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This article examines the railway concessions in France in the 19th century as examples of a principal – agent … of 19th century railway concessions in France. After briefly retracing the history of these concessions, I introduce the … theoretical framework of the principal – agent model then I apply it to the particular case of the French railway concessions. …
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, identifying (again) direct externalities as an obstacle to cooperation. …
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Within the field of strategy, the thesis deals with the role of social movements inthe process of deinstitutionalization through the concept of repertoire of tactics. This research studies how social movement actions lead to the delegitimization of a taken for granted practice. We focus on the...
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The resolution of a concrete problem lies at the heart of action research approaches. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practical difficulties implied by the adoption of a participative approach where the problem to be solved is constructed collaboratively with organizational...
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All Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are sunk. This might generate a time-inconsistency problem. From an ex-ante perspective, Courts will have the (ex-post) temptation to be excessively lenient. This observation is at the root of the principle of stare decisis. Stare decisis...
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This paper estimates the causal e ect of perceived job insecurity - i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss - on health in a sample of 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where...
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