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Flexible contracts
Gottardi, Piero; Tallon, Jean Marc; Ghirardato, Paolo - 2010
rigid, non discretionary contracts. Delegation grants some flexibility in the choice of the action by the agent, but also …
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Surveying business uncertainty
Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019
We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030295
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Doctoral dissertations in logistics and supply chain management: a review of Nordic contributions from 2009 to 2014
Rajkumar, Christopher; Kavin, Lone; Luo, Xue; Stentoft, Jan - In: Logistics Research 9 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18
management (SCM) published from the years 2009-2014. The paper is based on a detailed review of 150 doctoral dissertations …
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Delegation and incentives
Bester, Helmut; Krähmer, Daniel - 2006
This paper analyses the relation between authority and incentives. It extends the standard principal / agent model by a project selection stage in which the principal can either delegate the choice of project to the agent or keep the authority. The agent's subsequent choice of e ort depends both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299113
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Time-to-build investment and uncertainty in oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot - 2002
This paper examines how time to build alters strategic investment behaviour under oligopoly. Facing demand uncertainty, firms decide whether to invest early or wait until uncertainty has been resolved. A game that captures time-to-build investment is contrasted with another one in which...
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Flexible waste management under uncertainty
Di Corato, Luca; Montinari, Natalia - 2013
optimal waste management program under uncertainty about the price of recyclables in the secondary market. The municipality …
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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK with or against the trade unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...
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Labour Demand and Exchange Rate Volatility
Broll, Udo; Hansen, Sabine - 2004
under study is flexible. Flexibility is important because it gives the firm option value. Higher volatility increases the …
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Technology Use, Organisational Flexibility and Innovation: Evidence for Germany
Hempell, Thomas; Zwick, Thomas - 2005
activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs … that ICT use is associated with an increase in both types of flexibility but the implications for innovation activities …
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Flexible equality: Men and women in employment in Japan
Shire, Karen A.; Imai, Jun - 2000
flexibility which characterizes part-time and temporary work lands women into the ranks of the unemployed throughout their life …
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