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Introducing Ecological Dynamics into Common-Pool Resource Experiments

Janssen, Marco A. - 2010

"Case-study analysis shows that long-lasting social–ecological systems have institutional arrangements regulating where, when, and how to appropriate resources instead of how much. Those cases testify to the importance of the fit between ecological and institutional dynamics. Experiments are...

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Human resource management and innovation: what are knowledge-intensive firms doing?

Jorgensen, Frances; Becker, Karen L.; Matthews, Judy H. - 2009

critical issue for ensuring sustained innovation capacity. The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) in KIFs is … HRM practices that support innovation. To this end, the paper includes reviews of the literature relevant to HRM and … innovation in KIFs and four case studies from companies in Denmark and Australia that have been recognized for excellence in …

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Empirical Accounting of Adaptation to Environmental Change: Organizational Competencies and Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Management

Primmer, Eeva; Wolf, Steven A. - 2009

resulting uniformity can be potential impediments to radical innovation. Our approach to analyzing adaptation to environmental …

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Multiple levels of ambidexterity in managing the innovation-improvement dilemma: evidence from high technology organizations.

Chandrasekaran, Aravind - 2009

maintain a competitive advantage. Too much attention paid to innovation does not address the problems of today, while too much … balance both innovation and improvement. Ambidexterity is one mechanism that allows organizations to achieve the proper … develops a multilevel theory on organizational ambidexterity through three interrelated essays. The first essay, "Multiple …

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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions

Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983

"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...

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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research

Morgan, Betty - 1995

"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …

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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

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Common Property: What Is It, What Is It Good For, and What Makes It Work?

McKean, Margaret A. - 1995

"This paper is one of a series of analyses that represent the first wave of work being performed by IFRI's collaborators. Each author draws upon the training and instrument of the IFRI program to address their particular research questions. Given the early stage of IFRI's implementation, the...

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Economic Behavior in the Face of Resource Variability and Uncertainty

McAllister, Ryan R. J.; Tisdell, John G.; Reeson, Andrew F. - 2011

paradigms of economic behavior theory are emerging that build an empirical basis for understanding how humans respond to …

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The Structure and Contributions of Relational Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements

Libecap, Gary D.; Smith, James L. - 1997

"This paper provides new theoretical clarification and empirical evidence about relational contracts written for the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs in the United States and Canada. To mitigate common pool losses, oil fields often are developed under unit operating agreements. These...

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