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Codetermination and the Democratic State

Dammann, Jens; Eidenmueller, Horst - 2021

.S. corporate law substantially closer to European countries like Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, where worker codetermination has … codetermination’s economic impact on corporations and their employees. This Article focuses on a different issue. It examines … codetermination’s potential for protecting our democracy against the dangers inherent in the accumulation of extreme wealth and power …

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United States Competition Policy in Crisis : 1890-1955

Hovenkamp, Herbert - 2010

The development of marginalist, or neoclassical, economics led to a fifty-year long crisis in competition theory. Given an industrial structure with sufficient fixed costs, competition always became quot;ruinous,quot; forcing firms to cut prices to marginal cost without sufficient revenue...

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The Political Economy of International Standard Setting in Financial Reporting : How the United States Led the Adoption of IFRS Across the World

Kavame Eroglu, Zehra G. - 2019

Historically, every country had its own accounting standards, each merging to some extent with its local corporate, labor, and tax laws. No matter how undesirable, it was natural to expect differences among nations. Globalization made these differences so impractical that from corporate leaders...

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New Governance, Chief Privacy Officers, and the Corporate Management of Information Privacy in the United States

Bamberger, Kenneth A.; Mulligan, Deirdre K. - 2014

While the turn from traditional regulation to more collaborative, experimentalist, and flexible forms of governance has garnered significant academic focus, far less attention has been paid to the effects of such “New Governance” approaches on regulated firms’ understanding of the laws’...

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Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency : The U.S. Electric Utility Sector

Delmas, Magali A.; Tokat, Yesim - 2003

This paper is an empirical assessment of the comparative efficiency of governance structures in an environment marked by high uncertainty. We analyze the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric utilities in the United States. We argue that there are...

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Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade : Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers

Anteby, Michel - 2013

This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from NewYork State to analyze market participants’ efforts to...

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Workplace Smoking : Options for Employees and Legal Risks for Employees

Graff, Samantha - 2008

Across the country at work each day, many people are subjected to the dangerous and potentially deadly fumes of secondhand tobacco smoke. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified secondhand tobacco smoke in the most hazardous group of carcinogens, and some studies have shown...

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On the role of legislation as a driver of incentive management practices in Europe

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2025

This paper investigates one aspect of the structured management practices literature which has argued that exogenous legislative changes leading to reductions in union power (identified with the passage of RTW laws) serve to increase the use of management incentives practices often resisted by...

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Co-determination and innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of … German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms …, we compare the co-determined firms with others before and after 1976. The results do not support the view that co-determination …

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Co-Determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius - 2009

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