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Opaque governance, special purpose vehicles, and the preacher's waiver
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2012
obligations and their facilitators, the offshore locations. Last, the failing role of some regulators and gatekeepers is …
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Estructuras de poder y gobernancia en las organizaciones: El caso de los sordos
Minolli, Cristina Beatriz - 2012
Las organizaciones son sistemas sociales en sí mismos en los cuales el reconocimiento y administración de las estructuras de poder e influencia representan una parte sumamente importante de su gerenciamiento. Por otro lado, las mencionadas estructuras de poder están en directa relación con...
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Manuscripts Don't Burn
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2020
The French Revolution changed the world. In the new order, the masters no longer need Monsieur Fouche and the thought police. They don’t need guillotines to clip brains and scissors to censor pamphlets. They don’t need strategic-studies institutes to manage oppression and navigate conflict....
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Internal migration industries: Shaping the housing options for refugees at the local level
Bernt, Matthias; Hamann, Ulrike; El-Kayed, Nihad; … - In: Urban Studies (2021) Online First
In this article, we focus on ways in which 'internal migration industries' shape the housing location of refugees in cities. Based on empirical studies in Halle, Schwerin, Berlin, Stuttgart and Dresden, we bring two issues together. First, we show how a specific financialised accumulation model...
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Voice assistants as gatekeepers for consumption? How information intermediaries shape competition
Noskova, Victoriia - 2021
. This paper argues that (i) voice assistants as gatekeepers for consumption should be listed among core services, (ii) some … assistants' market and ecosystem of related markets (cross-market integration criterion), (iv) growth of new gatekeepers should …
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The economics of influencers and social media stardom
Gänßle, Sophia; Budzinski, Oliver - 2023
This chapter provides an overview of the economics of influencers and social media stardom. It provides the state-of-research regarding success factors, revenue and payment models, social media platforms and ecosystems, and welfare effects. It describes the role of social media content providers...
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Manuscripts Don't Burn
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Capital as Power 2 (2023) 2, pp. 175-189
From the article: The French Revolution changed the world. In the new order, the masters no longer need Monsieur Fouche and the thought police. They don’t need guillotines to clip brains and scissors to censor pamphlets. They don’t need strategic-studies institutes to manage oppression and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428747
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Health Service Gatekeepers
Malcomson, James - 2003
Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak … incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual … claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must be met (as with full insurers who are themselves gatekeepers …
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The changing of the guards: Can physicians contain social insurance costs?
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J. - 2013
Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on exogenous shifts of family doctors occurring when physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell...
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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game: Evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon Boyack - 2013
slowly evolved to a non-cooperative equilibrium where the use of lawyers becomes nearly universal, despite the fact that … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …
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