Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] Since the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008 there has been a boom in positive assessments of the German economy. Little wonder.
Silva, Stephen J
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Social Entrepreneurs and Innovation for the Unemployment [PDF]
, 2019 This research explored the social entrepreneurship factors to reduce the rate of unemployment in North Sumatra Indonesia. Social entrepreneurship is built through four main elements, namely social value, civil society, innovation, and economic activity ...
Sari, A. I. (Ade)
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Shared Value in Emerging Markets: How Multinational Corporations Are Redefining Business Strategies to Reach Poor or Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
, 2012 This report illuminates the enormous opportunities in emerging markets for companies to drive competitive advantage and sustainable impact at scale. It identifies how over 30 companies across multiple sectors and geographies design and measure business ...
Carina Wendel +2 more
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Contacts, Social Capital and Market Institutions - A Theory of Development [PDF]
This paper links two concepts of social capital to economic development. Social Capital (SC) appears in the litrature, on the individual level, as the number contacts of an agent has and his ability to raise contacts and, on the community level, as norms
Dirk Bezemer, Paul Frijters, Uwe Dulleck
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Trust, Organizational Controls, Knowledge Acquisition from the Foreign Parents, and Performance in Vietnamese International Joint Ventures [PDF]
, 2000 Successful adaptation in strategic alliances "calls for a delicate balance between the twin virtues of reliability and flexibility" [Parkhe 1998]. On one hand, the joint venture must be flexible enough to respond to the uncertainties of competitive ...
Barden, Jeffrey Q. +2 more
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Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]
, 2002 The diamond industry is home to many unusual features: the predominance of an ethnically homogeneous community of merchants, the norm of intergenerational family businesses, and a rejection of public courts in favor of private contract enforcement.
Richman, Barak D.
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A Strategy for the Commons: Business-driven Networks for Collective Action and Policy Dialogue. The Example of Global Compact Local Networks [PDF]
, 2012 The current challenges involved with ensuring global sustainability are daunting. Climate change is increasing the incidence of severe weather events, natural resources are undergoing rapid depletion, labor conditions in global supply chains are often ...
Gradl, Christina +2 more
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Stability, Specialization and Social Recognition [PDF]
Yang s theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale (Yang 2001) is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor.In this theory specialization and, thus ...
Gilles, R.P. +2 more
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El Estado de las cooperativas de consumo: un enfoque de abajo hacia arriba [PDF]
, 2018 Este trabajo parte de la duda sobre la continuidad y el futuro de las cooperativas de consumo. Para ello, realiza un análisis estadístico de la evolución de la Economía Social y sitúa, dentro del contexto VICA, a las cooperativas de consumo, con una ...
Márquez Domínguez, Juan Antonio +1 more
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