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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Do Mergers Result in Collusion? [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine coordinated effects of mergers in the Swedish retail market for gasoline during the period 1986-2002. Despite significant changes in market concentration and many factors conductive to coordination, the empirical analysis shows that the level ...
Ganslandt, Mattias, Norbäck, Pehr-Johan
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain-based two-level trustable reputation framework for e-commerce platform using smart contracts. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Krishnan KS   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Advertised meeting-the-competition clauses: collusion instead of price discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes
Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of allowing ...
Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer   +1 more
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical Integration, Raising Rivals’ Costs and Upstream Collusion [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the impact vertical integration has on upstream collusion when the price of the input is linear. As a first step, the paper derives the collusive equilibrium that requires the lowest discount factor in the infinitely repeated game ...
Hans-Theo Normann
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