge of the today’s world and to implement such measures in order to ensure a strategic game type win-win. The methods used in this paper are represented by primary data collected from international reports and situations about the status of today’s world countries and from national analyses published. All these data and information become base for the analyses of this issue and emergence of valuable recommendations, rather than conclusions, regarding the counterbalance East and West, apart from the famous and classic example of David Ricardo regarding the theory of the international trade between the rich and developed North and the poor and underdeveloped/developing South, in Europe and in the world. Awareness, alertness and prompt responses to all challenges and a balanced development type win-win, here they are the keys for a modus vivendi and sustainable evolution. JEL Codes: F16, F63, O15.

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Chen, Chouyong, and Chao Xu. "A Negotiation Optimization Strategy of Collaborative Procurement with Supply Chain Based on Multi-Agent System." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2018 (August 26, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4653648.

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In the process of collaborative procurement, buyers and suppliers are prone to conflict in cooperation due to differences in needs and preferences. Negotiation is a crucial way to resolve the conflict. Aimed at ameliorating the situations of underdeveloped self-adaptive learning effect of current collaborative procurement negotiation, this paper constructs a negotiation model based on multi-agent system and proposes a negotiation optimization strategy combined with machine learning. It provides a novel perspective for the analysis of intelligent SCM. The experimental results suggest that the proposed strategy improves the success rate of self-adaptive learning and joint utility of agents compared with the strategy of single learning machine, and it achieves win-win cooperation between purchasing enterprise and supplier.

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Puppim de Oliveira, Jose Antonio, Geng Yong, Manmohan Kapshe, Christopher Doll, Tonni Kurniawan, and Donald Huisingh. "Climate co-benefits approach in urban Asia: Understanding how to promote win–win situations in climate change mitigation, local environmental quality and development in Asian cities." Journal of Cleaner Production 32 (September 2012): 273–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.04.009.

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Brueggemann, Walter. "The Preacher, the Text, and the People." Review & Expositor 102, no. 3 (2005): 493–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463730510200310.

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“My impression is that in controversies in the church that get the pastor in trouble, controversies about theology and ethics, that is, controversies about interpretation, we usually assume two parties in the quarrel, pastor and people (or some people). Given two parties, controversies predictably lead to -win/lose situations. What has happened in many such situations is that the text has disappeared as a live, vocal partner in the conversation.”

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Zhang, Hanshu, Frederic Moisan, and Cleotilde Gonzalez. "Paper-Rock-Scissors: an exploration of the dynamics of players’ strategies." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (2020): 268–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641063.

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This research contributes to the understanding of dynamic decision making behavior in adversarial repeated interactions. Using a well-known competitive game, Rock-Paper-Scissors in a two-player experiment, we collected data of repeated play in pairs over many trials. We design a payoff matrix that allows us to distinguish the optimal (Nash) behavior from random behavior. Our analyses indicate that participants do not play in agreement with Nash or random. We also do not find evidence of the cyclic behavior suggested in the literature. Interestingly, human behavior is very heterogeneous. While some players follow the common “Win-Stay/Lose-Shift” heuristic, many others also follow a "Win-Shift/Lose-Stay” heuristic. We summarize our conclusions for the study of the dynamics of behavior in adversarial situations.

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Darvishomrani, Hadi. "Practical implications for utilizing more approach shots in match situations." ITF Coaching & Sport Science Review 25, no. 71 (2017): 6–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v25i71.219.

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   Wanting to win a tournament increases the stress on all athletes. Ability of utilizing different strategies in sports, specially under match-situation’s pressure, is important. Changing the rhythm of game (e.g. moving from baseline to service line) can be one of these strategies. Approaching to the net could be very useful among junior tennis players, although not many of junior tennis players do not use this tactic when they have to do it. This article mentions some reasons and implications for approaching to the net during a match play.  

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Martínez García, Jose Antonio, and Juan García Papi. "Una segunda oportunidad para ganar (A second chance to win)." Retos, no. 31 (November 11, 2016): 151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.47197/retos.v0i31.49136.

