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Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?

Kimble, Chris; Hildreth, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...

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Book Review--Doing Business in Asia’s Booming “China Triangle”

Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them....

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Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002

Steves, Franklin; Rousso, Alan - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper...

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The Global Pharmaceutical Industry, 2004

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Holland, k Sarah - EconWPA - 2004

This teaching case looks at the development of the ethical pharmaceutical industry. The various forces affecting the discovery, development, production, distribution and marketing of prescription drugs are discussed in terms of their origins and recent developments. Readers are then invited to...

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Household Saving Behavior: The case of rural industry in Bantul

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - EconWPA - 2004

Indonesia (BRI). This situation could be indicated that banking institution just gives little attention on the rural households …

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b … migration has had a major impact. In Indonesia, the weakening of government authority and enforcement powers is also a major …

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Land Use Change in Indonesia

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

With an estimated loss of up to 20 million ha of forest over the past decade, deforestation in Indonesia has come to … the forefront of global environmental concerns. Indonesia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide … global importance because of their biodiversity and the carbon they sequester. Despite the benefits they provide, Indonesia …

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