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Innovation in technology alliance networks

Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V. - 2004

This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing...

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Population ageing, pensions and growth : intertemporal trade-offs and consumption planning

Creedy, John; Guest, Ross - 2009

This highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions … population ageing in particular, is the primary motivation for this book. John Creedy and Ross Guest evaluate these problems with … researchers interested in the social evaluation of population ageing and climate change. Public policy makers and advisers will …

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Aging and working in the new economy : changing career structures in small IT firms

McMullin, Julie Ann (contributor); … - 2010

The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them

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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion

Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009

This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...

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Handbook of trust research

Zaheer, Akbar (contributor); Bachmann, Reinhard (contributor) - 2006

'This Handbook helps scholars account for more nuances and complications of the phenomenon of trust. But it is also a firm, intelligent reminder not to mutilate the phenomenon while crafting those accounts.' - Karl E. Weick, Academy of Management Review 'Given the number of special issues and...

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The economics of non-selfish behaviour : decisions to contribute money to public goods

Meier, Stephan - 2006

In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...

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Population aging, intergenerational transfers and the macroeconomy

Clark, Robert Louis (contributor); … - 2007

Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...

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Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies

Hamada, Kōichi (contributor); Katō, Hiromi (contributor) - 2007

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor … supply of the elderly and females -- 3. Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan -- 4. Ageing and elderly care in an … open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign investment to ease the ageing problems of an ageing open economy -- 6. Ageing …

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Population aging and the generational economy : a global perspective

Lee, Ronald - 2011

Over coming decades, changes in population age structure will have profound implications for the macroeconomy, influencing economic growth, generational equity, human capital, saving and investment, and the sustainability of public and private transfer systems. How the future unfolds will depend...

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Long-run growth and short-run stabilization : essays in memory of Albert Ando

Ando, Albert (contributor); … - 2006

There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment-inflation trade-off. Few model builders pay as much careful attention to the definition and meaning of long-run concepts as did Albert Ando. Expanding on years of painstaking work by Ando, the...

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