OBJECTIVE Better alliance is known to predict better psychotherapy outcomes, but the interdependent and interactive effects of both therapist- and patient-reported alliance levels have yet to be systematically investigated. METHOD Using actor-partner interdependence model analysis the authors estimated actor, partner, and 2 types of interactive effects of alliance on session outcome in a samp...

strategic alliance promotes enterprise resources sharing and enhances the competitiveness of the marketplace. therefore, finding a mutually beneficial partner to make a strategic alliance is an important issue for various industries. the aim of this paper is to propose a suitable method based on grey theory and data envelopment analysis (dea). a method predicts future business and measure opera...

This paper considers the relationship between subjective measures of international alliance performance and a set of variables, which may act as predictors of success before the alliance is formed (pre-alliance formation factors), and a set of variables which emerge during the operation of the alliance (post-alliance formation factors). The empirical study, based on a web-survey, investigates a...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G). A defensive alliance in G is a subset S of V (G) such that for every vertex v ∈ S, |N [v] ∩ S| ≥ |(V (G)−N [v]) ∩ S|. A global defensive alliance is an alliance that is also a dominating set. We define the alliance partition number, ψa(G) (global alliance partition number, ψg(G)), to be the maximum number of sets in a partition of V (G) ...

PURPOSE Accumulating research suggests that perceived injustice is a risk factor for adverse recovery following painful injury. Presently, however, little is known about the processes by which perceived injustice influences rehabilitation outcomes. It is plausible that perceived injustice and associated anger impact rehabilitation outcomes by compromising the quality of the therapeutic working ...

P ortability and modularity are good engineering principles that are applied to build systems of increasing complexity with compatible components that do not need to be reinvented each time. These principles are, however, not always applied in scientific publishing where competing publishers tend to operate as independent ‘silos’ and have disappointingly little incentives to develop common stan...

Purpose – The paper seeks to propose a framework for examining the dynamics of learning in the various stages of alliance development. Design/methodology/approach – The three kinds of learning in alliances are described – namely, content, partner-specific, and alliance management – and the saliences and implications of particular types of learning in different alliance stages are discussed. Fin...

There are two main streams of research related to alliance performance. From economic sociology perspective, relational capital is the dyadic factor determines alliance performance. Strong relational capital leads to good alliance performance. From organizational learning theory or competence-based theory perspective, alliance capability is the firm’s ability to achieve good alliance performanc...