Die Beschäftigung mit der Wirtschaftsform "Produktivgenossenschaft" stellt in Deutschland immer wieder eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Die herrschende Meinung zu diesem Thema lautet: "Produktivgenossenschaften haben in der Vergangenheit nicht funktioniert, funktionieren derzeit nicht und...

Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM’) is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient’ LM, which accompanied the...

Le « libéralisme » justifie le nouveau mercantilisme des pays industriels. L’objectif est d’assurer à ces pays le contrôle des marchés mondiaux. Les programmes d’assainissement appliqués aux pays en développement révèlent que la mise en conformité des économies fragile avec les...

Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM') is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient' LM, which accompanied the commercial...

Web2.0 users can create new services by combining existing Web2.0 services that offer open programming interfaces. This system of service composition forms a network, which we call the Web2.0 service network. A node of the Web2.0 service network represents a service. A link between two nodes...

Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and,...

This paper has two goals. First, to provide an accurate characterisation of the new small firm in Scotland by reference to markets, finance, costs, business strategy, human capital, internal organisation and technical change. Second, to use these same features to discover salient differences...

The objective of this paper is to find the key factors that affect a firm's optimal transfer pricing policy. It examines two minimalist vertical models — one consisting of a vertically integrated firm monopolizing an intermediate input for its own and rival's downstream division, and the other...

The evaluation of consulting services is a widely, but controversially discussed issue. While there is obviously an increasing need for appropriate evaluation, there are critics questioning the applicability of evaluation methods as well as the motivation to assess. We provide a framework that...