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Protection of traditional knowledge: Deliberations from a transnational stakeholder dialogue between pharmaceutical companies and civil society organizations
van den Daele, Wolfgang; Döbert, Rainer; Seiler, Achim - 2003
This report summarizes deliberations over the Protection of Traditional Knowledge held during a stakeholder dialogue … Development (WBCSD) initiierten Stakeholder Dialogs zum Thema Schutz des traditionellen Wissens erreicht worden sind. Ziel des … Stakeholder Dialogs eingegangen sind – mit der Kennzeichnung der jeweils übereinstimmenden oder abweichenden Positionen der …
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Wahrnehmungen und Funktionen in der Transformation zur Bioökonomie: Eine Akteursanalyse im Politikfeld "Boden"
Jürges, Nataly - 2016
Das Konzept der Bioökonomie hat zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Transformation zur Bioökonomie stellt die nachhaltige Nutzung von Böden vor neue Herausforderungen. Gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmungen müssen verstärkt bei der Entwicklung von Transformationsstrategien berücksichtigt werden....
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Imperfect Competition and Corporate Governance
Milne, Frank; Kelsey, David - 2006
This paper studies corporate governance when a firm operates in imperfect markets. We derive firms' decisions from utility maximization by individuals. If those involved in decisions are also consumers, the usual monopoly distortion is reduced. Corporate governance can effect the equilibrium in...
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Mixed Economy of Welfare Emerging in Poland: Outplacement and Non-Governmental Employment Agencies Examples
Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 4 (2015) 2, pp. 110-134
One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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Non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and non-territorial sovereign organizations
Brauer, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - 2010
We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
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Representation as power and performative practice: Global civil society advocacy for working children
Holzscheiter, Anna - In: Review of international studies 42 (2016) 2, pp. 205-226
This article analyses global civil society advocacy in the field of child labour through the lens of theories on political representation in global governance. The article is sympathetic to newer theories on political representation which, fundamentally, understand representation as a dialectic...
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Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken - Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde
Lohmeyer, Nora; Sydow, Jörg - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 28 (2021) 2, pp. 103-119
Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...
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Sicherung sozial-ökologischer Standards durch Partizipation: Das Beispiel nichtstaatlicher Akteure im internationalen Recht
Ekardt, Felix - 2012
Die vorliegende Untersuchung fragt nach Chancen und Grenzen von Partizipation in all ihren Erscheinungsformen (Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung, Gerichte, Konsumentenhandeln, diverse informelle Partizipationsformen). Die Studie zielt neben einer allgemeinen Klärung jener Fragestellung insbesondere auf...
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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
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Sind Nichtregierungsorganisationen die besseren Entwicklungshelfer?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are widely expected to provide better targeted aid than state agencies with a hidden agenda of commercial and political self-interest. However, principal-agent models question that NGOs decide autonomously on aid allocation. Indeed, we show empirically that...
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