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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?
Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003
Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561853
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Part-Time Entrepreneurship and Wealth Effects: New Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005
Why do people become part-time entrepreneurs? Are they credit constrained? Previous studies on entrepreneurship do not deal with part- timers. In contrast, a recent survey on the establishment of new businesses reports that 80 percent of nascent entrepreneurs also hold regular wage jobs. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413242
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Competitive neutrality in forestry
Samuels, Gary; Davies, Siobhan - EconWPA - 2001
„h States and Territories have agreed to apply competitive neutrality (CN) requirements to their commercial forestry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407758
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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001
This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556465
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Stable pricing in multiproduct natural monopoly (in French)
Iehlé, Vincent - EconWPA - 2004
We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable markets. The main addings are based on the assumption of separated markets and the possibilities of entries. We borrow tools from cooperative game theory. Following the work of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125630
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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais
Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005
of the sustainability of the Valais’ public debt in order to determine if its level is excessive or not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125990
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003
of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062749
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Modelo para valorar la atribución de Sustentabilidad
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2004
The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062755