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Conceptualizing power in the context of climate change: A multi-theoretical perspective on structure, agency & power relations

Stör, Lorenz - 2017

, Macht und Herrschaft in ihrem komplexen Zusammenspiel von akteursbezogenem Handeln und strukturellen Faktoren zu begreifen … Aspekte von Macht anhand der klassischen Gegenüberstellung von Struktur und Handlung. Die gängige positivistische … als ein wissenschaftstheoretischer Ansatz, um sowohl Struktur als auch Handlung als Formen der Macht anzuerkennen und zu …

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Stable demands and bargaining power in majority games

Morelli, Massimo - 1998

This paper provides a co-operative as well as a non-cooperative analysis of weighted majority games. The co-operative solution concept introduced here, the Stable Demand Set, yields a meaningful selection within the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set, it contains the Core, it eliminates the "dominated"...

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A strategy perspective on the performance relevance of the CFO

Venus, Andreas; Engelen, Andreas - 2012

Research on functional members of top management teams (TMTs) has increasingly drawn interest to the strategic management field over the past few years. Studies have documented the rise of the chief financial officer (CFO) to pivotal importance and considerable power within the organization. By...

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No easy way out: Traditional authorities in Somaliland and the limits of hybrid political orders

Hoehne, Markus Virgil - 2011

Somalia has been without effective state institutions since 1991. Over the past two decades, moderately effective state-like institutions have been rebuilt in Somaliland and Puntland in northern Somalia, but they do not enjoy international recognition and are limited in power and scope. This...

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How weak is the weakest-link principle? : On the measurement of firm owners' control rights

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2004

The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners? control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...

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Wage bargaining and political strength in the public sector

Falch, Torberg; Str?m, Bjarne - 2005

This paper analysis the link between political strength and public sector wages using a unique matched individual-employer data set for Norwegian local governments during the period 1990-1998. The results indicate that political strength, measured in several ways, has a positive effect on wages,...

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Explaining conflict in low-income countries : incomplete contracting in the shadow of the future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2005

We examine two factors that help explain the prevalence of conflict in low-income countries: that adversaries cannot enforce long-term contracts in arms, and that open conflict alters the future strategic positions of the adversaries differently than does peace. Using an infinite horizon model,...

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Voice and bargaining power

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2006

We propose a formal concept of the power of voice in the context of a simple model where individuals form groups and trade in competitive markets. Individuals use outside options in two different ways. Actual outside options reflect the possibility to exit or to join other existing groups....

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Who Is the Enemy?

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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International organizations as corporate actors: Agency and emergence in theories of international relations

Maier-Rigaud, Remi - 2008

In this paper, the implicit and explicit conceptualizations of international organizations found in the three major theories of international relations are outlined and compared. It turns out that in a neorealist framework, international organizations can be explained; however, they exhibit no...

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