We study the effect of the fragmentation of intellectual property rights on optimal patent design. The major finding is … requirements should be stronger than in the case of stand-alone innovation. This reduces the fragmentation of intellectual property …

awareness and knowledge, managing ethical diversity over cross-country business transactions ends up to be a major challenge for …

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …

This paper is part of a larger dissertation project named: A Production of Diversity: Appearances, Ideas, Interests …, I have attempted to describe, understand and analyse a process of diversity production at a large manufacturing company … studying “diversity in organizations”. A starting-point for my discussion here is an assumption that researchers, by exploring …

Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The … purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing studies on diversity identifying their main purposes, 2) identify the …

This paper summarises research into localised urban systems which accounts for variations in styles of diversity within … the need to adapt the model to account also for the process of diversity. This third phase combines ethnography with …

. Generalized trust fundamentally rests upon a foundation of respect for diversity, but at the same time arguing that societies have … equality. Yet some claim that diversity leads to less trust rather than more trust. Trusting people who are different from … population diversity. It is not diversity that matters--it is how populations are distributed. I show that trust is lower not in …