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Intra-industry trade and ASEAN: The experience of Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore
Thorpe, Michael William
Trade in differentiated manufactured goods from the same industry, between developed economies characterized by similar relative factor endowments, has been observed to be an important feature of international trade patterns since the 1960's. While the traditional, factor-proportions model of...
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The determinants of domestic arms production in Third World countries
Padgett, Mark Lee
The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international...
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Foreign trade strategies and economic performance: Nomothetic evidence and a single case
Tuna, Ayse Gulgun
of the strategy; requisite labor skills; an industrial base; adequate infrastructure; manageable labor costs; right … of the strategy; requisite labor skills; an industrial base; adequate infrastructure; manageable labor costs; right …
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Investigating the Global Productivity Effects of Highly Skilled Labor Migration: How Immigrant Athletes Impact Olympic Medal Counts
Horowitz, Jonathan Joseph - 2011
Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …
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Einführung in die Spieltheorie
Holler, Manfred J. - 2006 - Sechste, überarbeitete Auflage
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Democratic government, institutional autonomy and the dynamics of change
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2009
Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611115
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Political leadership and bureaucratic autonomy. Effects of agencification
Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2009
Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to undermine political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards the robustness of these findings. In this paper we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611125
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An information processing approach to public organizations: The case of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency
Blom; Tannelie; Carraro, Valentina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 18 (2014) 02
This article presents the results of a single-case study done in order to probe a specific version of an information processing approach to the study of (public) organizations. The case used for this probe is the European Fundamental Rights Agency. The article demonstrates that the information...
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Coordination of child abuse services: Beyond the structural determinants
Daly, Charles Michael
Past research has clearly demonstrated that a high level of interorganizational coordination among human services agencies is extremely difficult to achieve and maintain and that the dynamics of interorganizational coordination and conflict are poorly understood. In the interest of better...
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A model of strategic choice in the public sector: The effects of environmental and organizational constraints on strategic decision-making
Park, Woo Soon
This study is directly concerned with the articulation of strategic choice in the public sector. Despite the considerable amount of literature dealing with strategic management, there has been little empirical study to support theoretical constructs. The parameters of the model are derived from...
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