both certification and trademarks are available. Shapiro’s (1983) model ofreputation is extended to reflect both collective … and firm-specific reputations, and this framework isused to study certification and trademarks for food products with a … withasymmetric information and moral hazard problems, credible certification schemes reduce the costof establishing reputation and …

Technologien untersucht. Es wird ge-zeigt, dass es zu steigenden Erträgen der Adoption kommen kann, wenn verwandte Technologien … Entwick-lung führen. Dies bedeutet, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Adoption einer Technologie mit der Anzahl der zu … Adoption neuer Technologien in Firmen strategische Bedeutung hat da sich daraus Möglichkeiten zur Durchführung von Innovationen …

One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I … of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save human persons. However, for those who do not claim that an embryo is a … person at conception, embryo adoption is not a necessary practice because we have no moral obligation to protect them. There …

Secondary markets have adopted a number of quality signaling mechanismssuch as certification to reduce information … examine the impact oftheir information-acquisition on the choice of certification, as well asthe price paid. We compare the … findings highlight that product-related informationsubstitutes, and price-related information complements, certification …

National Laboratory (LANL) is working to achieve Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) certification to enable them to transport …. Since the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has achieved WIPP certification, INEEL personnel … the particular software quality assurance requirements required for WIPP certification. …

Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and Project Management, where certification …

involvement in value-based certification schemes (Ethical Trading Initiative, Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) on … certified producers in Tanzania. Each of these certification schemes makes claims on specific values that it is instilling in a … that despite claims about the ability to change trading relationships through the certification systems, most of the old …

certification costs, certification that fully reveals information makes high quality producers better off, but make the entire … industry worse off. In this case, the benefit from the revelation of the quality does not outweigh certification costs and the … rather than full revelation for some values of the certification costs. …