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Extinction of the human race : Doom-mongering or reality?

Aalbers, R.F.T. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

assimilates pollution and how pollution affects life on earth. In this paper, an assimilation function is specified that is …

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Environmental quality and pollution-saving technological change in a two-sector endogenous growth model

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Smulders, Sjak - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993

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Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper presents elements of a cognitive theory of the firm, from the perspective of embodied cognition.It entails the notion of 'cognitive distance' between people that have developed their cognition in different environments. This yields the notion of the firm as a 'focusing device', to...

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Firms, Nonprofits, and Cooperatives : A Theory of Organizational Choice

Prüfer, Jens; Herbst, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper formalizes the difference between firms, nonprofits, and cooperatives and identifies optimal organizational choice. In a model of quality provision, we find a clear ranking of quality produced: Firms provide lowest and nonprofits highest levels of quality. Efficiency, however, depends...

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

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Cooperative Games and Disjunctive Permission Structures

Gilles, R.P.; Owen, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural...

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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … and/or river water the impact of pollution on livelihood was minimised. Since the local administration is supplying …

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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces

Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …

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