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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009
Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793652
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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective
Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009
a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793760
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe J. - HAL - 2013
We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using matched worker-firm data for Electrical-mechanical and Textile-clothing industries. In order to integrate task organization into the interacting processes of workers' training and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933817
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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications
Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012
We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933921
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The Two Faces of R&D and Human Capital: Evidence from Western European Regions
Vogel, Johanna - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
This paper investigates two channels through which research and development (R&D) and human capital may affect regional total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector, using panel data on 159 EU-15 regions from 1992 to 2005.  Based on the endogenous growth model of Griffith,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004195
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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
Teal, Francis; Baptist, Simon - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by macro analysis.  Median value-added per employee is nearly 40 times higher in South Korea than Ghana.  The most important single factor in explaining this difference is the...
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British Manual Workers: From Producers to Consumers, c. 1950-2000
Offer, Avner - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
A large majority of the labour force were manual workers in 1960.  As voters, they had electoral power to pursue collective goods.  As producers they were able to disrupt production.  The majority left school with no qualifications.  Their human capital consisted of skills specific to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004240
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The Impact of armed conflict on economic performance Evidence from Rwanda
Serneels, Pieter; Verpoorten, Marijke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war.  Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and localities that experience more intense conflict are lagging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004261