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Networks in the shadow of markets and hierarchies : calling the shots in the visual effects industry

Thompson, Paul; Parker, Rachel L.; Cox, Stephen D. - 2009

(and the consequent displacement of markets and hierarchies) has been at the heart of attempts to differentiate the field … concerning the role and significance of networks, markets and hierarchies in production models and work organisation in creative …

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The Exchange Commons

Liebenau, Jonathan; de Fontenay, Alain Bourdeau - 2006

"While the conditions of production give some guidance to what factor groupings are desirable ceteris paribus, they do not determine the boundaries of a neoclassical firm (a legal entity with a residual claimant). Indeed, they could just as well be related to other groupings, such as...

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Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China

He, Jun - 2004

"Within the global framework of Sustainable Development, NTFPs (Non-timber Forest Products) draw a great deal of attentions from scholars. However, previous literature and research has mainly placed emphasis on how commercialization of NTFPs contributed to forest management and local livelihood...

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Monetary Valuation of the Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs): Does it Contribute to Determine a Sustainable Management of Those Resources?

Lescuyer, Guillaume - 1996

"Since May 95, a CIRAD project has attempted to achieve a monetary valuation of all nutritious NTFP extracted by a rural village population in the East Cameroon. The village of Goute, where the survey is being achieved, is surrounded by a tropical moist forest. A logging company is established...

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Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces

Engel, Stefanie; Lopez, Ramon - 2004

"Many natural resources can be effectively exploited mainly by using capital-intensive technologies. We develop a bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural...

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Access Mapping and Chains: The Woodcraft Curio Market around Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Matose, Frank - 2006

"The paper uses commodity chain analysis to examine the transformation of access and control in woodcraft markets …

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Strategic Manipulation of Pollution Permit Markets: An Experimental Approach

Brown-Kruse, Jamie; Elliott, Steven R.; Godby, Rob - 1995

emissions permits. Subjects participate in two markets, a permit market and a product market. They use permits to reduce the … expanded so that firms compete both in the permit and in final product markets, thus opening the potential use of permits as a … improving market efficiency and decreasing the cost to society of pollution control, implementation of tradable permit markets …

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Vertical Integration in Mexican Common Property Forests

Antinori, Camille M. - 2000

"One of the missing links in common property research has been the interaction between common property resource users and the market. The present research fills that gap with a study of Mexico's agrarian communities which coordinate timber production within their commonly-owned forest land. The...

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Using Prediction Markets to Motivate Public Participation in Patent Examination

Lian Jian - 2010

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while … patents is questioned by the public. We propose to alleviate these problems by setting up prediction markets for each pending … patent. In these prediction markets, traders buy and sell bets for the outcomes of patent examinations. Our proposed …

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Breaking the "Fertilizer Poverty" and Food Insecurity Traps in Smallholder Maize Based Farming System in Southern Africa: Experiences and Lessons from Soil Fertility Network/Econom...

Mekuria, Mulugetta; Waddington, Stephen R.; Siziba, Shephard - 2004

Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...

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