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SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Babou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1999
This paper studies the interactions between an individual self-steem and his social environment, whether in the workplace, at school, or in personal relationships. A person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own ability (or long-term pay) in pursuing a task, and will undertake it only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150116
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Regional Initiatives and the Cost of Delaying Binding Climate Change Agreements
Beccherle, Julien; Tirole, Jean - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010
a variety of policy instruments, from the issuance of forward or bankable permits to standards and green investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002344
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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers
Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 6, pp. 978-996
Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 quality management systems standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209354
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Compliance with the private standards and capacity building of national institutions under globalization: new agendas for developing countries?
Iizuka, Michiko; Borbon-Galvez, Yari - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
role of private standards in shaping the economic activities of developing countries; and (2) diminishing role of national … institutions in "open" and "liberal" markets. In other words it was considered that global private standards would eventually … the "open" and "liberal" global market since firms are obliged to comply with global private standards. Instead, we have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856453
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Standards as a platform for innovation and learning in the global economy: a case study of Chilean salmon farming industry
Iizuka, Michiko - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
Conventionally, standards are considered as a governance tool in the production system in a one-directional and … standards, such one-way flows may become consolidated into two-way interlinkages when power balances themselves reverse with the … development of collective capability in catching-up countries. In such a context, standards increasingly act as a catalyst for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712093
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Standard-Essential Patents
Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013
A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into a standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103538
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Standard-Essential Patents
Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013
A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into a standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968936
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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard forQuality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers
Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2008
Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard affects organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to examine its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538232
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Standards as a platform for innovation and learning in the global economy: a case study of the Chilean salmon farming industry
Iizuka, Michiko - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 2 (2009) 4, pp. 274-293
firms become embedded in the global network of knowledge creation. The case of standards compliance in the Chilean salmon … with global forces. In this case, standards act as a platform for learning to act collectively among networks of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563457
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SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Babou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1999
This paper studies the interactions between an individual self-steem and his social environment, whether in the workplace, at school, or in personal relationships. A person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own ability (or long-term pay) in pursuing a task, and will undertake it only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005435964