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Rampini, Adriano A. - 2018

This paper studies how the durability of assets affects financing. We show that more durable assets require larger down payments making them harder to finance, because durability affects the price of assets and hence the overall financing need more than their collateral value. Durability affects...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. Taken as a whole, the empirical literature indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces...

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Network Externality and Commercial Software Piracy

Poddar, Sougata - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore - 2005

Contrary to the earlier findings under end-users piracy where the existence of strong network externality was shown to be a reason for allowing limited piracy, we find when the piracy is commercial in nature the optimal policy for the original software developer is to protect its product...

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Identifying the Factors that Influence Small-Scale Farmers' Transaction Costs in Relation to Seed Acquisition

Badstue, Lone B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

Using an ethnographic approach, this study explores small-scale farmers’ perceived transaction costs in relation to maize seed acquisition in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca. These farmers have different needs and require seed of diverse maize types with multiple traits in particular...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

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Introducing TQM : The Role of Senior Management

Dale, Barrie G.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 1, pp. 20-26

Examines the role of senior managers in total quality management (TQM) and provides some pointers as to why they should become involved in TQM. These pointers include the strategic nature of TQM, their personal impact on the credibility of TQM, and their influence in changing the behaviour and...

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Service quality of frontline employees: A profile deviation analysis

Malhotra, Neeru; Mavondo, Felix; Mukherjee, Avinandan; … - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 9, pp. 1338-1344

three components of organizational commitment and their demographics by applying a profile deviation analysis. The results … nonsignificant. Although the study finds no significant differences in the three components of commitment, significant differences … exist in the total experience and age of the best performers. Also, affective commitment dominates the profile of high …

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A concept of commitment: alternative views of relational continuity in business service relationships

Young, Louise; Denize, Sara - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 10 (1995) 5, pp. 22-37

Explores the role of commitment in maintaining relationship bonds even when the level of satisfaction with specific … often unwilling to explore alternative service options even if dissatisfied. A number of different bases of commitment …

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An examination of ISO 9000 registration practices of American, German and Japanese firms operating in the USA

Withers, Barbara E.; Ebrahimpour, Maling - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 13 (1996) 7, pp. 8-22

Examines three important issues related to the ISO 9000 registration experiences of American, German and Japanese firms operating in the United States. The three issues are reasons for seeking registration, cost and effort to register and operational requirements for achieving registration. The...

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Inflation and quality dispersion

Dutu, Richard - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 17 (2013) 6, pp. 1355-1365

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