This paper uses Wirl’s [Wirl, F., 1995. The exploitation of fossil fuel under the threat of global warming and carbon taxes: A dynamic game approach. Environmental and Resource Economics, 5, 333–352.] model designed to analyze the long-term bilateral interdependence between a resource-exporting cartel and a coalition of resource-importing country governments for investigating under what conditi...

The authors identify the key challenges facing strategic human resource management (SHRM) going forward and discuss several new directions in both the scholarship and practice of SHRM. They focus on a clearer articulation of the “black box” between HR and firm performance, emphasizing the integration of strategy implementation as the central mediating variable in this relationship. There are di...

IntroductIon In the current environment, knowledge constitutes the starting point for the development of all economic and social agents' activities and behaviors (Castells, 2000). Knowledge, as an internal resource, can be used intensively, which makes it possible to consider it as a productive factor as well as an important strategic element for obtaining a key source of competitive advantages...

In this paper, we propose a strategic-negotiation model which enables self-motivated rational agents to share resources. The strategic-negotiation model takes the passage of time during the negotiation process itself into account. The model considers bilateral negotiations in situations characterized by complete information, in which one agent loses over time while the other gains over time. Us...

A strategic approach to guide sustainable development of South Gippsland Shire in Victoria (Australia) initiated application of GIS methods in concert with data and experts. Two major models have been developed by the Strategic Resources Planning team at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment using ArcView ModelBuilder to map suitability for agricultural and urban land use. Both mo...

Corporate governance is concerned with the institutions that influence how business corporations allocate resources and returns. A system of corporate governance shapes who makes investment decisions in corporations, what types of investments they make, and how returns from investments are distributed. Retained earnings—undistributed profits and capital consumption allowances—have always provid...