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Praxis, Wert, Friede. Einige Argumente zu den pragmatischen Grundlagen der Unternehmensethik – Fuer Horst Steinmann zum 75. Geburtstag (Praxis, Value, Peace. Some Arguments Concern...

Wohlrapp, Harald - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 10 (2009) 3, pp. 273-286

beleuchtet: (1) Das Verhaeltnis von Theorie und Praxis, welches hier auf einen pragmatisch erneuerten Handlungsbegriff gestellt … business ethics. Three problems are treated: (1) The relationship between theory and praxis – which is here sketched in the …

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Apocalypse in the Long Run: Reflections on Huge Comparisons in the Study of Modernity

Hall, John R. - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 10-10

Methodologies of historical sociology face research problems centered on the instability of historical referents, their historical non-independence, and the privileging of objective time of the clock and calendar. The present essay, by reflecting on an analysis of the apocalyptic in the long run...

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Economics in the lab: Completeness vs. testability

Guala, Francesco - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 12 (2005) 2, pp. 185-196

domain for economic theory. The first one is used by some experimenters in their skirmishes with economic theorists, and … assumption that the domain of economic theory is more limited than a literal reading of its assumptions would suggest. Of course … point in the direction of the incompleteness of economic theory. Some remarks on the role of methodological arguments …

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Construction price formation: full-cost pricing or neoclassical microeconomic theory?

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran; Chang, Xinling - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 7, pp. 773-783

Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction … microeconomic theory provides a useful means of analysis, it offers little for the practice of pricing, which is much more closely …

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The cost of capital- the practitioners view

Clements, Alan - In: The European Journal of Finance 5 (1999) 3, pp. 247-255

continue to await the fully comprehensive theory of corporate finance that is wholly applicable in solving their problems …

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Reforming the US IPO market: lessons from history and theory

Wright, Robert - In: Accounting History Review 12 (2002) 3, pp. 419-437

The current US IPO market is inefficient and unfair. To protect their own balance sheets, US investment banks systematically underprice offerings. To ration the cheap securities, the investment banks utilize various nefarious nonprice rationing techniques, including kickbacks. Regulators should...

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THE BUDGET DEFICIT AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: A SURVEY

SALEH, ALI SALMAN; HARVIE, CHARLES - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 50 (2005) 02, pp. 211-243

The relationship between budget deficits and macroeconomic variables (such as growth, interest rates, trade deficit, exchange rate, among others) represents one of the most widely debated topics among economists and policy makers in both developed and developing countries. However, the purpose...

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Offshore Financial Centres: Parasites or Symbionts?

Rose, Andrew K; Spiegel, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyses the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behaviour in source countries. Nevertheless, OFCs may also have unintended positive consequences for their neighbours, since they...

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Implications of trust, fear, and reciprocity for modeling economic behavior

Cox, James; Sadiraj, Klarita; Sadiraj, Vjollca - In: Experimental Economics 11 (2008) 1, pp. 1-24

This paper reports three experiments with triadic or dyadic designs. The experiments include the moonlighting game in which first-mover actions can elicit positively or negatively reciprocal reactions from second movers. First movers can be motivated by trust in positive reciprocity or fear of...

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From OLI to OLMA: Incorporating Higher Levels of Environmental and Structural Complexity into the Eclectic Paradigm

Guisinger, Stephen - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 8 (2001) 2, pp. 257-272

Theorists using the eclectic paradigm have drastically restricted their analytic scope to the firm and its subsidiaries, rarely exploring more finely grained firm structures, such as business processes. By contrast, organisational theorists examining multinational firm behaviour have employed a...

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