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Chinese multinationals: Threat to, or opportunity for, trade unions? The case of Sinohydro in Ghana

Williams, Glynne; Davies, Steve; Lamptey, Julius; … - 2017

There is a growing literature on global Chinese companies, but this tends to be at a very general level. There is little research to date on the effect of Chinese involvement on workers and their unions. Although focussed on one company, SINOHYDRO, this paper addresses questions of importance to...

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Relación entre estilos de liderazgo y funciones ejecutivas de planificación y toma de decisiones en oficiales jefes de la Armada Argentina

Martínez, Luis Marcelo; Canga, Lucas - 2022

The objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and executive functions of planning and decision-making, in chief officers of the Argentine Navy, who are working as students of the Command and General Staff course at the Naval War School. A survey was...

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Should Swedish economic history pay morre attention to historical economics?

Waldenström, Daniel - 2004

This paper presents empirical evidence of the international integration of Swedish economic historians. Contrary to the claims of a recent national evaluation of the discipline, the Swedish shares of international publications and conference presentations are robustly below available...

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Work in the platform economy: Deliveroo riders in Belgium and the SMart arrangement

Drahokoupil, Jan; Piasna, Agnieszka - 2019

This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers …, and the role of local regulations. Interestingly, Deliveroo in Belgium employed workers through an intermediary, SMart …

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The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada

Barnetson, Bob; Foster, Jason - 2024

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the "how-to") with a focus on the practical application of the most recent HRM research and best practices. Students will learn to understand,...

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Tax Policy and the Dynamic Demand for Domestic and Foreign Capital by Multinational Corporations

Altshuler, Rosanne; Cummins, Jason - 1998

model in which domestic and foreign investment interact in two important ways. First, the MNC's production technology allows … implications for the analysis of investment demand and its responsiveness to tax policy. We estimate the structural parameters of a … investment in one locaton may be affected by investment in other locations. We estimate the model using firm-level panel data …

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Saving does not finance Investment: Accounting as an indispensableguide to economic theory

Lindner, Fabian - 2012

argue that there is much confusion about key macroeconomic concepts like saving, investment and finance. This confusion is … best summarised in the statement "saving finances investment". After clearly defining the accounting relationships between … lending, financial saving and physical investment it will be shown that this is a nonsense statement. The theory behind it …

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Does Saving Increase the Supply of Credit? A Critique of Loanable Funds Theory

Lindner, Fabian - 2013

economists identify saving and the credit supply by interpreting the macroeconomic saving-investment identity as a budget … supply of credit and thus more funds to be invested by firms for investment. The paper shows that proponents of this theory …

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Indicadores de consumo aparente de bens industriais: Metodologia e resultados

de Carvalho, Leonardo Mello; Ribeiro, Fernando José da … - 2015

of industrial goods in the Brazilian economy - defined as domestic production plus imports minus exports - and report the …

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Uncertainty shocks, adjustment costs and firm beliefs: Evidence from a representative survey

Dibiasi, Andreas; Mikosch, Heiner; Sarferaz, Samad - 2021

uncertainty significantly reduces managers' expected investment, employment and production in the short and mid run. We collect …

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