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Structure versus Agency in the Great Deprivation of 21st Century
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619598
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The Anglo-Saxon market for corporate control, the financial system and international competitiveness: notes for the Notre Dame conference on "strengthening U.S. competitiveness"
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
that the Anglo-Saxon financial system is inferior to that of Japan and Germany and puts the former countries at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109519
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Why the traditional principal agent theory may no longer apply to concentrated ownership systems and structures
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper not only considers why many concentrated ownership structured systems and jurisdictions are considering a shift to the Anglo American style of corporate governance, but also explores why the traditional principal agency theory model may no longer apply in many concentrated ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109640
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Why the traditional principal agent theory may no longer apply to concentrated ownership systems and structures
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper not only considers why many concentrated ownership structured systems and jurisdictions are considering a shift to the Anglo American style of corporate governance, but also explores why the traditional principal agency theory model may no longer apply in many concentrated ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112064
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Catching up with the West: a perspective on Asian economic development
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
industrialization and fast growth over a sustained period in the entire history of mankind. Recall that Japan in 1950 produced less than … Japanese had caught up with the US in the production of steel and replaced West Germany as the world's largest exporter of cars …. By 1980 Japan overtook the US to become the largest producer of automobiles in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114436
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Economic Backwardness in Security Perspective
Carney, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
focused comparison of Japan and Germany before WWII since they had similar political and legal institutions and were both … ‘backward’, but differed with regard to the security threats they faced. Germany confronted more menacing threats from … lending to sectors vital to the nation’s security via banks. Japan, by contrast, did not face the same level of threats to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786993
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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
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We're on a road to nowhere... new forms of work organization and national cultures
Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The main objective of this paper is to discuss how far the cultural environment is related to the potential that new forms of work organization, namely autonomy and teamwork, have for success. To accomplish this objective two main approaches will be used: on the one hand, the Socio-Technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647336
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Women's participation in high performance work practices: a comparative analysis of Portugal and Spain
Ferreira, Pedro; Porto, Nelida; Portela, Marta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
High-performance work systems (HPWS) can be seen as a set of new forms of work organization combined with flexible human resources (HR) practices that enhance organizational performance through employee involvement and empowerment. Although in the past two decades much research has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647356
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National cultures and new forms of work organisation in EU countries: convergence or divergence?
Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In Europe, anthropocentric organization models had their maximum expression in the Swedish model, which came to be known as “uddevalism” or “volvoism”. There are several factors that were presented as conditioners of this success (cf. Durand, 1994). Some critical factors to the success...
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