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Steyaert, Chris (contributor); Hjorth, Daniel (contributor) - 2003

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Entrepreneurship and the firm : Austrian perspectives on economic organization

Foss, Nicolai J. (contributor); Klein, Peter (contributor) - 2002

While characteristically "Austrian" themes such as entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little about management, organization, and strategy. This...

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Post Keynesian econometrics, microeconomics and the theory of the firm

Hillard, John (contributor); Dow, Sheila C. (contributor) - 2002

This is the first of two volumes celebrating Keynes's contribution to economics, and the development of post Keynesian economics in recent years. It reinstates the importance of Keynesian economics and its revival since the end of the 1980s, and the book's authoritative chapters are presented by...

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Firms, governments, and economic change : an entrepreneurial perspective

Yu, Tony Fu-Lai - 2001

This topical book interprets firms, governments and economic change from an entrepreneurial perspective. Essentially, it applies the Austrian theory of human agency and evolutionary theories of the firm to explain economic organisation, the state and institutional change. Tony Yu begins by...

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Corporate governance, market structure and innovation

Calderini, Mario (contributor); … - 2003

pt. 1. Market structure, corporate governance and innovation -- pt. 2. Privatization, liberalization and R&D activities …

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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs...

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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value

Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008

advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …

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Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We show experimentally that a principal’s distrust in the voluntary performance of an agent has a negative impact on the agent’s motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides whether he wants to restrict the agents’ choice set...

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Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Kräkel, Matthias; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave … value created is sufficiently small relative to the agent’s outside option. If the principal can use an option contract for …

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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics

Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Goerg, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such...

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