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Designing and Negotiating Agreements in a Digitalized Era – a qualitative analysis

Andrén, Daniela; Kellgren, Jan; Kristoffersson, Eleonor - 2020

Digitalization is a reality that governs more and more both the society and the economy, facilitating new and more efficient ways of setting up business and business collaborations. Rational agreement routines and well thought through contracts help organizations to avoid legal disputes and thus...

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Addressing New Service Sector in WTO/FTAs: Express Delivery and India

Mukherjee, Arpita; Pal, Parthapratim; Goswami, Ramneet - 2010

complementary services like transport and warehousing. The study found that since the autonomous liberalisation is more than India …

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A review of universal-service policy

Hultkrantz, Lars - 2005

In some countries, like Sweden, regulatory reform of monopoly industries such as telecom and mail went ahead without much consideration to how competition would affect the universal provision of services. This paper reviews issues that ought to be considered in the process of shaping a...

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How did the Location of Industry Respond To Falling Transport Costs in Britain Before World War I?

Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Mulatu, Abay - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

, falling transport costs had relatively little effect on industrial location at a time when proximity to natural resources …

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The Effect of Uncertainty on US Transport-related GHG Emissions and Fuel. Consumption out to 2050

Bastani, Parisa; Heywood, John B.; Hope, Chris - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2011

The future of U.S. transport energy requirements and emissions is uncertain. Transport policy research hasexplored a … the impact of uncertainty on the future of U.S.transport needs to be addressed. This paper uses a probabilistic fleet …

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Effects of the Digital Transition in Passenger Transport - an Analysis of Energy Consumption Scenarios in Europe

Noussan, Michel - 2019

The transport sector has rarely seen disruptive evolutions after the diffusion of the internal combustion engine, and … supported solution by companies and regulators to decarbonize the transport sector. This working paper discusses an … have a positive effect on energy consumption and CO2 emissions for passenger transport, given the strong efficiency …

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Human Behavior and New Mobility Trends in the United States, Europe, and China

Cohen, Kathleen - 2019

way the world moves. Since transport behavior is rooted in human behavior, how these trends are adopted will be influenced … concern are all important in transport modal choice. Larger societal trends such as changing preferences amongst younger …

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Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints

Brunner, Philipp; Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin - 2023

This paper provides a novel theory of research joint ventures for financially constrained firms. When firms choose R&D portfolios, an RJV can help to coordinate research efforts, reducing investments in duplicate projects. This can free up resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and...

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Strategic outsourcing revisited

Buehler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2003

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good to an imperfectly competitive input market. We apply the taxonomy of business strategies introduced by Fudenberg and Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We...

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R&D networks: Theory, empirics and policy implications

König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We study a structural model of R&D alliance networks in which firms jointly form R&D collaborations to lower their production costs while competing on the product market. We derive the Nash equilibrium of this game, provide a welfare analysis and determine the optimal R&D subsidy program that...

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