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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Operation rescue, vocabularies of motive, and tactical action: a study of movement framing in the practice of quasi-nonviolence
(JAI Press, Inc., 1997)
Since the end of World War II an increasing number of social movements have claimed that they are practicing nonviolent civil disobedience tactics. Too often these claims are uncritically accepted even when proposed by ...
F.A. Hayek: Austrian Economist and Social Theorist
(Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999)
Frederich August von Hayek is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists. Student of Friedrich von Wieser, protégé and colleague of Ludwig von Mises, and foremost representative of an outstanding ...
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, ...
Cooperatives and Group Action
(Texas A&M University, 1993)
The primary objective of this paper is
to synthesize and summarize organizational
issues and challenges facing U.S. agricultural cooperatives as they analyze their strategic options in preparing to meet the needs of their ...
A listing of present and former faculty members [of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, 1841-1997]
(University of Missouri Medical School Foundation, Inc., 1998)
"The following list contains almost 2,000 names of present and former members of the Medical School
faculty since the re-establishment of the four-year medical school on our campus"--Page 943.
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 ...
Population biology
(2004)
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Economics
(2004)