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As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...
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We develop a multiple-firm model of an industry's voluntary adoption of environmental protection measures to achieve a predetermined industry-wide emissions reduction target under an explicit threat of imposition of an emissions tax. We examine the free-riding incentive of individual firms and...
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This paper analyses the conditions under which a group of firms has the incentive to sign a Voluntary Agreement (VA) in order to control its emission flows even in the presence of free-riding by other firms in the industry. For the purpose of this paper it is assumed that free-riders cannot be...
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moral responsibility is learned through observations of others’ behavior. Since, in our model, responsibility is a burden …, we hypothesize that individuals will be reluctant to accept responsibility based on uncertain information. Econometric … analysis of data from a survey on households’ glass recycling indicates that perceived responsibility is a major determinant …
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referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central concept of political philosophy and theory. It will be shown that …
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In this paper, we discuss the relationship between responsibility and joint production. Responsibility mirrors our … ability to act freely. We can act freely only if we can assume responsibility for our actions and their consequences; the … limits of our responsibility are therefore also the limits of our liberty (part I). Thus, a problem of responsibility arises …
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Probleme die Verantwortung trägt. In ihrer Komplexität machen es diese Umweltprobleme vielmehr fraglich, ob wir für unsere … Eingriffe in die Natur Verantwortung überhaupt übernehmen können. Und was heißt überhaupt: Verantwortung tragen oder … Verantwortung übernehmen? Diese Fragen lassen sich mithilfe des Konzepts der Kuppelproduktion untersuchen. In diesem Aufsatz …
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Dorfentwicklung Niedersachsen. The article elaborates the importance of collective responsibility of citizens, administration and … municipalities in villages and points out the need for further studies. The need for taking over responsibility as a topic in the …
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We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
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, Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Corporate Citizenship – eingehend illustriert. Hierauf aufbauend skizziert der …, responsibility, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. Based on this analysis, the article spells out implications for the way …
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