Academic researchers have attributed significant attention to the drivers of opportunistic behavior, yet our understanding of how opportunistic behavior can be mitigated remains relatively fragmented. Our investigation will focus on the social context and more specifically on the role of social capital in the deterrence of opportunistic behavior. Based on two qualitative case studies in the fin...

Although consumer opportunistic behavior has drawn attention from managers and scholars for a long time, a special context of two-sided market has been ignored. A multi-stage research program, comprising in depth interviews (Study 1) and three experimental studies (Studies 2, 3, 4), explored opportunistic claiming during service guarantee. The main characteristics of two-sided market (consumer,...

The present study aims to investigate the association between political connections and related-party transactions for the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Sample includes the 485 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2013 to 2017 and research hypothesis was tested using multivariate regression model based on panel data.We fin...

Opportunism is a behavior that causes norm violation and promotes own value. In the context of multi-agent systems, we constrain such a selfish behavior through setting enforcement norms. Because opportunistic behavior cannot be observed indirectly, there has to be a monitoring mechanism that can detect the performance of opportunistic behavior in the system. This paper provides a logical frame...

Providing connectivity in scenarios where nodes present a very dynamic behavior is quite challenging due to resulting link intermittency among user devices. In such a challenged scenario, opportunistic contacts can be used to perform data forwarding. Moreover, as these moving nodes are carried by humans, taking into account the users' interests, social relationships, and mobility behavior may p...

Empirical research on strategic alliances has been limited because previous studies examined alliance outcomes, and the factors associated with them, from a single partner in a manufacturing alliance. Furthermore, many of these studies have been done from a transaction cost perspective and researchers have inferred opportunistic behavior, rather than directly measuring it and observing its actu...