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Esta investigación analiza en el entorno de una competición deportiva el impulso en la motivación que para los equipos tiene el obtener una segunda oportunidad de alcanzar el objetivo deseado. Para ello, utilizamos la liga profesional de baloncesto estadounidense (NBA), donde dos equipos compiten por la victoria en cada partido. A través del análisis de 390 contiendas que acabaron en empate en su tiempo reglamentario, y por ende dirimieron el resultado final en la prórroga, mostramos que el equipo que consigue empatar el partido en la última jugada del mismo tiene mayor probabilidad de ganar en la prórroga si actúa como visitante pero no si actúa como local. Anotar primero en la prórroga, asimismo, es un factor que incrementa la probabilidad de victoria tanto para el equipo local como para el visitante.Abstract. This research analyzes the boost in motivation that teams experience when getting a second chance to achieve the desired objective within competition settings. To achieve this aim we analyzed the NBA framework, where two teams compete for victory in each game. Through the analysis of 390 matches that ended in a draw, and therefore the final result was reached in the overtime, we show how teams tying a game on the final play of the match are more likely to win in the overtime when playing away, but not at home. Being the first team to score in the overtime increases the probability of winning the game for both home and away situations.

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Otaki, Atsushi, Kiyohiko Hattori, and Keiki Takadama. "Toward Strategic Human Skill Development Through Human and Agent Interaction: Improving Negotiation Skill by Interacting with Bargaining Agent." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 14, no. 7 (2010): 831–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2010.p0831.

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This paper focuses on developing human skills through interaction between a human player and a computer agent, and explores its strategic method through experiments on the bargaining games where human players negotiate with computer agents. Specifically, human players negotiate with three types of agents: (a) strong/weak attitude agents making aggressive/defensive proposals in advantageous/disadvantageous situations; (b) fair agents making fair proposals; and (c) the “human-like” agents making mutually agreeable proposals as the number of games increases. Analysis of the human subject experiments has revealed the three major implications: (1) human players negotiating with the strong/weak attitude agents obtain the largest profit overall; (2) human players negotiating with “human-like” agents win many games; and (3) no relationship exists between profit maximization and a win of the games.

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Pritchard, Joy, Melissa Upjohn, and Tamsin Hirson. "Improving working equine welfare in ‘hard-win’ situations, where gains are difficult, expensive or marginal." PLOS ONE 13, no. 2 (2018): e0191950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191950.

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Kalokerinos, Elise K., Katharine H. Greenaway, David J. Pedder, and Elise A. Margetts. "Don’t grin when you win: The social costs of positive emotion expression in performance situations." Emotion 14, no. 1 (2014): 180–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034442.

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Strawhun, Tony, and Susan Murray. "Automated External Defibrillators: How HF/E Helps Win the Race against Time." Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications 18, no. 3 (2010): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1518/106480410x12793210871744.

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FEATURE AT A GLANCE: In emergency situations, time is critical. Because it takes time for an ambulance to arrive, many not-for-profits such as the American Red Cross and American Heart Association, along with many local emergency medical service unions, encourage the public to learn how to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use an automated external defibrillator (AED). Although AED technology can be life saving, there are several trade-offs in design features and innovations, which can be critical when designing or selecting the appropriate AED for a specific setting. This article focuses on the human factors engineering used by designers and manufacturers during the design and development of several modern AEDs, including a discussion of the trade-offs involved.

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Schielack, Vincent P. "The Football Coach's Dilemma: “Should We Go for 1 or 2 Points First?”." Mathematics Teacher 88, no. 9 (1995): 731–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.88.9.0731.

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Situations arise in many everyday endeavors that can be analyzed using various mathematical techniques. These situations give mathematics educators many opportunities to connect real-world problem-solving situations with appropriate mathematical models, as recommended in the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). The mathematics topic here involves applying elementary concepts of probability to a hotly debated question arising in football. h will be assumed throughout that a team values a win significantly more than a tie and also values a tie considerably more than a loss.

