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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value
Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008
Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...
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The economics of the apprenticeship system
Smits, Wendy; Stromback, Thorsten - 2001
recent developments in systems of youth training and the economic theory of contracts. Using contract theory as the common … blend of theory, evidence, and history. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of labour economics and human resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473880
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Environmental networks : a framework for economic decision-making and policy analysis
Dhanda, Kanwalroop Kathy; Nagurney, Anna; Ramanujam, Padma - 1999
This original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion. The book first discusses the foundations...
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The economics of e-commerce
Baye, Michael R. (contributor); Morgan, John (contributor) - 2016
: Theory, and Evidence from eBay', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15 (2), Summer, 353-69 -- Gary E. Bolton …
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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
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The economics of contracts
Bolton, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
The Economics of Contracts provides a guided tour to the leading ideas in contract theory. It assembles some of the … Oliver D. Hart (1986), 'The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration', Journal of …Patrick Bolton and David S. Scharfstein (1990), 'A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial …
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Advances in evolutionary institutional economics : evolutionary mechanisms, non-knowledge and strategy
Hanappi, Gerhard (ed.); Elsner, Wolfram (ed.) - 2008
will appeal to a wide variety of scholars involved in evolutionary and institutional economics, and evolutionary theory. It …
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The new institutional economics of markets
Furubotn, Eirik Grundtvig (contributor);  … - 2010
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Corporate governance, the firm and investor capitalism : legal-political and economic views
Styhre, Alexander - 2016
-agent relations, and free market advocacy -- Part II: rethinking the firm -- 3. The agency theory model of the firm and its …: neoclassical economic theory and ideology. … economic boom, and after 1980 in the era of free market advocacy. Covering the theory of the firm from the New Deal era until …
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Intellectual property rights and the financing of technological innovation : public policy and the efficiency of capital markets
Frey, Carl Benedikt - 2013
1. Introduction -- 2. The intangible economy -- 3. Patent information and corporate credit ratings : an empirical study of patent valuation by credit rating agencies -- 4. IPR management and company valuation in the pharmaceutical industry : an exploratory study -- 5. IPR management, corporate...
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