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Zeit und Zeitkompensation in der Entstehung und Entwicklung von Organisationskultur
Weber, Christiana - 2003
Das Paper beschäftigt sich mit einer zentralen, bisher oft vernachlässigten Dimension der Organisationskultur, der Zeit … beleuchtet. Denn alle Ansätze, die die Rolle der Zeit in der Organisationskultur überhaupt betrachten, erklären explizit oder …. Sie wird deshalb als Faktor herausgegriffen und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Organisationskultur …
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Commercializing inventions from public research: Does speed matter?
Schacht, Alexander - 2012
This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291804
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Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation: Baking penny buns at home
Crossley, Thomas F.; Lu, Yuqian - 2005
We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292995
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When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World
Richter, Thomas - 2010
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of foreign currency procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa region shows a historical sequencing of reforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293534
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Updating inflation expectations
Lamla, Michael J.; Sarferaz, Samad - 2012
This paper investigates how inflation expectations evolve. In particular, we analyze the time-varying nature of the propensity to update expectations and its potential determinants. For this purpose we set up a flexible econometric model that tracks the formation of inflation expectations of...
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Time zones matter: The impact of distance and time zones on services trade
Christen, Elisabeth - 2012
Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman- Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
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Practical Issues Concerning Temporary Carbon Credits in the CDM
Dutschke, Michael; Schlamadinger, Bernhard - 2003
Afforestation and reforestation (AR) projects in the Clean Development Mechanism are able to create emission permits that can be accounted against the industrialized countries' commitments for limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, as agreed under the Kyoto Protocol. The discussion of how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295329
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Time-dependent or state-dependent price setting? Micro-evidence from German metal-working industries
Stahl, Harald - 2005
Price setting in German metal-working industries is analysed using a monthly panel of individual price data for more than 2,000 plants covering the period from 1980 to 2001. Motivated by several models in the literature, a duration model is estimated. Price changes can be explained by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295770
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Commitment and Timing of Environmental Policy, Adoption of New Technology and Repercussions on R&D
Requate, Till - 2003
We investigate the interplay between environmental policy, incentives to adopt new technology, and repercussions on R&D. We study a model where a monopolistic upstream firm engages in R&D and sells advanced abatement technology to polluting downstream firms which are subject to regulation. We...
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Deceleration - Revealed Preference in Society and Win-Win-Strategy for Sustainable Management. Concept and Exprimental Evidence
Günther, Edeltraud; Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco - 2005
Until recently "deceleration" has been little recognized as a technical term, or as an idea. However, it seems to be getting more attention now. For example the German magazine STERN dedicated a cover story to deceleration, in the Anglo-American world the "Quiet Life Hypothesis" is gaining...
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