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Ogletree, Shirley Matile, Mary C. Coffee, and Shyla A. May. "Perceptions of Female/Male Presidential Candidates: Familial and Personal Situations." Psychology of Women Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1992): 201–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00250.x.

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A factor mediating attitudes toward female/male political candidates may be the potential effect of a candidate's private life. The impact of a familial situation on attitudes towards a hypothetical presidential candidate was investigated in Study 1. Although main effects for candidate sex and familial situation were found, our data did not support differential effects by candidate sex. In Study 2 the potential impact of a candidate's personal problem was examined. A male with past psychological problems was perceived as more electable than three of four female candidates. In both studies, male candidates were perceived as more likely to win the election than were female candidates.

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ABBOTT, DEREK. "ASYMMETRY AND DISORDER: A DECADE OF PARRONDO'S PARADOX." Fluctuation and Noise Letters 09, no. 01 (2010): 129–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219477510000010.

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In 1996, Parrondo's games were first constructed using a simple coin tossing scenario, demonstrating the paradoxical situation where individually losing games combine to win. Parrondo's principle has become paradigmatic for situations where losing strategies or deleterious effects can combine to win. Intriguingly, there are deep connections between the Parrondo effect and a range of physical phenomena, as it turns out that Parrondo's original games are a discrete-time and discrete-space version of a flashing Brownian ratchet. This has been formally established via discretization of the Fokker–Planck equation. Over the past decade, many examples ranging from physics to population genetics have been reported in the literature pointing to the generality of Parrondo's principle. In general terms, the Parrondo effect occurs where there is a nonlinear interaction of random behavior with an asymmetry, and can be mathematically understood in terms of a convex linear combination. Many effects, where randomness plays a constructive role, such as stochastic resonance, volatility pumping, the Brazil nut paradox, etc., can be viewed as being in the class of Parrondian phenomena. We will briefly review the history of Parrondo's paradox, recent developments, and connections to related phenomena.

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Lyu, Xichen, Yingying Xu, and Dian Sun. "An Evolutionary Game Research on Cooperation Mode of the NEV Power Battery Recycling and Gradient Utilization Alliance in the Context of China’s NEV Power Battery Retired Tide." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (2021): 4165. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084165.

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Recycling and gradient utilization (GU) of new energy vehicle (NEV) power batteries plays a significant role in promoting the sustainable development of the economy, society and environment in the context of China’s NEV power battery retirement tide. In this paper, the battery recycling subjects and GU subjects were regarded as members in an alliance, and an evolutionary game model of competition and cooperation between the two types of subjects was established. Evolution conditions and paths of the stable cooperation modes between these two were explored. Suggestions were proposed to avoid entering a state of deadlock and promote the alliance to achieve the “win-win” cooperation mode of effective resource recovery and environmental sustainability. The results revealed four types of certain situations, two types of uncertain situations, and one type of deadlock situation for the evolution of alliance cooperation. The factors of the market environment are evident in not only changing the evolution paths and steady-states of the alliance but also in breaking the evolution deadlock. However, the sensitivity of the members in the alliance to different types of parameters varies greatly. It is difficult for the government to guide the formation of an ideal steady-state of cooperation or break the deadlock of evolution by a single strategy, such as subsidies or supervision. The combination of subsidy-and-supervision or phased regulation should be adopted. Only increasing subsidies is likely to weaken the function of the market and have a counterproductive effect.

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Xu, Qingshan, Mengjia Liu, Yu Huang, Hong Sun, and Xinjia Li. "Deposit Mechanism Design and Corresponding Decision Strategy considering Uncertainty of Customer Behaviour." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2018 (September 30, 2018): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4271324.

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Demand response (DR) has received great concern since the significant growth in electricity consumption and peak-valley difference were witnessed recently. Based on the theory of customer psychology, an uncertainty model of customer behaviour is proposed. By converting electric power to deposit points, a novel deposit mechanism is designed in this paper, which can better deal with the special situations in China. Compared with traditional mechanism, the proposed deposit mechanism is capable of improving acceptability of DR methods in China and achieving greater mobilization of customer motivation for its more understandable rules and higher participation compensations. Furthermore, a decision strategy considering benefits of both the power company and the subscribed customers is proposed based on the uncertainty model of customer behaviour and the proposed deposit mechanism, which aims at achieving win-win situations and greater mobilization of customer motivation. The uncertainties in decision strategy are quantified by the uniform design sampling (UDS) method which is more efficient and computationally accurate than traditional Monte Carlo simulation. With the electricity data of Nanjing City, China, the superiority of proposed deposit mechanism and decision strategy are verified by numerical simulations.

