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A Mountain Biker cannot start a journey in sixth gear: An Assessment of the U.N. Global Compact’s Use of Soft Law as a Global Governance Structure for Corporate Social Responsibili...
Ghafele, Roya; Mercer, Angus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The practical impossibility of employing hard law at an international level has meant that softer codes of conduct have stepped in to fill the void. The Global Compact is the most ambitious of these codes, created with a desire to engage business in the project of international development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260197
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Innovation, diffusion and catching up in the fifth long wave
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Does the new technological paradigm based on information and communication technologies (ICTs) create new windows of opportunity or further obstacles for catching up countries? The paper discusses this question by taking neo-Schumpeterian long wave theory as the basic framework of analysis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764691
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On pragmatist institutional economics
Yefimov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
R. Commons by putting the notion of ‘transaction’ in the centre of its study. The seventies were a period of appearance … costs economics’. In this way they have distorted totally the initial design of Commons’ institutional economics who saw the …). Commons used the pragmatism as a model of human behaviour and as a method of research. The paper discusses the pragmatist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260260
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Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the commons
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The conventional view is that an increase in the value of a natural resource will lead private property to emerge. Many Igbo groups in Nigeria, however, curtailed private rights over palm trees in response to the palm produce trade of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493279
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Fair value on commons-based intellectual property assets: Lessons of an estimation over Linux kernel.
García-García, Jesús; Magdaleno, Alonso de; Isabel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials, spreading development burden amongst individuals and companies. This model has resulted in a large and efficient ecosystem and unheralded software innovation, freely available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534265
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Internet access: where law, economy, culture and technology meet
Wong, Sulan; Altman, Eitan; Rojas-Mora, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Internet growth has allowed unprecedented widespread access to cultural creation including music and films, to knowledge, and to a wide range of consumer information. At the same time, it has become a huge source of business opportunities. Along with great benefits that this access to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534529
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A Paradox of Environmental Awareness Campaigns
Koulovatianos, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We build a workable game of common-property resource extraction under rational Bayesian learning about the renewal prospects of a resource. We uncover the impact of exogenously shifting the prior beliefs of each player on the response functions of others. What we find about the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753059
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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources: a Model
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women’s rights over the commons were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109076
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Changes in the Eternal City: Inequalities, commons, and elections in Rome districts from 2000 to 2013
Tomassi, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In city districts in Rome, social and economic inequalities between centre and peripheral belts have been increasing over the last years, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. Electoral data from 2000 to 2013 highlight sharp political polarization too. Votes for left-wing (right-wing)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111598
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От машин удовольствия к моральным сообществам (Размышления над новой книгой Джеффри Ходжсона)
Yefimov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
paradigm in economics, the foundations of which were laid by John Commons, allows us to take another look at the institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258143