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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in Cooperatives

Nilsson, Jerker - 2010

, Gemeinschaft norms rule ruling within the membership, while Gesellschaft norms dominate the business firms. Thereby it may be … difficult to accomplish alignment between the membership organization and the business organization in order to be competitive …. This paper addresses the difficulties of following the different logics by exploring Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft within …

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A Re-Examination of Technology Transfer in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures after China's WTO Accession

Jiang, Chun - 2014

Although technology transfer in Sino-foreign joint ventures has been extensively investigated by both of Chinese and Western scholars, China's WTO accession and continuously increased FDI absorption will significantly accelerate the competitiveness in Chinese market. Accordingly, MNCs are...

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Co-Operatives in Chains : Institutional Restructuring in the Dutch Fruit and Vegetables Industry

Bijman, W.J. Jos; Hendrikse, George W. J. - 2004

asymmetric information and investment-related transaction costs several of the new co-operative firms have also included the …

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On the Future of Co-Operatives

Hendrikse, George W.J; Veerman, Cees P. - 2013

Two extensions are formulated of the analysis of the allocation of decision rights in Hendrikse and Veerman (2001). First, the incomplete contracts in their article can be viewed as simple long-term contracts, i.e. it is not allowed to make the allocation of authority contingent on the...

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Professional Elites in "Classes" Societies

Magala, S.J - 2010

Modern European identity has been forged in class struggles between the French revolution and fall of the Berlin Wall, which fell twice. Once, with the rest of the city in May 1945, when a national socialist alternative to a modernizing mix of parliamentary democracy and market economy crumbled...

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The Modern Corporation Statement on Management

Willmott, Hugh Christopher - 2016

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

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Information Sharing, Cognitive Centrality, and Influence Among Business Executives During Collective Choice

Abele, Susanne; Stasser, Garold; Vaughan-Parsons, Sandra I. - 2006

Laboratory studies have shown that decision-making groups tend to focus on common information at the expense of unique information. In the current study, high level business executives completed a personnel selection task. Access to information about the candidates was not controlled as in a...

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Agent Based Computational Model of Trust

Gorobets, Alexander; Nooteboom, Bart - 2006

This paper employs the methodology of Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate under what conditions trust can be viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents adapt their trust in a partner, the weight...

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Multiple Inclusion and Community Networks

Bogenrieder, Irma; van Baalen, Peter J. - 2004

Community membership has changed over the last decades. Most people participate in different communities simultaneously … membership in a community. The unit of analysis in this paper is not a stand-alone community of practice but the multiple …

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Effects of Multiple Network Ties Knowledge Transfer and Sharing in a Network : The Effects of Multipleties

Bogenrieder, Irma - 2004

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion on the issue of when knowledge leaks between various groups and when knowledge sticks within one learning group. Theoretical insights propose that one needs strong ties for knowledge transfer and sharing. A preliminary case study, however,...

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