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This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...
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The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar to them. In the model there are two types of...
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This book provides a rigorous course to the theory of intermediate microeconomics. It includes not only the basic … traditional theory, but also a ¡°From the Literature¡± box in each chapter directing students to applications of the theory. The … theory is developed axiomatically, with optional sections using one-variable calculus included for interested readers. A …
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Indigenous emerging economy (EE) firms are increasingly competing in global markets or against multinational corporations (MNCs) in their home markets. But their institutional context at the national and local levels often suffers from what has been termed “institutional weakness” which is...
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Much of the literature on corporate performance focuses on institutional restructuring, and implicitly assumes that constitutional factors are determined exogenously. Existing theories of the firm—whether a “goal paradigm” or an “exchange paradigm”—provide useful insights; but we...
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identify the different members of the firm as a community, drawing from corporate citizenship literature and stakeholder theory …
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Since the second half of the past century, increasingly flexible organizational forms have been appearing among firms. However, while hierarchies are easily described, too few mathematical tools are available for flexible organizations. In this article, two measures are proposed in order to...
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The paper deals with development of a general theory of the firm. It discusses the demand for such a theory, reviews … existing approaches to its generalization, and offers a new variant of general theory of the firm based on the contract theory …. The theory is based on minimization of opportunistic behaviour determined by the material structure of production (a …
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