Similar Search Results

Economic Globalization and the Rise of Efficient Systems of Global Private Lawmaking : Wal-Mart as Global Legislator

Backer, Larry Catá - 2014

This essay focuses on Wal-Mart's role in an important emerging phenomenon: the development of efficient systems of private law making by non-governmental organizations that sometimes supplement, and sometimes displace traditional legal systems. These emerging global systems of private law making...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752044

Private Vices, Public Virtues and the Emergence of the Liberal Personality in Britain 1785-1914

Outram, Quentin - 2017

given, paradoxically, by the Liberal insistence on privacy is highlighted …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127134

Digitalization and Ownership Structure of Private Copy Protection

Bae, Sang Hoo - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how digitalization affects pricing and private copy protection in contents industries. Digitalization enables content providers and online retailers to implement copy protection at different stages of creation and distribution of contents. We construct a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213997

An analysis of digitalization and firm performance in Finland's private service industries

Kuosmanen, Natalia; Pajarinen, Mika; Heshmati, Almas - 2024

the level and areas of digital adoption across service industries. Informa- tion and communication, and professional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047586

Privatization in Colombia: a plant performance analysis

Pombo, Carlos; Ramirez, Manuel - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2002

This paper describes the real sector privatization program in Colombia during the nineties and puts that policy in the … domiciliary public services strategy. The paper evaluates the privatization program in manufacturing and power sector as case …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769438

Performance and efficiency in Colombia's power utilities: an assessment of the 1994 reform

Pombo, Carlos; Taborda, Rodrigo - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2004

This paper describes the core features of the power sector 1994 regulatory reform and evaluates utility performance and efficiency before and after the reform. The performance analysis assesses the changes in means and medians of a series of profitability, efficiency, investment, sales of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196737

Effects of Patent Privateering on Settlements and R&D in Markets with Product Differentiation

Klapper, Felix; Siemering, Christian - 2023

We investigate patent litigation, settlements and R&D incentives on a market where two firms develop technologies of differentiated products. Firms may sell IP rights to a Patent Assertion Entity (PAE) that acts as intermediary for patent monetization. We find that the effects of this so-called...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344051

Boosting firm dynamism and performance in China

Molnár, Margit - 2017

With persisting slower growth worldwide and in China, over-capacity in some heavy industry sectors, declining profitability, and intensifying competition from other, lower-cost emerging economies, corporate behaviour in China needs to change and focus more on efficiency and sustainability. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732705

Energy Privatization and Liberalization in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary : Enabling Network Industry Growth and Convergence Through Flexible Regulation

Teksten, Ryan Dain - 2014

Eastern Europe due to the injection of foreign direct investment as privatization programs continue. Large investments from … convergence. Telecom is a fine example of a industry realizing growth due to the pairing of privatization and technology. The main … purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategy behind energy sector de-monopolization via the continued privatization and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192088

The Determinants of Capitalising Development Costs in Private Companies : Evidence from Germany

Eierle, Brigitte - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014163