As a rule of a thumb, companies should strive to be the
first mover only if they can answer 'yes' to the following three questions.
The voluntary trade is mutually welfare improving, but it requires the first party to forego something of value and risk not having the transaction completed; thus the
first mover must trust that the second mover is trustworthy.
Subjects are not informed that the amounts of
first mover endowments and second mover additional dollar amounts were determined by other subjects' decisions in a preceding experiment session with game A.
4) Any amount X sent by the
first mover was doubled by the experimenter.
H4: When a
first mover expands internationally, it is more likely to develop close relationships with the home government.
In today's highly dynamic environment, the impact of
first mover advantage is shrinking because in general strategic time lines are shrinking.
Mendelow: One of the functions about the
first mover concept is it was easy to be a
first mover when the venture capitalists were lobbing money like there was no tomorrow.
I propose an alternative model of majoritarian bargaining in which players demand a compensation for their participation in a coalition and in which the order of play is endogenous, in that the head of state chooses the
first mover, and the latter chooses the order of response.
If the advantage lies in reducing technical or regulatory uncertainty, the
first mover runs the risk of failure, but the second mover who decides and develops just as fast runs the same risk.
Lang concludes that Aristotle's
first mover is not god, as seen in Metaphysics 12; rather, his arguments in Physics 8 "resolve a problem concerning the location of the first moved (and hence also the first motion) by indicating that it must be on the outermost circumference of the cosmos" (p.
MasterCard Worldwideannounced today that JoAnn Stonier, senior vice president, Global Privacy & Data Officer, has been selected to join the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program's third class of
First Mover Fellows.
In this game, subjects are divided into pairs that consisted of a
first mover and a second mover.
