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The paper addresses the effect of technological progress on the frontiers of the firm, building on transaction cost theory and agency theory. The model incorporates four types of costs: production, coordination, management, and transaction costs. The market has lower production costs, but higher...
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The application of this work is to decision taking with financial time-series, using learning algorithms. The traditional approach is to train a model using a prediction criterion, such as minimizing the squared error between predictions and actual values of a dependent variable, or maximizing...
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This document takes stock from several studies on outsourcing risk. A definition of risk is offered and illustration from many case studies is used to show how risk can be managed. Results show that an active risk management approach can reduce risk exposure subtantially while enabling the...
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region in Quebec. L'utilisation d'indicateurs de tourisme durable (STI) pose de nombreux problèmes qui résultent … politique et remettant souvent en cause la crédibilité et le bien-fondé des indicateurs. Pour y remédier, nous proposons une … liste parcimonieuse d'indicateurs de tourisme durable (STI) basée sur l'application d'une série de critères de sélection. L …
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À partir d'une sélection de 20 indicateurs de développement durable (DD), nous construisons deux indicateurs composites …
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This paper investigates the comparability of the 1999 Canadian Survey of Innovation with the European Community Innovation Surveys for 1997/1998 (CIS2). Four European countries are compared to Canada: France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Differences in terms of design and implementation of the...
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analysons 17 études traitant de l'utilisation d'indicateurs de développement durable (IDD) en milieu urbain pour différents pays …'approche préconisée, mais aussi en ce qui concerne la sélection et le nombre d'indicateurs optimal. Premièrement, différents classements … l'utilisation de tels indicateurs, de la méthode de sélection préconisée et de l'accessibilité des données qualitatives …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …
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We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …
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This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …
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