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Institutionalising Performance Management in R&D Organisations: Key Concepts and Aspects
Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In an era in which accountability, cost effectiveness and impact orientation are at premium, Research and Technological Organisations are under pressure not only to improve their performance but also to be able to demonstrate this improvement. This pressure is particularly hard-felt by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295268
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Mixed Duopoly with Price Competition
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines coalition-proof Nash equilibria (CPNE) of a mixed duopoly with price competition where the public firm meets all the demand coming to it. If the private firm is free to supply less than demand, then the unique CPNE involves the competitive price. If however the private firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103381
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Adding Value: Certified Coffee Trade in North America
Giovannucci, Daniele; Byers, Alice; Liu, Pascal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental certification. This fast-growing category of certified sustainable coffees has emerged from almost negligible quantities in the late 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027121
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Mixed oligopoly with consumer-friendly public firms
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We consider a mixed oligopoly with a public firm that maximizes the sum of its own profits and consumers' surplus. We characterize the unique pure strategy equilibrium and show that as long as the cost function is not ``too concave'', privatization reduces welfare. We find that while the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621482
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Stakeholders vs. shareholders in corporate governance
Chilosi, Alberto; Damiani, Mirella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper is divided in two coordinate parts. The first considers in general the issue of stockholders vs. stakeholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837450
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ERP project’s internal stakeholder network and how it influences the project’s outcome
Jääskeläinen, Kristian; Pau, Louis-François - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
So far little effort has been put into researching the importance of internal ERP project stakeholders’ mutual …. This research analyzes the stakeholders’ interactions and positions in the project network, their criticality, potential … players. Information was collected from several stakeholders from three large ERP projects all in global companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021958
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От социального либерализма - к философии сотрудничества
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
It is shown that the evolution of modern developed societies results into reduction of the role of centralized governance as well as economic and political competition, whereas the role of collaboration mechanisms is growing. This process is supported by cultural changes: increasing trust,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245928
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Learning from the makers of history: Bolshevism, Bolivarianism, and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is a pre-publication version of an article published by the journal ‘America Latina XXI’. It was originally produced as a tribute to Hugo Chavez and a critical reflection on his reception outside Venezuela, on the occasion of his death.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258648
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Economic thought of Ibn al-Qayyim (1292–1350)
Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982
This paper seeks to report and analyse the economic thought of Ibn al-Qayyim, a great thinker of Islam. He discussed mainly the problems of price control, market mechanism, supervision of economic activities (al-hisbah), riches and poverty, interest and zakah, at different places in his numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258810
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Value and utility in a historical perspective
Pogany, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Since value and utility are the highest profile abstractions that underlie an epoch’s intellectual climate and ethical principles, their evolution reflects the transformation of socioeconomic conditions and institutions. The “Classical Phase” flourished during the first global system,...
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