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Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce … organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined. …
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The ongoing debate on the ``service gap'' in Germany has lead to empirical findings bolstering the argument of a lack of outsourcing activities.Hence, there is still a need to back these findings from an organisational point of view. After a short overview on empirical findings, the present...
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The aim of this book is to document, on a solid and convincing foundation, two public policy mistakes of the United States Government that have been extremely costly. First, the failure to combine stocks with long-term government bonds in the Social Security Trust Fund, the way other nations do,...
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The central message conveyed in this chapter is that there is a whole class of economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992) called "the institutional structure of production". These arrangements fall neither under pure market relationships nor within 'firm...
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The central message conveyed in this chapter is that there is a whole class of economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992) called "the institutional structure of production". These arrangements fall neither under pure market relationships nor within 'firm...
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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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