1 How Business Strategy and Technology Impact the Role and the Tasks of CIOs: An Evolutionary Model Tomi Dahlberg, Åbo Akademi University and Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Päivi Hokkanen, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Mike Newman, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK and Turku School of Economics, ...

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The members of a work group need to apply a common strategy to collaboratively solve a problem. A good strategy will mainly depend on the collaboration scenario, participants’ background, and available tools. This paper presents two widgets that have been useful to help to define and use good group members’ strategies in collaborative learning scenarios. The concepts behind these widgets can be...

Working in the Arrovian framework, we search for preference aggregation rules with desirable solidarity properties. In a fixed-population setting, we formulate two versions of the solidarity axiom welfare dominance under preference replacement. Although the stronger proves incompatible with efficiency, the combination of efficiency and our second version leads to an important class of rules whi...

We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effects of classmate characteristics on economic and social outcomes of students. The unique structure of the Add Health allows us to estimate these effects using comparisons across cohorts within schools, and to examine a wider range of outcomes than other studies that have used this identificatio...

In this paper, we study the (group) strategy-proofness of deterministic mechanisms in the obnoxious facility game. In this game, given a set of strategic agents in a metric, we design a mechanism that outputs the location of a facility in the metric based on the locations of the agents reported by themselves. The benefit of an agent is the distance between her location and the facility and the ...

The paper aims to discuss supply chain management challenges in Public Distribution System, a food security scheme in India, based on the data collected from the stakeholders. With particular focus on supply chain strategy, we explore how the social objectives lead to supply chain design which affect system’s performance.