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Shariff, Mary J., and Darcy L. MacPherson. "The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune: Can You “Lose” the Lottery but Still Win?" Alberta Law Review 48, no. 3 (2011): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr146.

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This article discusses potential legal arguments that can be made for a lottery player in a seemingly hopeless situation: buying a winning lottery ticket immediately before the deadline, only to find out that the ticket was mistakenly dated for the next week’s draw. Although the lottery rules and regulations and the courts’ interpretation thereof are strongly slanted against lottery players, the authors nevertheless argue that a consistent and coherent application of traditional contract law principles could favour the claimant. They note that Canadian courts have rarely been consistent in their application of contract law to lottery situations, with courts sometimes characterizing lottery advertisements as both an offer and an invitation to treat. Even so, whether the lottery corporation is construed as the offeror or the offeree, the authors contend that a diligent analysis of the formation of the underlying contract could entitle the claimant to the prize. The article concludes that the regulatory framework governing lotteries does not necessarily preclude the acceptance of contract law arguments in favour of the claimant. Rather, it is the courts’ tendency to analyze the contractual elements of the relationship between the player and the lottery corporation in a haphazard manner that has been the source of frustration for many lottery players across Canada.

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Bobby Banerjee, Subhabrata. "A critical perspective on corporate social responsibility." critical perspectives on international business 10, no. 1/2 (2014): 84–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0021.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that there are structural and functional limits to corporate social responsibility (CSR) that determine the boundary conditions of corporate social initiatives. The current preoccupation with win-win situations in CSR may not serve societal interests. For CSR to produce social outcomes that are not necessarily constrained by corporate rationality there needs to be a change in the normative framework of public decision making at the institutional level. The author develops a global governance framework for CSR that provides more democratic forms of decision making in the political economy that will enable corporate social responsibility to overcome the constraints imposed by corporate rationality. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper and critique. Findings – The author develops a global governance framework for CSR that provides more democratic forms of decision making in the political economy that will enable corporate social responsibility to overcome the constraints imposed by corporate rationality. Originality/value – The paper contributes to theoretical development of CSR.

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VUORINEN, TERO, ELINA VARAMÄKI, MARKO KOHTAMÄKI, and TIMO PIHKALA. "OPERATIONALIZING SME NETWORK RESOURCES." Journal of Enterprising Culture 14, no. 03 (2006): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495806000131.

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In presenting two perspectives through which SME networking can be discussed, namely a system view and a view that considers networks as entities, this paper aims to contribute to the current discourse on SME network resources. A network-level performance measurement system emphasizes win-win situations in a network between the leader company and the other members of the network. The main objective of the present paper is to develop a measurement system for analyzing the value of resources and competencies in a production network, which can be used to complement existing network-level performance measurement systems. By taking into account the resources in a network environment in this way, the value of the whole network and its resources comes to represent the sum of the resources fit with customer needs, the co-operation ability and willingness of the network, and the entrepreneurial capability of the network to create new business opportunities.

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Telljohann, Volker. "Pacts for employment and competitiveness in the electricity sector." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 7, no. 4 (2001): 636–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890100700407.

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The European Union Energy Sector Directive no. 96/62 laid down that Member States were to initiate a market liberalisation process in the electricity sector. In this context Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness (PEC) represent part of a strategy enterprises are adopting in order to face the challenge of managing the changeover from near-monopoly to internationally competitive structures. The article, based on ten case studies carried out in five EU Member States, looks at the thinking underlying these pacts, the changes at the level of collective bargaining, and how the PECs are interpreted by the parties involved: not only the contents of the PECs, but also the underlying motives, the processes of negotiation and the effects of the agreements. It points to areas in which PECs have been able to contribute to generating win-win situations, but also to possible ambiguities and contradictions linked to the negotiation and implementation of such pacts.

