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Real costs are defensive effort, risk aversion, lack of initiative, and failed partnernships

September 19, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Opportunism, the pursuit of self-interest by means of duplicity and guile, is a key concept in neo-institutional economics (Williamson, 1967, 1985). It manifests itself in […]

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