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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security

Hoogeveen, Hans - 2000

The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...

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Lavallée, Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

similarity of domestic institutions. We find an asymme- tric impact on trade of institutions quality. Our estimations show that a … country exports all the more since the quality of its institutions is high; but that the importing country quality of … institutions only affects exports from Northern countries. They also invalidate second best theories which see corruption as a way …

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Reviewing Composite Vulnerability and Resilience Indexes: A Sustainable Approach and Application

Angeona, Valérie; Bates, Samuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015

Vulnerability–resilience indexes fail to grasp all dimensions of sustainability, whereas sustainable development has gained momentum. We fill this gap with a hierarchical multimetric composite index (Net Vulnerability Resilience Index: NVRI) whose robustness relies on a mathematical algorithm...

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Conclusion: Governance and Environment: Policy Challenges and Research Questions

Brousseau, Eric; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Jouvet, Pierre-André - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s many political initiatives have been taken, many governance experiments have been run, and a large multidisciplinary field of research has opened up. The aim of this...

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« Responsible Care» et management durable: comportement volontaire ou réaction adaptative ? Généalogie et pratiques dans l'industrie chimique

Berland, Nicolas; Loison, Marie-Claire - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

Chemical industry's managers have developed since mid-1970' a management and prevention risk policy named “Responsible Care”. This policy was a first draft for a sustainable management even if these two concepts were not exactly synonymous. Through genealogy of this practice and its use in a...

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Re-examining the concept of sustainable development in light of climate change

Chevallier, Julien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This article provides a critical appraisal of the concept of sustainable development in light of climate change. As the latest climate change science indicates strong effects of anthropogenic activity on global warming, we review the pros and the cons of prioritizing development over...

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"Responsible Care" and Sustainable Management: The Reciprocal Influence of Society - Management Practices

Berland, Nicolas; Loison, Marie-Claire - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

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Une analyse des réseaux sociaux est-elle utile pour le management ? Puissances et limites d'une théorie de l'encastrement structural

Huault, Isabelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

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Croissance de la productivité : le rôle des institutions et de la politique économique

Givord, Pauline; Cette, Gilbert; Epaulard, Anne - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

Les gains de productivité constituent sur le moyen-long terme l’un des principaux vecteurs de développement d’une entreprise et, au niveau macro-économique, la principale source de l’élévation du niveau de vie moyen d’une population.

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Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of budget

Berland, Nicolas; Vassili, Joannides; Levant, Yves - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

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