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This brief paper aims to discuss (as a review) the notion of organisational/corporate abilities, a term that, albeit frequently used in the business world, often presents ambiguities in terms of its meaning. We tried to uncover an exact definition for it using different approaches, as well as...
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Cost reduction is among the main quoted reasons for logistics outsourcing, while transport capacities and operations are among the most outsourced logistics areas. However, according to transaction costs theory, there is often room for transport insourcing. Furthermore, nowadays many authors...
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theoretical arguments and empirical evidence about relationship between privatization and performance shows that the well …-accepted hypothesis of performance increase after privatization is still much debated. We develop a stakeholder approach of corporate …
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of the corporate governance theory suggests a renewal of the analysis of privatization which is still much debated … of Air France, partially privatized in 1999. The case shows the organizational impacts of privatization, both on the …
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The paper presents a game-theoretic model in order to investigate to what extent an employee privatization program of a … maximizing the per capita surplus over the wage. The privatization process is then described as a bargaining process between the …
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In equipment-intensive sectors — such as water utilities, power generation, gas — billions of dollars are spent in capital equipment. We discuss and characterize the optimal policy of a profit-maximizing firm and compare it with the optimal policy of a welfare-maximizing planner. When there...
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We look at the corporate performance of family firms listed on the French stock exchange between 1994 and 2000. On the French stock market, approximately one third of the firms are widely held, another third are founder controlled and the remaining third are heir-controlled family firms. We find...
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reactions, and corporate control. The theory also implies a perverse sorting of high ability managers to conventional activities …
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Legal origin - civil vs. common law - is said in much modern economic work to determine the strength of financial markets and the structure of corporate ownership, even in the world''s richer nations. The main means are thought to lie in how investor protection and property protection connect to...
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