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Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary

Simpson, R. David; Toman, Michael A.; Ayres, Robert U. - 2004

In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...

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Innovation

Smith, KH - 2002

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...

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From the representative to the equilibrium firm : why Marshall was not a Marshallian

Hart, Neil; Arena, R.; Que?re?, Michel - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2003

The representative firm has been a much-criticized concept, subject to conflicting interpretations with respect to both its configuration and its intended role in Marshall's Principles (the Principles).2 The concept found itself a focal point of much of the debate during the significant cost...

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International petroleum statistics report, June 1995

2009

The report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996

2010

This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436896

La Vita Imprenditoriale: Female and Male Entrepreneurs in Italy

Terjesen, Siri A.; Ratten, Vanessa - 2007

Female entrepreneurship is growing (OECD, 2000) with some estimates that this growth exceeds that of most economies around the world (Carter & Williams, 2005). In a forty-one country study, females comprise 36% of all entrepreneurs (Reynolds et al. 2004), with the percentage of female...

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Ownership structure and business evaluation practices in family SMEs : evidence from empirical research in Italy

Mussolino, Donata; Pugliese, Amedeo; Vigano, Riccardo - 2005

”. Evidence from many studies point out the importance of family business in a worldwide economic environment: in Italy 93% of the …

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Information technology capability within small-medium enterprises

Ravarini, Aurelio - 2010

organisations were involved in inter-organisational networks within industrial aggregations in Italy. Eleven SMEs were involved in a … multiple case study, and 77 SMEs (belonging to the textile and the mechanical industrial districts in Italy) were surveyed and …

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The EU demand for imports of virgin olive oil

Ben Kaabia, Monia; Gil, Jose Maria - 2007

This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU andmore precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports,aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countriesexports and their degree of substitutability or...

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The challenge of the international organic certification: a new opportunity for agricultural trading?

Canavari, Maurizio; Cantore, Nicola - 2007

Italy by a cross country and panel analysis and second it provides an original specification for transaction costs. In … particular, we assume that the level of organic certification standards harmonisation between Italy and extra-European countries … that the absence of specific import harmonisation rules between Italy and other extra-European countries decreases the …

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