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Research companion to corruption in organizations
Cooper, Cary L. (contributor); Burke, Ronald J. (contributor) - 2009
Corruption in organizations is creating an increasing number of victims and causing huge costs. This timely book brings together international researchers who address the causes and consequences of corruption in organizations and the action needed to reduce levels of corruption worldwide
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850606
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Temporary organizations : prevalence, logic and effectiveness
Cambré, Bart (contributor); Janowicz, Martyna (contributor) - 2009
This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations--an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task--for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product--for an ex ante limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851739
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The economics of modern business enterprise
Ricketts, Martin (contributor) - 2008
, 127-44 -- Mark Casson (2000), 'An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm', in Enterprise and Leadership: Studies on Firms … Firm', Public Choice, 68, 91-106 -- Henry Hansmann (1996), 'A Theory of Enterprise Ownership', in The Ownership of …Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1976), 'Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852207
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Handbook of economic organization : integrating economic and organization theory
Grandori, Anna (contributor) - 2013
pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and … rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of … economic organization between design and evolution -- pt. IV. Human resources and economic organization between assets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420121
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The growth of firms : a survey of theories and empirical evidence
Coad, Alex - 2009
Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850784
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Firm size, innovation, and market structure : the evolution of industry concentration and instability
Mazzucato, Mariana - 2000
Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure uses evolutionary dynamic theory, non-linear mathematics and computer … innovative new book will prove invaluable to researchers, lecturers and scholars of industrial organisation, technology and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473868
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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets
Palda, K. Filip - 2001
Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851115
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Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship
Scherer, Andreas Georg (contributor);  … - 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play … theory building -- pt. 6. Critical perspectives -- pt. 7. The future of corporate citizenship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851606
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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification
Fai, Felicia M. - 2003
Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473748
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Foreign direct investment and corporate networking : a framework for spatial analysis of investment conditions
Morsink, Robert L. A. - 1998
the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473753