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opportunism | Business English

opportunism
noun[ U ]
 disapprovinguk /ˌɒpəˈtjuːnɪzəm/ us /ˌɒpərˈtuːnɪzəm/
behaviour in which someone uses every situation to try to get power or an advantage:
He accused his opponent of political opportunism.
The acquisition of the struggling publisher is a classic piece of opportunism by the newspaper's chief executive.

Examples of opportunism

opportunism
Conversely, where governments' incentives are at odds with developmental imperatives, policymaking and implementation are vulnerable to economically damaging political opportunism.
Its efficiency derives from its ability to manage the main problem with these configurations, that of opportunism.
However, thin markets lead to important additional risks of opportunism.
The latter is an example of the second type of transaction risk that we need to consider, risk of opportunism by other players.
All these, together with his opportunism and spin-doctoring might seem to add up to a portrait of a thoroughly unpleasant person.
Practices, in other words, allow for a greater degree of innovation because they encourage opportunism and risk-taking rather than problem solving.
Power does not necessarily move with responsibility, but rather with opportunism and favouritism.
Variations in soil offer opportunities for opportunism, where some producers exploit the regional appellation while using low-quality soils.
Many could equally be local opportunism or deficiencies in the system, for instance the sale of voter cards and the registration of minors.
A similar analysis applies to opportunism in trading relationships that are extended in time.
But there is no reason to believe that emphasis on the value of "abstractness" in mathematics was only political opportunism.
The prominence of women in these particular crimes was in part due to opportunism.
Difficulties are also caused by fear of the market economy, opportunism and authoritarian values.
Rural financiers face problems of widespread borrower opportunism and strategic default, with limited investment opportunities for borrowers, against very high interest rates.
Transaction cost economics assumes that agents are subject to bounded rationality and given to opportunism.
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