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Attempts to deter corruption have little recognized the operation of intermediaries. This study takes a New Institutional Economic-perspective, supported by a variety of case studies, to identify firms’ choices of when to engage corrupt intermediaries (buy) and how to approach reform. It...
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This study uses theories on trust and opportunism to investigate the economic behaviour and business practices of …
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We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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, including alliances, joint ventures, and networks. Trust is one of the most important factors of success for any business … the problems of trust in alliance networks. The conclusion of the text is that trust building in alliance networks has an …
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Статья посвящена исследованию воздействия фактора доверия на процесс принятия экономических решений. В основу работы заложено представление о необходимости...
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, including alliances, joint ventures, and networks. Trust is one of the most important factors of success for any business … the problems of trust in alliance networks. The conclusion of the text is that trust building in alliance networks has an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534558
We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542266
, the potential opportunism of the co-contactors obviously has a disastrous impact: how can one engage in a continuing … counter-productive for relationships between inter-organisational networks members. Only long-term involvement and total trust …” opportunism could at last have an unsuspected positive impact on the functioning of inter-organisational networks. The point of …
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impairments can be used as a mean of signalling trust to absent owners and that the institutional element of tradition cannot be … tested separately from the agency element of opportunism. …
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trust among firms which would subsequently reduce opportunism. This controversial finding is new to existing knowledge with …, during new product development (NPD). However, knowledge sharing itself would invite opportunism, i. e. knowledge being … opportunism. Data were collection through a questionnaire survey and the 220 valid responses were analysed using structural …
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