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What determines the mechanism chosen to resolve a commercial dispute? To what degree does the aggrieved recover damages? And does the relationship survive in the aftermath? The answers to these questions affect expectations as to the costs of transacting and, thereby, the development of markets....
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Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated in the sense that it involves direct communication between the personnel of two firms. Alternatively, this information flow may be channeled by or through an organization such as a trade...
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This essay reports the results of a survey of IT exporters from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The survey identifies the key competitive advantages and disadvantages of Central European IT companies as they compete for outsourcing work in the US and Western European...
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This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model where firms facing a costly regulation can bribe a rule-enforcing bureaucrat to get around it, lobby the government to reduce its impact, or do both. I then use a firm-level...
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-seller relationships. This research presents and tests a conceptual framework examining the effect of the type of conflict (dysfunctional … and functional) in the relationship, the conflict management approaches used by the salesperson, and the subsequent … managers. First, the most straightforward and obvious finding is that dysfunctional conflict is detrimental to relationship …
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Die Biotechnologie, identifiziert als eine der strategischen Zukunftstechnologien, ist gekennzeichnet durch eine hohe Forschungsintensität mit breiten Anwendungsfeldern. Nach einer seit 2001 andauernden Konsolidierungsphase steht die Branche gegenwärtig vor neuen Herausforderungen: der...
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