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We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...
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Although the crisis of the Welfare State has been evoked for quite a long time, figures show that such a phenomenon has arisen only recently. Furthermore, it is not a common feature in all developed countries. This paper aims at explaining these two empirical facts. We use an overlapping...
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This article is an entry to be published in an International Encyclopedia of Civil Society in 2009. Mutual organizations exist everywhere in developed and developing countreies as well. After a definition founded on social economy principles, the paper gives the historical background of mutual...
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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This …
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(cooperation) solutions, in a model of investment timing allowing for externalities in both flow pro...ts and investment costs. For …. Optimal cooperation involves either monopoly or duopoly investment, the latter being either symmetric or asymmetric. Finally …&D input choices, if investment synergies are large, coordination and cooperation result in the same outcomes. …
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examination of a number of case studiesof joint efforts, a model for cooperation is developed. Critical success factors for …
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In his chapter 13 of the Capital, Marx shows that cooperation involves coordination whatever the mode of production is …
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Does formal contracting foster cooperation in a buyer-supplier relationship? In line with the literature, we find that a … that a renegotiable contract may induce more cooperation than an informal arrangement can. This result may help to … understand how cooperation emerges in Japanese procurement practices, which typically involve relationshipspecific joint …
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one-stage version of this model. Even though the level of cooperation appears to be much higher than predicted, our data …
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the specificity of the labour process. Cooperation constitues the fundamental from of capitalist production, which entails …
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