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This paper discusses findings from a review of recent literature on support for securing compliance and better practice in occupational safety and health (OSH) in the changing world of work in advanced market economies. It explores innovative responses of regulators and private actors to the...
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Um die sowohl von Bilanzskandalen als auch der Finanzkrise aufgedeckten Schwächen in der Corporate Governance rechtzeitig unternehmensintern aufzudecken, soll als eine mögliche Lösung die Interne Revision als prozessunabhängige Prüfungsinstitution die im Rahmen der Governance und des...
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common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …
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Die Rolle von Normen innerhalb des Innovationssystems ist sehr umstritten. Es wird sogar vermutet, dass die Zeit der Normung bereits abgelaufen sei. Andererseits wird von einer erstarrenden Regelsetzung gesprochen, die die notwendige Flexibilität für Erfindungen und Innovationen verhindere....
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This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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The EU published its new Standardisation Strategy in 2022. The strategy contains some good ideas to improve the way European standards are set. However, in its attempt to gain more control over technical standards, the EU risks killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The primary motivation...
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The EU must embrace international cooperation and collaboration in technology-driven industries to ensure competitiveness and global relevance, while also considering the drawbacks of isolationist policies. The EU's commitment to open markets and global cooperation has historically been its...
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Global data standards are urgently needed to foster digital cooperation and manage global tech platforms. No global organization is currently mandated to coordinate the development, maintenance and use of technical standards covering data value chains and policy-oriented standards covering data...
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This paper analyzes the compatibility decision of a dominant hardware supplier. There are two substitutive variants of the hardware component of a hardware-software system, they are horizontally differentiated, and one of the two has a quality advantage. Among other things, we show under what...
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