In 2004, William Morris endured agent defections and firings after a rift on the board over the company's direction.
In this paper, we try to explain the maintenance of cooperation in multiplex networks with limited and partible resources of agents: defection brings larger short-term benefit and cooperative agents may become defective because of the unaffordable costs of cooperative behaviors that are performed in multiple layers simultaneously.
If they lose, the Raptors will immediately have to turn their attention to what would be a far more devastating defeat, the potential free-agent defection of Tracy McGrady.
There was the moment General Manager Jerry Reese spawned eye-rolling when, at the nadir of an injury-riddled, free-agent-defection-laced training camp, he declared the Giants would get into the playoffs and make a run.
Their starting rotation will be mostly new after the free-agent defections of the veterans Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and David Wells.
The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors are reeling without James and Bosh after their free-agent defections.
For now, the Giants are in a position few would have expected in the preseason, after injuries ransacked the defense and free-agent defections stung the offense.
They have not had a losing campaign since 1992 and even with their roster depleted by free-agent defections and assorted injuries they still have a championship veneer because of players like C.C. Sabathia and Andy Pettitte, and Mariano Rivera and Robinson Cano, and, for that matter, Kevin Youkilis, who won two rings in Boston.
They were only a bit more talkative last decade, as they weathered a storm of agent and client defections in the wake of their 1995 purchase of Creative Artists from its co-founders: Michael S. Ovitz, Ron Meyer and Bill Haber.
Further, material incentives may send a negative signal to the agents that can motivate defection, for instance, because they may indicate a lack of trust [48].
Minute-by-minute accounts of the plots by American sports agents to induce defections become tiresome.