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Orzhel, Olena, and Kateryna Tryma. "ON THE GROWING SOCIAL ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES UNDER KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (May 20, 2020): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2020vol2.5093.

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The paper intends to investigate the social role of higher education institutions (HEIs) under knowledge society. As knowledge becomes the main asset and driver of social-economic transformations in the 21st century, HEIs are positioned as centres where knowledge is generated, accumulated, disseminated and applied. With emergence of knowledge society, university mission “to contribute to the public good” is becoming more visible and tangible in HEIs’ operations. Responding to community needs or societal demand, HEIs will liaise and/or compete domestically and internationally with other state and non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), authorities, interest groups, local communities. Both competition and cooperation may produce win-win effect, or end up with win-lose or lose-lose result.Case study method will be used to research different cooperation patterns between HEIs and other actors. In more detail, relationship between HEIs and NGOs will be explored to test the hypothesis that NGOs, who have been leaders in societal change over the last three - four decades, are losing primacy to HEIs. We will examine the social role of HEIs and their cooperation with civil society in situation of emergency, when societal demand for knowledge, expertise and response to crisis is high. In detail, we intend to look at Mariupol State University – a HEI with strong community ties and reputation of a civic university – in order to examine its community service and interaction with municipal knowledge hubs during hybrid war unleashed in 2014. Therefore, the aim of this research paper is to investigate whether and how under knowledge society the social role of HEIs changes in emergency situations and outline their possible contribution to problem-solving in cooperation with other partners, first of all NGOs. Key words: higher education institutions, non-state actors, non-governmental organizations, knowledge hub, knowledge economy.

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Liu, Caiyun, Kebing Chen, Mingxia Li, and Haijie Zhou. "Trade Credit and Revenue Sharing of Supply Chain with a Risk-Averse Retailer." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (February 24, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9781561.

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In this paper, we develop three supply chain game models, i.e., the basic model, the single trade credit model, and the trade credit and revenue sharing collaboration model. Conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) criterion is used as the measure of risk assessment in these models. We analyze the optimal decisions in the centralized and decentralized situations, respectively, and verify that single trade credit cannot coordinate the supply chain. However, the collaboration contract can coordinate the supply chain. Furthermore, this paper explores the influence of risk-aversion factor, trade credit period, revenue sharing coefficient, and other parameters on the optimal decisions and studies the feasible range of Pareto improvement in the collaborative model. In numerical experiments, the results show that the decisions and profits of both the manufacturer and the retailer reply on the degree of the risk aversion, the trade credit period, and the revenue sharing coefficient. The collaborative contract effectively improves supply chain performance and achieves a ‘win-win’ situation for the supply chain members. In addition, we also consider two extensions for our research. One extension shows that the collaborative contract of trade credit and buyback can also coordinate the supply chain in a certain range. The other extension considers the optimal decision of a risk-averse manufacturer with CVaR.

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Dall’Aglio, Marco, Vito Fragnelli, and Stefano Moretti. "Indices of Criticality in Simple Games." International Game Theory Review 21, no. 01 (2019): 1940003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219198919400036.

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Power indices in simple games measure the relevance of a player through her ability in being critical, i.e. essential for a coalition to win. We introduce new indices that measure the power of a player in being decisive through the collaboration of other players. We study the behavior of these criticality indices to compare the power of different players within a single voting situation, and that of the same player with varying weight across different voting situations. In both cases we establish monotonicity results in line with those of Turnovec [1998]. Finally, we examine which properties characterizing the indices of Shapley–Shubik and Banzhaf are shared by these new indices.

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Héritier, Adrienne, and Sandra Eckert. "Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation." Business and Politics 11, no. 1 (2009): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1469-3569.1250.

