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This study examines the motives for Russian outward foreign direct investments (OFDI) around the world. Using firm-level data for Russian firms, home and host country economic, geographical, cultural and institutional drivers of Russian OFDI are analyzed. Findings show that Russian OFDI seems to...
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2009 ist eine Diskussion darüber entbrannt, inwieweit die derzeitige Finanzkrise Einfluss auf die mittelfristigen … Zeitreihenmodellen abgeschätzt. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das Niveau des Produktionspotenzials aufgrund der Finanzkrise … durch eine Stagnation des technischen Fortschritts verursacht wird. Die Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise auf die mittelfristige …
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This paper aims to provide a general overview of the health care sector reform in Colombia, which introduced the market principles of competition into the sector functioning. Therefor, this article analyzes its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. Relying on the interpretation of the...
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The mirror-neuron system (MNS) becomes instigated when the spectator empathizes with the principal’s intention. MNS also involves imitation, where empathy is irrelevant. While the former may attenuate the principal’s emotion, the latter paradoxically reinforces it. This paper proposes a...
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The development of a society is virtually dependent upon the quality of human resources both male and female, the changing pattern of economic and social development of world societies irrespective of their level of development, necessitates and equal advancement of both the social segments. The...
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based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a … delegation of authority to them to replace their high incentive pay by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …, but concentrated delegation of full authority to a single division head is optimal for cooperation being crucial. If …
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We analyze the optimal allocation of authority in an organization whose members have conflicting preferences. One party … has decision-relevant private information, and the party who obtains authority decides in a self-interested way. As a … optimal to assign authority to the informed and not to the uninformed party, irrespective of the parties' conflict of interest …
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Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However … behavioral forces shape an important transaction cost of integration – the abuse of authority – and by providing an empirical …
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I will argue here that Einaudi's thought reveals an awareness that the question of freedom has to do with two inter-related problems: the relation of individuals or communities with their respective limits and the question of going beyond these limits. Limits are to be understood here in the...
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This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the … organization’s decisions. Under asymmetric information, the efficient allocation of authority depends on the communication of …
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