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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 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 foundational writings on contracting under limited and asymmetric information, incentives and mechanism design. It contains, in particular, the key contributions of five recent...

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The economics of the apprenticeship system

Smits, Wendy; Stromback, Thorsten - 2001

The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in the apprenticeship system of industrial training. Employers have been shown to carry a large part of the cost of essentially general training with apparent little return to the firm - a problem which has generated a wide range of literature...

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Advances in evolutionary institutional economics : evolutionary mechanisms, non-knowledge and strategy

Hanappi, Gerhard (ed.); Elsner, Wolfram (ed.) - 2008

Some famous pioneers together with the most promising new practitioners in the field show within this book how they define their subject. This is an authoritative survey of important branches of evolutionary economics, containing innovative new perspectives on market dynamics and evolutionary...

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The new institutional economics of markets

Furubotn, Eirik Grundtvig (contributor); … - 2010

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Confronting the shadow economy : evaluating tax compliance and behaviour policies

Williams, Colin C. - 2014

'This is a very stimulating book which should be read by everyone who wants to gain an understanding of the latest developments in the shadow economy.'--Friedrich Schneider, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. 'Professor Williams is to be congratulated for this timely contribution - a...

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The economics of e-commerce

Baye, Michael R. (contributor); Morgan, John (contributor) - 2016

Paul Resnick, Richard Zeckhauser, John Swanson and Kate Lockwood (2006), 'The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled … Experiment', Experimental Economics, 9 (2), June, 79-101 -- Daniel Houser and John Wooders (2006), 'Reputation in Auctions …, Elena Katok and Axel Ockenfels (2004), 'How Effective Are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Investigation …

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Trust and economic learning

Lazaric, Nathalie (ed.); Lorenz, Edward H. (ed.) - 1998

trust and a variety of related concepts, including reputation, implicit contracts and confidence is examined. The links …

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