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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850599
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Competition policies and consumer welfare : corporate strategies and consumer prices in developing countries
Achy, Lahcen (contributor); Joekes, Susan P. (contributor) - 2016
1. Introduction -- Section I the distribution of foodstuffs -- 2. Costa rica -- 3. Armenia -- 4. Mali -- 5. Zambia -- Section II the distribution of pharmaceuticals -- 6. Jamaica -- 7. Vietnam -- Section III the distribution of services: international money transfers and tv programmes -- 8....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419893
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Regulation, deregulation, reregulation : institutional perspectives
Ménard, Claude (contributor); Ghertman, Michel (contributor) - 2009
central message of new institutional economics: that theory should be continuously confronted by facts, and reformed or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851101
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Public procurement for innovation
Edquist, Charles (contributor) - 2015
'This is a very timely book! Public procurement for innovation has become a prominent tool of demand-side innovation policy in recent years. A better understanding of the underlying assumptions and intentions, as well as the opportunities of this bundle of instruments and their limitations, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850565
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The economics of outsourcing
Willcocks, Leslie - 2014
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1989), 'Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review', Academy of Management Review, 14 (1), January … in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2), May … Street Journal, A1 -- Macneil, I.R. (1980), The New Social Contract: An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, New Haven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852192
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
-- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of the firm -- 7. The theory of granularity -- 8. Collusion on blockchain -- 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219
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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
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Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location : investigating the structural patterns and intangible sources of competitive performance
Peneder, Michael - 2001
Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473757
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Economics, entropy, and the environment : the extraordinary economics of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen
Beard, Thomas Randolph; Lozada, Gabriel A. - 1999
This extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgesçu-Roegen's economics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473827