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How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do associations engage in self-regulation and how do they tackle the specific regulatory challenges at stake? When developing hypotheses, we first vary attributes of the information environment in which private actors interact; and, secondly, actors' preferences as a function of the problem type at hand. With respect to the environmental conditions, our findings show that a regulatory threat matters when developing associative action, whilst the evidence is less clear as regards NGO campaigns. In terms of the problem type, we find that redistributive issues and prisoner's dilemma situations are much more conflict prone than coordination/win-win type of problems. Industry actors recur to various governance devices such as flexible contract design and compensation mechanisms to solve redistributive problems. Prisoner's dilemma (PD) problems may only partially be addressed by governance devices to the extent that free-riding is controlled and sanctioned within an association. We conclude that private actors engaging in self-regulation will not successfully manage all types of conflicts. They lack powerful sanctioning tools to deal with PD situations, but prove to be able to flexibly handle redistributive problems.

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Christ, Katherine Leanne, Roger Burritt, and Mohsen Varsei. "Towards environmental management accounting for trade-offs." Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 7, no. 3 (2016): 428–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sampj-12-2015-0112.

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Purpose Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) information has become synonymous with win-win decision settings, but this paper aims to consider how EMA support can be extended to company managers who face the dynamics of win-wins and trade-offs. Design/methodology/approach Based on extant literature, the paper suggests an important extension of the use of EMA in support of management decision-making. The need for extended consideration and use of EMA to help overcome trade-offs is illustrated using the case of a wine bottling plant location decision by an Australian company in a global supply chain transporting wine from Australia to North America and Europe. Findings Results confirm the need to add to the broader use of EMA to assist managers attempting to solve real world trade-off problems between economic performance, carbon equivalent emissions reduction and water risk reduction. Research limitations/implications Generalisation of the single wine company case illustration to other companies and similar industry settings remains to be investigated. Practical implications Trade-offs are considered between economic benefit and two environmental performance matters of concern to the company, carbon equivalent emissions reduction and water risk reduction. Originality/value The paper introduces the notion of extending the use of EMA as a pragmatic way for managers to assess trade-off situations with environmental alternatives where no optimal solution is available. Value is added through the real case study of an Australian wine company.

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Will, Matthias Georg, and Ingo Pies. "Sensemaking and sensegiving." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 14, no. 3 (2018): 291–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-11-2016-0075.

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Purpose Change management projects typically fail because they meet employee resistance created by emotional sensemaking processes. This paper aims to present an in-depth explanation for these failures and how change managers could avoid them. Design/methodology/approach This study presents an argument in the following three steps: it begins with an empirically well-established fact that attempts at change management often trigger negative emotional responses; the moral foundations theory is then used to identify the typical categories of emotional responses that may result in resistance to organizational change; and the ordonomic approach to business ethics is built upon to substantiate the diagnosis that, in many cases, emotional responses cause employees to behave in a way that is collectively self-damaging. Findings The core idea of the current study’s contribution is that emotionally driven processes of sensemaking can easily become dysfunctional, especially in situations that require extensive change. Consequently, it should be top priority for managers to engage in sensegiving, which comprises: narratives that explain what is going on against the background of relevant alternatives and appropriate discourses that guide how employees form their expectations. In a nutshell, sensegiving attempts to reframe sensemaking processes. Practical implications Even if a win–win potential already exists, it can still be misperceived. If employees are used to thinking within a trade-off framework, this might trigger trade-off intuitions and negative emotions, in effect leading to a situation that makes everyone worse off. Such mental models might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. To counter such a tendency, sensegiving aims at a professional management of sensemaking processes. The task of successful change management, properly understood, is to create and communicate win–win potentials, ensuring that all parties involved understand that they are not asked to sacrifice their self-interest, instead they are invited to participate in a process of mutual betterment. Originality/value The literature on sensemaking draws attention to the empirical fact that resistance to change is typically driven by emotions. The moral foundations theory helps in exactly identifying which emotional dimensions are relevant in times of organizational change. The ordonomic approach to business ethics points out that – owing to their emotional nature – processes of sensemaking might fail, that they may mislead employees into behavioral patterns that are collectively self-damaging. Therefore, a top priority for management is to engage in sensegiving, that is, in (re-)framing sensemaking processes.

