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The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting … standards. Firstly, we examine the need for harmonisation of accounting standards in particular to maintain the confidence of … legitimacy and analyses the legitimacy of the International Standard Accounting Board (IASB). …
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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...
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endogeneity, using expected demand variation as an instrument. We argue that benefits from nuclear reactor program standardization …, we show that the standardization of nuclear reactors under construction has an indirect and positive effect on …
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In this paper, we describe an analysis framework we developed in order to analyze the implementation of a simplification strategy in a Swiss Canton. This strategy is based on a participatory analysis of services and on the development of eGovernment foundations through the use of open standards...
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We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit production costs of firms increase with the number of goods they produce. This environment exhibits a general under-provision of variety with respect to social welfare.
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We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit production costs of firms increase with the number of goods they produce. This environment exhibits a general under-provision of variety with respect to social welfare.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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This paper proposes a model in the spirit of Aghion and al. (2005) that relates the magnitude of the impact of competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant...
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Cette recherche détermine la mesure dans laquelle les dirigeants adoptent un comportement myopique d'investissement en R&D ; défini comme l'ajustement intentionnel des investissements de long terme dans l'objectif d'atteindre des résultats sur le court terme. Cette recherche s'interroge...
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Cette recherche observe comment la comptabilisation et l'ajustement des dépenses de R&D sont utilisées comme modalités de gestion des résultats. Le recours à une variable médiatrice permet d'observer que les dirigeants activent prioritairement les dépenses de R&D avant de s'engager dans...
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