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Novas Formas de Organização do Trabalho nas Micro e Pequenas Empresas

Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...

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Managerial spans, industry tasks and ICT: evidence from the U.S.

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The knowledge theoretic view of organization of production postulates that ICT, tasks and hierarchies intertwine … utilization narrows organizations yet CT expands middle management. Second, industry tasks govern organizational outcomes …. Cognitive tasks flatten and technical/physical tasks narrow hierarchies. Third, the descriptive evidence suggests that …

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Mechanization, task assignment, and inequality

Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Mechanization− the replacement by machines of humans engaged in production tasks− is a continuing process since the … Industrial Revolution. As a result, humans have shifted to tasks machines cannot perform efficiently. The general trend until … about the 1960s is the shift from manual tasks to analytical (cognitive) tasks, while, since the 1970s, because of the …

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Allais-anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion in the calculus of optimal growth II: Pareto optimality and some economic interpretations

Mabrouk, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper studies the Pareto-optimality of the consensual optimum established in "Allais-anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion I: consensual optimality" (Mabrouk 2006a). For that, a Pareto-optimality criterion is set up by the application of the generalized Karush, Kuhn...

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Productivity and technical change in Indian economy

Pohit, Sanjib; Pal, Barun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper makes a modest attempt to apply input-output methodology to understand the structural changes in Indian economy in recent years. Our observations cover the period 1998-99 to 2006-07, the latest year for which India’s input-output table is published. Our analysis indicates that most...

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Overview of special issue from the 2009 ICABR Conference

Wesseler, Justus; Smyth, Stuart J.; Scatasta, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Until the recent financial crisis, biology-based industries were some of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy—the biofuels business was booming, agriculture commodity prices were high, agricultural biotechnology firms were making record profits, and the pharmaceutical industry...

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The maximum incremental social tolerable irreversible costs (MISTICs) and other benefits and costs of introducing transgenic maize in the EU-15

Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara; Nillesen, Eleonora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The decision to release a new transgenic crop variety for planting in the European Union (EU) is a decision under irreversibility and uncertainty. We use a real option model to assess the ex-ante incremental benefits and costs of the decision to release Bt maize and HT maize in the EU-15 member...

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Determinanten des Technischen Fortschritts: Eine Empirische Analyse für die Schweiz

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, die Determinanten des technischen Fortschritts theoretisch zu bestimmen und empirisch für die Schweiz zu schätzen. Auf der theoretischen Ebene besteht unter Ökonomen zunehmend Einigkeit darüber, dass der technische Fortschritt ein ökonomisches Phänomen...

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Households typology for relating social diversity and technical change. The example of rural households in the Khambashe area of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

Laurent, Catherine; van Rooyen, Johan; Madikizela, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Various South African policy statements and strategy proposals argue that farmer focused planning and farming systems research approaches are required to develop policies, strategies and project activities to serve farmers efficiently. Then, the question is how to give a practical content to...

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TECHNOLOGISCHE CHANCEN UND TECHNISCHER FORTSCHRITT: EINE EMPIRISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

The main purpose of the paper is to analyse empirically the sources of technological opportunities. The analysis is based on a survey among 358 R&D managers operating in 127 different busniss units in Switzerland. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht darin, die Frage nach den technologischen...

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