Decentralized Matching Markets of Various Sizes: Similarly Stable Solutions with High Proportions of Equal Splits

2020 ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
Philipp E. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Solution Concept ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Matching Markets ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Experimental Markets ◽  
The Core ◽  
Pareto Improvements ◽  
Core Requirements ◽  
Individual Condition ◽  
Partial Condition

In two-sided matching markets where direct negotiations take place over the division of profits between the partners, the appropriate solution concept is the core. Only a minority of the experimentally observed bargaining results are within the core, and the number of core solutions further decreases with an increase in market complexity. For differently-sized matching markets, two adjustments to the core requirements are introduced. Projected cores from smaller markets (partial condition core) are confirmed in larger markets. The possibility of Pareto improvements from the perspective of individual players (individual condition core) does not vanish but may even increase with market size. In all the investigated experimental markets, a high percentage of equal profit splits between matching partners in face-to-face bargaining was found, especially in larger, decentralized matching markets.

Consent

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Krzywdzinski
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Employee Behavior ◽  
Labor Disputes ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Requirements ◽  
High Level

This chapter deals with the dependent variable of the study: consent. It analyses workplace consent in Russia and China using three indicators that refer to the core requirements of the production systems in automotive companies regarding employee behavior: first, standardized work; and second, compliance with expectations in terms of flexibility, cooperation, and a commitment to improving processes. The third indicator of consent (or the lack of it) is the absence or presence of open criticism, resistance, and labor disputes. The chapter reveals significant and unexpected differences between the Chinese and Russian sites on all three indicators. While the Chinese factories exhibit (with some variance between the companies), a relatively high level of consent, the Russian plants have problems with standardized work, the acceptance of performance expectations, and to some extent with labor disputes.

Technology Imperative in Managerial Decision-Making

2014 ◽  
pp. 158-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Managerial Decision Making ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Virtual Setting

Decisions can make or mar an organization. Decision-making is a multifaceted and intricate process. This process becomes even more complicated and complex when it comes to organizations, especially in this competitive world. Today, decisions are made not only under uncertainty, with available and/or limited information, but may also be made in a virtual setting. Decision makers may not be engaged in face-to-face deliberations. Hence, understanding the challenges, complexity, and rewards of the use of technology, especially information technology in managerial decision-making, is important. Such an understanding is not only vital in determining the efficacy of managers and their organizations, but also significant in designing future management approaches and organizations. This is the core objective of this chapter.

And in the End …

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reades ◽  
Martin Crookston
Keyword(s):  
Strength Test ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Full Strength ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Work World ◽  
Being There

We draw together the book’s themes. These revolve round the core importance of human contact, with face-to-face ever more important, not less, because when insight and knowledge matter F2F will always have the edge. This is despite the ever-deeper penetration of ICT, which allows more choice, accelerates change and enables unparalleled contact, but doesn’t replace face-to face. The pandemic ran a full-strength test of what an e-only work world could be like. The experience will cement and accelerate certain tendencies that already existed, but will not create fundamentally new ones. The long-run strength of central places is because ‘cities are about uncertainty’ and their offer of proximity, of the ‘buzz’, and of confidence is vital. The potential is great: ‘being there’ is still at the core of the urban experience, and face-to-face contact is what towns and cities do for a living.

Talking Shop

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reades ◽  
Martin Crookston
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The People ◽  
Uncertain Knowledge

We focus on the people and asks what role does personal choice and interaction play? The key issue here is the role of face-to-face interaction in the transfer of complex, uncertain knowledge. It analyses the different sorts of knowledge and relationships involved in day-to-day exchanges. This leads on to the milieux for such exchange, from meetings to bar-chat to the digital world; and to the need (or not) for frequent access to each other, and thus to the communication networks: digital in all cases, physical to varying degrees in others. This need varies according to the differential importance of knowledge, confidence and judgement across sectors and firms. All of it is more or less amenable to replacement by ICT; the questions explored are: what is the core of irreplaceable contact, to whom does it still matter and, consequently, what are the locational effects for cities and their hinterlands?

