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Strategy, profits & ethics: Beyond the work of miles
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006
A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...
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Austrian Economics as a Basis for a General Marketing Theory
Broeckelmann, Philipp - 2004
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Marktprozesstheorie (Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie) - eine Theorie, die die Rolle der …" - which emphasises the coordinating role of information (mostly via price-signals) in dynamic markets - as a general marketing-theory …. At first, this thesis describes different concepts and problems toward marketing and marketing-theory. Then …
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The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics
Martin, Adam G. - 2009
The application of rational choice to non-market decision making has revolutionizedcomparative economics. A fruitful methodological symmetry now prevails in theanalysis of economic systems, emphasizing how their underlying institutions affectindividual incentives. Most importantly, comparative...
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Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: Three Essays in Business Cycles and the Housing Crisis of 2008
Lea, Geoffrey S. - 2010
elds of growth anddevelopment may in fact serve as a guide for the remaking of business cycle theory.Drawing on a Kohn …'Driscoll (1977) and Leijonhufvud (1981), primarily with respect to discoordinationbusiness cycle theory and their explanation of … methodologically and theoretically better grounded. The rst essay traces the historyof growth theory and development up to the recent …
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Innovation
Smith, KH - 2002
Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...
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From the representative to the equilibrium firm : why Marshall was not a Marshallian
Hart, Neil; Arena, R.; Que?re?, Michel - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2003
The representative firm has been a much-criticized concept, subject to conflicting interpretations with respect to both its configuration and its intended role in Marshall's Principles (the Principles).2 The concept found itself a focal point of much of the debate during the significant cost...
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Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary
Simpson, R. David; Toman, Michael A.; Ayres, Robert U. - 2004
In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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