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Mixon, Franklin G., and Luis R. Gómez-Mejia. "The Competitive Struggle to Win Tournaments: The Allies’ Race to Capture Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest." American Business Review 23, no. 1 (2020): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37625/abr.23.1.3-17.

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Tournament theory posits that there are situations where winning matters a lot and, as a result, agent rewards are not proportional to performance. According to tournament theorists, the large pay differentials that exist between organizational levels are intended to motivate agents to exert greater effort in an attempt to win the prize. Although a large corpus of literature on tournaments has emerged over time, little is known about the social dynamics involved in tournaments. This article addresses this gap through a historical narrative concerning how Allied forces in World War II competed to capture Adolf Hitler’s famed Bavarian reception house, known to the world as the Eagle’s Nest.

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Risdaneva, Risdaneva. "EXPLORING INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE." Englisia Journal 2, no. 1 (2014): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/ej.v2i1.322.

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The purpose of any discourses, either spoken or written ones, is to communicate the messages to the targeted audiences. Written discourse appears to be the most cau-tious piece of work since it is a product of a well-organised and long-term writing process. To achieve the communicative purpose, an author should interpersonally interact with the targeted readers. The interpersonal interaction can be realised through the use of modalisation to express certainty and uncertainty as well as the use of attitudinal evaluation to evaluate things, events, people, situations and etc. In this case, the analysis of some extracts which are produced as guidelines for the teachers suggest that the written texts are quite convincing and evaluative as well as successful in persuading the readers. This is typical to this genre of discourse as its ultimate goal is to win over the interest of the reader in using the product. In other word, the author tries to make the text convincing and persuasive in order to win over the teachers’ interest in using the textbook in their classrooms.

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Hart, Noelle, Patricia Townsend, Amira Chowyuk, and Rick Gustafson. "Stakeholder Assessment of the Feasibility of Poplar as a Biomass Feedstock and Ecosystem Services Provider in Southwestern Washington, USA." Forests 9, no. 10 (2018): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f9100655.

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Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB), a USDA NIFA-funded consortium of university and industry partners, identified southwestern Washington as a potential location for a regional bioproducts industry using poplar trees (Populus spp.) as the feedstock. In this qualitative case study, we present the results of an exploratory feasibility investigation based on conversations with agricultural and natural resources stakeholders. This research complements a techno-economic modelling of a hypothetical biorefinery near Centralia, WA, USA. Interviews and group discussions explored the feasibility of a poplar-based bioproducts industry in southwestern WA, especially as it relates to converting land to poplar farms and the potential for poplar to provide ecosystem services. Stakeholders revealed challenges to local agriculture, past failures to profit from poplar (for pulp/sawlogs), land-use planning efforts for flood mitigation and salmon conservation, questions about biorefinery operations, and a need for a new economic opportunity that “pencils out”. Overall, if the business model is convincing, participants see chances for win-win situations where landowners could profit growing poplar on otherwise low-value acreage and achieve ecosystem services for wastewater or floodplain management.

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Toledo-Marin, J. Quetzalcoatl, Rogelio Diaz-Mendez, and Marcelo Del Castillo Mussot. "Is a Good Offensive Always the Best Defense?" International Game Theory Review 19, no. 01 (2017): 1750004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219198917500049.

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A checkers-like model game with a simplified set of rules is studied through extensive simulations of agents with different expertise and strategies. The introduction of complementary strategies, in a quite general way, provides a tool to mimic the basic ingredients of a wide scope of real games. We find that only for the player having the higher offensive expertise (the dominant player), maximizing the offensive always increases the probability to win. For the nondominant player, interestingly, a complete minimization of the offensive becomes the best way to win in many situations, depending on the relative values of the defense expertise. Further simulations on the interplay of defense expertise were done separately, in the context of a fully offensive scenario, offering a starting point for analytical treatments. In particular, we established that in this scenario the total number of moves is defined only by the player with the lower defensive expertise. We believe that these results stand for a first step towards a new way to improve decision making in a large number of zero-sum real games.

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