Similar Search Results

Switching costs in competitive health insurance markets

Lamiraud, Karine - HAL - 2013

In this paper we investigate the possible presence of switching costs when consumers are offered the opportunity to change their basic health insurance provider. We focus on the specific case of Switzerland which implemented a pure form of competition in basic health insurance markets. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898892

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595751

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603671

Dynamic Origin of Evolution and Social Transformation

Kirilyuk, Andrei - HAL - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821087

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788860

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793425

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794787

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569150

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569151

Quantum Type Indeterminacy in Dynamic Decision-Making: Self-control Through Identity Management

Busemeyer, Jérôme; Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane - HAL - 2012

constructive preference perspective suggested by Kahneman and Tversky. In a dynamic decision context type indeterminacy induces a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738965