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In the last twenty years, through a growing awareness of contractual incompleteness, the concept of authority has … controversy between Coase and Alchian and Demsetz via an analysis of the foundations of intra-firm authority. Second, we argue … that intra-firm authority cannot hinge on a single variable and, to the contrary, rests on multiple mechanisms. The …
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rationalize the inclusion of grasslands in the cropping system (in time, space and according to management practices). However … collective management of grasslands and opens an innovative way to reconcile agriculture and conservation at the landscape scale. …
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A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...
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A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. It has been established theoretically that social fragmentation engenders discord and thereby undermines public goods provision. Empirical research has produced mixed results about this...
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Faced with strong environmental issues, the agricultural sector has to revise deeply its aims and performance criteria. Numerous methods have been proposed to involve heterogeneous stakeholders in farming system design, and several authors highlight the importance of reflexivity in such...
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A group of agents voluntarily participates in a joint project, in which efforts are not perfectly substitutable. The output is divided according to some given vector of shares. A share vector is unimprovable if no other share vector yields a higher sum of payoffs. When the elasticity of...
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manpower management methods and their use of the law in the drafting of employment contracts. We present a typology of …
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This paper studies the endogenous formation of alliance in conflicts offering a survey of the recent literature and providing new results. We analyze the effect of group sizes on conflict, study endogenous alliance formation in a general model of conflict with linear technology and discuss...
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Stakeholder perspectives on crisis management provide a useful descriptive framework for analyzing crises and making … crisis narratives. However, their "actionability" for crisis management, i.e. possibility to use stakeholder management … models into operational crisis management processes, remains an under-investigated question. The purpose of this article is …
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The ability to produce local public goods and services such as sharing savings, risk, insurance, sanitation and educational services, is a key fator for development. This ability, however, varies greatly across communities (Ostrom 1990 ; Khwaja 2009). Considering that this ability depends...
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