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Dynamic Origin of Evolution and Social Transformation

Kirilyuk, Andrei - HAL - 2012

an a priori conservative, time-independent system. It appears together with the universal dynamic complexity definition …, where this unified complexity conservation and transformation constitutes the essence of evolution. We then consider the … exact mathematical description. Comparing the expected features of a revolutionary complexity transition near a step …

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Consensus theories: an oriented survey

Hudry, Olivier; Monjardet, Bernard - HAL - 2010

consensus rules, tournament solutions, restricted domains, abstract consensus theories, algorithmic and complexity issues. This …

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Dynamic Origin of Evolution and Social Transformation

Kirilyuk, Andrei - HAL - 2013

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Requisite variety and intercultural teams: to what extent is Ashby's law useful ?

Bartel-Radic, A.; Lesca, N. - HAL - 2009

Requisite variety and intercultural teams: To what extent is Ashby's law useful? The “Law of Requisite Variety” (LRV) is frequently evoked to explain the design, functioning and performance of intercultural teams. But to what extent does the law really enhance understanding in this...

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Complexity, uncertainty, and organizational congruency

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Owan, Hideo - HAL - 2010

Many scholars in the fields of organization theory and management strategy have argued that there is a tension between the two types of organizational learning activities, exploration and exploitation. They appear to be substitutes: the greater the skill at one, the harder it is to do the other...

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Socio-cultural design and interactive governance

Orillard, Magali - HAL - 2009

The aim here is to address the questions corresponding to the emergence and the evolution of groups, of communities within a population of heterogeneous agents so as to describe the overcoding processes (as manipulation of the codes themselves, translation procedures) which characterize the...

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The Economics of Structural Change in Knowledge

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2010

This book provides an elaboration upon the concept of knowledge from an economic viewpoint. However this is not a book on economics of knowledge, at least not in the conventional sense. Most of the existing books on the matter have focused on the treatment of knowledge in terms of properties of...

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The dynamics of technological knowledge

Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2011

This chapter aims at providing an original review of the main theoretical approaches to technological knowledge, both implicit and explicit, and of their empirical counterparts in the field of economics of innovation. While there are in the literature interesting contributions aiming at...

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Optimal nonlinear labor income taxation in dynamic economies

Ball, Salvador; Spadaro, Amadéo - HAL - 2006

The aim of this paper is to explore the characteristics of the optimal nonlinear labor income tax in dynamic economies with information asymmetries and human capital accumulation. We develop a dynamic optimal income tax model in which agent's productivity evolves over time according to two...

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Learning and Collusion in New Markets with Uncertain Entry Costs

Bloch, Francis; Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - HAL - 2011

This paper analyzes an entry timing game with uncertain entry costs. Two firms receive costless signals about the cost of a new project and decide when to invest. We characterize the equilibrium of the investment timing game with private and public signals. We show that competition leads the two...

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