Barriers to ‘US style’ lean retailing: the case of Wal-Mart's failure in Germany
in Journal of Economic Geography
July 2007; p ublished online May 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; Other Economic Systems; International Factor Movements and International Business; Regulation and Industrial Policy; Services. 9273 words.
Wal-Mart's exit from the German market in 2006 after 10 years of attempting to achieve sustainable competitive advantage contributes an interesting case to the small but expanding...
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Beliefs, Politics, and Environmental Policy
in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
July 2016; p ublished online August 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Analysis of Collective Decision-making; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; Other Economic Systems; Environmental Economics. 9711 words.
Experts and the general public often perceive environmental problems differently. Moreover, regulatory responses to environmental issues often do not coincide with consensus expert...
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An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
March 2008; p ublished online October 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Welfare and Poverty; Other Economic Systems; Economic Methodology; Economics of Health; Microeconomics; Welfare Economics; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy. 10513 words.
Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to...
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