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The partial monopolization of the world oil market by the OPEC cartel has produced significant economic costs to the economies of the world. This paper reports estimates of the costs of monopolization of oil to the U.S. over the period 1972-1991. Two fundamental assumptions of the analysis are,...
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The purpose of this publication is not to assess the causes of the 1973 energy crisis or the measures that were adopted to resolve it. The intent is to present some data on which such analyses can be based. Many of the trends presented here fall into two distinct periods. From 1973 to the...
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Cartels are agreements or concerted practices between two or more competitors aimed at coordinating their competitive … practices are among the most serious violations of Article 81 EC. The amount of international cartels is constantly growing. The … members of cartels create sophisticated schemes, hold meetings in hotels and use pre-paid phone – cards. All these facts makes …
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The new Australian cartel laws prohibit a provision of a contract, arrangement or understanding that inter alia, results in price fixing and output restriction between competitors in the relevant market. This is subject to a recognition that sometimes such conduct can be in the public interest,...
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power of intermediaries increases with the advent of new and powerful actors, (b) process activities that cartels previously … constraints, no longer favour cartels like De Beers, and (e) over time, these and additional environment factors are forcing … actors like De Beers who perform rigid process activities to become more flexible. For example,forces are moving cartels …
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Purpose: With the increasing interest in Public Private Partnership (PPP) there is a need to investigate the factors contributing to successful delivery of PPP projects. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical questionnaire survey was conducted in Hong Kong and Australia. The survey...
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partnerships to both corporations and NGOs, the practical difficulties they present, and the elements necessary to establishing a … healthy collaboration between both actors. The second section illustrates the potential of such partnerships by looking at … their effectiveness in the fair or ethical trade movement. Partnerships in fair trade seek to address both the economic and …
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This intrinsic case study is about people who worked in partnerships. Each of the partnerships emerged from …-sector partnerships was to enhance learning opportunities, integral to which was the incorporation of ICT. The study explores through … interweaving narratives, some of the key interrelationships that emerged from the evolving partnerships as they strived to …
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This study examines whether profit-sharing arrangements within accounting firms are associated with the riskiness of their client portfolios. Our results use unique data about the profit-sharing arrangements of the Big 8 firms during the period 1985 to 1994. We investigate whether there is a...
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