Author(s): Almeida, Leandro S. ; Cruz, José Fernando A. ; Ferreira, Helena Isabel dos Santos Ribeiro ; Pinto, Alberto
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15277
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Leadership; Nash-Equilibria; Decision-making; Theory of planned behavior; Science & Technology
The Theory of Planned Behavior studies the decision-making mechanisms of individuals. We propose the Nash Equilibria as one, of many, possible mechanisms of transforming human intentions in behavior. This process corresponds to the best strategic individual decision taking in account the collective response. We built a game theoretical model to understand the role of leaders in decision-making of individuals or groups. We study the characteristics of the leaders that can have a positive or negative influence over others behavioral decisions.
Previous versions of this work were presented in the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM 2010, the Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society in honor of John Nash and EURO 2010, ICDEA 2009 and LAMES 2008. This work was highlighted in the article [11] after being presented in ICM2010. We thank LIAAD-INESC Porto LA, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, PRODYN-ESF, POCTI and POSI by FCT and Ministerio da Ciencia e da Tecnologia, and the FCT Pluriannual Funding Program of the LIAAD-INESC Porto LA and of the Research Center of Mathematics of University of Minho, for their financial support.
