conclusions according to the findings, there has been a rise in the number of unsafe actions in machinery and maintenance service units compared to other maintenance units. as such, training courses based on the behavior-based safety principles at the beginning of employment, close monitoring of health safety environment (hse) officials on the implementation of regulations, and provision of app...

The highly competitive and increasingly transparent characteristics of the digital environment have led inter-firm rivalry more frequently. Competitive actions and competitor’s responses together determine firms’ value creation. The key to obtain competitive advantages is to stop or delay competitor’s response. Therefore, our research question is which type of actions is the most effective in d...

Strategic efforts to abate sediment in impaired watersheds face numerous challenges in achieving tangible water quality improvements that are measurable, attributable to project actions, and focused on principle causative sources. As part of a small watershed sediment control strategy, the Soque River Watershed Partnership will examine the feasibility of conducting sediment source assessments f...

The current project investigated affective and strategic determinants of participation in collective actions by taking a multidimensional approach to collective identity (see Cameron, 2004) and investigating rational decision-making processes. A field study was conducted during an important student strike within the Canadian province of Quebec. One hundred and eighty four students attending the...

Brazil is a world benchmark in combating smoking and promoting actions through the National Program for Tobacco Control and other Risk Factors for Cancer (PNCTOFR). This literature review was conducted in order to outline the actions of PNCTOFR and identify evidence of their effectiveness in reducing the prevalence of smoking in Brazil. The documents available in the electronic portals of INCA,...

ership. And strategic leadership is, by definition, an extremely valuable, decisive asset since it orients organizations toward their goals, influences the actions and lives of many people, and ultimately determines what is achieved. In military matters, strategic leadership usually equates to success or failure, to victory or defeat. Unfortunately, strategic thinking and leadership often appea...

We analyze strategic experimentation in which information arrives through fully revealing, publicly observable “breakdowns.” When actions are hidden, there exists a unique symmetric equilibrium that involves randomization over stopping times. With two players, this is the unique equilibrium. Randomization leads to dispersion in actions and to belief disagreement on the equilibrium path. The res...

Temporal and strategic factors that might influence the transformation of verbal task rules into functional stimulus-response associations were investigated in three experiments. In a dual task paradigm of the ABBA type participants were presented new S-R instructions for the A-task at the beginning of each trial. On varying proportions of trials No-go signals rendered the instructed A-task map...

In stable environments, decision makers can exploit their previously learned strategies for optimal outcomes, while exploration might lead to better options in unstable environments. Here, to investigate the cortical contributions to exploratory behavior, we analyzed single-neuron activity recorded from four different cortical areas of monkeys performing a matching-pennies task and a visual sea...

Social systems are changing so rapidly that it is important for humans to make decisions considering uncertainty. A scenario is information about the series of events/actions, which supports decision makers to take actions and reduce risks. We propose Action Planning for refining simple ideas into practical scenarios (strategic scenarios). Frameworks and items on Action Planning Sheets provide ...