The Strength of the Centre: Downtown Offices and Metropolitan Decentralization Policy in Toronto

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1361-1380 ◽  
Author(s):  
W R Code
Keyword(s):  
Central Area ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Subsequent Increase ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Decentralization Policy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Office Development

Within the context of recent attempts by Toronto to restrict office development in its downtown, the author examines, from several perspectives, the apparent locational conservatism of office activities in the existing core. He begins by arguing that in terms of overall systems efficiency the rationale for the decentralization strategy for Toronto was incomplete and that existing data on the frequencies of face-to-face contact indicated that a substantial increase in the difference between core and suburban rents was necessary to induce a significant removal of office activities from the central area. The subsequent increase in this difference beyond the theoretical level where out-migration should occur suggests the importance of other variables besides those traditionally measured by information linkage studies. Neglected among these factors is the quality of information, reflecting the ability to ‘shop’ among alternative information sources, which in a fundamental sense depends on accessibility. It is suggested that Toronto should not be surprised at increasing resistance to outward movement among the remaining office functions and the consequent higher differences between core and suburban rents, which are necessary to induce decentralization. Finally, through an examination of the origins of demand for suburban office-space in Metropolitan Toronto, the increasing level of resistance to removal by the office functions which remain in the core is shown to be consistent with recent migration trends.

scholarly journals The Transcriptional Switch of Bacteriophage WΦ, a P2-Related but Heteroimmune Coliphage

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 9816-9826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Liu ◽  
Elisabeth Haggård-Ljungquist
Keyword(s):  
Integration Site ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Structural Proteins ◽  
Direct Repeats ◽  
Recognition Sequence ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Transcriptional Switch ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
K 12

ABSTRACT Phage WΦ is a member of the nonlambdoid P2 family of temperate phages. The DNA sequence of the whole early-control region and theint and attP region of phage WΦ has been determined. The phage integration site was located at 88.6 min of theEscherichia coli K-12 map, where a 47-nucleotide sequence was found to be identical in the host and phage genomes. The WΦ Int protein belongs to the Int family of site-specific recombinases, and it seems to have the same arm binding recognition sequence as P2 Int, but the core sequence differs. The transcriptional switch contains two face-to-face promoters, Pe and Pc, and two repressors, C and Cox, controlling Pe and Pc, respectively. The early Pe promoter was found to be much stronger than the Pc promoter. Furthermore, the Pe transcript was shown to interfere with Pc transcription. By site-directed mutagenesis, the binding site of the immunity repressor was located to two direct repeats spanning the Pe promoter. A point mutation in one or the other repeat does not affect repression by C, but when it is included in both, C has no effect on the Pe promoter. The Cox repressor efficiently blocks expression from the Pc promoter, but its DNA recognition sequence was not evident. Most members of the P2 family of phages are able to function as helpers for satellite phage P4, which lacks genes encoding structural proteins and packaging and lysis functions. In this work it is shown that P4 E, known to function as an antirepressor by binding to P2 C, also turns the transcriptional switch of WΦ from the lysogenic to the lytic mode. However, in contrast to P2 Cox, WΦ Cox is unable to activate the P4 Pll promoter.

scholarly journals A ‘conversation’ between Frank Land (FL) and Antony Bryant (AB): PART I

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Antony Bryant ◽  
Frank Land
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
Per Se

The ‘conversation’ offers an important contribution to the archaeology of information systems, both in practice as an academic domain or discipline, and a focus on the genealogy of the field, including some of the accidents and deviations that marked later developments. It is derived from a series of conversations and later exchanges that I arranged with Frank Land. The substantive aspects date from the late 2017 and were then developed in a series of exchanges in 2018; although in effect he and I have been developing this conversation over many years, during which he has been continually challenging, expansive and forthcoming. Comments forthcoming from readers of earlier drafts indicated some perplexity regarding the genre and the objectives of our contribution, so it is important to note that the term ‘conversation’ is something of a conceit. It is not an interview per se, nor is it a biographical account. The core of what follows developed from our verbatim exchanges both face-to-face, and later via email. Some sections, however, have been reworked and enhanced to clarify and augment the issues raised. In addition, we have sought to provide a good deal of background and narrative to guide readers through the text, offering pointers to further resources. The overall contribution is intended to provide an informed and, we hope, informative contribution to people’s understanding of key social and technical issues of our time.

Toward a Recognition of Key Role Players in Community Pharmacy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monireh Afzali ◽  
Ali Rajabzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Soleymani ◽  
Abbas Kebriaeezadeh ◽  
Shekoufeh Nikfar
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Core ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract Background: Although private community pharmacies are identified as health care facilities, they are highly affected by business management issues and different stakeholders. This study aims to identify, classify and analyze private community pharmacy stakeholders.Methods: A focus group was conducted with key informants to analyze and classify stakeholders using three-dimensional matrix. Identified stakeholders were analyzed regarding three attributes of power, legitimacy and urgency. The results of the focus group were converted to a structured questionnaire and confirmed in several face-to-face interviews until the saturation level.Results: four main levels of relationship and eight category of stakeholders differentiated through an analysis. The core stakeholders group possesses all the attributes and include pharmacy licensee, licensee-owner, responsible pharmacist, customer, prescriber, health insurance, regulatory body, and staff.Conclusion: The core stakeholders are directly involved in decision making. Further deliberations are necessary to analyze the behavior of stakeholders and investigate the communication model.

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