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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Payment Vehicle Used in CV Studies of Environmental Goods Does Matter [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the effect of the payment vehicle on the valuation of an environmental good with the contingent valuation method (CVM). Results from three CV studies comparing different payment vehicles by using split samples when valuing ...
Ivehammar, Pernilla
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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Promoting Equality Through an Employment of Last Resort Policy" [PDF]

open access: yes
To put an economy on an equitable growth path, economic development must be based on social efficiency, equity, and job creation. It has been shown that unemployment has far-reaching effects, all leading to an inequitable distribution of well-being.
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
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AI‐Ready Bureaucracies? Assessing Capacity‐Building Approaches in European National AI Strategies

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies is reshaping expectations about state capacity, yet the role of civil servants in this transition remains insufficiently theorized. This study examines how EU Member States address the civil service workforce in their national AI strategies, employing content and cluster analysis ...
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study Looking the Electronic Payment Market [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to make an analysis of the electronic payment market. We identified the most important characteristics of the electronic payment systems especially those mentioned by the European Central Bank.
Codruta POENAR
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Why Do Shoppers Use Cash? Evidence from Shopping Diary Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of alternative methods of payment such as debit and credit cards.
Wakamori, Naoki, Welte, Angelika
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A qualitative evaluation of a community‐based approach to protected area law enforcement

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract People living in and around terrestrial and marine protected areas can contribute to protected area law enforcement in different ways. While the involvement of local residents is considered important for bringing benefits to both conservation and people, evaluations of community‐based approaches to protected area law enforcement are limited ...
William Sharkey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Provision of Infrastructure Using Public-Private Partnership Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper deals with the optimal provision of infrastructure by means of public-private partnership contracts.In the economic literature infrastructure is characterized as a large, indivisible and non-rival capital good that produces services for its ...
Laan, G. van der   +2 more
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Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
wiley   +1 more source

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