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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.
JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012
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 innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898829
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New products and corruption: evidence from Indian firms
Waldemar, Felipe Starosta De - HAL - 2011
innovation ? We find that corruption, functioning as a bribe tax, diminishes the probability of new product introduction. We use … firm and on the average quantity of bribe paid by firms. Controlling for innovation determinants, firm characteristics … and significant impact on product innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605332
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Rent sharing in the Clean Development MechanismThe Case of the Tahumanu Hydroelectric Project in Bolivia
Mathy, Sandrine; Gouvello, Christophe De; Mollon, Pierre - HAL - 2005
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, aims to minimise the cost of Annex B countries' commitments to reduce emissions, but also to limit the risk that the Developing Countries unquestionable right to develop will offset the Annex B countries efforts: the CDM should promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793240
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Threshold of Preference for Collusion and Interconnection Fees in Different Market Structures : the Tunisian Mobile Market Case
Debbichi, Sami; Hichri, Walid - HAL - 2013
We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899868
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Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies
Ginglinger, Edith; Megginson, William; Waxin, Timothee - HAL - 2011
French law mandates that employees of publicly listed companies can elect two types of directors to represent employees. Privatized companies must reserve board seats for directors elected by employees by right of employment, while employee-shareholders can elect a director whenever they hold at...
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Politiques énergétiques et accès aux services urbains en réseau à Istanbul : une ambition métropolitaine au détriment de l'intérêt général
Arik, Elvan - HAL - 2011
À partir de la thématique énergétique à Istanbul, ce mémoire apporte des éléments de réponse à la double interrogation suivante : comment les structures de gouvernance locale se sont-elles adaptées aux injonctions du développement urbain durable ? ; dans une métropole déjà...
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How to Make the Economy "Embedded" in Turkey? One question, Two Contradictory Answers
Ozatalay, Cem - HAL - 2011
interests in the neo-liberal institution-building process in Turkey and privatization cases as one of the main components of the … neo-liberalization process represents its primary focus. First, it will be outlined how the privatization program was … privatization deals after the 2000's and its effects, it will be shown (1) how the import-substitution periods' contending actors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151313
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Learning from the economics of networks to enhance poverty alleviation in African cotton zones
Fok, Michel - HAL - 2008
Cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were run by monopolistic para-statal organisms for a long time. They embarked upon a restructuring/liberalisation process as of the mid-1980s but the outcomes were mitigated at best. As these sectors resemble service distribution networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789285
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Legitimacy strategies in the annual reports - what turn to social responsibility in post-privatization context
Lupu, Ioana; Sandu, Raluca - HAL - 2010
company through the corporate annual reports. The case study is based on the content analysis of three consecutive post-privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791564
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Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists: the irrelevance of privatization
Claude, Denis; Tidball, Mabel - HAL - 2010
This paper studies the optimal environmental policy in a mixed market when pollution accumulates over time. Specifically, we assume quantity competition between several private firms and one partially privatized firm. The optimal emission tax is shown to be independent of the weight the...
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