This paper explains why people might cooperate playing an infinitely recurring prisoners' dilemma in which they change their partner in every period. After two people have played the prisoners' dilemma there is a possibility for networking. Then, two cooperators who played against each other...

The paper analyses some general dynamic properties of industries characterized by heterogeneous firms and continuing stochastic entry. After a brief critical assessment of some significant drawbacks of recent contributions to modeling of stochastic industrial dynamics, we propose a novel...

What determines how trade in a commodity is divided between privately negotiated transactions via "middle men" (dealer/brokers) in a telephone or "dealer market" versus transactions via "market makers" (specialists) at publicly observable bid/ask prices? To address this question, we extend...

I explore the relationship in partnering strategy [exploration – based on weak ties vs. exploitation – based on strong ties], national culture and and firms’ organizational model in the context of global ICT Industry. In the highly uncertain global environment, partnering is the one of the...

In this chapter, the affinities between Value Analysis (VA) and contemporary management methodologies and tools are presented. This comparative study has been started by presentation of VA genesis and Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) as the main root of functional analysis. The...

The research objective of the paper is a proposition of updated version of Informational Processes Value Analysis, called by the author IPVA-2. The structure of the paper consists of following points. At the beginning three examples of applying original version of Informational Processes Value...

This book consists of a selection of unique case studies of Polish companies in various sectors. The cases, presenting both real business dilemmas and personal perspectives, are the result of extensive in-company research and advisory projects. They reconstruct the circumstances and constraints...

Niniejszy tekst poświęcono koncepcji wartości publicznej (public value), która, sądząc po bardzo małej liczbie publikacji w krajowej literaturze, jest ideą słabo znaną w Polsce. Tymczasem w świecie, głównie w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, Wielkiej Brytanii, Australii i Nowej...

Different structures of lignite mines and power stations, which have appeared on the Polish market as a result of its transformation and the privatisation, were discussed. The attention is focused on the fact that the practice is overtaking the theory because there is lack of models of...

For methods of the profit division in the bilateral monopoly of the mine and the power station sug-gested in the first part of this paper the formulae for lignite price and shares in the joint profit of the mine and the power station are calculated. The proposed profit division contain: the...