The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

Innovation ist von zentraler Bedeutung für Entwicklung und Wirtschaftswachstum. Innovation findet in einem institutionellen Rahmen statt. Auktionen und auktionsähnliche Mechanismen sind Institutionen. Sie organisieren Transaktionen zwischen ökonomischen Agenten. Auktionen enthüllen private...

Der 5. Band der Schriftenreihe "Wirtschaft, Recht, Bildung" versucht mit dem Dreiklang "Kapital - Kompetenz - Konflikte" den drei Disziplinen des Oldenburger Forschungsnetzwerks an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität mit einem zentralen Schlagwort zu begegnen. Er hat es den wissenschaftlichen...

Qualitätsmanagement und verwandte Ansätze (am bekanntesten: Total Quality Management (TQM)) verbreiten sich immer mehr im Bereich der Dienstleistungen, sowohl im privaten, wie neuerdings unter dem Begriff des "New Public Managements" (NPM) auch im öffentlichen Sektor. In der hier...

China has been experiencing a great transition from a socialist collective economy to a market economy since 1978. Before the transition started, the Communist Party had established a socialist collective system with very low levels of income and wealth inequality. With the deepening of the...

Nationally representative data on family businesses are available in the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, alongside comparable information for other types of firms. We use these data to compare differences in the use of different consultation and communication procedures. We cover such...

This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...

FACET, the Framework for Addressing Cooperative Extended Transactions, was developed at Argonne National Laboratory to address the need for a simulation software architecture in the style of an agent-based approach, but with sufficient robustness, expressiveness, and flexibility to be able to...