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The Make-or-Buy Decision: Lessons from Empirical Studies
(Springer, 2005)
The ��transaction cost �� theory of the firm introduced by Coase (1937) has become a standard framework for the study of institutional arrangements. The Coasian framework helps explain not only the existence of the firm, ...
Organizational Governance
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)
This chapter reviews and discusses rational-choice approaches to organizational governance. These approaches are found primarily in organizational economics (virtually no rational-choice organizational sociology exists), ...
Advances in Cooperative Theory since 1990: A Review of Agricultural Economics Literature
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, 2004)
This article reviews the advances in neoclassical, coalition-game theoretic, and new institutional-nexus of contracts applications of economic theory to agricultural cooperative literature published in English language ...
New Institutional Economics
(Edward Elgar, 2000)
This chapter surveys the new institutional economics, a rapidly growing literature combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology and anthropology to understand social, political and commercial ...
The theory of the firm and its critics: a stocktaking and assessment
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Since its emergence in the 1970s the modern economic or Coasian theory of the firm has been discussed and challenged by sociologists, heterodox economists, management scholars, and other critics. This chapter reviews and ...
Financial wellbeing of Asian Americans
(2016)
The Asian American population in the United States has been increasing. Research on the economic wellbeing of this minority group is far from being adequate. It is generally found that Asian Americans are more highly ...
Principles for designing active and adaptable onboarding experiences for library employees
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2019)
The development of an active, adaptable, culture-centric experience for new library employees is a crucial first step in building effective teams. Establishing a culture of teamwork has long-lasting benefits and can be ...
Population biology
(2004)
Wearable Technologies in Academic Libraries: Fact, Fiction and the Future
(Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2017)
Chapter 7 of Canuel, R & Crischton, C (2017). Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning. Chicago, IL. ACRL. Nick Moline, a developer and early Google Glass Explorer, can still ...
Interlibrary loan and serving graduate students
(2018)
When undergraduate students become graduate students, their library needs
change. In order to meet these different needs, some academic libraries stratify
their resources, services, and programming to provide for various ...
Economics
(2004)
Introduction
(2004)
Developing In-House Digital Tools: Case Studies From the UMKC School of Law Library
(2018)
The author describes his experiences working in the Leon E. Bloch Law Library designing and prototyping in-house digital tools to improve communication among internal and external stakeholders. The projects discussed include ...
Financial risk tolerance of Chinese American families
(2012)
This chapter investigates the factors that affect financial risk tolerance of Chinese American households. Research on the economic well-being of Chinese American households is extremely limited. Few national datasets ...
Reasons for low pandemic H1N1 2009 vaccine acceptance within a college sample
(2012)
This study examined health beliefs associated with novel influenza A (H1N1) immunization among US college undergraduates during the 2009-2010 pandemic. Undergraduates (ages 18–24 years) from a large Midwestern University ...
Care and Managed Care: Psychological Factors Relevant to Healthcare and its Delivery
(2002)
What is the essence of clinical caring, how can its value be determined, and what are its origins? Caring for a patient is a bit like loving someone. In both cases, the wellbeing of the person who is loved or the patient ...