Search Results - subject:"STANDARDIZATION"

Tethered Durable Goods and Installed Base Degradation via Software Updates

Shankar, Ramesh - 2020

In this paper we study a monopolist technology vendor's decision to degrade their installed base when they release their newer version. An installed base of products that are technologically tethered, whether digital products such as smartphones or predominantly non-digital products such as...

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Standardized Tools and the Generalizability of Human Capital : The Impact of Standardized Technologies on Employee Mobility

Miric, Milan; Ozalp, Hakan - 2020

likely to leave that industry. These results highlight the potential unintended effects of technological standardization and …

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Standards for Rescue Financing Under Singapore Schemes of Arrangement : Re Attilan Group Ltd

Watters, Casey - 2020

Singapore’s ambition to strengthen its role as a regional insolvency restructuring hub prompted the financial centre to enact several reforms to the domestic insolvency regime, adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, and establish the Judicial Insolvency Network through which...

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Fairtrade, agrochemical input use, and effects on human health and the environment

Sellare, Jorge Luis; Meemken, Eva-Maria; Qaim, Matin - 2020

It is often assumed that voluntary sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade - could not only improve the socioeconomic wellbeing of smallholder farmers in developing countries but could also help to reduce negative health and environmental impacts of agricultural production. The empirical...

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Standardization and Patent Law - is Standardization a Concern for Patent Law?

Lee, Nari - 2020

-understood compatibility standards. Literature studying standardization invariably discuss this problem from various angles. However the … relationship of standardization and intellectual property from the point of law has only been started to be of concern, as some of … anticipatory standardization. Most of these comments focus on the strategic use and abuse of intellectual property prior to, during …

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Socioeconomic and International Geo-Politics in Private Sustainability Standards (PSS) : Relevance for India

Murali, Kallummal - 2020

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Effect of Communication, and Employment Standards Development Employee Satisfaction

Syaifuddin, Mr - 2020

This study aimed to determine the effect of communication, labor standards and the empowerment of job satisfaction in the Business Unit Dolok harvest Ilir PTPN IV. This research was conducted in August 2019. The number of samples in this study as many as 31 people. The independent variable in...

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Estimating the Costs of Standardization : Evidence from the Movie Industry

Caoui, El Hadi - 2020

This paper studies the decentralized adoption of a technology standard when network effects are present. If the new standard is incompatible with the current installed base, adoption may be inefficiently delayed. I quantify the magnitude of "excess inertia" in the switch of the movie...

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Project Management Certification Benchmarking Research : 2020 Update

Giammalvo, Ph.D., Paul D - 2020

This is the 4th (and probably final?) Update to this 10-year research program benchmarking some 100+ Global Project Management Related Credentials against Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule, the level of effort it takes to earn a Professional Engineer (PE) license in the USA and the process and level...

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Extractive Industries and Investor–State Arbitration : Enforcing Home Standards Abroad

Boone Barrera, Enrique - 2020

Extractive industries can bring much-needed jobs to remote locations in developing countries. At the same time, there are too many examples where extractive projects bring environmental degradation and human rights violations. Some research has pointed out that the difference between an...

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