While intra-firm trade accounts for at least one third of world exports, we know very little about the institutions which are employed to resolve intra-firm trade conflicts. According to Oliver Williamson, courts are not accessible and conflicts resulting from intra-firm trade are resolved by...

En este documento se analiza el comportamiento reciente de las exportaciones a Venezuela. A nivel de firma, se analiza la dependencia de los ingresos frente a las ventas realizadas al vecino país en 2006. Para esto se utilizó la base de comercio exterior del Departamento Administrativo...

The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has depended on oil production for its economic life for the past decades. However, it was typically known for traditional industries and trade, helped by her long sea shores and...

Historically the Arab Emirates of the Gulf depended on fishing and trade. With the emergence of oil production, economic patterns have developed. External trade elevated and the development of intermediate industries took place. The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity...

In its recent report entitled “The Evolving IP Marketplace,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advances a far-reaching regulatory approach (Proposal) whose likely effect would be to distort the operation of the intellectual property (IP) marketplace in ways that will hamper the innovation...

Commentators have poured forth a loud and sustained outcry over the past few years that sees property rule treatment of intellectual property (IP) as a cause of excessive transaction costs, thickets, anticommons, hold-ups, hold-outs, and trolls, which unduly tax and retard innovation,...

Copyright law provides an excellent case study with which to study and evaluate Harold Demsetz's theory of property rights. Regardless of how one feels about the relationship between property and intellectual property, it is hard to escape the fact that intellectual property rights have expanded...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la relación entre la satisfacción laboral, el contrato psicológico, el tipo de vinculación y la antigüedad en un grupo de docentes de una universidad privada ubicada en la ciudad de Bogotá. La investigación es de...

This article gives reasons as to why Maslow's Theory/Hierarchy of Needs is inaccurate. It also gives reasons why the same is inaccurate in an organizational perspective. The author also gives an alternative model of needs, namely the Nain Model, which is particularly applicable in an...