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Old George Orwell got it backward : some thoughts on behavioral tax economics

Slemrod, Joel - 2009

It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously behavioral" inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether...

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International complexity management in the automotive industry

Schoeller, Nicolas - 2009

markets shorten innovation cycles and increase the internal complexity of OEMs and automotive suppliers. The costs associated … with this additional complexity become the main cost factor. The challenge in the automotive industry is to respond … adequately to the additional complexity caused by the globalization: The key question is how companies in the automotive industry …

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Management komplexer internationaler Projekte: Netzstrukturen, Governance und Handlungsempfehlungen

Ellmann, Sonja - 2008

initial research hypothesis follows the logic that high socio economic complexity in international projects requires a strong … network and thus stakeholder oriented project management is necessary in order to improve and handle socio-economic complexity …

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The Exchange Commons

Liebenau, Jonathan; de Fontenay, Alain Bourdeau - 2006

"While the conditions of production give some guidance to what factor groupings are desirable ceteris paribus, they do not determine the boundaries of a neoclassical firm (a legal entity with a residual claimant). Indeed, they could just as well be related to other groupings, such as...

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Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl

Brown, Daniel G.; Robinson, Derek T. - 2006

"The ability of agent-based models (ABMs) to represent heterogeneity in the characteristics and behaviors of actors enables analyses about the implications of this heterogeneity for system behavior. The importance of heterogeneity in the specification of ABMs, however, creates new demands for...

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Governing Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor; Tesfatsion, L.; … - 2006

"Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems where social and biophysical agents are interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The main challenge for the study of governance of social-ecological systems is improving our understanding of the conditions under which...

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

"The survival of the commons is closely associated with the potential to find ways to strengthen contemporary management systems, making them more responsive to a number of complexities, like the dynamics of ecosystems and related, but often fragmented, institutions. A discussion on the...

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Complex systems and economic development

Yoguel, Gabriel; Robert, Verónica; Erbes, Analía - 2008

This paper is based on an application of complex systems' approach toeconomics with the objective of explaining the micro, meso andmacroeconomic mechanisms of development. The complex systems' approachmakes it possible to tackle the problem of evolution and economicdevelopment under conditions...

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Accounting Complexity and Misreporting: Manipulation or Mistake?

Peterson, Kyle - 2008

I explore the effect of accounting complexity on misreporting using a setting of revenue restatements. I measure … revenue recognition complexity using a factor score based on the number of words and revenue recognition methods from the … recognition complexity increasing the probability of revenue restatements, after controlling for other determinants of …

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Gaming: An Emergent Discipline

Duke, Richard - 1995

games for communicating complexity. By the late 1970s, large organizations were losing faith in the ability of other …

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