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Allomorphisms in Corporations and in Human Resources Management (HRM)in Informational Society
Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The informational society is not innocuous for corporations and organizations. The assortment of allomorphic phenomenon … that are taking place in corporations and on the implicit human resources management (i.e. persons) cannot set aside any … indifference among entrepreneurs, workers or social partners. The corporation’s frameworks, the structure and performance, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207086
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Ethics in international business
Soproni, Luminita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the responsible and sustainable economic development of a society. The corporations cannot act isolated in achieving this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110137
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Was Shari'ah indeed the culprit?
Cizakca, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Why is the Islamic world, once the centre the medieval world, now lagging so far behind? The importance of the topic has attracted economic historians trying to explain this dramatic story of economic decline. Among the various explanations those provided by Kuran concerning the alleged rigidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595631
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The art of fitting financial time series with Levy stable distributions
Scalas, Enrico; Kim, Kyungsik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper illustrates a procedure for fitting financial data with alpha-stable distributions. After using all the available methods to evaluate the distribution parameters, one can qualitatively select the best estimate and run some goodness-of-fit tests on this estimate, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836427
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An empirical model of volatility of returns and option pricing
McCauley, Joseph L.; Gunaratne, Gemunu H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper reports several entirely new results on financial market dynamics and option pricing We observe that empirical distributions of returns are much better approximated by an exponential distribution than by a Gaussian. This exponential distribution of asset prices can be used to develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836619
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
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Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Timmermann, Martina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
-territorial policy responses to such issues as trade, finance, the environment, human rights and human security. The copyright of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836788
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837034
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China's Impact on the Global Wind Power Industry
Lema, Rasmus; Berger, Axel; Schmitz, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
China’s economic rise has transformed the global economy in a number of manufacturing industries. This paper investigates whether China’s transformative influence extends to the new green economy. Drawing on the debate about how China is driving major economic changes in the world – the...
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