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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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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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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995

collect more money from the experimenter than noncooperative game theory predicts. As we interpret it, subject behavior in …

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Green Clubs and Voluntary Governance: ISO 14001 and Firms' Regulatory Compliance. Revised version

Potoski, Matthew; Prakash, Aseem - 2003

"Voluntary programs have become widespread tools for governments and non-governmental actors looking to shape industry behavior. Voluntary programs can be conceptualized as club goods that provide non-rival but potentially excludable benefits to members. For firms, the value of joining an...

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