The objective of this paper is to provide an integrative framework for DWA adoption. In this article, we try to understand the concerns of organizational decision makers more comprehensively from an economical view using transaction cost theory, from an intraorganizational (corporational) and extra-organizational (industrial) view using institutional theory. The possible significance of this re...

Many real world systems operate in a decentralized manner, where individual operators interact with varying degree of cooperation and self motives. In this paper, we study transportation networks that operate as an alliance among different carriers. In particular, we study alliance formation among carriers in liner shipping. We address tactical problems such as the design of large scale network...

Although the alliance-outcome correlation is well established, no published studies to date have separated between therapists' and patients' contributions while controlling for early symptom change. In this study, we examined therapist effects in two trials of CBT for panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) and the impact of therapists' and patients' contribution to the alliance on outcome and at...

A global o ensive alliance in a graph G = (V; E) is a subset S of V such that for every vertex v not in S at least half of the vertices in the closed neighborhood of v are in S. The cardinality of a minimum size global o ensive alliance in G is called the global o ensive alliance number of G. We give an upper bound on the global (strong) o ensive alliance number of a graph in terms of its degre...

Therapeutic alliance has been frequently studied in individual counseling sessions; however, research on therapeutic alliance in residential settings for youth with mental health diagnoses has been limited. This may be due, in part, to the presence of multiple service providers often in caregiving roles. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric quality of a widely utilized meas...

OBJECTIVE Although the relationship between the therapeutic alliance and outcome has been supported consistently across several studies and meta-analyses, there is less known about how the patient and therapist contribute to this relationship. The purpose of this present meta-analysis was to (1) test for therapist effects in the alliance-outcome correlation and (2) extend the findings of previo...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people around the globe. Europe, as one of the most seriously affected continents, has been struggling with the novel coronavirus for several months. Obviously, outbreak response management plays a critical role in the impact of the disease. Therefore, in this paper, Malmquist Productivity Index is used to evaluate the performance of the most severely aff...

The therapeutic alliance is considered the most robust process variable associated with positive therapeutic outcome in a variety of psychotherapeutic models [Alexander, L. B., & Luborsky, L. (1986). The Penn Helping Alliance Scales. In L. S. Greenberg & W. M. Pinsoff (Eds.), The psychotherapeutic process: A research handbook (pp. 325-356). New York: Guilford Press; Horvath, A. O., Gaston, L., ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is propose a strategic framework for understanding interpartner negotiation dynamics in alliances. Design/methodology/approach – The authors define interpartner negotiations as a process of reconciling and integrating the interests of the partners in an alliance, and consider four types of interpartner negotiation strategies – problem solving, contending, yie...

An offensive alliance in a graph Γ = (V,E) is a set of vertices S ⊂ V where for every vertex v in its boundary it holds that the majority of vertices in v’s closed neighborhood are in S. In the case of strong offensive alliance, strict majority is required. An alliance S is called global if it affects every vertex in V \S, that is, S is a dominating set of Γ. The offensive alliance number ao(Γ)...