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Ten years ago, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU. The application of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP … of accession to the EU on the agricultural markets in Austria, Finland and Sweden in a simple supply and demand framework … welfare effects are calculated for eight major cereal and livestock commodities produced in Austria, Finland, and Sweden by …
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In the emergence of a pro-patent and intellectual capital era the management of Intellectual Property (IP) is currently undergoing major changes. IP management systems are becoming increasingly complex and strategic in handling an integrated portfolio of IPRs and intellectual assets rather than...
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companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be … shares. The vulnerability of fishing communities, especially small communities with poor employment alternatives, has become …
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, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …
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"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
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Monitoring of marine reserves has traditionally focused on the task of rejecting the null hypothesis that marine reserves have no impact on the population and community structure of harvested populations. We consider the role of monitoring of marine reserves to gain information needed for...
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This paper suggests a linkage between work-life balance culture and competitive advantage through commitment and firm-specific human resources. The paper argues that a workplace culture supportive of employees balancing their work and non-work lives leads to their commitment to their...
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The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their well-being. Cost reduction is the prime driver for change and has been implemented using delayering, redundancy, downsizing and off-shoring often supported by culture change...
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In 2008, a report was commissioned by the European Commission (EC) outlining various policy matters in the field of family business within the auspices of the European Union (EU). Family-owned businesses make a significant contribution to Australia's economic and social welfare. The EC report...
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