The changing climate in supply chain management, driven by technological trends, increased competition , demand pressure, globalization and outsourcing has led companies to be more receptive to forming coalitions while taking a broader strategic view of the marketplace. The structure of a transport coalition is an important issue influencing the life cycle of such relationships. This structure ...

Significant advances in manufacturing technology and the rapid intensification of the Internet and electronic commerce diffusion have given rise to competitive differentiation and rapid adaptability to competitive change. New product development is a complex and collaborative process that requires negotiation and joint decisionmaking. We propose a fuzzy electronic negotiation (e-negotiation) su...

Abstract As pressure increases to support social justice, coalitions try understand their role in oppression while implementing practices create equitable environments. Twenty-six education-focused community the United States participated study. Coalition interviews and membership rosters are used evaluate degree which these engage engagement conducive empowerment. Involvement emphasize communi...

In 1977, Myerson considered cooperative games with communication structure. A communication structure is an undirected graph describing the bilateral relationships among the players. He introduced the concept of allocation rule for a game as a function obtaining an outcome for each communication structure among the players of the game. The Myerson value is a specific allocation rule extending t...

The paper deals with the concept of coalitional preferences in the group decision-making situations in which the agents and coalitions have only vague idea about the comparative acceptability of particular outcomes. The coalitional games with vague utilities (see, e.g., [7]) can serve for a good example when some types of the game solutions (e.g., the von Neumann-Morgenstern one) are to be exte...

Abstract This paper studies the signing of bilateral treaties between federal and regional governments Russia in period 1994–1998. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis 64 cases suggests that by exchange for political support President Yeltsin built a broad coalition with subnational leaders. strategy allowed to win 1996 presidential election but, long run, contributed preservation authori...