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This note extends the simultaneous-move endogenous technology choice model of Mills and Smith (1996) in two directions. First, expanding consideration to when the technology set is sufficiently convex, we find that the likelihood for asymmetric equilibrium in technology choice does not expand...
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E-business systems are increasingly considered as important examples of ICT related innovations embodied in software applications, the adoption of which is essential for capturing the potential fruits of several ICT externalities. For analysing the importance of this type of embodied...
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This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
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In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...
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An existence theorem of a full-information revealing core plan of a profit-center game with incomplete information and increasing returns to scale is given. It does not exclude nonmarketed intermediate commodities.
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interdependencies between different business lines, which increases its coordination costs. The coordination costs may increase faster … results suggest that increasing coordination costs counterbalance the potential synergistic benefits associated with related …
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collective memory (stock) / individual memorization (communication, data processing). Therefore, within the framework of the … interindividual coordination through the double relation ; with the technical implement and the community of practice we can show that …
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corresponding types of coordination mecha-nisms. The propositions regarding the relationship between different types of synergy and … different coordination mechanisms are illustrated with exam-ples from the Danish company, Danfoss. …
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structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines of communication, allocation of information processing tasks …, distribution of decision-making authorities, and the provision of incentives. This chapter provides a synthesis of various agent …
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Effective monitoring requires proper incentives and detection skill. Detection skills depend on the extent of … monitors can provide the necessary incentives for the monitoring agents, which induces them to make use of their detection …
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