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Management and the Varieties of Capitalism, from <i>The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
Jacoby, Sanford M. - Princeton University Press
maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for … major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the …
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Investment under Uncertainty
Dixit, Avinash K.; Pindyck, Robert S. - Princeton University Press
theory of options in financial markets, which permits a much richer dynamic framework than was possible with the traditional … theory of investment. The authors present the new theory in a clear and systematic way, and consolidate, synthesize, and … extend the various strands of research that have come out of the theory. Their book shows the importance of the theory for …
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Analytic Narratives
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press
ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose …
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NO CHAPTER AVAILABLE YET Book Title: The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2012
Maurer, Noel - Princeton University Press
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S....
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NO CHAPTER AVAILABLE YET ONLINE
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; Jean-Laurent - Princeton University Press
ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010606982
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Introduction to Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap
Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer; Schettkat, Ronald - Princeton University Press
Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in <i>Services and Employment</i>, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....
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The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2012
Maurer, Noel - Princeton University Press
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681116
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Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800
Grossman, Richard S. - Princeton University Press
Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...
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Institutional Transformation and Uncertainty
Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press
At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093929
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Introduction
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....
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