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Das Dispositiv der Zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung
Timpf, Siegfried - 2000
Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...
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Asset price and wealth dynamics with heterogeneous expectations : a deterministic nonlinear structural model approach
Florian Heitger - 2010
Based on a classical financial market model different model variants known from the literature are discussed and analyzed, each focussing on modeling financial markets as a nonlinear dynamic system by introducing the formation of (heterogeneous) beliefs about future asset prices into the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428980
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The impact of computer decision support on military team decision making.
Larson, Adam Donavon - 2010
computer decision aid by analyzing the impact of such a decision support tool on military team decision making. Decision … both the benefits and the costs in team decision making by assessing when the DSS tool facilitated improved decision making … support systems (DSS) are becoming increasingly popular as an approach to aid decision makers in making better decisions in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462761
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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441534
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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …
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Manifesto for a postcolonial international business and management studies: A provocation
Westwood, R. I.; Jack, G. - 2007
international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the … institutional location and offers the resources of post-colonial theory as a way to interrogate and reconfigure it. Research …
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Understanding Quality in Process Modelling: Towards a Holistic Perspective
Recker, Jan C. - 2007
Quality is one of the main topics in current conceptual modelling research, as is the field of business process modelling. Yet, widely acknowledged academic contributions towards an understanding or measurement of business process model quality are limited at best. In this paper I argue that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483352
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Bounded rationality and decomposability: The basis for integrating cognitive and evolutionary economics
Earl, Peter E.; Potts, Jason - 2004
This paper explores the interconnections between two of Herbert Simon's key concepts, bounded rationality and decomposability, and show how this unity provides the starting point for merging cognitively focused approaches to behavioral economics with evolutionary/institutional economics into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447955
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Why is Economics not a Complex Systems Science?
Foster, John - 2004
Economics is viewed as a discipline that is mainly concerned with 'simplistic' theorizing, centered upon constrained optimization. As such, it is ahistorical and outcome focused, ie, it does not deal with economic processes. It is argued that all parts of the economy are inhabited by complex...
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Structural change in macroeconomic time series: A complex systems perspective
Hinich, MJ; Foster, J; Wild, P - 2006
We demonstrate that the process of generating smooth transitions Call be viewed as a natural result of the filtering operations implied in the generation of discrete-time series observations from the sampling of data from an underlying continuous time process that has undergone a process of...
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