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The analysis of BOT strategies based on game theory – case study on Taiwan's high speed railway project

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2012
Uncertainty in a contract for some BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) projects may allow an opportunistic developer to take advantage of information asymmetrical factors, long-term external changes, and agency dilemma to request renegotiation and to alter the ...
Tien-Chien Chen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Daily Associations Between Perceived Maternal Privacy Invasion and Youth Information Management: How Do Cultural Factors Matter?

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Perceptions of parental privacy invasion can predict increased youth concealment across monthly and yearly timescales. However, daily associations between parental privacy invasion and youth information management may differ from patterns widely examined at broader measurement intervals, with cultural values potentially shaping ...
Dan Gao, Yue Wang, Skyler T. Hawk
wiley   +1 more source

Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali

open access: yesEcology and Society
Contracts allocate rights, obligations, and risks between various parties to achieve specific results. In response to slow progress to deliver safe drinking water to rural populations, governments across Africa are increasingly introducing contracts with
Johannes Wagner   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

TRANSLATION, MULTILINGUALISM AND CULTURAL MEDIATION IN URBAN SOCIETIES

open access: yesTransfer, 2017
In this paper we will study the translation practice focusing our attentionon the troublesome renegotiation of plurality / diversity in nowadaysmulticultural urban societies, resulting from recent migrations andpopulation flows.
Assumpta Camps
doaj   +1 more source

Parent‐Adolescent Digital Communication and Relationship Quality in the United States: A Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Despite the growing centrality of digital communication in family life, little is known about its role in parent‐adolescent relationships, especially when parents and adolescents share a household. This review was designed to synthesize U.S.‐based research on digital communication and relationship quality in these families across ...
Eunyoung Park, Jodi Dworkin
wiley   +1 more source

Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Strategically in Public Procurement: Dynamic Capabilities, Set‐Asides, and Contract Outcomes

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A key challenge in public procurement management is balancing equity and efficiency in government procurement. Based on longitudinal data on more than 120,000 US federal service and construction contracts awarded between 2008 and 2018 across over 500 federal agencies, we examine how agency‐level dynamic capabilities shape the performance of ...
Matilde Cappelletti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

To perceive, imagine and feel Ukrainian in southern Brazil: rites and cultural practices in renegotiation

open access: yesDiálogos, 2016
It is aim of this paper investigate and analyze the renegotiation of identification codes and religious belonging undertaken by the descendants of Orthodox Ukrainians, in southern Brazil, in the contexts of their arrival in the country in the period ...
Paulo Augusto Tamanini
doaj   +1 more source

Living with the Unknown: Intolerance of Uncertainty in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is marked by pervasive uncertainty due to fluctuating motor and non‐motor symptoms, variable treatment response, and an unpredictable clinical course. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a tendency to perceive ambiguity as threatening and respond with worry, avoidance, or decisional paralysis, may be ...
Bradley McDaniels   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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