ABSTRACT
How reliable is an actor in a network that uses the strategies described in Chapters 3 and 4 without any restraint? An actor that always defines problems in broad terms, never has any clear aims, hardly participates in the game of decision making to realize his interest, because he prefers the pinch hitter strategy? An actor that will always try to reverse decisions when others want to implement them? An actor that constantly couples and decouples problems and solutions? When is there still an ordinary game of decision making and when do the strategies degenerate into blackmail and therefore erode this actor’s reliability? There are sufficient examples of strategic behaviour in networks that may harm an actor’s reliability.
