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From Coase to culture? Visible Hands Build Equilibria

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes that the classic distinction between firms and markets in Ronald Coase's 1937 paper ‘The nature of the firm’ (Economica, vol. 4, pp. 386–405) be gracefully retired, having been duly celebrated for its field‐launching contribution to organizational economics.
Robert Gibbons
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
wiley   +1 more source

Boss Quality and Employee Work Intensity: Evidence from Europe and the United States

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does boss quality relate to the work intensity of subordinates? Bridging research on the antecedents of work intensity and the consequences of boss quality, we analyze this relationship using data from the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey and longitudinal data from the 2015/2018 American Working Conditions Survey. In cross‐sectional,
Hans T. W. Frankort, Argyro Avgoustaki
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Non‐Compliant Work and Employment in the United Kingdom? The Field of Research and Policy Limitations

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Official discourse suggests that 12% of Britain's workforce engages in precarious work where non‐compliance is concentrated. Research reported here suggests this provides a partial picture and that, in specific sectors, non‐compliant employers, organized crime groups and criminalized employment are ceded by the state, where many ...
Ian Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An approach to minimize inventory risk due to weather using buyback contract with weather rebate

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses the inventory risk owing to weather fluctuations faced by retail companies and designs a new class of contract incorporating financial risk hedging. The designed contract not only coordinates the supply chain as the buyback contract does but also improves the supply chain profit by considering the inventory risk due to ...
Piyal Sarkar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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