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The place of contract in organizational awareness: deconstructing process, market and connectedness

Scott, Susan V.; Paris, Carolyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Throughout modern business history, contract has been used as an organizational technology that holds counterparties in formal or legally binding agreements. The proliferation of contract prompted the emergence of professional contract managers who played an important but relatively peripheral...

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Forming Efficient Networks

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2004

In this paper, we suggest a simple sequential mechanism whose subgame perfect equilibria give rise to efficient networks. Moreover, the payoffs received by the agents coincide with their Shapley value in an appropriately defined cooperative game.

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Bidding for the Surplus: Realizing Efficient Outcomes in General Economic Environments

Mutuswami, Suresh; Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2001

In this paper, we consider two classes of economic environments. In the first type, agents are faced with the task of providing local public goods that will benefit some or all of them. In the second type, economic activity takes place via formation of links. Agents need both to both form a...

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Implementation and European integration: A review essay

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

implementation studies in the European Union. In addition to calling for the further development of reliable quantitative indicators … processes shaping the goals and aspirations in European implementation. Second, we should increase attention to the interplay …

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Compliance and style of conflict management in Europe

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2003

Why and to what extent do states differ in their implementation of international norms? Furthermore, why and to what … extent do states differ in their mode of resolving conflicts regarding non-implementation of international norms? In this … article the empirical focus is on implementation of Community legislation by the member states of the European Union (EU) and …

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National Agencies in the European Administrative Space: Government driven, Commission driven or networked?

Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2007

also this activity is highly contested. Our main conclusion is that implementation of EU policies at the national level is … driven national agencies), nor solely networked (through transnational agency clusters). Implementation is indeed compound …

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Administering information: Eurostat and statistical integration

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

This chapter analyses the processes and dynamics of institution building in the European Union (EU). While most studies of EU institution building have dealt with the birth and evolution of key institutions, such as the legislatives, the executives or the courts, the focus is here on a different...

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Differentiated integration

Andersen, Svein S.; Sitter, Nick - ARENA - 2006

Not all member states are equally eager or able to participate in all aspects of integration, and the impact of EU policy on the member states varies across states and policy sectors. Whereas much of the literature on differentiated integration has focused primarily on formal opt-outs, this...

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Run-away bureaucracy? Exploring the role of National Regulatory Agencies in the EU

Martens, Maria - ARENA - 2005

This paper reports a comparative study of the Environmental Regulatory Agencies in Norway, Denmark and Finland. Increasingly and relatively independently these agencies are taking part in transnational networks in the EU involving the European Commission. A strong informal penetration, fuelled...

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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

administrative heterogeneity in the EU to such an extent that it is likely to challenge the notion of homogeneous implementation and …

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