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Organizational Fields, Transnational Business Governance Interactions and the Diffusion of CSR

Coni-Zimmer, Melanie - 2014

The paper analyzes the process of global diffusion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the oil industry and how interactions between different actors have contributed to this outcome. It starts from the empirical puzzle that CSR has spread globally among transnational corporations since...

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Scoping Electronic Communication Privacy Rules : Data, Services and Values

van Hoboken, Joris - 2016

We use electronic communication networks for more than simply traditional telecommunications: we access the news, buy goods online, file our taxes, contribute to public debate, and more. As a result, a wider array of privacy interests is implicated for users of electronic communications networks...

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Online Price Discrimination and EU Data Privacy Law

Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2018

Online shops could offer each website customer a different price. Such personalised pricing can lead to advanced forms of price discrimination based on individual characteristics of consumers, which may be provided, obtained, or assumed. An online shop can recognise customers, for instance...

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Privacy management in service systems

Hu, Ming; Momot, Ruslan; Wang, Jianfu - 2020

conditions, giving customers full control over information (e.g., by introducing a privacy regulation) can not only distort …' individually rational actions concerning information disclosure (e.g., granted by a privacy regulation) can lead to market …

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Should We Worry About Filter Bubbles?

Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2016

Some fear that personalised communication can lead to information cocoons or filter bubbles. For instance, a personalised news website could give more prominence to conservative or liberal media items, based on the (assumed) political interests of the user. As a result, users may encounter only...

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Business Associations, Business Climate, and Economic Growth : Evidence from Transition Economies

Sullivan, John D.; shkolnikov, aleksandr; Bettcher, Kim Eric - 2009

institutional economics. The literature on economic regulation, collective choice, and rent-seeking often portrays interest groups …

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Price Discrimination, Algorithmic Decision-making, and European Non-discrimination Law

Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2020

Our society can benefit immensely from algorithmic decision-making and similar types of artificial intelligence. But algorithmic decision-making can also have discriminatory effects. This paper examines that problem, using online price differentiation as an example of algorithmic...

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How the GDPR Compares to Best Practices for Privacy, Accountability and Trust

Layton, Roslyn - 2017

The European Commission’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) encompasses perhaps the most monumental pan …-European regulation in the last decade and may well become a de facto world standard. The regulation is described as a means to regulate … the processing of personal data, the protection of which is a fundamental EU right. The regulation declares, “The …

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Privacy, Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Trust Commons : A Response to Professors Fairfield and Engel

Hirsch, Dennis D. - 2019

User trust is an essential resource for the information economy. Without it, people will share less of their personal information and the digital economy will falter. Companies that use personal information do not protect this resource sufficiently. Instead, many take advantage of it for...

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The American System : A Schumpeterian History of Standardization

Russell, Andrew L. - 2007

While governments as far back as the ancient Egyptians have implemented industry standards, their economic importance grew with the spread of industrialization. Throughout the 1800s, the rise of nationalism, a greater emphasis on accuracy and precision science, and the steady march of...

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