Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 692
Cover Image
The Governance of Contracts : Empirical Evidence on Technology Licensing Agreements
Brousseau, Éric - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on the contractual governance of technology licensing agreements. Based upon an … international sample of licensing contracts, we explore how the contractual design deals with specific contractual hazards. In … considerations on licensing design. Empirical results highlight that contractual clauses of governance are crafted independently of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707973
Cover Image
Global Recession to Global Recovery : Epoch Strategies for Marketing, Family Business and Entrepreneurship
Chugan, Pawan K.; Pingle, Sameer S. - 2012
Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172887
Cover Image
Management of Chemical and Biological Risks in Agri-Food Chain
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2014
Paper presents diverse modes of governance of chemical and biological risks in agri-food sector, assesses their efficiency, complementarities, and challenges, and suggests recommendations for public policies improvement. It defines governance as system of social order responsible for particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182240
Cover Image
Carmaker in Crisis
Nolte, Heike; Wondra, Ellen - 2011
In September 2009 General Motors' board of directors announces it would sell the majority of its European subsidiary Opel to a group led by Magna International Inc. But two months later it decides to keep Opel, upsetting German officials and workers and harming its reputation in Germany. Why did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044031
Cover Image
Global Delivery Models : The Role of Talent, Speed and Time Zones in the Global Outsourcing Industry
Manning, Stephan; Larsen, Marcus M.; Bharati, Pratyush - 2017
Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136833
Cover Image
The International Regulation of Private Security Providers - A Brief Analysis
Kálmán, János - 2014
The last decades has seen an enormous explosion in the use of private security providers by governments, industry, the UN and humanitarian organizations. Meanwhile, the accountability of these companies and their personnel for violations of human rights has not kept pace. Some researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143142
Cover Image
Tempur Sealy International (A)
Esty, Benjamin - 2017
This case series explores the long-term relationship between Tempur Sealy (TPX, a mattress manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms had enjoyed a mutually beneficial and commercially prosperous relationship. Yet in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948208
Cover Image
Lex Mercatoria
Calliess, Gralf-Peter - 2019
Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM') is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient' LM, which accompanied the commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904326
Cover Image
Institutionalism and Culture in Strategies of Multinational Firms, Case of Johnson Controls Inc
Vargas-Hernández, José G. - 2012
The aim of this paper is to analyze both internal and external aspects posing a risk in the operation for the multinational Johnson Controls in its subsidiaries in United States and Mexico from the point of view based on institutions; the main challenge to initiate the investigation is do have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102170