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Outsourcing der Personalfunktion als Sonderfall des „Make or Buy“ wird in dieser Arbeit primaer in Abhaengigkeit von den Merkmalen des Beschaeftigungssystems erklaert. Der Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung liegt in dem Versuch, die unterschiedliche Neigung zum Outsourcing der Personalfunktion...

A turnaround in the way we convert and consume energy is the key to successful climate change mitigation. Taking a micro-economic perspective, in order to put the necessary changes into practice corporations in the energy sector need not only have a long-term vision of the developments necessary...

The boundaries of the firm and the ownership of the firm have been two of the main themes of the economics of organization over the past several decades. In this paper, I develop a general multi-party framework that integrates the ownership of the firm into the property-rights approach to the...

The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...

The present paper is an analysis of electricity on the Mexican context as an input provided by the government. The approach consists in evaluating the effect on the manufacturing sector of an improvement in efficiency on electricity production and distribution. Noteworthy, the improvement is...

The goal of this paper was to identify the reasons behind the supply for free of labor in a world where rationality requires people to avoid resource misallocation and to care mainly for their own welfare. We based the identification strategy on simple consumption and investment models with a...