Relational flexibility

Towards an Empirical-Relational Model of Supply Chain Flexibility

Supply chains are prone to disruptions and associated risks. To develop capabilities for risk mitigation, supply chains need to be flexible. A flexible supply chain can respond better to environmental contingencies. Based on the theoretical tenets of resource-based view, relational view and dynamic capabilities theory, the current study develops a relational model of supply chain flexibility co...

The Asymmetric Benefits of Relational Flexibility: Evidence from Software Development Outsourcing

In this paper, the interacting effect of formal contracts and relational governance on vendor profitability and quality in the software outsourcing industry are examined. We focus on a critical manifestation of relational governance—the presence of relational flexibility in the exchange relationship—and argue that the enacted observation of relational flexibility is driven by perceptions of exc...

Application of a relational frame theory account of psychological flexibility in young children.

BACKGROUND Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a contextual behavior therapy based on relational frame theory (RFT), a functional-contextual approach to human language and cognition. The main aim of ACT is to promote psychological flexibility, which has been defined in middle-level terms. The current study proposes that a recently developed RFT account of psychological flexibility might ...

Context and Target Search Reversal: Implicit Flexibility and Rapid Adaptation of Relational Memories Using Visual Search

Fuzzy Relational Matrix-Based Stability Analysis for First-Order Fuzzy Relational Dynamic Systems

In this paper, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence and stability of a unique equilibrium point of unforced first-order fuzzy relational dynamical systems by using two different approaches which are both based on the fuzzy relational matrix of the model.In the first approach, the equilibrium point of the system is one of the centers of the related membership fu...