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THE COGNITIVE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR HYPOTHESIS: WHAT POSSIBLE EFFECTS FOR THAI LABOUR AND EDUCATION?
Jetin, Bruno - HAL - 2006
developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792410
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UK defence change and the impact on supply relationships
Johnsen, Thomas; Howard, Mickey; Miemczyk, Joe - HAL - 2009
The paper's aim is to evaluate the changing patterns of defence requirements and their implications on supply chains … that have major impacts on defence supply relationships. The authors find a consensus in the industry concerning a shift … acknowledged as requiring much closer partnerships in the defence supply chain, in which suppliers assume much greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820471
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A Network Approach to Understanding "Green Buying": A Literature Review
Xu, Susanna; Walker, Helen; Nairn, Agnès; Johnsen, Thomas - HAL - 2007
Consumers and organisations are increasingly considering longer term sustainability issues when they purchase or supply … purchasing and supply may provide a fruitful way of gaining a deeper understanding of the issues and of moving towards a greener …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898859
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The Contribution of Douglass North to New Institutional Economics
Ménard, Claude; Shirley Mary M. - HAL - 2011
Douglass North, along with Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, transformed the early intuitions of new institutional economics into powerful conceptual and analytical tools that spawned a robust base of empirical research. NIE arose in response to questions not well explained by standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930236
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Appropriation, violent enforcement and transaction costs : a critical survey
Vahabi, Mehrdad - HAL - 2011
In this paper, I focus on the extension of transaction costs to appropriative activity and coercive power in the property rights approach. It has been argued that including the costs of appropriation and violent enforcement in transaction costs is based on the assumption that Coaseian bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328154
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A New Institutional Approach of Resource Use Conflicts: The Case of Poitou-Charentes
Boutry, Ornella - HAL - 2010
New Institutional Economics, based on the Coasean comparative approach, offers a highly useful framework for research on environmental problems. We propose a tentative analytic framework for environmental problems and we try its heuristic power by first applying it to the Poitou-Charentes...
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Multivariate utility maximization with proportional transaction costs and random endowment
Benedetti, Giuseppe; Campi, Luciano - HAL - 2011
In this paper we deal with a utility maximization problem at finite horizon on a continuous-time market with conical (and time varying) constraints (particularly suited to model a currency market with proportional transaction costs). In particular, we extend the results in Campi and Owen (2011)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643221
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Hybrid Modes of Organization. Alliances, Joint Ventures, Networks, and Other 'Strange' Animals
Ménard, Claude - HAL - 2010
The central message conveyed in this chapter is that there is a whole class of economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992) called "the institutional structure of production". These arrangements fall neither under pure market relationships nor within 'firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750977
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Changements institutionnels et efficience de l'affrètement au voyage dans le transport fluvial de marchandises
Lendjel, Emeric; Fischman, Marianne - HAL - 2010
VNF (2010)'s statistical data show a remarkable resilience of inland navigation in France during the recession. Yet at least part of the profession is in crisis: the boatmen are now likely to be close to bankruptcy. Key players in the fully liberalized (since 2000) spot market, small independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750989
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Is Public-Private Partnership Obsolete?
Ménard, Claude - HAL - 2011
Public-Private Partnership has been high on the agenda of public decision makers since the 1990's. Primarily a contractual approach to the delivery of infrastructures, goods and services traditionally provided by the public sector or by private operators submitted to tight regulation, PPP is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751003