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A game between a terrorist and a passive defender
Baron, Opher; Berman, Oded; Gavious, Arieh - In: Production and operations management : the flagship … 27 (2018) 3, pp. 433-457
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Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains
Kim, Sang-Hyun; Cohen, Morris A.; Netessine, Serguei - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 12, pp. 1843-1858
aerospace and defense. Known as "power by the hour" in the private sector and as "performance-based logistics" (PBL) in defense …
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An Analysis of Short-Term Responses to Threats of Terrorism
Pinker, Edieal J. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 6, pp. 865-880
Two important defensive mechanisms available to governments combating terrorism are warnings and the deployment of physical resources. Warnings are relatively inexpensive to issue but their effectiveness suffers from false alarms. Physical deployments of trained security personnel can directly...
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Frameworks for Analyzing Chinese Defense and Military Innovation
Cheung, Tai Ming; Mahnken, Thomas G; Ross, Andrew L - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 2011
in the military and broader defense spheres. Insights are drawn from a range of disciplines, including history, social …
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The Ombudsman: Value of Expertise for Forecasting Decisions in Conflicts
Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - 2007
In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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Future of sustainable military operations under emerging energy and security considerations
Saritas, Ozcan; Burmaoglu, Serhat - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 102 (2016), pp. 331-343
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Investment in research and development compared to military expenditure : is research worthwhile?
Biswas, Raaj Kishore; Kabir, Enamul; Rafi, Refat Bin Reza - In: Defence and peace economics 30 (2019) 7, pp. 846-857
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Opening up military innovation : causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
Air Force. The reform seeks to address challenges facing military R&D, in particular a less innovative defense industrial … base. We show that the Open program attracts new entrants, defined as younger firms and those without previous defense SBIR … awards. In a regression discontinuity design that offers the first causal evaluation of a defense R&D program, we show that …
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Opening up military innovation : causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Van Reenen, John; Howell, Sabrina T.; Wong, Jun; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502093