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Value of statistical life and cause of accident: A choice experiment
(2008-12-09)The purpose of this study is to compare value of statistical life (VSL) estimates for traffic, drowning and fire accidents. Using a choice experiment in a mail survey of 5000 Swedish respondents we estimated the willingness ... -
Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
(Springer, 2007)While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their ... -
Evaluating Strategies for Negotiating Workers' Rights in Transnational Corporations: The Effects of Codes of Conduct and Global Agreements on Workplace Democracy
(Springer, 2007)Following the offshoring of production to developing countries by transnational corporations (TNCs), unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have criticised working conditions at TNCs’ offshore factories. This has ... -
Exploring the Effects of Union-NGO Relationships on Corporate Responsibility: The Case of the Swedish Clean Clothes Campaign
(Springer, 2006)In the current era, governments are playing smaller roles in regulating workers’ rights internationally, and transnational corporations (TNCs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the struggle for workers’ ... -
TNC Motives for Signing International Framework Agreements: A Continuous Bargaining Model of Stakeholder Pressure
(Springer, 2008)Over the past decade, discussion has flourished among practitioners and academics regarding workers’ rights in developing countries. The lack of enforcement of national labour laws and the limited protection of workers’ ... -
Transnational Governance of Workers' Rights: Outlining a Research Agenda
(Springer, 2008)In twentieth century Europe and the USA, industrial relations, labour, and workers’ rights issues have been handled through collective bargaining and industrial agreements between firms and unions, with varying degrees ... -
Suppliers' Compliance with MNCs' Codes of Conduct: Behind the Scenes at Chinese Toy Suppliers
(Springer, 2007)Despite increased academic and practitioner interest in codes of conduct, there has been little research into the actual compliance of suppliers in developing countries with the codes of conduct of multinational corporations ... -
In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior
(2008-12-08)Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit influences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous studies, we assess the direct impact of ... -
Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India
(2008-12-08)Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services ... -
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
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Openness and wage inequality in Kenya, 1964–2000
(Elsevier, 2006)This paper analyses the evolution of wage inequality in Kenya between 1964 and 2000. Our measure of wage inequality is the ratio of wages in manufacturing to wages in agriculture, which can be seen as an indicator of ... -
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa?
(Oxford University Press, 2006)In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect data on manufacturing firms. The data sets built by these and ... -
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. It is shown that initial levels of inequality and per capita consumption determine the ... -
Hotelling´s T2 Method in Multivariate On-Line Surveillance. On the Delay of an Alarm
(2008-11-28)A system for detecting changes in an on-going process is needed in many situations. On-line monitoring (surveillance) is used in early detection of disease outbreaks, of patients at risk and of financial instability. By ... -
Identity work and identity regulation in managers' personal development training
(2008-11-26)This article describes the role of personal development training in managers’ identity processes. Personal development training constitutes a local management discourse, which can influence both identity work and identity ... -
Tradable Permits in Developing Countries: Evidence from air pollution in Santiago, Chile
(2008-11-19)Santiago was one of the first cities outside the OECD to implement a tradable permit program to control air pollution. This paper looks closely at the program’s performance over the past ten years, stressing its similarities ... -
Same Same but Different? A Comparison of Institutional Models
(2008-11-19)In the growing literature on the creation of institutions, the theories emphasizing colonial and legal origin, religious affiliation, Western European influence, and settler mortality, have been especially influential. ... -
Productivity Dynamics and the Role of “Big-Box” Entrants in Retailing
(2008-11-12)Entry of large (“big-box”) stores along with a drastic fall in the total number of stores is a striking trend in retail markets. We use a dynamic structural model to estimate total factor productivity in retail. Then we ... -
The purchaser-provider split in principle and practice : experiences from Sweden
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004)