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We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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triumph of the Ango-Saxon business model of shareholder value capitalism and its dominance over other models of capitalism. At … the same time, there is a widespread belief that high levels of skill and advanced people management system that embraces … considerable body of research indicates that the Anglo-Saxon model of management, coupled with its interaction with financial …
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corporate citizenship, the ideal of “inclusive capitalism” ispopularized by C.K. Prahalad, who evangelizes to corporations about … development imperatives are not easily reconciled. Early language around theinclusive capitalism or BOP discourse emphasizing …Thesis (MPhil (Sustainable Development Planning and Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. …
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capitalism. I discuss the relationship between Schumpeter's theories and Darwinian-type theories of economic evolution. I point … Schumpeter's changing views about the sources of innovation under capitalism, and compare Schumpeter's views on the evolution of … capitalism and industrial structure with those of Marx. Both writers believe that capitalism will culminate in socialism but for …
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This article examines the type of economic analyses of capitalism presented by leading exponents of the neoclassical … that all except the institutionalist school are largely insensitive to different types of structure within capitalism and … are blind to the cultures and institutions which characterize different kinds of capitalism. This conclusion is reached by …
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A study of the oil industry in its modern development from the 1850s to 1973. During this period the industry underwent significant changes in terms of its productive expansion, the diversity of its products, its role in general production, its corporate organisation and in terms of its...
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capitalism. This is an argument of central importance not only for developing and "transition" countries, but for the long …
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Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...
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