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America's departure from multilateralism: Highway or dirt road to freer trade? [PDF]
After having guaranteed the functioning of the multilateral system of trade negotiations within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for more than 40 years, the United States is obviously changing its trade strategy.
Stehn, Jürgen
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Multilateral Interchange Fees: Competition and regulation in light of recent legislative developments. ECRI Research Report No. 14, 31 January 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 Two-sided payment card markets generate costs that have to be distributed among the participating actors. For this purpose, payment card networks set an interchange fee, which is the fee paid by the merchant’s bank to the cardholder’s bank per ...
Guerrieri, Alessandra +1 more
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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Unlocking Value Co‐Creation in IoT Platforms: Insights From a Collaborative Manufacturing Case
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines value co‐creation in IoT platform ecosystems through a case study of the collaborative manufacturing platform E‐LINK. We explore the evolution of platform data capabilities, user interactions, value creation, and the mechanisms that connect them.
Huayao Zhang +4 more
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New Methodological Developments for the International Comparison Program [PDF]
The paper explains new methodology that was used in the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP) that compared the relative price levels and GDP levels across 146 countries.
Diewert, Erwin
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THE QUIET BALANCE OF LEADERSHIP
Leader to Leader, EarlyView.Abstract The author is a former senior corporate executive, who is now a leadership and corporate culture strategist. He looks at the leadership displayed by Leader to Leader founder Frances Hesselbein, during her years as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, in which she “held four leadership disciplines in motion simultaneously and refused to pick a ...
Dan Pontefract
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Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective
Oikos, EarlyView.The pursuit of a multi‐planetary existence represents one of humanity's greatest frontiers. If applied justly, it offers an opportunity to extend its civilization's lifespan amid escalating sustainability crises on Earth. One approach increasingly gaining traction is terraforming, a hitherto theoretical ecological and evolutionary experiment revolving ...
Teun Everts +2 more
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A Restricted-Domain Multilateral Test Approach To The Theory Of International Comparisons [PDF]
This article develops a novel multilateral test approach to the problem of international comparisons. Many of the associated tests are justified as "reasonable" using the fact that they are direct analogues to properties of the cost-of-living index ...
Keir G. Armstrong
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney +6 more
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The Evolution of the Russian Approach to Multilateral Relations in the Post-Soviet Area
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 The article is an attempt to comprehend the changes in the Russian approach to the post-Soviet space. The analysis, based on the official government documents and speeches of Russian officials, reveals the stages of foreign policy in accordance with the ...
Aleksandra Kovalchuk
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