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This research insists on systems specificity in the adaptation studies, at an industry level in particular. Traditional theories follow from a static and linear vision of adaptation. To bring new answers, three research fields are mobilized: resource based-view of the firm, punctuated...
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La baisse des coûts de transport et de communication et la montée du niveau moyen de formation et de compétence des individus sont aujourd'hui les deux facteurs principaux de changement pour les organisations. La première de ces causes a pour effet l'internationalisation et l'instabilité...
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This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of … reviewing the main productivity trends over the past decade, comparing the United States, Europe and to some extent Japan …. Concerning economy wide indicators of productivity, the slowdown appears to be due to a significant slowdown in investment in …
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In attempting to protect their innovations, firms can choose from a range of mechanisms, which may be either non-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration, trademark, copyright). Yet, little is known about how...
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This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...
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This article analyses the returns of education as defined by Mincer’s model (1974), in the malagasy case. Selection bias in the labour market and endogeneity bias of education are corrected for. Moreover, the type of education is taken into account. Indeed, this variable is suspected to play a...
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This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707389
Using data from labour force surveys conducted simultaneously in the capital cities of seven West African Economic and Monetary Union countries, we estimate a model of residential location choice in which expected earnings play a role. The model is first estimated in a reduced form. Estimates...
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Since de Soto’s work, the entrepreneur’s choice to enter or not the formal sector is usually compared to a tax evasion behaviour. This characterisation seems to be weakened by many recent surveys where it appears that fiscal rules are generally unknown by managers. This article tries to...
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In an extended variant of the life-cycle hypothesis, saving behaviour is shown to depend crucially on the interaction between two preference parameters : γ, which represents risk attitudes (aversion, prudence…), and δ, the rate of time depreciation. Hence, the predictions of four specific...
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