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Corporate competition: A self-organized network

Braha, Dan; Stacey, Blake; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems. In this paper, we present a complex networks perspective on interfirm organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and...

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Common Denominators in White Collar Crime: I'm Special, You're Special, Let's Fleece them in Style

Herrman, C. S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

briefly allowed to link the perpetrator to his alter ego, victim or partner-in-crime, wherein are forged the origins of means … interplay of culture and pathology, especially in matters of white collar crime, which is used throughout as the focus. By way …

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Temporal Causality and the Dynamics of Crime in Turkey

Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study is concerned with understanding of the factors of aggregate, nonviolent and violent crime categories in … Turkey for the period 1965-2009. The determinants of all crime categories are related to selected socio-economic factors …. Cointegration analysis yields the major contributors of crime are income and unemployment. The direction of causalities between the …

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Guilt aversion and peer effects in crime: experimental and empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Shoji, Masahiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction …

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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: review article

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...

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Gender and Social Capital Mediated Technology Adoption

Bantilan, MCS; Ravula, P; Parthasarathy, D; Gandhi, BVJ - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study explores gender-differentiated benefits from the social capital buildup in technology uptake, and the decision-making patterns of men and women with respect to production, consumption and household task; and allocation of resources. The background research examined women’s role in...

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Environment design for emerging artificial societies

Gilbert, Nigel; Schuster, Stephan; den Besten, Matthijs; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The NewTies project is developing a system in which societies of agents are expected to develop autonomously as a result of individual, population and social learning. These societies are expected to be able to solve the environmental challenges that they are set by acting collectively. The...

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Higher Education Access Policies and Issues in Georgia before and after the Introduction of Unified National Entrance Examinations in 2005

Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper discusses the implications of Unified National Entrance Examinations (UNEEs) for higher education access in Georgia. Increased participation of ethnic minorities and low-SES students in higher education could be regarded as one of the major achievements of the UNEEs. More transparency...

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Kapitał społeczny Polaków a rozwój społeczno-ekonomiczny

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The concepts of social capital are important in improving the quality of life. However, the effects of social capital accumulated in the economic, social and political spheres can be both positive and negative. Article brings the specificity of trust as a key variety of social capital and it's...

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Sistemas sociotécnicos, innovación y desarrollo.

Lepratte, Leandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

From an Latin American perspective, a framework has been developed with input from social studies of technology (SST) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological change and development in this region. The framework operates...

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