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Browsing by Subject "Business & Economics"
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At the Interstices of Organizations: The Expansion of the Management Consulting Profession, 1933-97
(2002)This book describes and analyzes this worldwide flow of management ideas and the key carriers of these ideas. -
Boom and Bust: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Inertia on Organizational Populations
(Advances in Strategic Management, 2006)Although recent public attention has focused on boom-and-bust cycles in industries and financial markets, organizational theorists have made only limited contributions to our understanding of this issue. In this chapter, ... -
Business Owner Demography, Human Capital, and Social Networks
(2009-01-01)While early work on the topic of entrepreneurship tended to portray entrepreneurs as heroic individuals (e.g., see Raines & Leathers, 2000, on Schumpeter’s description), more recent perspectives have come to recognize that ... -
China’s Evolving Role in Global Value Chains: Upgrading Strategies in an Era of Disruptions and Resilience
(2022-09-17)China’s role in global value chains (GVCs) has changed fundamentally in recent decades. The country has moved from being the world factory for a diverse range of low-tech, mid-tech, and high-tech consumer goods to the goal ... -
China’s New Development Strategies Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains
(2022-11-07)This book examines China’s new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, ... -
Commodity chains and footwear exports in the semiperiphery
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Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
(Public Choice, 2015-09)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. ... -
Competition between Generic and Branded Drugs
(Pharmaceutical innovation: incentives, competition, and cost-benefit analysis in international perspective, 2007-04-30)The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological change in this field has been very rapid, with many new products being ... -
Creating linked datasets for SME energy-assessment evidence-building: Results from the U.S. Industrial Assessment Center Program
(Energy Policy, 2017-12-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Lack of information is commonly cited as a market failure resulting in an energy-efficiency gap. Government information policies to fill this gap may enable improvements in energy efficiency and social ... -
Credit and Classification: The Impact of Industry Boundaries in 19th Century America
(Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009)In this article, we examine how issues of multi-category membership (hybridity) were handled during the evolution of one of the first general systems of industrial classification in the United States, the credit rating schema ... -
Estimating willingness to pay: Do health and environmental researchers have different methodological standards?
(Applied Economics, 2013-06-01)Health and environmental economists have been employing Stated-Preference (SP) methods such as conjoint analysis or contingent valuation to estimate the monetary value of public health interventions and environmental goods ... -
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
(Administrative Science Quarterly, 2008) -
Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
(Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019-03) -
Improved reasoning in undergraduate writing through structured workshops
(Journal of Economic Education, 2015-01-01)© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The Department of Economics at Duke University has endeavored to increase participation in undergraduate honors thesis research while ensuring a high-quality learning experience. Given ... -
Introduction and Summary
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“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery
(World Development, 2019-11-01)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper relates how fishermen in San Evaristo on Mexico's Baja peninsula employ fabrications to strengthen bonds of trust and navigate the complexities of common pool resource extraction. We argue ... -
Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures: The Sea Cucumber Trade in Yucatán, Mexico
(World Development, 2018-02-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The expansion of global seafood trade creates opportunities as well as risks for small-scale fisheries (SSFs) livelihoods. Markets provide economic opportunity, but without effective governance, high ... -
Mapping the Dynamic Complexity of Chronic Disease Care in Singapore: Using Group Model Building in Knowledge Elicitation
(Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2018-11-01)This study describes a group model building exercise that aims to develop a deeper understanding of the dynamic complexity of chronic disease care delivery within a primary care setting in Singapore, leveraging on the insights ...
