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Strategy, profits & ethics: Beyond the work of miles
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006
A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...
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Austrian Economics as a Basis for a General Marketing Theory
Broeckelmann, Philipp - 2004
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Marktprozesstheorie (Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie) - eine Theorie, die die Rolle der …" - which emphasises the coordinating role of information (mostly via price-signals) in dynamic markets - as a general marketing-theory …. At first, this thesis describes different concepts and problems toward marketing and marketing-theory. Then …
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The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics
Martin, Adam G. - 2009
The application of rational choice to non-market decision making has revolutionizedcomparative economics. A fruitful methodological symmetry now prevails in theanalysis of economic systems, emphasizing how their underlying institutions affectindividual incentives. Most importantly, comparative...
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Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: Three Essays in Business Cycles and the Housing Crisis of 2008
Lea, Geoffrey S. - 2010
elds of growth anddevelopment may in fact serve as a guide for the remaking of business cycle theory.Drawing on a Kohn …'Driscoll (1977) and Leijonhufvud (1981), primarily with respect to discoordinationbusiness cycle theory and their explanation of … methodologically and theoretically better grounded. The rst essay traces the historyof growth theory and development up to the recent …
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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