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A Critical Approach to Hofstede’s Model on Cultural Dimensions
Catalin, Ploae - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 644-649
Hofstede’s model on cultural dimensions to explain cultural difference has been widely used for exploring different aspects of culture, from management to educational settings. Based on his research from the beginning of 1970, Geert Hofstede created a new paradigm for the study of cultural...
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Problems of the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Economics [Probleme ale filozofiei ştiinţelor naturii şi a ştiinţelor socio-umane –...
Alexandru, Popovici - In: Revista OEconomica (2014) 01
In the view of analysing the differences and resemblances of the natural and social sciences (with the economics …
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research notes and comments: Regional science: From crisis to opportunity
Rees, John - In: Papers in Regional Science 78 (1999) 1, pp. 101-110
methodological debates in the fields of geography and economics provide many opportunities for regional scientists. The recent shift … implications of postmodernism that should be of most concern. Recent trends in economics have shown that lively debates can occur …
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Personnel Economics: Strengths, Weaknesses and Its Place in Human Resource Management
Dilger, Alexander - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 4, pp. 331-343
Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro)economic methodology and insights …
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The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity
Muniesa, Fabian - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2010
Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic …
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Ideals should not be too ideal: Identity and public good contribution
HONG, Fuhai - Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University - 2014
This paper incorporates identity into a model of voluntary public good contribution. An ideal of contributing to public … goods divides players to di¤erent social categories: Players who identify with the ideal become insiders, obtaining identity … ideal remain as outsiders. We show that identity could increase public good contribution; the ideal that best resolves the …
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Understanding Islam: Development, Economics and Finance
Askari, Hossein; Iqbal, Zamir; Krichene, Noureddine; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, the foundational rules governing human, economic and financial development in Islam, as understood from the Quran and from the life and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), are summarized. These rules pave the path to development as the basis of institutional structure,...
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On the Validity of the Theoretical Bases of Inflation Targeting and New Keynesian General Equilibrium Models
J. PLUSHCHEVSKAYA. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 5 (2012)
contemporary mainstream economics, inflation targeting and New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models …
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What’s Wrong with Economic Models? A Response to John Kay
M. WOODFORD. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 5 (2012)
The article is a response to a polemical essay of J. Kay and his critique of macroeconomic modeling. The author shows that models are an indispensable instrument of economic analysis and that the only alternative would be the formulation and estimation of structural relationships between...
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The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics
J. KAY. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 5 (2012)
The article claims that modern economics is in the state of crisis, because the major macroeconomic theories are in …
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