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Relationship between nondestructive firmness measurements and commercially important ripening fruit stages for peaches, nectarines and plums

open access: yesPostharvest Biology and Technology, 2007
Fruit firmness measurement is a good way to monitor fruit softening and to predict bruising damage during harvest and postharvest handling. Ripening protocols traditionally utilize a destructive penetrometer-type fruit firmness measure to monitor ...
Constantino Valero, CARLOS H Crisosto
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Firms and Flexibility [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The United States and France have very similar labor productivity levels while there are considerable differences between the firm‐size distributions and firm dynamics in the two countries. To reconcile these observations we introduce a joint model of endogenous entrepreneurship and firm‐size dynamics with firing costs, unemployment benefits, entry ...
Bart Hobijn, Aysegül Sahin
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Firm websites and the risk of firm

Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2015
Purpose– Websites have become an important channel for firms to communicate with their stakeholders. Higher web site traffic could represent effective information disclosure and higher investor recognition. Both may reduce the risk of firm by reducing the level of information asymmetry and facilitating a more complete market by reaching to more ...
Yu-Tai Chien, Hsin-Min Lu
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Firms as persons [PDF]

open access: possibleCahiers d'économie Politique, 2013
Les firmes en tant que personnes Cet essai pose la question de savoir si les firmes doivent être traitées comme des personnes morales ou juridiques, capables d’endosser des droits et des devoirs en tant qu’entités distinctes. S’appuyant sur de précédents travaux où les firmes étaient décrites comme des contrats relationnels en performance [Adelstein ...
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The Nature of the Firm

Economica, 1937
Abstract Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is, however, essential not only to prevent the misunderstanding and needless controversy which arise from a lack ...
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