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Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...

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accelereting new product development by overcoming complexity constraints

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2003

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Social and Environmental Attributes of Food Products in an Emerging Mass Market : Challenges of Signaling and Consumer Perception, With European Illustrations

Codron, Jean-Marie; Sirieix, Lucie; Reardon, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005

This paper focuses on the environmental and ethical attributes of food products and their production processes. These two aspects have been recently recognized and are becoming increasingly important, in terms of signaling and of consumer perception. There are two thematic domains: environmental...

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Marchés, organisations de la production et rentabilité des entreprises industrielles françaises (The markets, organisations and profitability of french manufacturing firms)

Paranque, Bernard; Rivaud-Danset, Dorothée; Salais, Robert - EconWPA - 1996

diversity of products ( generic or dedicated ) and of organisation ( specifics or not specifics assets ) does not create … action system, i.e. a choice of products and of organisation which allow them to be profitable. …

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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in …

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research … brand choice immediately when the decision is computed in the test person’s brain. In a neuroscientific experiment test … persons perform binary decision-making tasks between different brands of the same product class. The results suggest that the …

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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory … novelties appear. An application to decision-making in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry illustrates the potentialities of …

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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice - A Cognitive- Evolutionary View on Economic Policy-Making

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000

Economists often perceive the “ideological beliefs“ held by political actors as obstacles to rational policy-making. In contrast, it is argued that ideologies have characteristics that appear desirable in policy- making in that they allow political actors to credibly commit themselves to...

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Judging Social Welfare Policy with the Solving of the Bargaining Problem

Mullat, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2001

Current analysis addresses an apparently critical issue of wealth circulation in the society. We try to play a game with the welfare- related burden of taxation. Thus, the Negotiator No.1 stands up for citizens legal and moral rights to social services. The Negotiator No.2 proceeds from the...

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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

If bigger objects go into a jar, then there will be space to fill it with smaller objects in sequence. If the order of the objects are reversed, then it ends in filling it at the starting point. Happiness in life is similar to this. Fill high priority needs in the life, and smaller needs can be...

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